Posted on 01/01/2007 9:20:19 PM PST by jdm
A man who has a history of smashing windows to indulge his fetish for female mannequins could draw a long prison term for his latest arrest. Ronald A. Dotson, 39, of Detroit faces up to life in prison if convicted of a charge of attempted breaking and entering at a cleaning-supply company in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale.
The potential life sentence is because prosecutors charged him as a habitual offender. Authorities say he has at least six convictions for breaking and entering and a stint in state prison over the last 13 years.
Ferndale District Judge Joseph Longo ordered Dotson to stand trial following a preliminary examination on Thursday, The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak reported. The judge ordered him jailed unless he posts a $15,000 bond.
Dotson was arrested Oct. 9 after police say he smashed a window at a cleaning-supply company to get at a female mannequin dressed in a black and white French maid's uniform. He had been out of prison for less than a week.
Dotson was arrested in Ferndale in July 2000 and later convicted for breaking and entering at a women's clothing shop to get at a mannequin in a pink dress with bobbed hair.
Ferndale police also arrested Dotson in 1993 after finding him in an alley behind a woman's store with three lingerie-clad mannequins. He also has similar convictions in Detroit and suburban Oak Park.
And do you really think that your daughters will be better protected by throwing the guy in a box for a few years than by at least trying to straighten his twisted ass out?
It's pretty clear that our mannequin freak is about as warped as an LP left on the dashboard in a heat wave, but he has not committed any crimes against anyone's person.
He might. But if there were any serious effort to fix his dysfunction, that would yield better results than chucking him into jail and chucking him back out until we decide to chuck him in forever and give him three hots and a cot at taxpayer expense for the rest of his life.
Serious counseling works. Not 100% of the time, but a hell of a lot more than the lack. If you're serious abut making potential victims safer, it's time to get over your own fetish for being more and more tough on crime and look for ways to be smarter on crime.
Not every criminal can be rehabilitated, but many can. Not every criminal will ever walk free again, but most will. The question is just this simple: Do you want them coming out of prison better than they went in, or worse?
I was thinking of the Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall matchup.
A lot of folks make the decision, consciously or not, to go back to prison. Because they can't handle the responsibility for their own lives and need the structure forced on them by someone else. That, I think, is the greatest failure of modern American prisons; they prepare inmates for life inside, but put little effort into acclimating then to freedom.
My non-expert read on this guy is that he has a massive case of performance (or size) anxiety, so he seeks out woman-shaped things that won't ever be disappointed or mock him. If he'd been caught after the first mannequin theft, it might have been possible to neutralize the threat. But it's only after many crimes over several years that anyone began to take notice.
I would agree with that. Its too bad he didn't just buy blow up dolls or buy his mannequins. I don't understand why after being in jail he wouldn't just buy one but maybe there was that thrill to steal. Sometimes people just can't rid themselves of their old habits and addictions.
thats the problem with you liberals, "he might", "really think"????. you did not answer my question about how many daughters you have, well, how many? you also did not address the fact this was no. 6 for this monster. what the hell is wrong with you? all your liberal rehab crap would be great in a perfect world but wake up. again, how many daughters do you have??? how would you feel if this savage came near one of them? go ahead, answer my questions before you go of on your DU spiel.
I have no daughters. Is that what I'm missing? Did you suddenly and magically acquire vast stores of wisdom about the effectiveness of rehabilitation when your wife gave birth to a girl?
you also did not address the fact this was no. 6 for this monster.
Actually, I did address that, and furthermore guessed that this was probably more like #12 -- he was convicted six times, probably arrested more than that, and never caught even more.
But seriously, monster? He molests mannequins. You might want to reserve the worst of your ire for folks who harm people of flesh and blood. They aren't exactly difficult to find.
what the hell is wrong with you? all your liberal rehab crap would be great in a perfect world but wake up.
I'm wide awake, and in this imperfect world, rehab works far better than the lack of it. Once again, it comes down to a very simple question -- do you want people to leave prison better, or worse, than they went in? It's such a simple question that I don't understand why it angers you.
again, how many daughters do you have??? how would you feel if this savage came near one of them?
Again, I don't have any daughters, but I'm reasonably certain that if I did, they wouldn't be made of plastic and standing in store windows. There are far, far greater threats out there than this twerp.
go ahead, answer my questions before you go of on your DU spiel.
I'l tell you what, Skippy. When you've spent 36 years working with prisoners, as my dad has, when you've put thousands of them on the straight and narrow, as Chuck Colson has, when you've slept one night in prison, as Sam Brownbeck has, then I'll think about giving your opinion some weight.
Until then, you're just another bleat from the "lock 'em up and throw away the key" crowd who can't even be bothered to find your own shift key, and I'll treat your demands that I answer your questions with all the seriousness they deserve.
Apparently, you've never heard of the broken window theory.
I don't give a feces if he's turned on by brown paper bags. The scumbag deserves to rot, being a career criminal.
Is this a DU thread?
Reminds me of this old Mills Brothers song:
Song: Paper Doll Lyrics
- written by Johnny S. Black, 1915
- lyrics as recorded by The Mills Brothers in 1942
I'm gonna buy a Paper Doll that I can call my own
A doll that other fellows cannot steal
And then the flirty, flirty guys with their flirty, flirty eyes
Will have to flirt with dollies that are real.
When I come home at night she will be waiting
She'll be the truest doll in all this world
I'd rather have a Paper Doll to call my own
Than have a fickle-minded real live girl.
I'll tell you boys, it's tough to be alone
And it's tough to love a doll that's not your own
I'm through with all of them
I'll never fall again
Say boy, whatcha gonna do?
I'm gonna buy a Paper Doll that I can call my own
A doll that other fellows cannot steal
And then the flirty, flirty guys with their flirty, flirty eyes
Will have to flirt with dollies that are real.
When I come home at night she will be waiting
She'll be the truest doll in all this world
I'd rather have a Paper Doll to call my own
Than have a fickle-minded real live girl.
Dunno......but anything with Cameron Diaz or any newer Star Wars movie with what's her name as 'queen'........certainly qualify.
I really don't give a fig what he deserves. I'm not the ultimate judge. I'm interested in outcomes, and putting this guy in jail for life on my dime is, to put it mildly, a sub-optimal outcome.
This guy is clearly a sick puppy. That should have been clear at his first arrest, if not before. He has a fairly common and treatable paraphilia. Getting him psychiatric help after his first arrest would have been far less expensive and far more effective than arresting, prosecuting and incarcerating him six more times.
This isn't a hippie-dippy kumbaya notion. It's a fact-based, cold analysis of what works. Yet again, I come back to what I find an incredibly simple and easy question: do you want people to come out of prison better than they went in, or worse? Is that really controversial? And if you have an issue with that, you can take it up with liberals like Chuck Colson and Sam Brownbeck.
That was Natalie Portman, and while she is usually thin, her Star Wars body was not nearly as skinny as her V for Vendetta body.
Versus
I actually like that song.
Not so much her body as her so-called 'acting'. Girl could have phoned it in. Can't believe she actually gets paid for it.
Doh! She looks like Sinead Oconnor.
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