Posted on 07/02/2005 8:35:03 AM PDT by QwertyKPH
An NDSU student and one of this city’s first high-risk sex offenders has been charged in Becker County, Minn., with molesting a 7-year-old boy near a middle school.
Joseph Edward Duncan III, 42, was charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct and attempted criminal sexual conduct. The criminal complaint accuses Duncan of approaching a 7-year-old boy and his 9-year-old friend with a video camera on July 3 at a middle school playground.
The complaint said Duncan pulled down the shorts of the younger boy and touched him. He tried the same thing with the other boy but wasn’t successful, the complaint says.
The younger boy described the man and his car to police, who matched the descriptions to Duncan and his car through a sex offender database. The boy identified Duncan in a photo lineup.
Duncan’s criminal past includes the 1980 rape of a 14-year-old boy in Washington.
He served 14 years in prison for the crime before moving in 2000 to Fargo.
Since then, Duncan has lived at the same location without any violations of his lifetime sex offender registration requirements, said Lt. Tod Dahle.
“We’ve never had any trouble with him at all,” Dahle said. “He got a couple of speeding tickets, but that’s about it.”
On Thursday, Duncan visited the Fargo Police to register a new address for a second job he recently got in West Fargo, Dahle said.
Fargo police knew of the Becker County investigation but didn’t know until Friday of the charges, Dahle said.
Duncan has been enrolled at NDSU since fall 2000. He is now a senior majoring in computer science, said school spokesman David Wahlberg.
The university knew about the Becker County charges, but student privacy laws restrict school officials from discussing what actions, if any, they might take against Duncan, Wahlberg said.
Duncan made the dean’s list in fall 2000 and spring 2001. He’s a member of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, an academic excellence fraternity, Wahlberg said.
More than 300 people attended a community notification meeting for Duncan after his move to Fargo. At the time, he was one of two Level Three offenders with addresses registered in Fargo.
Level Three offenders are those considered the most at risk of re-offending. The police currently list six such offenders living in Fargo on its Web site.
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Yet another homosexual molesting boys. When will the MSM admit that homosexuality is a psychological dysfunction, that those who have it and act on it often molest children, thus creating MORE homosexuals?
And when will the MSM tell the stories of FORMER homosexuals?
crickets....chirping........*
Freepmail me if you want on/off this pinglist.
*That's why WE have to tell the truth. Copy'n'paste, email, print it out - let people know the truth, especially people with children, grandchildren, people who work with children.
LJ I don't know if you realize it but this article is about the guy who was arrested with little Shasta Groene in Idaho.(it's an old thread but doesn't mean it doesn't rate a ping--fyi)
Hmmm the poster of the article tricked me by posting an old article - I should check the article date, not just the date it was posted to FR.
I've been carefully avoiding the articles about Shasta - was that a girl or a boy? Sometimes I can only stand so many articles about the violation of children. It really makes me think that vigilante justice is the only kind we'll see, since we don't see very much of the regular kind.
How you doing? Now the RI voted in "medical" mj - I really feel for you. It used to be a beautiful place (probably still is in many ways) but liberalism is a terrible blight that ruins the mind, heart and spirit of those who accept it as their belief system, and if is contagious.
Best to you and your family! Have a happy and safe 4th of July.
LOL
I'm in FL, not RI.
Shasta is the girl, her 9 yr old brother is still missing but they think he's dead by what she has told them. It's very sad that our society has not learned that these types can't be trusted at all. On the thread yesterday when she was found there are some pretty creative punishments suggested! All would be terribly painful!!
Hoping you and yours have a wonderful day tomorrow! We are going to spend it quietly.
That post was meant for Its - what's wrong with me today?
I like quiet holidays - just me, my better half, and various animals, both wild and domestic, outside.
Best to you!
(Only in the last couple of generations has the theory that criminals must be "understood" and basically, treated with kid gloves been accepted. Rape used to be a capital crime. Once people weren't executed for rape anymore, the incidence of rape skyrockteted.
Of course, women getting drunk and going to men they just met's apartments (that grammar isn't right, I know it) wearing hooker type clothes don't help any. Nor does regular garden variety promiscuity.
But anyone who uses a child sexually is truthfully a demon, not a human, and should be removed from the planet.
Sheesh - Its isn't even on this thread!
(Scratching head - maybe I should go take a walk and breathe some fresh air, brain must need oxygen!)
Some minor constitutional problems there.
I think a simple line could be drawn there, even with the understanding that the legal system can only satisfactorly deal with the quantifiable. Getting fresh with someone past puberty isn't the same kind of red flag as sexual interest in a prepubscent.
Many (though not all) localities have amended their statutory rape laws to allow for slight age differences (typically four years) regarding sexual realtions between those over 12 or 13 and under 18. For example, it is not illegal to have sex with a 16 or 17 year old girl providing one is not more than four years older than her. This is to prevent an 18 year-old high school senior from being charged as a sex offender for having consensual sex with his 17 year-old high school junior girlfriend.
Like I said though not all localities employ this safety measure. I recall reading of an eighteen year-old male forced to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life for having sex with his 16 year-old girlfriend. Even her parents came out in his support but to no avail.
Ping!
That's the photo that was all over TV this weekend.
"Many (though not all) localities have amended their statutory rape laws to allow for slight age differences (typically four years)..."
When they start delivering death to the worst-case offenses, then we get more close to appropriate justice.
Thank god they have this sicko in custody. Keep him there!
Wrong! We need to insure that child sexual predators don't LIVE after the first conviction!
I think you might want to reconsider your tagline. Sounds like you are saying that the lord was in control of what happened to the Groene kids..................
I don't necessarily oppose your plan, but I don't share your vehemence. Actually, I can't say that I support your plan either.
People who only oppose ideas without offering alternate solutions seem pretty worthless to me in this or any situation, and definately make me think of the Democratic number 1 and only plan and action of the last few years.
I'd be happy just keeping them off the streets. I just lack your strong desire to kill anyone. If that makes me worthless in your eyes, I'm cool with that. Doesn't bother me a bit.
For animals that rape and torture 11-year olds, then bury them alive in a garbage bag, yes, I want to kill them. NOT HAVE them killed, I want to do that myself. And I have killed fewer people than Teddy Kennedy, the senior senator from MA.
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