| ARCHIVES PAGE This page is here for the purpose of keeping old notices, alerts, and factoids featured at Once Fallen April 2010 As the city of Philadelphia opposed and killed an attempt to open a transitional home for juvenile sex offenders, I was reflecting on a case that was close to home for me last year, the tragic death of Esme Kenney at the hands of Anthony Kirkland, a man with a long criminal history including murder and a sex offense. It was a tragedy indeed, but the Kenney family have bucked the trend by advocating "get smart, not tough on crime." Not everyone had embraced their stance, as they faced criticism for not joining the public attempt to close down the Pogue Rehabilitation Center, where Kirkland escaped. "We don't need another knee-jerk reaction to a horrible event," [Brad] Kenney said. "We need somebody to take a measured look at whether or not these systems are performing." I am sorry for their tragedy, but the Kenney family has done what few people who experience this tragedy have done. They have not called for a knee-jerk law named after Esme, but instead look for sensible solutions to address the issue of sexual abuse and offending. Once Fallen commends them as survivors and heroes. Click below for an editorial by Tom and Lisa Kenney, Esme's parents http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090906/EDIT02/909060343/What+our+Esme+s+death+has+taught+us NOTE: This is merely a thought and my opinion. This does not imply any mutual support, cooperation, affiliation or connection between Once Fallen and the Kenney family's work. I do, however, admire what they have done and to and of this writing agree 100% with their efforts to reform the current system. It does not imply they share my views or support my personal efforts. NOVEMER 2009 America's contrary attitudes on teen sexuality “Current youth policy and parenting advice teeter between high anxiety child protection and high anger child punishment. It would appear that children are fragilely innocent until the moment they step over some line, at which point they become instantly, irredeemably wicked. One striking pair of contradictory trends: as we raise the age of consent for sex, we lower the age at which a wrongdoing child may be tried and sentenced as an adult criminal. Both, needless to say, are ‘in the best interests’ of the child and society.” -- From Judith Levine, "Harmful to Minors," p. xxxi-xxxii THOUGHT OF THE MONTH OCTOBER 2009 Lauren Book on the situation with "Bookville," a.k.a., the Julia Tuttle Causeway proves she's actually smarter and more compassionate than her father, Ron Book: "It's a terrible situation under there, it is awful. I don't think them living under a bridge or absconding keeps children safe." Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1262398.html THOUGHT OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2009 Criticism from a Brevard Co., FL Cop on a Former *ex Offender's program to house other Former *ex Offenders. You'd think he'd be grateful for the help. Simple math -- Make 99% of an area off limits to a group and they live in the final 1%. From USA TODAY: Lt. Tod Goodyear, head of the Brevard County Sheriff's Office Sex Crimes unit, tells Florida Today it's not uncommon for offenders to cluster, but that he doesn't like what Young is doing. "He brings in people from out of the county that normally would not be settling in Brevard," he says. "I also don't like that he's making money off of this because he knows the system as a sex offender." (Think the cop is jealous?) THOUGHT OF THE MONTH JULY 2009 Florida Lobbyist Ron Book forgives no one but demands forgiveness from us? WTF? A quote from Ron Book from his 1995 Illegal Campaign Contribution Scandal: or "why people in glass houses should never throw stones" or "practice what you preach" http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1995-11-09/news/crime-politics This past September 21 [1995], Book pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor charges and was fined $2000. He also agreed to donate $40,000 to charity as an additional punishment. But rather than express remorse at having cynically subverted the public trust, Book asks for sympathy and says he should be given some credit for being man enough to plead guilty and admit his mistakes: "Anyone who says the decision to stand up and accept responsibility was an easy one, I tell them: 