Sex offender sues Wisconsin children’s hospital that won’t let him visit 9-year-old son
From the Chicago Tribune
A registered sex offender forbidden from visiting his severely ill 9-year-old son filed a lawsuit Friday against Wisconsin Children’s Hospital, arguing its visitation policy is “cruel and causes unnecessary harm to families and innocent children.”
Security guards escorted Stuart Yates from the building Tuesday, five days after his son was hospitalized with a blood infection caused by e-coli, according to the lawsuit filed in Milwaukee County. Born without some vital organs, Yates’ son has had surgical transplants of his pancreas, liver and bowels, the lawsuit said.
It wasn’t immediately clear how long the hospital’s policy of barring registered sex offenders from visiting patients has been in place, but Yates said his son was born there and there have been no problems in the past.
Yates, 49, was convicted of second-degree sexual assault of a child, age 15 at the time, in 1998 and was sentenced to six months’ time served… READ MORE
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Found this part interesting:
“Nicholas (the plaintiff’s attorney) said she has not heard of another hospital having a policy like Children’s Hospital”
As we here know, there are more than a few hospitals (and other places) that have policies just like this. Media coverage like this is, imho, why these organizations seems to want to cover up their anti-SO policies. No matter how anti-SO you are, it’s hard to not be sympathetic with the child pleading for his father.
Horrible.
I know a lot of people out there will disagree with me but the truth is that Policies are NOT LAWS, and they certainly are NOT binding public laws, therefore the public does NOT have to abide by these false laws.
Which also brings me to another point, codes regulations and ordinances, are also NOT LAWS, and they are NOT binding public laws either, so again do not have to be followed or obeyed, by the public period.
Except it is against their policy for a RSO to be present on their private property. So they escorted him out instead of calling the police to report him as trespassing.
The “You’re not the boss of me!” Argument didn’t work with your PO, it doesn’t work with that “straw man” traffic defense for tickets, and it doesn’t work with private hospitals with a legal department that can spend more than you make in a decade.
This poor Dad is doing the right thing and taking them before a judge. He’d be in a much worse situation if he made them arrest him first.