Public Defense

Ooo, look: a sex offender (is doing what he should)

By Gideon

It seems as though Connecticut’s problems with its probate courts have been solved and they’re running all hunky-dory. How else can one explain the unsolicited comments by two probate judges (remember, these aren’t actual judges. In fact, they aren’t even lawyers. So I can’t dust off that old “what do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 50″ chestnut) that sex offenders are entering their building.

Except, um, their building also hosts a damn probation office where they are reporting.

Probate Judges Frank Forgione and John Keyes say sex offenders are among the clients visiting the Adult Probation Office at the State Street building.

Forgione says probation officials told him they’re making every effort to ensure children are not in danger. But the New Haven Register reports there were no guards at the probation office door or the front lobby of the building Friday afternoon.

So here’s a new rule, in this age of unbelievably stupid hysteria surrounding sex offenders: they should be banned from all places a child may conceivably go, no matter how ridiculous or far-fetched it may sound. This way, sex offenders will be banned from everywhere, including courts, jails, a street and your mind.

Don’t even go there.

Full post as published by A Public Defender on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).