Indiana to hear case allowing sex offender parents to attend their children’s school events.
Today, the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana will hear arguments in Douglas Kirby v. State of Indiana, the case of a registered sex offender who is banned from attending events at his own son’s school.
The plaintiff was convicted of a sex offense in 2010 and received 18 months probation. His son’s school district gave him permission to come to the school to attend his son’s school activities. There were no incidents.
Five years later, the state of Indiana passed a law, making it a felony for a sex offender to enter school property. He fought the law, lost in the trial court, but the Indiana Court of Appeals found the statute was an unconstitutional retroactive punishment as applied to him.
The State of Indiana appealed the case to the Indiana Supreme Court, who is hearing it today. Think positive thoughts for the Kirby family! The only thing these laws do is punish the children!
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When does it ever end! Honestly, it never ends. What if you end up in the hospital for days because of an emergency. Does that count as a temporary residence? Is that a violation of probation or of this silly law? As long as you have uneducated, ignorant, low I.Q. politicians whose only care is to be re-elected at the expense of people who are trying there damnest to integrate back into society, it will never end. Drug pushers who kill our young and adults alike do not follow any of these rules, along with those who commit assaults and other types of crimes. But we must keep fighting the fight. Someday, maybe we will free of these laws.
Good luck to the Kirby family. This law is so unconstitutional. Not only is the father being punished, his son is being punished.
An extra prayer coming your way.
My son is waiting for permission to “speak” to his son on the phone. Crazy laws.
Looks like this particular case isn’t getting heard until the 22nd.
Was this case heard and settled by supreme Court yet?