Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Another Jessica's Law acquittal
I received a report that Angela Stoller of the Junction City PD's office won in State v. Schweitzer getting a complete acquittal in a Geary County Jessica's Law prosecution involving a count of aggravated indecent liberties and aggravated intimidation. The jury took less than an hour to acquit.
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Good, they need to over turn these stupid laws that are based on emotion. The residency restrictions need to be challenged also. I received this in my e-mail today. see also cfcoklahoma.com
Fallon Campaign: Sex offender law makes children less safe - Fallon was right!
5/28/2008
Contact: Stacy Brenton
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 28, 2008, (1:30 PM CDT) - Yesterday, The Des Moines Register praised Ed Fallon for his 2002 vote against a bill that prohibited sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools or day care centers. The Register said, "… he was frequently on the right side of issues…. He was the only House member to vote against the 2,000-foot residency restriction for certain sex offenders, a law that virtually banished them from many communities, making them harder to track, while driving up costs for law enforcement."
http://www.iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Article=127252
Coincidentally, voters in the Third District received a mailing yesterday asking them "Why does Ed Fallon think it's ok for sex offenders to live near schools?" As a backdrop, it included a photo of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit looking though a fence at children in a playground. The mailer was sent by Boswell supporter Richard (Red) Brannan of Ankeny and had no return address.
Fallon said, "This is an example of cynical, negative politics. This mailer was sent out only a week before the election to make it look as if I support sex offenders. I call on Congressman Boswell to reject and renounce this misinformation and ask his supporters to cease their efforts to disparage my character and reputation."
Fallon says he voted against the bill because, "I knew that it would only make matters worse." He has been proven right.
Today, prosecutors, sheriffs, police and those who work with victims of sexual abuse agree that the bill was a mistake. The Iowa County Attorneys Association opposes the bill and acknowledges, "The research shows that there is no correlation between residency restrictions and reducing sex offenses against children or improving the safety of children." Scott County prosecutor Bill Davis put it clearly when he said of the law, "It's the wrong path. It doesn't make anyone safe…." Common sense tells you why. The law doesn't keep sex offenders from visiting schools, as the mailer depicts; it doesn't restrict their movements at all.
In fact, most agree it has actually made children less safe. According to the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, since the law went into effect, the number of sex offenders that the system has lost track of has more than doubled.
State representative and retired state trooper, Clel Baulder said, "The residency restriction was passed on emotion and emotion has no intelligence."
"I opposed a bill that is now generally agreed to be a mistake - by prosecutors, sheriffs, police, lawmakers who supported it at the time, and those who work with the victims of sexual assault," concluded Fallon.
As a mother of a "sex offender" I have strong emotions involving the unfairness of these laws. My son had consentual sex, true she was underage. he is emotionally immature. we have letters from her begging him to have sex with her. she has since gone on to have 4 others added to the list. Now after 7 years, he is still listed and she has gone on with her life. I am all for tracking true offenders. youthful age in our sex oriented society is totally unfair to all these young boys!!
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