The Registry Failed Them: Logan County Assistant DA Arrested for Child Porn
The Logan County, Oklahoma District Attorney’s Office should be a safe place. According to the state, “the mission of Oklahoma District Attorneys and their offices is to protect the public through proactively advocating as ministers of justice for public safety and welfare.” Among the tools Oklahomans use to prevent sexual crimes is the sex offender registry. The Logan County Sheriff’s Office doesn’t only rely on the State’s registry to promote it’s sexual offenders. It has it’s own website on which it lists them https://logancountyso.org/sex-offenders.php
All this begs the question, how could a First Assistant District Attorney have committed a child pornography offense with this useful tool at the District Attorney’s disposal? Isn’t the DA’s office supposed to prosecute these offenses, not commit them? And who is responsible for the hiring practices at the DA’s office? Why didn’t they check the registry before hiring this guy? Also, doesn’t Oklahoma brand the driver’s licenses of those on the registry? Couldn’t they have just asked to see his driver’s license?
Clearly the District Attorneys failed to use the registry to prevent this crime, or the registry was completely ineffective. Since the District Attorney’s office has access to sex crime information, the Florida Action Committee calls on the DA to report the number of new sex offenses (not registration violations, but actual sexual crimes) committed during 2021 and 2022 and explain, for each one, how the registry could have failed to prevent them.
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Now that the ADA has been caught, what do we need to do to protect the public from the ADA’s re-offending?
Do we know the number of victims depicted in the ADA’s personal stash? I think we need to know how many the Oklahoma Sex Offender Registry is failing to protect.
God help him, and may he get to a meeting. Maybe he’ll have an epiphany and devote his life to helping others.
Here is another example of the Registry failure to protect the public, from a police officer…
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/riverside-murder-teen-abduction-austin-edwards-virginia-catfishing/3043168/#:~:text=A%20Virginia%20law%20enforcement%20officer%20killed%20in%20a,members%20at%20their%20Southern%20California%20home%2C%20police%20said.
“Why didn’t they check the registry before hiring this guy?”
right??? lol
Exactly!!
How many of those names could have been found on the registry???
I think it would be a good idea to let as many major news agencies as possible know when Law enforcement and prosecutorial and judicial leaders and representatives are caught in the very crime they claim to stand against, and how the registry they claim to have supported doesn’t even prevent them from doing the same crime and doesn’t protect the children they claim to be advocating for.
This kind of thing shouldn’t be allowed to be swept under the rug as it is most often is when people in law enforcement and prosecutorial positions are caught.
The registry not only failed the children in cases like this, it failed the public’s trust in the people they elected to uphold it.