unfortunate outcome of life ended and the circumstances of her death have shaped the way laws about child protection are enforced, but we first need to know how these laws were put into place. Megan was a seven-year-old girl from Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, who was abducted, raped, and killed by a known child molester who lived across the street from her family (Montaldo, 2019). On July 27, 1994, James Timmedquas was