Man's life Over, Cops Decide He Watched Child Porn in First Class

I'll agree that this is a tragedy, but the responsibility lies upon the individual who commits the anti-social and self-centered acts. The solution also lies with the individual, they are the ones who choose their actions, not the state.
If ya can't do the time, don't do the crime.
It's pretty plain and simple, this guy wasn't thinking about the well-being of his children, he was thinking about self-gratification. Too bad the lion ate the guy while he was jackin off and not payin attention to reality, now his kids are fatherless.

The animals that have the ivory tusks will be extinct soon no matter what we do, the rare woods will be chopped down and the species made extinct no matter what we do,

Sorry but the punishment should fit the crime and in the case of having child porn it clearly does not.

Your argument has reached the point of ridiculous fantasy.
You're either of sociopathic temperament or you simply don't know when to quit, either way, you continue to destroy any possible credibility you might have had with ridiculous arguments and fanatical distortions.
If there's anything that's cruelly absurd, it's your presentation of yourself.

And you know this how? Are you not aware of the successful efforts with species such as the Bald Eagle, American Alligator, Prairie Dog, Kirtland's Warbler, Brown Pelican, just to name a few

minimum sentence for having child porn pictures under Federal law is four years!!!!!!!

Sorry but the punishment should fit the crime and in the case of having child porn it clearly does not.

Possession of Child Porn in Massachusetts is a felony in accordance with Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 272 Section 29C. The district attorney can prosecute this case in either the district court or the superior court. As with any district court felony case there is a maximum two and one half year house of correction that can be imposed. In the superior court these charges can result in a five year state prison sentence. The imposition of jail time for first offenders in child porn possession cases is considered a high sentence by many. Often times convictions for this offense result in probation. Sex Offender Registry Board consequences are inevitable regardless of the sentence.
http://www.massachusettscriminaldefenseattorneyblog.com/2009/12/massachusetts-man-jailed-after.html#more

Do the work...prove that I have been ridiculous, fanatical or distortive....

You're either of sociopathic temperament or you simply don't know when to quit,

We shoud have done that to the communists,
during the Third World War.

Oh so the fact that we won without needing to give up our freedoms is a bad thing?

You would had been happier if we had turn into a police state?

Smith will still lose his university job if he is convicted, and he'll still be a sex offender, but his life, and his earning potential won't be over. He is also president of a company he owns, and he has the qualifications and credentials to continue earning money in his field, as long as he does so in a place where he has no contact with minors.

STAMFORD -- One year after finishing his prison sentence on child pornography charges, former Stamford volunteer firefighter Dan Rockwell is calling his car his home.

Rockwell said he can't find a job or a permanent place to live due to the felony charges following him. Currently in the second year of his 15-year probation sentence, Rockwell said he is trying to comply with his punishment, but he believes the conditions of his probation doom him to failure.

"A lot of people are very hostile when they hear about someone in a situation like this," Rockwell said.

Bill Anselmo, who oversees the sex offender unit for the state Office of Probation, said offenders often have difficulty finding jobs and places to live, but the complications are due to safeguards designed to protect the public from sex offenders.

"Community safety is our number one goal," he said.

According to Anselmo, most offenders wind up serving at least some of their suspended sentence, typically because they commit a violation of the conditions of their release. Very few offenders get reconvicted of sex crimes during their probation, according to Anselmo.

Rockwell is currently listed as a "non-compliant" offender by the Department of Public Safety because he failed to validate his address. He is facing the prospect of serving all or most of the 10-year suspended prison sentence he received when he was convicted of possession of child pornography in 2008.

The vast majority of the public does not sympathize with the predicament of sex offenders like Rockwell. Anselmo said the public generally views the release of a sex offender into their community as a threat to their quality of life.

"There is a lot of scrutiny about who they are, where they go, where they work and where they live," said Anselmo. "All eyes are on them."

Former Norwalk councilman Peter Wien, who speaks openly about the sex abuse he incurred as a child, believes that the way offenders are treated by society is a reflection of the disregard they had for the mental and physical well-being of their victims.

"A lot of them say they're sorry but at the same time, they don't have really good self control," Wien said.

In Rockwell's case, Stamford Police seized two laptop computers containing more than 100 images of child pornography from his home, according to police. Child pornography is considered by victim's advocates and law enforcement officials to be a form of revictimization but Rockwell simply calls it a "mistake" that he made out of "curiosity."

The process of assimilating sex offenders back into the community begins six to nine months before they are released from prison, Anselmo said.

Conditions of the offender's release are set by the court at the time of sentencing and additional conditions may be imposed by a probation officer after the offender is released, Anselmo said.

A representative from probation visits the offender in prison and evaluates the offender to find out the level of treatment that he requires. Assessing the offender's level of risk includes giving the offender a polygraph test, which Anselmo said determines whether the convict's history of sexual transgressions extends beyond the crimes of which he has been convicted.

"Each offender poses a different risk," he said.

The representative also assists the offender in trying to find housing and a job.

Outside of prison, it is difficult for even low-risk sex offenders to find employment because of the stigma surrounding convicted sex criminals, Anselmo said. Jobs are pivotal to an offender's rehabilitation because they provide structure, Anselmo said.

