I don’t feel any pity for this guy.
Sex offender questions additional restrictions
Friday, December 08, 2006
By STEPHANIE BARRY
SPRINGFIELD – He has lived with the cold glares from parents and teachers at his children’s schools, layoffs from a string of jobs and barely concealed hostility from neighbors.
Part of him knows he is deserving of some wariness, fear and even contempt.
But, “Al,” a Forest Park resident, is not just a sex offender. He’s also a husband, working full-time in a low-paying job to raise three young children with another on the way.
Pay attention - it says “three young children”.
Given his crimes, he knows garnering public sympathy is unlikely, if not impossible. He pleaded guilty to 21 counts of child molestation in 1985, and served seven years in prison. But, the 44-year-old tow truck operator fears a proposed residency restriction for sex offenders here will shred the thin layer of normalcy he’s managed to create during the last 15 years.
So, after being convicted of 21 counts of child molesting he then decides to have children? And, what woman would be crazy enough to marry a registered sex offender/child molester let alone have have children with him? Yes Elizabeth, there are stupid woman in this world.
“Al” felt compelled to speak out after Timothy J. Rooke of the Springfield City Council this week proposed a local ordinance to ban sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of any school, park, or other potential gathering place for children. The bid follows a national trend of cities and towns considering and enacting tighter residency regulations for sex offenders, though a similar proposal was recently rejected by the mayor of Marlborough.
Rooke said he objects to what he believes is an oversaturation of sex offenders living here: double the state average, statistics show. There are 533 registered offenders living in Springfield.
“I just don’t think that a Level 3 sex offender who gets out of prison and lives across the street from ‘Johnny’s Day Care’ is a good idea. I’m trying to protect children and I’m trying to protect sex offenders from reoffending,” he said during a phone interview yesterday. A Level 3 sex offender is a person who has been classified by the state as most likely to reoffend. “Al” has been so classified.
From the Massachusetts Office of Public Safety
Level 3 Sex Offenders
Where the Board determines that the risk of reoffense is high and the degree of dangerousness posed to the public is such that a substantial public safety interest is served by active dissemination, it shall give a level 3 designation to the sex offender.
The public shall have access to the information regarding a level 3 offender through the Local Police Departments and through the Sex Offender Registry Board .
I had a friend suggest the other day that we take someone that molests a child and ship them to some desolate city that has been fenced in. Them let them spend the rest of their lives there, with all the other child molesters. Grand idea.
If you liked this post, click here to buy me a TinCap ticket.Last 5 posts by admin
- Dennie Oxley - write your own caption - July 4th, 2009
- We don't really know how many jobs we saved, but we lost 467,000 in June - July 3rd, 2009
- More possible GPS snooping by the guberment - July 2nd, 2009
- Too liberal. Hell, that's what we've been telling you all along - July 1st, 2009
- Cellular 911 service restored - July 1st, 2009
Related posts:
- Sex Offender of the Day It would a
- Sex Offender of the Day Why this g
- Why she abandoned her 8 year-old son I’ve
- Liberal talk show host and paedophile gets 7 years With his
- A bleeding heart liberal sticking up for sex offenders I got this
Entries (RSS)
I think that this situation is sad and illustrates some of the problems with our justice system. Our justice system is broke and needs to be repaired…
“Al” was convicted of 21 counts of child molestation. He SHOULD have spent a LONG, LONG, time in jail.
I wonder how many years he served? Probably no where near enough…
I think that the “average” inmate in the United States serves about 40% of their sentence!
Our prison system SHOULD be designed so that inmates serve a lot more time in prison then they currently do. Once an inmate serves his or her sentence they should be released and should have an opportunity to re-enter society. If they convict similar crimes and are convicted a second time then they should SPEND A LOT MORE TIME IN PRISON.
Politicians seem to think that they can pass laws effecting child molestors after they are released from prison and that these laws will protect children.
Preventing a child molestor from living within 2500 feet of a park will in no way protect children.
The only way to protect children from child molestors would be something along these lines:
1. Ensure that child molestors serve at least 80% of their original sentence in prison. (Note I think all Offenders should serve at least 80% of their original sentence in prison). BUILD MORE PRISONS. DE-CRIMINALIZE victimless crimes.
2. Ensure that up to date databases are maintained informing parents about any convicted child molestors that live in the area.
3. Ensure (Via the police) that convicted child molestors who are in the above registries are tracked and are forced to keep their infomration current..
4. MOST IMPORTANTLY we need to change the definition of a “sex offender.” There are alot of people who are labelled as “sex offenders” who should NOT be. This must stop. I will list an example below:
a. If a boy who is three days short of his 18th birthday has consensual sex with a girl who is three days short of her 18th birthday NEITHER is a “sex offender.”
Mike Sylvester