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By Rob Boyd: Convicted in 1986 of two counts of csc 2 in a two week trial. Sentenced 7 to 15 years. Paroled 1997.
Jury asked judge if touching chest and back of 11 year old was a crime? His reply was quote: "IF THE PARTY TOUCHING HAD SEXUAL THOUGHTS OR INTENT THAT WAS A CRIME." Jury returned their verdict of 2 counts criminal sexual conduct.
In 2011 Michigan changed my tier from 2 to 3 and changed my 25 years to life.
Maybe we can then put all the politicians, celebrities and police officers on the online registry so they can see first hand what it's like?
05/12/2014
A move is underway in the Michigan Legislature to crack down harder on those who hire prostitutes.
Supporters of the effort say too often, prostitutes are arrested and those who hire them are not.
The effort is part of a move to fight the growing problem of human trafficking in Michigan.
A key bill in the package defines soliciting for prostitution as a tier II registrable offense, which would put the offender's name on a registry for 25 years.
Other parts of the package include creation of a registration system for sex industry workers, to help prevent the movement of workers from strip clubs to prostitution.
Hearings began last week in Lansing in the Senate Families, Seniors and Human Services Committee. More will be scheduled in the future.
LANSING (AP) - Registered sex offenders in Michigan are required to pay an annual fee starting April 1.
Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation in November requiring Michigan's more than 40,000 registered sex offenders to pay an annual $50 fee. The new fees are intended to cover the $600,000 a year cost to state police to operate the sex offender database. - 40,000 * 50 = $2,000,000 dollars. So where is the rest going? And why does it cost $600,000 for police to do their job and update the registry? Isn't that extortion?
The bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Rick Jones replaces the system under which sex offenders paid a one-time $50 fee.
The law only applies to registered sex offenders who are out of prison. People who prove that they are indigent can get a fee waiver.
Snyder says the law brings Michigan in line with neighboring states that require sex offenders to pay for the operating cost of sex offender websites.
Mr. Webb is a full time writer and lives in mid-Northern Michigan with his Border Collie Cody. A Motion for Innocence has reached #1 on three Amazon charts: Perspectives of Law, Conflicts of Crime and Court systems.
He is currently working on a new 4 book series entitled Jody Madison. This work deals with young people and bullying. Characteristics include, but are not limited to, the supernatural, bullying (of course), an old oak tree and an entity that befriends the bullied Jody. The book will be released in 4 segments (serial). 2 books in 2014 and 2 in 2015. The work will cover each season of the year.
WEST OLIVE (WOOD) - A former corrections officer has been sentenced for having sexual encounters with two female inmates at the Ottawa County Jail while on duty.
Jonathan Kermeen was sentenced Monday to between 5 and 15 years in prison. He must also register as a sex offender.
Kermeen pleaded guilty in early February to two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct against a prisoner. In exchange for the plea, the Ottawa County prosecutor agreed not to file additional charges against him in connection to the two named victims and a third woman.
Court documents detail a four- to five-minute encounter with one inmate in June 2013, in which Kermeen said he kissed and fondled the bare breast of an inmate. On another occasion in September 2013 in a medical area of the facility, Kermeen admitted to far more lewd behavior.
Allegations surfaced in October 2013. Kermeen was charged a month later and terminated from the department.
Kermeen worked for the corrections department for nine years.
DETROIT - The woman sought help from police after reportedly being assaulted by her boyfriend.
But while police responded to the domestic violence call, one of the officers took the 31-year-old woman into an upstairs bedroom and sexually assaulted her, authorities said.
Detroit police Officer Deon Nunlee has been charged in the Oct. 30 alleged assault. Police said DNA connected Nunlee, who has been on the force since 2008, to the assault.
"I'm troubled," Detroit Police Chief James Craig said at a news conference Friday. "Certainly, this is the type of criminal misconduct that should never happen by any member of this department or any department for that matter."
Nunlee, 40, has been charged with three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count each of assault with intent to penetrate and misconduct in office, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office.
Prosecutors said Nunlee and his partner were dispatched early on Oct. 30 to a domestic violence run where the woman said she had been assaulted by her boyfriend.
According to the prosecutor's office, Nunlee took the woman upstairs and his partner stayed with the boyfriend downstairs.
"It is alleged that when Nunlee was in an upstairs bedroom with the woman he sexually assaulted her," according to the prosecutor's office. "When officer left the house the woman reported the crime to two friends and the next day reported it to the police."
According to the prosecutor's office, Nunlee was arraigned Friday in a Detroit courtroom.
Craig called the incident is an "embarrassment." He said the incident is not a reflection of the department.
"The majority of police officers go to work each and every day ... and do their jobs with integrity," he said.
Commander Johnny Thomas of the department's professional standards bureau said Nunlee was placed on administrative duties after the woman reported the assault. On. Feb. 10, after results from the rape kit came back, Nunlee was suspended without pay.
He said Nunlee has been with the department since 2008 and previously had minor misconducts.
Nunlee is the third Detroit officer in recent days to face charges:
On Wednesday Officer Johnny Ray Bridges, 47, was charged with unlawful imprisonment, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, domestic violence and reckless discharge of a firearm in connection with the assault of a 31-year-old woman Monday. He has been suspended without pay, Craig said.
Officer Dana Bond, 41, is facing misdemeanor charges of high blood alcohol content, failure to stop at the scene of a personal injury accident and failure to stop at the scene of an accident with property damage. She is accused of driving while intoxicated and getting into an accident on Sunday. Bond was already suspended without pay at the time of the accident because she is facing retail fraud charges, accused of stealing wine from stores in Detroit.
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By Chad: As a group, sex offenders and their loved ones have had a hard time organizing a political group. While some groups have been formed and have affected positive change, the reality is that a law maker doesn't really want the group’s endorsement for election or re-election for obvious reasons. Perhaps the time has come then that we begin to get creative.
If being endorsed by a collective group of Sex Offenders for re-election would surely do more harm than good, then let us start publicly endorsing the candidates that we really want to lose. In Michigan, State Senator Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge) is a perfect example of someone whose main purpose seems to be to introduce sex offender legislation.
I would love for a collective, organized group to announce their endorsement of him for re-election. I believe it would be the most effective way in getting people to not vote for him. While it sounds counter-intuitive to take that approach, it would certainly be more effective than supporting the candidate running against him publicly.
As a basis of our endorsement, we acknowledge his active participation in the law making process and trust that if elected, he has the wherewithal to get other lawmakers to go along with him.
