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Posted on: 10:02 am, October 25, 2012, by Will C. Holden, updated on: 10:04am, October 25, 2012

DENVER, Colo ? Over 30 years of service as a police officer, a naval service officer and a professor of criminology, Regis University?s Don Lindley said he has never seen anyone under the age of 18 commit a crime as?gruesome and calculated?as the one Westminster?s Austin Sigg is accused of committing.

And yet, Lindley thinks this sort of crime is what the Colorado community and the nation should start preparing for more crimes just like this one.

?I think what you see in Austin is what we?re going to see in a lot of our youth in our future,? said Lindley, who was a guest on Good Day Colorado Thursday morning. ?We?re reaping what?we?ve?sowed.?

Those words will likely be tough for many to stomach a day after Siggs was arrested?and accused of?abducting Westminster 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway, strangling her to death, dismembering her body and strewing some of her remains in an Arvada open space.

But Lindley believes they are important words.

?We?re all shocked ? all the investigators, everyone who is familiar with this crime,? Lindley said. ?But we better expect this in the future. We can?t continue to be surprised when these sorts of crimes are committed.?

Lindley said that sentiment has everything to do with Sigg?s background ? a background that is?becoming?more commonplace among our nation?s youth.

?When we treat our youth like this young man has been treated ? he comes from a broken family, his father has been involved in crime, he has been bullied and teased at school ? I?m not so sure that we?re not looking at a preface to a book about very troubled youth in our future,? Lindley said.

These words are coming from an expert in the field who is no stranger to youth crime.

Lindsey said he has seen plenty of young people involved in thoughtless acts of violence like drive-by shootings and gang fights, but nothing as calculated as the crimes Sigg is accused of committing.

?That is what is so disturbing to me,? Lindley said.

Lindley concluded by saying if there is one ray of light that has come out over the course of this investigation, which began when Ridgeway went missing on Oct. 5, it?s that Sigg?s mother, Mindy Sigg, is the one who reportedly turned him in.

If more strong women like Mindy take a stand, Lindley said, the nation?s youth may indeed have more hope in the turbulent world they often face.

?I can?t imagine the strength of this lady and what she?s done for society and her son,? Lindley said. ?I can?t think of many women that would have done that. Had she not have done that, this young man could have gotten away with this for a long time.?

Source: http://kdvr.com/2012/10/25/criminology-professor-we-need-to-expect-more-austin-siggs-in-future/

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