'Get in my shoes, get in my clothes and feel it.' I have been pained and I have been hurt. It hasn't been easy. Not at all." THOUGHT OF THE MONTH MAY 2009 Ponder this following statement in an article on an Alabama proposal to restrict Former Offenders from LIVING ON [but not restricting ATTENDING] College Campuses: "The bill doesn't prohibit convicted sex offenders from attending a college or university, but they wouldn't be able to live on campus."Okay, I can GO TO COLLEGE but I can't LIVE within a quarter mile of the place? What kind of logic is that?!? THOUGHT OF THE MONTH APRIL 2009 MARK LUNSFORD THREATENS PROSECUTOR TO KEEP HIS SON OFF THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY: The following was forwarded to me and will be available in the March 09 edition of the RSOL Digest at http://reformsexoffenderlaws. org/digest.php once available. I'd like to point out that when Lunsford testified before the March 10th SORNA hearing, he stated sacrificing innocent people to protect children is necessary. Really now? This gave me the opportunity to approach Mark Lunsford. Explaining that my husband was on the registry for life for consensual sex as a teen. An ‘offense’ similar to the ‘offense’ his son would have faced if it were not for his intervention. Mr. Lunsford said that his son served ten days, on a plea to a felony offense. He said that he told the prosecuting attorney that he would “expose every sex offense case where they gave a lenient sentence to a true sex offender if they treated his son like one of those predators”. Thus, his son avoided registration. Thought of the month: March 2009 Disturbing Decision for 1st District Appellate Court of Ohio Officially Calls Former Sex Offenders a Degraded Class! [Sewell v. Ohio] Presiding judge Sylvia Henton, mother-in-law of Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, who was the defendant in this lawsuit, states: "By their voluntary acts, sex offenders have surrendered certain protections that arguably are afforded to other citizens. Their conviction of felony offenses puts them into a class that has already been deemed to have no expectation of finality in the consequences of the judgments against them... The fact that Sewell belongs to a class that has voluntarily surrendered certain protections and rights makes the conclusion that Senate Bill 10‟s tier-classification and registration requirements are constitutional even more certain..." She officially recognizes sex offenders as a class of individuals with degraded rights! Thought of the month: FEBRUARY 2009 An interesting observation on Facebook's move to ban 90,000 alleged sex offenders from using their services shows the extent of Predator Panic: Banning everyone on the sex offenders register sends out a very strange message indeed... Made a webcam video for your 16-year-old boyfriend? We'll chase you away with pitchforks, you evil, sick scum. Murdered your wife and eaten her liver with a stir- in sauce? Welcome to Facebook! Come on in! Play Scrabble! Throw a sheep or two! Thought of the month: JANUARY 2009 The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children noted in Sept, 2008, there are 664,731 RSOs in the US. In May 2007, that number was 602,189. In 16 months, there were 62,524 new registrants added. That's 3908.8 per month, 130.3 per day, 5.4 per hour. In other words, every 11 minutes and 6 seconds another person is added to the SO registry! Past Featured Articles/ Links eAdvocate study shows sex crimes have NOT decreased since 1996! http://sexoffenderresearch.blogspot.com/2010/01/since-1996-sex-offender-laws-have-been.html THE PURSUIT OF SAFETY: Sex Offender Policy in the United States by: Tracy Velazquez, The Vera Institute of Justice, September 2008 Kristen Zgoba, Ph.D.; Philip Witt, Ph.D.; Melissa Dalessandro, M.S.W.; Bonita Veysey, Ph.D., Megan's Law: Assessing the Practical and Monetary Efficacy (2008) KEEPING KIDS SAFE MINISTIES Ministry created to assist churches in dealing with sex offenders in the church www.kidssafeministries.com The Online Predator Scare [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3752] "There is money to be made from fear—and business has been good for those hawking the online child predator threat." New Michigan study by the non-profit "Citizens Alliance on Prisons and Public Spending" shows denying parole has no impact on crime and recidivism rates! http://www.capps-mi.org/pdfdocs/Recidivismstudy.pdf |