The job must be approved by a probation officer and the offender cannot have access to potential victims at his place of work, according to Anselmo.

"A lot of people say: 'Why can't they find a night job at a factory?' " he said. "The answer is those jobs don't exist anymore."

Depending on the crime and the level of risk that the offender poses to the community, probation officers can be flexible about place of employment but sex offenders are limited in their options for housing, Anselmo said.

Rockwell said his inability to gain employment means that he cannot come up with the funds required to pay for his sex offender treatment -- to which he currently owes about $700 -- and the money needed to pay rent. He depends on handouts from friends to buy food and gas for his car.

Many employers have online applications and because Rockwell cannot use a computer under the conditions of his release, the places to which he can apply are limited.

Finding housing for an offender is a difficult ordeal, Anselmo said. Offenders are often shunned by family members and former friends and they have nowhere to turn once the state no longer shelters them in a prison or a halfway house, according to Anselmo.

Laws in many states restrict the distance that a sex offender can live from a school but Connecticut does not have state-mandated residency restrictions for registered sex offenders. Connecticut allows judges, probation officers and municipalities to impose residency restrictions on sex offenders.

Possession of child pornography is considered a crime against children and Rockwell's conditions of release state that he cannot live within 1,000 feet of a school.

Rockwell said that his conviction prevents him from staying at a homeless shelter. He cannot even receive meals at the shelter because of the likelihood that he may be in the vicinity of a child.

According to Anselmo, some shelters limit the number of sex offenders who are allowed to sleep at the facilities but family shelters and shelters that have female residents do not allow sex offenders who committed crimes against children to use their services.

Since he was released from the halfway house in September 2009, Rockwell has been living at motels when he manages to scrape together enough cash, and living on friends' couches. He said many of his family members live out of the area and the majority of his friends have shunned him since his arrest.

Rockwell said the friends he has left do not allow him to stay at their homes for extended periods of time because they do not want their address to appear on the sex offender registry. Rockwell currently sleeps in his Jeep and is listed as homeless on the sex offender registry.

Although sex offenders like Rockwell face stringent conditions and multiple obstacles upon their release, Wien believes the criminal justice system should place additional restrictions on offenders like Rockwell.

"Like the old saying goes: 'Don't do the crime if you can't do the time,'" he said.

Wien said offenders should also have to pay restitution to their victims. He said he has paid tens of thousands of dollars for therapy because of the actions of the man who molested him.

"The offender has to register but the victim goes through life trying to be normal," he said. "It screws up a kid's identity. Victims often suffer in silence."

Smith will still lose his university job if he is convicted, and he'll still be a sex offender, but his life, and his earning potential won't be over. He is also president of a company he owns, and he has the qualifications and credentials to continue earning money in his field, as long as he does so in a place where he has no contact with minors.

Spoken like a person who has zero knowledge of how sex offenders live, or pretends not to. For your education:

Quote:

STAMFORD -- One year after finishing his prison sentence on child pornography charges, former Stamford volunteer firefighter Dan Rockwell is calling his car his home. . . .

Wien said offenders should also have to pay restitution to their victims.
He said he has paid tens of thousands of dollars for therapy because
of the actions of the man who molested him.

"The offender has to register but the victim goes through life trying to be normal," he said.
"It screws up a kid's identity. Victims often suffer in ilence."

If I had been in that victim's position,
I probably woud have KILLED the perpetrator, in revenge,
but I bear no ill will toward whoever it was that took a picture of me in the hospital.





David

Sorry, Smith who has two Masters degrees, as well as a Ph,D., and who taught at a university, in addition to running his own company, and earned $170,000 a year, has far more resources to earn a living than the man in the article you posted. He can be self-employed--he is an expert in a particular field--and he has been earning money through self-employment. He can, therefore, have the money to find housing in a more than decent neighborhood.

I'm not moved by your sob stories about sex offenders. These people do pose a potential danger in the community, and there are good reasons why their movements have to be restricted and why others shun them.

Ask BillRM to loan you some Kleenex to wipe away your tears of sympathy for convicted sex offenders.

Still waiting for you to post those verbatim excerpts from statutes to back up your ridiculous, fanatical, distorted statements...

He is going away to prison, he will be out of the field for probably years...

Smith will have a hard time making a go of it after the state is done beating him up.

Sorry, Smith who has two Masters degrees, as well as a Ph,D., and who taught at a university, in addition to running his own company, and earned $170,000 a year, has far more resources to earn a living than the man in the article you posted. He can be self-employed--he is an expert in a particular field--and he has been earning money through self-employment. He can, therefore, have the money to find housing in a more than decent neighborhood.

I'm not moved by your sob stories about sex offenders. These people do pose a potential danger in the community, and there are good reasons why their movements have to be restricted and why others shun them.

Ask BillRM to loan you some Kleenex to wipe away your tears of sympathy for convicted sex offenders.

Did you read my post about Massachusetts law regarding sentences for a first offense of possession of child pornography? It is much more likely he will get probation.

The possession of child pornography charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, to be followed by up to a lifetime of supervised release and a $250,000 fine. The transportation of child pornography charges carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, as well as a lifetime term of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.

I suspect that you are again being dishonest, in this case about how little life he is going to have when the state is done with him, because minimizing what is going to happen to him suits your purposes