A scenario much too familiar.
The Concord Monitor (8/24/2009):
A 20-year-old college student went online in a New Hampshire romance chat room one afternoon and struck up a conversation with a 14-year-old girl. She said she was a virgin who lived at home with her mother. In explicit terms, detailed in court records, the man asked her to meet him so they could have sex.
She agreed, and the man drove to the meeting place. He waited a few minutes, then got back in his car and left, according to court documents. The police pulled up behind him and arrested him. The "girl" he met online was actually an undercover cop.
The man was charged with two felonies. But on a negotiated plea, he pleaded guilty to attempted second degree assault, a felony, and attempted sexual assault, a misdemeanor. He received a suspended sentence and was required to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
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Fast forward to graduation. Armed with a degree in finance, well, you know the story. Nobody will hire him. Nobody wants to go near him.
Except New Hampshire state Rep. Jennifer Brown.
His mother.
"He didn't meet anyone," Brown said. "He got there, turned around and left so fast. . . . He went to the meeting, then said, 'I'm just leaving,' and that's what our state calls a criminal."
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"What happens when you're young derails your career," Brown told a House subcommittee last week. "You have none. Being on the list is an onerous responsibility."
Brown has sponsored a bill that would exempt the least dangerous class of sex offenders, which includes her son, from registering on the public sex offender registry.
New Hampshire's law enforcement community is, let us say, unreceptive.
And the reason why?
Associate Attorney General Anne Rice said if the state adopts Brown's bill, it could jeopardize federal funding. According to the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, all perpetrators of sex crimes against children must be on the public list, Rice said. New Hampshire passed a law that went into effect Jan. 1 that brought the state into compliance with the federal regulations. Up to 10 percent of a federal justice grant could be jeopardized if the state changes its laws. State Rep. Steve Shurtleff, a Concord Democrat who chairs the House Criminal Justice Committee, said that up to $1 million in federal money could be put at risk.
Keep your eye on this one.
Read more here.
6 comments:
I probably should not admit this but my first reaction to this was a little giggle. I wish more rich, powerful, influential people (and their children and relatives) would be made to suffer the same consequences ( its pretty rare)the rest of us not wealthy, or powerful or influential people have to live with for the rest of our lives.
Maybe, MAYBE then things would change and change much faster.
I don't know what this lady's views on registered sex offender laws were BEFORE her son was caught up in the insane laws, but this is a perfect example of how easy it is to change your views when this insanity slaps one of your own down. Suddenly sex offenders are NOT ALL MONSTERS! You know your child, you love him, you understand the contributions he could make to society, his cute sense of humor, the times he has helped others. You understand that he made a terrible mistake and has learned his lesson and that if he has undergone treatment, he is probably a much better person than most people you know.
Yes, I am sorry but I do get a chuckle out it when the very people who make these laws get caught up in them. I feel bad for her son of course, but sometimes that is what it takes for people to open their eyes.
Hey Mom, I know of a bunch of internet sites where you can learn the truth about former offenders and the truth about reoffense and how many of these laws cause more harm than good.
I invite you to get educated and take your pain and go through the country working as hard as we do at educating the people and trying to get effective laws.
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After reading what Magister said above, I have nothing to add. She said it all. Re-read it again!
Me....I hate our elected officials! They Lie. They have passed laws that put MY CHILD at risk.
Let's get rid of them all this next election. Click on my name to see how!
I can understand that reaction, M!
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Her voting record would be easy enough to research. What's interesting about NH being the state of contention is the exact sting operation in which her son was involved were masterminded by a law enforcement officer who is a resident of the Live Free or Die state.
I don't have his name at my fingertips, but one of the leading Florida "stingers" was tutored by this guy. They share the same sort of frenzy about the Operation.
So, I would think the representative new full well and good what was going on in her state.
Thinking....that can't possibly happen to me or my family...
magister...her son did not REALLY MAKE A MISTAKE. He was ENTRAPPED. He never DID ANYTHING. EVER. No mistakes. Other than wasting his tine in chatrooms. This is all such bullshit. Don't pay attention to the cover story .. pay attention to the backbeat. He basically was charged with crimes that were NOTHING MORE THAN HIM practicing his rights to free speech. That's IT. They get drug traffickers off on BIG TIME SHIT by entrapment. This is THOUGHT CRIME. He said okay let's meet and have sex, right? Allegedly. WHO KNOWS WHETHER HE WOULD HAVE EVER TOUCHED HER??????
EVEN IF HE HAD TOUCHED HER MANY MANY FOURTEEN YEAR OLDS ARE NOT CHILDREN. They are miniature prostitutes highly trained by the irish republican army here in tampa. Besides that....when you meet the irish republican army soldiers' children (and you do every day) they and their neighbor friends have been crackheads since the age of 11. They would be VERY EASILY swayed to do ANYTHING.
one good thing: it appears that she became a state rep AFTER THE FACT OR just before the fact.If it were AFTER the fact she's just out to fix him rather than THE PROBLEM. IF it was before the fact... maybe they are attacking HER. I would like to know.
If she has gone far enough to say these laws are no good for some she should have gone the whole mile. These laws were so designed to protect ACTUAL CHILDREN, right?? FROM ACTUAL PERVERTS, right?
Because they are just all over the normal case of human events. Sex is what happens. I thought new hampshire was one of the states you could marry at 14 or 15. And, if so... are they saying you can only have sex iF MARRIED? Women are NOT CHATTEL.
These laws are criminalizing sexuality and innocent (if explicit) conversation. FREE SPEECH.
He could have said "I WANT TO FUCK YOU" ALL DAY LONG. But, it's NOT A CRIME UNTIL HE DOES. He might have gotten there and sat on the couch giggling. NO ONE KNOWS.
I want to fuck a lot of people, too. Haven't touched the first one yet.
EVEN IF YOU TOUCH SOMEONE THAT IS NOT A CRIME.
The cops waited til they saw what his online activities were and they entrapped him.
IT IS HAPPENING EVERYWHERE.
THEY GOT A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR IN PENSACOLA.
The barbaric laws should be repealed. F the julia tuttle ...the big picture is much more problematic.
This is the carney way of distracting while they go ahead and PLOW THROUGH the rest of the population 'on the wrong list.'
Meantime, how long has it BEEN since there has been an ACTUAL CHILD ABDUCTION?????
I fear to say this because they'll have to do a few just to make it look on the real side.
He can come here and work for henkels and mccoy. Instead of saying he 'made a mistake' she should have been saying CLEARLY: HE DID NOTHING WRONG. CHANGE YOUR MURDEROUS LAWS.
Sunny we need to form a PAC. I'll send you the link. It's NOT that hard.
and just for the record, it shouldn't be a LIFE CRIME to fuck a willing SLUT.
Which, yes I am allowed to say.
Because I see way too many of their blood thirsty parents who RAISED THEIR CHILDREN for just this purpose.
A child is one thing.
A child raised to prostitute herself for her parents is ANOTHER.
They made these laws to establish a permanent and eventually DEAD lower class.
They are still living by the old rules.
And their always more hedonistic ones.
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