Andreas,<br> <br> The definition is stated as:<br> <br> <font style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><span class="style2"><font color="#663399"><strong><em><font color="#660066">"A</font></em></strong></font><font color="#660066"><em><strong>ny displayed, physical, or unlawful solicitation for sexual conduct with a person who is unwilling or unable to give legal consent is an act of sexual violence."--Idaho Sexual Offender Classification Board (SOCB)<br> <br><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: arial narrow;"> The guy molested a girl like 6 years old. That isn't considered violent according the SOCB definition listed above? I think it is well within the definition. He is very violent. The violence may only be toward children, but it is still violence. </span></font><br> <br> <br> <br> _DJA<br> </strong></em></font></span></font><br><b><i>Andreas Schou
<ophite@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> > · Steven Sitler, #79278 was not designated as a violent sexual predator."<br>><br>> http://www2.state.id.us/socb/Meetings/Jan13%2006.pdf<br>><br>> The question that should be asked is why he was not. This is where my anger<br>> is, not with what school, household, church, grocery store, movie theater,<br>> or basket ball court Steven Sitler attended.<br><br>Donovan --<br><br>There are standards for classifying sex offenders. Not all sex<br>offenders fall into the category of "violent sexual predator"; in<br>fact, few do. Treatment standards and outcomes recommendations are<br>different for violent sexual predators and other, more opportunisitc,<br>sex offenders. The reason for classifying sex offenders differently is<br>to make distinctions between them.<br><br>While I am sympathetic to the idea
that, if punishments were more<br>severe, there wouldn't be as much a need for community treatment, that<br>is not, in fact, how our justice system works. Classification is a<br>necessary part of the process.<br><br>-- ACS<br><br>* There is a certain amount of "killing the messenger" involved in<br>everyone's treatment of the sheriff's department and the prosecutor's<br>office. I don't want to let the prosecutor and law enforcement off the<br>hook entirely, or even partially, but -- from what I see in front of<br>me -- there are evidentiary problems with what could be considered<br>priveleged communications between Sitler and his pastors, the victims<br>are largely too young to testify, and there do not appear to have been<br>any direct witnesses. With all of those in place, this could<br>potentially have been a difficult case to win.<br><br>The standard that the prosecutor's office has to meet is "beyond a<br>reasonable doubt." This doesn't mean "50% in one person's
mind", it<br>means "100% in twelve people's minds." In this case, where I'm not<br>sure what evidence would be available to be presented and who would be<br>available to testify, I'm not certain that I would trade a 100% chance<br>at a short sentence and community supervision for a 25% chance for a<br>long sentence.<br><br>Plus, Idaho's sex crimes laws are an enormous, archaic mess, and they<br>need to be reformed.<br></blockquote><br><p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com