So that my fellow Alabamians may protect their children when this predator is released again.
Posted on 08/15/2022 7:44:39 AM PDT by grundle
Aug. 14—A man who was arrested Aug. 4 for allegedly committing an incestuous and forcible rape of a child in Franklin County that day had been released less than three months before from the Morgan County Jail with zero bond on a charge of forcible sexual abuse of a child.
The Morgan County district attorney and the circuit judge who authorized the defendant's release from jail disagree on who, if anyone, was to blame.
Raymond Matthew McKinney, 35, was arrested Dec. 5 after being indicted by a Morgan County grand jury for sexual contact with a child under the age of 12 and for sexual contact by forcible compulsion of the same victim. Circuit Judge Jennifer Howell released McKinney from jail on his own recognizance on May 20.
On Aug. 4, McKinney was arrested in Franklin County and charged with first-degree rape and incest involving a 16-year-old female. Franklin County Sheriff Shannon Oliver told reporters the victim claimed to have been raped multiple times and McKinney confessed when questioned by investigators. McKinney and the victim lived in the same Phil Campbell home, he said.
"The bottom line is that this gentleman should have never been released on his own recognizance — period," Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson said last week.
Howell, however, said Anderson knew a motion to reduce bond was pending and had a month to object to it before she released McKinney on May 20.
Anderson on Aug. 5, the day after the Franklin County arrest, filed a stinging motion to revoke McKinney's bond, which Howell granted 13 minutes later. The motion complained that Howell gave no notice to prosecutors before releasing McKinney and that she released him "without ordering supervision of the Community Corrections Pretrial Release program."
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Good ol bail reform strikes again
There ya go! That sounds pretty damn good! Seriously! But..
So that my fellow Alabamians may protect their children when this predator is released again.
Judges should be faced with prosecution for the crimes committed by these misguided early releases.
VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT !!!!
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