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| ***********************************ACTION ALERT!***************************************** BRING DANGEROUS VIGILANTE "ANGRY" TAMMY LEE GIBSON TO JUSTICE! Remember the Tammy Lee Gibson vigilante case from last year? The crazy lady with a mile long criminal record who attacked a Former Offender with a baseball bat, declared a "hero" by vigilantes, and "winner" of the Shiitake Award's "Everyday Zeroes" award? She just pled guilty to a lesser charge of "Third Degree Assault," a Class C felony, which carries a max of 5 years and a $10k fine: [http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=9A.36.031]. The disposition of the case can be found below: http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/cfapps/linx/calendar/GetCriminalCase.cfm?cause_num=08-1-02887-1 I'd love to note the original charge was 2nd degree assault and felony harassment. Also, Tammy Lee Gibson has numerous convictions for assault and drugs, thus should be treated as a habitual criminal [http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=9.92.090]. She is due to be sentenced February 27, 2009. According to news reports, she's facing ONLY THREE TO EIGHT MONTHS in jail for ATTEMPTED MURDER! I urge you to contact the prosecutor and the presiding judge, and the local media for that matter, to call for a lengthy penalty to this threat to society! DO NOT LET THIS TRAVESTY GET SWEPT UNDER THE RUG!!! Sunni Y. Ko Prosecuting Attorney 253-798-7400 pcprosatty@co.pierce.wa.us County-City Building 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Room 946 Tacoma WA 98402-2171 (No judge listed, may be Bryan Chushcoff since the site refers to him as "Presiding Judge") Superior Court County-City Building 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Room 534 Tacoma, WA 98402 253-798-3654 pcsupcrt@co.pierce.wa.us Tacoma/ Seattle Media: Tacoma News Tribune--http://www.thenewstribune.com/aboutus/contact/ KING 5 News-- http://www.king5.com/contact/ KIRO-TV Channel 7-- http://www.kirotv.com/contact/index.html Q13Fox-- http://www.q13fox.com/pages/about_us KOMO News-- http://www.komonews.com/about/contact ***********************************ACTION ALERT UPDATE!****************************** REMORSELESS VIGILANTE "ANGRY" TAMMY LEE GIBSON GETS ONLY 90 DAYS! http://www.komonews.com/news/local/40457662.html#idc-container "I'd do it again, if not better." -- Tammy Lee Gibson, 2/27/09 "If it were up to me, I'd kill him... I just wanted to hurt him" -- Tammy Lee Gibson, 6/19/08 "She has no remorse for what she did."-- KOMO News, 2/27/09 "[Gibson] is not a soccer mom in a minivan who lost her temper. She's been in jail before on drug and assault charges... If everyone went out and beat up a sex offender, we're going to have to stop doing notifications." -- Det. Ed Troyer, Pierce Co. WA Sheriff's Dept., 6/19/08 A travesty of justice, dangerous vigilante with a mile long record gets a slap on the wrist for a brutal attack on a Registered Sex Offender. So apparently you can get more time for beating a dog than a Former Sex Offender these days! |
| ********************************************BREAKING NEWS!************************************************* Homeless Michigan Man (and RSO) denied shelter due to Residency Laws; Died from the cold! http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/01/man_found_dead_in_cold_was_tur.html Commentary from Criminal Justice - Change.org http://criminaljustice.change.org/blog/view/dying_outside_sex_offenders_turned_away_from_shelters Heated Topix discussion on this sad story: http://www.topix.net/forum/source/wood/T1ARV03P7FR2CRSHP |
| <----------------------------------- Mark Lunsford's 18 year old son Joshua in court on sex charges [notice the "Please Find Jessica" T-shirt]; he plead to a 10 day sentence with NO sex offender registration. -------------------------------------> Picture of a "Jessie's Riders" Biker's Jacket worn by Lunsford with the words "Save a Child -- Hang a Pedophile" embroidered on the patch. He should add an asterick which stands for [*all pedophiles unless it is MY son up on the chopping block] <------------------------------------- Picture taken from Mark Lunsford's My Space Page before he "cleaned up" his page to become a "child victim advocate." -------------------------------------> Was this pic taken BEFORE or AFTER his Foundation money paid for plastic surgery? |
