<div dir="ltr" style=""><div>I tend to agree with you and Rose on this one.</div><div>Roger<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid;">-----Original Message-----<br />Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Andrew Appleton<br />From: "Saundra Lund" <v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm><br />To: "Rosemary Huskey" <donaldrose@cpcinternet.com>, viz <vision2020@moscow.com><br />Date: 05/14/14 21:27:36<br /><br />
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<div class="WordSection1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;">I was absolutely stunned when I read the article . . . stunned and deeply disappointed. I can’t speak for the young survivor in this case, but I have spoken with all too many other survivors young and old who feel that their interaction with the “criminal justice” system was a second -- and sometimes even worse -- victimization, and it’s a sentiment I can absolutely understand when looking at a case like this. Is it <b>any wonder whatsoever</b> that survivors of sex crimes are reluctant to report when this is what passes for justice?!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;">Frankly, I don’t see much difference between this sentence and the nationwide firestorm that resulted from Montana judge Todd Baugh’s inappropriate sentence of another predatory rapist of a young woman.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;">Oh, wait – at least in that Montana case, the rapist will be identified as such, while in Latah County, we seem to prefer to let rapists get sweetheart deals so that the convicts can subsequently spin their crimes to hide the fact that they are <b>sex offenders</b> who are a danger to all.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;">I also want to know why this miscreant hasn’t been deported? In the past few months, there have been stories in the news about ICE knocking itself out deporting convicted sex offenders, so why not Appleton? Here’s a link where ICE blows its own horn: </span> <span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1403/140313dallas.htm">http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1403/140313dallas.htm</a></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>ICE officers routinely apprehend removable convicted sex offenders during targeted enforcement operations, or <b>they are turned over to ICE custody when local/state jails or prisons release them after they serve their prison sentences.</b> Additionally, ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety have begun to regularly share information on sex offenders. This partnership allows ICE to cross-reference the list of sex offenders provided from the state to determine if they are removable aliens.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>"Identifying and locating aliens convicted of sex offenses and other serious crimes are a high priority for our fugitive operations teams," said Thomas P. Giles, field office director for ERO Dallas. "Ultimately, our efforts to remove these criminals from our streets, our communities and our country have a positive impact on public safety."</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;">Oh, wait – I suppose it’s because he wasn’t convicted of the sex offenses he actually committed, and I suppose the fact that he’s not a man of color might be a factor, too. And, I guess felony injury to a child must not be considered a serious crime.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;">Sickening.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">Saundra Lund</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">Moscow, ID</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from cruelty of man.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">~ Mahatma Ghandi</span></div>
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<div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(225, 225, 225) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; border-image: none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From:</span></b> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of</b> Rosemary Huskey<br /><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:47 AM<br /><b>To:</b> 'viz'<br /><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Andrew Appleton</span></div></div></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">I was not in the courtroom when Andrew Appleton was “welcomed” back to Moscow by Judge John Stegner. And, I certainly don’t share the apparent enthusiasm and optimism for his ‘rehabilitation” that the article below implies.</div>
<div class="story-times1" style="background: white;"><span class="updated"><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:00 am</span></span></div>
<div class="byline1" style="background: white;"><span class="bookmark"><span style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;'><a href="http://lmtribune.com/content/tncms/live/lmtribune.com/northwest/article_87e80165-8e10-5453-832f-96a803bb3111.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">Judge places former WSU professor on probation</span></a></span></span></div>
<div class="byline1" style="background: white;"><span class="fn"><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>ELIZABETH RUDD of</span></span> <span class="org"><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The Lewiston Tribune</span></span></div>
<div class="byline1" style="background: white;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;'> A former Washington State University professor was released from custody Monday after a judge determined he did well the past six months in a prison treatment program.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 125%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;">Latah County 2nd District Judge John R. Stegner suspended his previous sentence for Andrew M. Appleton, who pleaded guilty to felony injury to a child as part of a plea agreement last year. Appleton, about 52, was accused in 2012 of sexually assaulting a woman - starting when she was 16 - for more than a year in Moscow. He was initially charged with felony rape, but pleaded guilty to the injury to a child charge as part of a plea agreement.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 125%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;">Stegner placed Appleton on probation Monday for the next three years and ordered that he seek sex offender and anger-stress management treatment as conditions of his release. The judge previously sentenced Appleton to one to five years in prison.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 125%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;">"You did a good job, welcome back," Stegner told Appleton. "I was glad to see you did as well as you did."</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 125%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;">The woman, who is now about 20, contacted police in September 2012, according to court documents, and alleged Appleton had sexually assaulted her. The Latah County case pertained to instances alleged to have occurred in Moscow between February 2010 and September 2011.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 125%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;">Appleton was later arrested after police recorded phone calls between the victim and Appleton during which he did not deny having sex with the girl, according to court documents.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 125%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;">Latah County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Michelle Evans said she had no objections to Appleton's release, but did request that 30 days of administrative jail time be included as part of his probation. The condition stipulates that if Appleton does not follow the terms of his release, then he can be placed in jail for up to 30 days.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 125%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;">Appleton, who was represented by Moscow attorney Tim Gresback, told Stegner he was positive he would not reoffend and his goal upon release is to be a positively contributing member of society.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 125%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;">"I appreciate the chance that will afford me," he said of his release.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 125%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;">I am baffled and incredulous that a fifty-two year old, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">former</span> WSU Political Science professor (thankfully the WSU administration doesn’t see him as a community asset), incest committing jackass, and popular member of Moscow’s liberal intelligentsia, gained any insight, much less any meaningful remorse for his monstrous behavior with a young relative. How could a six month “treatment” program in an Idaho prison (other than initiating self-serving regret for being caught out) transform a lecherous, emotionally deficit, aging pedophile into a trustworthy, reliable man? It can’t. It is almost unimaginable that Appleton has significantly altered his pre-incarceration worldview or has gained more than a superficial sense of responsibility for the damage he has done. I have not the slightest doubt that he successfully gamed the system with teary breakdowns, bouts of pseudo grief-stricken guilt, and a spurious commitment to man up. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 125%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;">No doubt the welcome home parties have already begun for this feckless miscreant. As for his claim that he won’t reoffend, what family member is crazy or careless enough to place a child under his care? Of far greater importance to our community than his empty promises is this: once again a sexual predator will be given the monumentally undeserved gift of not having to register as a sex offender. (Hello, <a href="https://www.idcourts.us/repository/caseHistory.do?roaDetail=yes&schema=LATAH&partySequence=15678&county=Latah&displayName=Wight%2C+Jamin+Christopher">Jamin Wight.</a> Wight shares much in common with Andrew Appleton, including a lenient sentence for sexually predatory behavior.) </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 125%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;">I am deeply disappointed and offended by the get out of jail free card handed to Andrew Appleton. This is a man who introduced his victim to his WSU students as his daughter (that ups the creep factor, doesn’t it?). This is a man who “rescued” his niece from a wretched home situation, brought her to this country, groomed her, and molested her for over a year and a half. This is a man who successfully garnered a plea agreement that he certainly did not deserve. This is a man who is a nasty piece of work and six months in jail didn’t change that fact.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 125%; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;">Rose Huskey</span></div>
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