Intellectually Disabled 33-Year-Old Man Lands on the Sex Offender Registry After Trivial Incident
Adam is 33. He is developmentally disabled and lives in Illinois with his mother and her husband, both retired, who still have to remind him to brush his teeth and shower. He stopped wetting his bed at age 16.
Ten years ago, when a neighbor—a young man with a troubled past, who had molested Adam—told him to pull down his pants in front of a girl, Adam complied. The girl then told her parents.
Both the neighbor and Adam were charged with 19 felonies. Adam took a plea deal and has been on the sex offender registry for seven years.
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A hopeful update on this:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/reason.com/2021/03/19/sex-offender-registry-intellectually-disabled-illinois-adam-nesteikis/%3famp
A decent prosecutor could have chosen to not take the case. But since there are no decent prosecutors, a decent Judge could have thrown it out. What’s the purpose of acknowledging the existence of people with mental disabilities if they’re going to be treated the same way as someone who made a conscientious decision to commit a criminal act?
When someone sexually abuses a mentality disabled person, no matter how old the disabled is, the law treats it the same as if it was a crime against a child due to the mental disability. But when the person with the disability acts out like the child they are compared to, they get…. oh wait…. we are also a country that puts children on the SOR. Silly me. And here I was thinking that the people who chose to go into any type of criminal justice and LE have at least 1 brain cell.
Its sad, but also has any charges or any mention been brought up about the most recent female rapper who “accidentally ” posted nude photos of herself on social media which has thousands of children as fans or all of these wardrobe malfunctions. My clothes are cheap and its just me picking out my clothes and putting them on myself, not an entire team. But yet they all get away with exposing themselves. Gotta love the double standard.
Have you ever wondered what good 900k men on a registry is doing? It definitively provides jobs for a lot of people. More than that it takes away 1/2 million jobs from people removing that competition in the market place boosting the economy and keeping wages up. It’s better than the welfare too in that you can remove a participant without having to have that working person work that last 8 hours for a non working one. It fills the court customer gap here in Florida once secured by marijuana smokers. Look at the timing when they came out with all these new probationary like rules a couple years ago. It boost credibility and low hanging fruit for politicians. There really seems no reason to end the registry unless to defend the constitution. People live in wide spread fear these days. Not only are the city’s and poor areas a spook to the average American but also the suburbs now. When I was a kid there were like 13-20 kids at the bus stop since elementary and no parents now there’s 10 kids and 8 cars with engines running in the same neighborhood waiting on the bus. 1 parent can not be trusted to watch all the kids lol. Think about why they always try to exclude registrants from subsidies while creating a nearly impossible role to survive financially that we have to preform daily.
Yet the CNN reporter who masturbated in front of everyone on a webinar gets sympathy and excuses from everyone, and I have not heard of any charges being brought against him…Doesn’t sound like our justice system is blind to me.
That is what I have been thinking. So sick of this. Anyone else and the Binden kid too, with supposed underage pictures and a text message about being a danger to kids….and nothing. No police raids to his house. Let us not even start with LE who get to do investigative work that results in an “encounter” shall we say. Sick of it. To any intellectually challenged person on a list like this (anyone of course) or incarcerate them is beyond sickening.