DANGEROUS sex predators who are supposed to be closely watched are regularly giving authorities the slip and reoffending.

More than a third of almost 700 sex offenders - mostly pedophiles - living in the community breached their release conditions in the past two years and at least 70 have gone missing, sometimes for months at a time.

Documents obtained by The Courier-Mail show some were caught in sickening sexual acts involving children as young as four. Offences included rape, attempted murder, molestation, indecent exposure, stalking and assaults.

Others escaped authorities by changing address and tampering with electronic monitoring bracelets so police could not track them.

Of the 236 offenders caught breaching supervision orders, 163 faced further conviction, suspension of parole, jail or court action, while the remainder received a warning or censure.

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In one of the worst cases, a supposedly supervised prisoner was caught with a 13-year-old girl whom he had drugged with ecstasy.

Police and Corrective Services Minister Neil Roberts admitted supervision order contraventions had increased, but said the Government could not prevent sex offenders from reoffending once released back into the community.

"I'm not making excuses here - short of actually shackling people in a prison cell 24 hours a day, seven days a week, we'll never get rid of people reoffending," he said.
"And every time someone breaches, you learn something.

"But again, we're dealing with human beings, criminal minds, who will look for devious ways of stepping outside of what they're required to do under these supervision orders."

Well......uurr yes Minister, they should be locked up 24/7 till they die. If that can't be done, kill them.