Posted on 02/05/2005 1:57:40 PM PST by billorites
Chicago Police have told former congressman Mel Reynolds, a convicted sex offender, to move from his South Side home because he is living too close to a school.
Reynolds has been living in the 11800 block of South Indiana for several years. Last month, he went to Chicago Police headquarters to register as a sex offender, as he is required to do annually. He was told he had to move because he was living within 500 feet of a school.
Salem Christian Academy is across the street from Reynolds' home. Reynolds is raising his three children there, and for a time they attended the school.
Reynolds also has worked at Salem Baptist Church, which runs the school.
Reynolds was convicted in 1995 of sexual misconduct, child pornography and obstruction of justice relating to an affair he had with a campaign volunteer who was a minor.
Chicago Police spokesman David Bayless said the department asked Reynolds to move this time because of a new computer system that allows the department to run names against locations of schools, daycare centers and playgrounds immediately. Registered sex offenders are not allowed to live within 500 feet of these places.
Reynolds was told Jan. 14 that he had 30 days to move, Bayless said.
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How the mighty have fallen.
Media Bias Detecter #11:
If no party affiliation is given: assume Republican if story is positive, Democrat is story is negative.
Never fails.
As a former Congressman he should probably be forced to be more than 500 feet from any registered lobbyist as well.
I wish the sex offenders around here couldn't live near schools! There are a bundle of them living within a block of an elementary school.... but we must respect their "rights" you know... /rolling eyes
It would seem to me that a "registered sex offender" shouldn't have access to his own children.
Democrat "family values".
Clinton pardoned him, you know.
Agreed
How did he manage to retain custody of his kids?
"Clinton pardoned him, you know."
Then why does he still have to register? I thought a pardon was a clean slate.
It isn't and inocent people refuse pardons and demand retrials. A pardon is just a kind of 'forgiveness', as in 'pardon my faux pas'.
What's interesting is that there's no mention of the fact that he's a Democrat. Do you think they'd have mentioned if he were a Republican?
"Clinton pardoned him, you know."
Clinton commuted his sentence, he got no pardon. If he had been pardoned he would not have to register as a sex offender.
"If he had been pardoned he would not have to register as a sex offender"
AHA! That's what I thought.
D'OH!
If this is true, he wouldn't be a sex offender. His record would have been purged.
What is this 500' nonsense? So if it was 510' that would be any better? I guess we know where the ones that actually register are. But of course it's too much to expect to keep pervs locked away in the first place.
I wish they couldn't live, period.
An ex-congressman (Reynolds) who had sex with a subordinate won clemency from a president (Clinton) who had sex with a subordinate, then was hired by a clergyman (Jackson)who had sex with a subordinate.
Source: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/reynolds.htm
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