Guard at sexual offender treatment facility sentenced for child pornography dissemination
A former security guard and therapy aide at a center for the treatment of sexual offenders has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for disseminating child sexual abuse material. The man pleaded guilty Monday in Schuyler Circuit Court (IL) to the two felony counts of dissemination of child pornography and the remaining 10 counts were dismissed, according to court records.
At the time of his arrest, he worked at the Department of Human Services’ Rushville Treatment and Detention Facility. The facility houses more than 500 violent sexual offenders who have served prison sentences but remain in state custody because they are considered a danger to society.
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It makes you wonder why those that administer the penal plesmiograph are not cited for the same thing? They show CSAM while monitoring your response and then brand you due to what apparent reactions you have in movement or heart rate. Yet they can disseminate the material without fear of charges and possess it without fear of charges.
To clarify, you are saying that a therapist showed CSAM to a client?
How far into the future must we go before educated voices begin to question the standards of our sentencing? I may not know the details of the article at hand, yet I cannot help but wonder whether we have already gone too far. Is it not excessive that so many of our citizens remain compulsively confined even after serving their sentences and undergoing treatment? If confinement is imposed for reasons of chronic mental deviation—echoing the dystopian vision of Minority Report, where risk and “thought police” dictate the fate of men—should such measures not resemble humane, campus-like environments rather than locked-down, orange-suited, dungeon-like punishments? And finally, is it truly proportionate to condemn an illicit image as nearly equivalent in heinousness to the crime of murder?
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Love the reference to Hotel California.
Having said that, every time I see a post about civil commitment it makes me sick to my stomach. If you were sentenced to 10 years, but later given civil commitment for whatever reason, how is that even legal. Boggles the mind and reeks of injustice.
Just the fox watching the chicken coop, as usual. The guards are generally way more criminal than the prisoners.
Judge hits him with 20years. I’m sure he knows after the 20years are over, he still won’t be free.
So now we can’t even trust those we turn to for help?
Nobody turned to this guy for help. He worked at a civil commitment center. Like the classic Eagles song says, “you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave”.