Here is a story that just does not sit well with me:
Standing shackled in a Lucas County Common Pleas courtroom with her family behind her, Dawn Fisher said her eyes had been opened and that she was ready to live life again as an improved person.
Convicted in 2006 for having a sexual relationship with a teenage boy and giving birth to his child, Fisher was sent to prison in July, 2007, for violating conditions of her probation. Yesterday, after twice denying her requests for early release, Judge James Bates released Fisher from her two-year sentence, ordering her not to have any contact with the victim.
She was initially given a smack on the wrist with the first sentence and even then she did not follow the rules of her probation. Not a good start and a waving red flag I think. Why would the Judge now decide that it is acceptable to release her??
Under consideration was a letter from the victim's mother, who said that her now 3-year-old granddaughter needs her mother out of prison.
"I, being the mother of the boy involved, feel her release would be extremely beneficial for her daughter [my granddaughter]. I feel mother and daughter have been apart long enough," the victim's mother said in a letter attached with the most recent motion for judicial release.
So should this criteria apply to all sex offenders who are incarcerated and have children?
Fisher, 34, formerly of Swanton, gave birth in December, 2005. She had begun the relationship with the boy, then 14, the year before.
A mother of three, she pleaded no contest in September, 2006, to unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and was sentenced to house arrest and probation. She violated those conditions in 2007 when she failed to complete sex-offender treatment programs ordered at her sentencing. Judge Bates said yesterday that he was not making similar programs a condition of the two years of community control imposed yesterday.
And yes another case where the abuser becomes pregnant from sexually assaulting the victim. And if she did not complete sex offender treatment why would anyone not want her to do so now?
Cleveland-based attorney Elizabeth Kelley told Judge Bates that she filed the most recent request for judicial release, not because she was stubborn or because Fisher was avoiding punishment, but because Fisher "desperately, passionately wants to return to her family, especially her three children." - Read the entire article here
There are many people in jail and prison who desperately, passionately want to return to their families. Why should someone who has already violated probation in the past be treated so much differently? I suspect that her gender played into this decision.
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