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Civil commitment faces rocky legal terrain

By "eAdvocate"

12-29-2010 New York: In 1988, Mustafa Rashid broke into a home in the Bronx, raped one woman, sodomized another, and stabbed a third person who tried to break up the home invasion. In 2000, less than a year after being released on parole, Rashid robbed three homes over four days. In a Queens robbery, he threatened a woman with an ice pick, took the woman?s 8-month-old daughter from her arms and allegedly fondled the child, then caressed the woman and masturbated at the home. He left after she gave him cash, court records say. Last month, New York?s highest court, the Court of Appeals, decided Rashid could not be civilly committed as a dangerous sex offender. The judges did not say that Rashid wasn?t dangerous. Nor did they rule that he didn?t suffer from the mental disorder required to commit a sex offender to a secure psychiatric facility in New York...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 29, 2010 (boomark / email).