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Ex-con faces year in jail for living in location police approved

By "eAdvocate"

12-17-2009 Michigan:A man who was convicted of sexual assault for having sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 faces a year in jail for living too close to a school -- even though he says police told him the location was acceptable.By many people's standards, Matthew Freeman shouldn't even be on a sex offenders' registry for having sex with his girlfriend, two years his junior, when they were teenagers. But because the age of consent in Michigan is 16 and there is no exemption for teenagers who are close in age, Freeman was convicted and placed on the sex offenders' registry for 10 years.A report at AnnArbor.com states that Freeman was stopped by a police officer while the now-23-year-old man was shooting hoops in his mother's front yard, where he lives...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).