Sex Offenders being denied access to family in hospitals
By now we’re used to being excluded. Can’t be on Facebook…. well, they sell your private information anyhow. Can’t take your kids to Disney World… who wants to pay ten bucks for an ice cream bar shaped like a mouse anyhow? But there’s a trending exclusion that brings cruel and unusual punishment to an entirely new level. Sex offenders are being denied access to visit family in hospitals.
Over the past few months, individuals on the sex offender registry have been denied entry or removed from hospitals, unable to visit dying parents or be present for the surgeries of their own children.
As a parent (and a son), I can’t imagine what I would do if I rushed to the hospital to be by my loved one’s side in the case of an emergency and was told I could not enter. I would absolutely lose my mind and I can’t imagine anyone who loved their parents or their children half as much as I do would not do the same.
As inhumane as this scenario is, it’s exactly what has been happening. Stuart Yates was removed from his son’s hospital bedside in Wisconsin. A Missouri father was denied access to Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital to be with his newborn child, who was in the NICU after he was rushed to the hospital when he stopped breathing. An FAC member, just today, was turned away from Galisono Children’s Hospital in Ft. Myers…
If hospitals are allowed to get away with excluding family members of critically ill patients because of their status on a registry; there’s no more cruel and unusual punishment I can think of. This is a nationwide problem and one we should discuss at the upcoming national conventions.
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Never had a problem with hospitals or DISNEY.
But the anxiety I get from reading about stories like this and then going is REAL.
If you do decide to go to Disney, DONT buy tickets online. Cash at the gate.
Yes and DO not buy the FL resident ticket. They will ask for your ID to prove your residency
I haven’t been to Disney since the early-mid 2000s. I can understand in cashing at places and not order online, as I have done in various places like movie theaters and such. But if you cash in at the gate of Disney, doesn’t Disney ask for ID verification anyway ?
ANONYMOUS – just curious when was the last time you went to Disney? From what I can understand the issue comes in when the registered person buys a pass in their name or uses their ID to get FL resident prices. Or their name is on the hotel registration.
This past weekend. Hotel off site, cash at window.
I was forced to provide home health care with physical therapy and occupational therapy for my roommate because there is no facility that accepts a registered person for inpatient physical rehabilitation in the state of Florida. Beware all registered individuals who unfortunately find themselves needing continuing health care needs!!! You will not be permitted to obtain continuing health care upon release from a hospital stay!!! My roommate in on Medicare with a Blue Cross/Blue Shield supplement insurance that covers continuing healthcare that he cannot obtain in any facility that I could find in the United States of America because he is a “registered sex offender.”
Gainesville Health Care Center does accept RC’s for long term skilled nursing care. At least that was true as of last year.
How can the Registry not be considered punishment. When it’s used as a list to add new stipulations, requirements, restrictions and policies at the whim of the wind. Without a judge’s order. Somebody anybody tell how the Registry is not punitive
If you tell me the SCOUS already ruled such. Fine to every thing on that date of ruling period.
This is no less than vigilantism. Being punished for the mere fact you are on a list. These are private i institutions not a judiciary. For them to impose this restriction is a ciolation of human rights. Bar a drunk driver from nascar or a saloon, bar a thief or fraudster from a bank. They would have the right to remove you if you violate a term of service but theres no violation nor incinuationnof a violation. Judging and imposing on what you think should happen is blatant profiling and discriminatory. Noone there is signing an employment application nor giving explicit permission for a check as its to no benefit to the temporary relationship established for access. How is this being allowed? Are the parks denying all even on a day pass now? Why do they need to know who you are there are privacy guidelines i guess they are just superceeding. But a hospital denying the PATIENT the right to have a visitor for a PRE or POSSIBLE reason is just plain inhuman.
This MUST be brought up in lawsuits, such as the NARSOL one that is going on now. The more ammunition the better.
Thank God that we have NARSOL and ACSOL to fight and take action in court in matters like this.
And the ACLU as well.
The ACLU will not help you in all instances, I wrote to them and told them about my case of being arrested for an American Legion sticker on my driver’s license, they declined to take the case, it’s 7 months now since my arrest and it is still being tried as a felony
Does seem like the ACLU sticks with class action suits, like the big Doe v Snyder up here in Michigan that they won last year. I believe there were 5 offenders involved in that lawsuit. The advice on their website for others facing the same issue now in Michigan is that you are on your own, and you need to retain your own attorney. At least they have done some things to help, where others would ignore us.
Thank god we also have FAC and the ACLU working together to fight for us here.
Discuss untill jaws sore and face turns blue. Allowed to be intrenched. Geared toward men, suppress the vote, practice de ex facto punishment to establish a punitive Police State. This establishment not going to allow discussions reverse its gain.