By a daughter seeking kindness See also Part I See also Part II Part III — What will the future be? Dad is still going through the court system. They want him to take a plea, but he will not. He is not going to be intimated to…
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Shame — Part II
By a daughter seeking kindness Also see Part I “How it started” Part II – What it is now Page forward to March 2019. My dad had a new accusation against him and immediately was placed in handcuffs at age 71 while eating dinner. He was taken away without shoes and without his medications…
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By a daughter seeking kindness Part I: How it started If you have a parent or sibling convicted of a crime that requires them to have their name with personal information listed on a sex offense registry, you at some point will almost certainly be in danger or shamed beyond comprehension. I have suffered silently from shame for 37 years,…
Read MoreNARSOL’s Vander Wall quoted in aftermath of Omaha registrant murder
By Sydnie Holzfaster . . . A shooting in North Omaha has sparked concerns over the state sex offender registry. Following the death of Mattieo Condoluci, members of the National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) are calling for the state to remove the public state sex offender registry. “If he was not on the registry I have no doubt…
Read MoreNARSOL demands the end to state-sponsored facilitation of vigilante murders
On May 16, in Omaha, Nebraska, James Fairbanks went to the home of Mattieo Condoluci, an individual on the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry, and shot him to death. Fairbanks had identified Condoluci from the registry. He turned himself in and is awaiting charges. This is a pattern we have seen played out over the years, registrants murdered by vigilantes using…
Read MoreSexual offense registries need to go
Published 3/5/2020 at the Portsmouth Daily Times By Sandy Rozek Melissa Martin (2/28/20) makes an eloquent but often erroneous case in favor of sexual offense registries. These registries have been in place in every state for twenty to thirty years. Many studies have been done evaluating the effectiveness of them and their contribution to public safety. The results are overwhelmingly…
Read MoreJudge rules on “No Trick or Treat Signs” – Registrants have rights
By Hayley Fowler Three registered sex offenders in Georgia clutched a victory on the brink of Halloween when a federal judge ordered lawn signs deterring trick-or-treaters be removed from their homes. Butts County Sheriff Gary Long argued last week the signs should remain while the lawsuit — brought by the three named plaintiffs seeking to represent a class of sex offenders who…
Read MoreParents of disabled adults on sex offender registries along with their children
By Chiara Eisner . . . Carol Nesteikis, 66, has never committed a crime. But for two years, from six in the evening to six in the morning the next day, she lived under de facto house arrest with her 32-year-old son, Adam. It wasn’t because she wanted to. The home itself was a kind of punishment, she says. Adam…
Read MoreSuit filed in Missouri: “Registry results in retribution for past offenses”
By Pat Pratt . . . A woman barred by her church from a marathon to fight hunger and a man who saw hatred spewed so often his daughter was forced to move and his wife took her own life — they and others are seeking removal from Missouri’s life-long sex offender registry, arguing it is unconstitutionally cruel. The children…
Read MoreMedia sex offender stories: missed opportunities to do some good
By Sandy Rozek . . . “I’d like to talk to you about a situation involving a sex offender here in Georgia.” It was similar to dozens of calls I receive as communications director of NARSOL, and the soft voice explained what the situation was. A man in Cochran, Georgia, a man on that state’s sexual offense registry, was being…
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