IL: State’s attorney explains ‘short’ sentence for sex offender
The Greene County state’s attorney said social media comments prompted him to make “a statement of reason” about a sex offender’s sentencing.
State’s Attorney Craig Grummel said he doesn’t use Facebook in his free time, but people were sending him screenshots of the comments section. “Everyone obviously has their right to free speech, but some of those (comments) were inciting violence … something like ‘dead sex offenders don’t repeat offend,’ and talking about gun violence and things like that,” Grummel said.
“What many commenters do not see are the realities that govern every criminal case: the strength and limits of the evidence, the defenses the law provides every defendant, the history of the accused, and — most importantly — the wishes of the victim and the victim’s family. Those factors matter. They matter a great deal,” he said in the statement.
“The sentence of the defendant in this case was more severe than the victim desired.
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Sadly, with all these scary comments the State Attorney received, they need to have some sort of protection for this offender. Some may just be blowing hot air but there are creeps who go after people and kill them, even though they have no connection to the victim or the offender. And if someone does harm him, there will be people praising that violence. Vigilantes could care less if they are breaking the law and some would proudly go to jail for killing someone that they don’t even know.
And they call us the sick ones?
So someone finally noticed what I see, on a regular basis. Many people in the public, make their comments quite clear, with violent actions needed to be happening to us. More people in positions of power, need to be informed, and make notice of such comments.
Does the sheriff’s office have the right to call a offenders place of employmend because he feels the offenders should not be employed there and have him terminated.
This is off-topic and should be posted to the “general” post.
One would have to look at the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Sheriff’s office is located to know that they can and cannot do.