| Video of myself on the Local 12 Cincinnati countering a protest of the Pogue Rehabilitation Center. Special thanks to Angela Ingram for giving the other side of the story! http://www.local12.com/news/local/default .aspx?articleID=39031 <---------------------------------------- See also the Fox 19 report, special thanks to Dan Wells for allowing the other side to speak. Channel 5, 9, and the Enquirer was left out in the cold on this one! |
| It has been two years since the Florida Department of Corrections started sending homeless Former Sex Offenders to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami, Florida in early 2007 as the result of a 2500 foot residency restriction law from anywhere children may congregate. As of March 2009, there were 52 males and one female living at the causeway. It is time for this to stop! Everyone, ESPECIALLY Floridians, contact the FL state legislature and implore them to found suitable housing for these Former Offenders! Read My Full Length Feature Article @ Oncefallen.com by CLICKING HERE! Florida lobbyist, Ron Book, is a staunch advocate for keeping them under the bridge. He is ALSO the head of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust, a $41 million dollar non-profit! He is denying these registrants even the most basic of needs! Give 2009 Shiitake Award candidate Ron Book a piece of your mind! Ronald L. Book PA, 18851 NE 29th Ave Ste 1010, Aventura, FL 33180 Ph# (305)935-1866 http://www.miamidade.gov/homeless/contact.asp BETTER YET, force this man to live under the bridge! Lobby to force this scumbag to resign from his post! Denying the homeless necessities as head of the homeless coalition is a conflict of interest! DO YOUR DAMN JOB RON BOOK! STOP BEING A FILTHY CROOK! |
| SPOTLIGHT ON FLORIDA'S DISGRACE Forcing registrants to live under Julia Tuttle Causeway |
| ***ACTION ALERT!*** Dangerous Bills In Congress today! Oppose Tracking Registered & Convicted Known (TRACK) Sex Offenders Act- HR 1750 Oppose the International Megan's Law-HR 1623 Oppose the No Parole for Sex Offenders Act - HR 1375 *****Click the links for more details on these bills with highlights***** |
| ACTION ALERT! SUPPORT THOSE WORKING ON REINTEGRATION OF FORMER OFFENDERS! The holidays are upon us, and there are a couple of organizations that work with Former Offenders that could use a little holiday cheer. If anyone has something to give, please do so! ___________________________________________________________________________________ ONE TOUCH MINISTRY 7370 Airline Hwy Baton Rouge, LA 20805 Email: jeff.reaney@gmail.com "One Touch Ministry was started over ten years ago by a husband and wife that saw a need to help drug offenders, DUI offenders, and other offenders that no one wants to help. In those ten years, we have seen more than 200 people come through our doors. Of those 200 only 10 have ever gone back to prison and only 1 has ever been charged with a new crime. One Touch Ministry, believes that the only way to keep people from the endless cycle of prison and freedom, is to help them become productive, and to give them a support system." One Touch Ministry is an awesome program. We are the only place in the state that will accept someone whose victim was a minor. We also do not accept federal or state money, because they would prevent us from helping those most in need. We are in desperate need of help. Currently, our program is residing in an old hotel, which is not open to the public. Recently we have been given an opportunity to purchase the property. However, we need to raise $550,000. If we can purchase the property, the program will have a secure future, and if we cannot buy the property, there is no telling what will happen. We may even have to close the doors. And that would leave a lot of people without hope." For more info or make donations, send correspondence to the above address. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pure Mercy, Inc. --www.puremercy.org Pure Mercy is a ministry that helps those struggling with Sexual Addiction. Recently they took much needed supplies to the residents of Bookville under the Julia Tuttle Causeway and need your help. You can contact them for more info on how to help at 727-348-2310 or PureMercy@puremercy.org You can read about their trip to "Bookville" here: http://www.puremercy.org/CurrentMinistryActivity.dsp |