Posted on 08/07/2011 8:50:25 AM PDT by massmike
A 2006 state law prohibiting the most serious sex offenders from living in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities is unconstitutional, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously Friday.
In the case ruled on Friday, a level three sex offender identified only as John Doe would likely have become homeless and personally endangered if he were forced out of the rest home in which he resides, according to the SJC.
According to a background of the case included in the ruling, John Doe – diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome and who also suffers from glaucoma, seizures and “poor personal hygiene” – was convicted in 1992 of two sexual offenses involving young male children. He was jailed again in 1997 for a parole violation that was not a sex crime. When he was released in 2008, Doe was found “not to be sexually dangerous.”
The Sex Offender Registry Board concluded that although Doe’s age – he was 65 at the time the proceedings against him began – the fact that his crimes never involved adult victims, and the fact that the rest home provided him with a “stable environment,” his criminal history and lack of counseling put him at a “high risk of reoffense and high degree of danger” that required him to register as a level three offender.
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Sounds like a good time to start a ‘sex offender only’ nursing home
with ‘sex offender’ nurses.
Jobs anyone?
God only knows how many innocent lives this vampire has ruined over the course of his life.
I’d like to know on which celestial tablet it is chiseled that being old and sick and helpless automatically absolves one of their sins.
I have no objections, as long as characters like this are kept in separate wards.
bttt
“Poor personal hygiene”. I can just imagine.
Hose him down and send him on his way.
Free association and property rights are unconstitutional!?!?
I suppose he could always re-offend and be imprisoned for the rest of his life...
As if they don't have feet??? Sex offenders will be sex offenders. There will be victims in these nursing homes. Bet on it.
I'm sure it would violate some rights of the sex offenders to post personnel to make sure they stay in their own wards. What about the common areas? Life in nursing homes revolves largely around the common areas.
May I suggest water hot enough to sterilize him? (in more ways than one)
The American judiciary is notorious for favoring our society’s criminal element.
That’s true. That’s what the lynch mob is for. Thanks massmike.
Find a nice 5-10 story building for them with no elevator. Just lots of stairs...
My mother suffered from Alzheimers. Near the end, she was in a home. She told my sister of being raped, but given the conflation of present and past in all her discussions, sister assumed she was referencing the distant past, perhaps a secret she’d kept all those years.
A month after mom died, a local news broke about an employee of that very same nursing home being arrested for raping its patients. It’s haunted us ever since.
That being said, I object to registration laws, anyway. Once you've served your tome, you've served your time.
If you say these people are a high risk to re-offend, see paragraph 1.
When he's finally loses an election, I'm sure one of his final acts will be pardoning the scum.
Where’s your empathy7? He was a good boy, just fell in with bad company.
(methinks the MA gov will have to retire/resign before he’s ever voted out of office)
All right, I am sorry, but I can’t see how someone with a black mark on their record, who has a record of perverse inclinations, or issues in personal self-control, should ever be allowed in a nursing home, their own inclinations raise serious questions about whether or not they can be trusted around those of either the same or opposite gender (depending on the nature of their past sexual offense). I am sorry, but there’s a conflict of interest for someone who was a past offender, and the law was there with the understanding that a person who is a sex offender has serious issues which may compromise their capacity to do certain things, especially while in a position of authority or a caretaker.
It’s almost like sending a man who molested his niece in a supervisory role over a young girl, and then taking a bet he won’t either have issues with some young girl’s or his attraction to underage girls is magically gone. Think again.
Among all the important aspects of the Constitution is found in the preamble, where it mentions to “secure the blessings of liberty” why do I take importance in this? Well I see it as important because that’s where liberties are placed in the correct context. People shouldn’t be free to throw away or constrict the freedoms of others. Committing crimes can be a reason to remove some freedoms as well. (iow. I am serving a prison sentence, during which I am not free to roam the U.S.A. because of my crime)
Either way, freedom isn’t perfect, especially when decisions about whose freedom is important is at stake.
You’re addressing this to me because?
I have a pretty good idea of what it’s like to suffer from perverse inclinations, I had a great deal of problems with it myself, being an increasingly bad porn addict for a time. Personally, and at my best judgement, even though it has been years since I left using porn in the more hardcore means of looking up random photos of scantily clad or even nude women for my own personal high, I wouldn’t trust myself being put in a situation where I would be in a supervisory or lone situation with women who are say late teens or early adulthood, that’s my own personal proper judgement and possibly the best method, especially with the religious and non-religious officials whom I counseled with. It’s just best that I didn’t bother putting myself in a tempting situation, even years after the fact. The urge to do certain things doesn’t magically go away, it stays with you years afterwards, at least. I also don’t think the nursing home staff want to specifically spy on every last little action that their staff do, especially given the amount of attention and care that plenty of patients there have on a daily basis.
There are other places to serve besides a nursing home, should a person have an inclination that could compromise their effectiveness.
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