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Cub Reporter
Dec 29, 2011, 12:43:38 PM12/29/11
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Homeless win frozen death lawsuit
Thomas Pauli froze to death in 2009
By Ken Kolker
WOOD TV8, USA: 29 December 2011
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/homeless-win-frozen-death-lawsuit
[ http://tinyurl.com/d3w4z99 ]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Homeless sex offenders can legally stay
in overnight shelters, even if they are near schools, according to a
ruling by a federal judge.
The ruling comes nearly three years after homeless sex offender Thomas
Pauli froze to death next to a Grand Rapids business after he could
not find a place to stay. On the night he died, the temperature was
between -2 and +3 degrees.
U.S. District Judge Gordon Quist issued his ruling Wednesday after a
lawsuit filed by five homeless or previously homeless sex offenders
and two Grand Rapids shelters - Degage Ministries and Mel Trotter
Ministries.
The lawsuit was filed against Governor Rick Snyder, State Attorney
General Bill Schuette, the Michigan State Police and Kent County
Prosecutor William Forsyth.
Among the plaintiffs, an unidentified 23-year-old woman with mental
and emotional impairments who was convicted of a misdemeanor sex crime
when she was 20 and who said she'd been raped and beaten up in the
past and was afraid to live on the streets.
"Plaintiffs filed their complaint in response to the death of Thomas
Pauli, a homeless man with a prior CSC conviction who froze to death
on the street in Grand Rapids," Quist wrote in his 18-page ruling.
Pauli was convicted in 1991 of second-degree criminal sexual conduct
involving a child under the age of 13 in Grand Traverse County.
A business owner found the body of Pauli, 52, next to the old A to Z
Radiator shop in the 600 block of South Division Avenue on Jan. 26,
2009. Pauli was crouched in a kneeling position.
"Pauli was forced into the freezing cold after an overnight shelter
located within 1,000 feet of a school denied him admission because of
his status as a registered sex offender," Quist wrote.
Michigan's sex offender law says offenders cannot "reside" within
1,000 feet of schools.
Both Degage and Mel Trotter are too close to schools; so is Guiding
Light Mission, though that shelter was not part of the lawsuit.
But, as Quist wrote, the case revolved around the definition of
"reside."
The state law does not define the word, so Quist quoted from
dictionaries, which defined it as a "permanent" place to stay.
"Under the ordinary meaning of 'reside' a registrant does not violate
SORA's (Sex Offender Registry Act) residency restrictions by using an
emergency overnight shelter under the following conditions: 1) users
are admitted to the shelter in the evening and required to leave in
the morning; and (2) users have no expectation of obtaining a place in
the shelter on any given night," the judge ruled.
"Therefore, registrants may sleep overnight in homeless shelters or
drop-in centers located within 1,000 feet of a school and may spend
multiple nights in such shelters" as long as those conditions are met.
Thomas Pauli froze to death in 2009
By Ken Kolker
WOOD TV8, USA: 29 December 2011
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/homeless-win-frozen-death-lawsuit
[ http://tinyurl.com/d3w4z99 ]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Homeless sex offenders can legally stay
in overnight shelters, even if they are near schools, according to a
ruling by a federal judge.
The ruling comes nearly three years after homeless sex offender Thomas
Pauli froze to death next to a Grand Rapids business after he could
not find a place to stay. On the night he died, the temperature was
between -2 and +3 degrees.
U.S. District Judge Gordon Quist issued his ruling Wednesday after a
lawsuit filed by five homeless or previously homeless sex offenders
and two Grand Rapids shelters - Degage Ministries and Mel Trotter
Ministries.
The lawsuit was filed against Governor Rick Snyder, State Attorney
General Bill Schuette, the Michigan State Police and Kent County
Prosecutor William Forsyth.
Among the plaintiffs, an unidentified 23-year-old woman with mental
and emotional impairments who was convicted of a misdemeanor sex crime
when she was 20 and who said she'd been raped and beaten up in the
past and was afraid to live on the streets.
"Plaintiffs filed their complaint in response to the death of Thomas
Pauli, a homeless man with a prior CSC conviction who froze to death
on the street in Grand Rapids," Quist wrote in his 18-page ruling.
Pauli was convicted in 1991 of second-degree criminal sexual conduct
involving a child under the age of 13 in Grand Traverse County.
A business owner found the body of Pauli, 52, next to the old A to Z
Radiator shop in the 600 block of South Division Avenue on Jan. 26,
2009. Pauli was crouched in a kneeling position.
"Pauli was forced into the freezing cold after an overnight shelter
located within 1,000 feet of a school denied him admission because of
his status as a registered sex offender," Quist wrote.
Michigan's sex offender law says offenders cannot "reside" within
1,000 feet of schools.
Both Degage and Mel Trotter are too close to schools; so is Guiding
Light Mission, though that shelter was not part of the lawsuit.
But, as Quist wrote, the case revolved around the definition of
"reside."
The state law does not define the word, so Quist quoted from
dictionaries, which defined it as a "permanent" place to stay.
"Under the ordinary meaning of 'reside' a registrant does not violate
SORA's (Sex Offender Registry Act) residency restrictions by using an
emergency overnight shelter under the following conditions: 1) users
are admitted to the shelter in the evening and required to leave in
the morning; and (2) users have no expectation of obtaining a place in
the shelter on any given night," the judge ruled.
"Therefore, registrants may sleep overnight in homeless shelters or
drop-in centers located within 1,000 feet of a school and may spend
multiple nights in such shelters" as long as those conditions are met.
Oglethorpe
Dec 29, 2011, 8:28:35 PM12/29/11
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"Cub Reporter" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Homeless win frozen death lawsuit
>
> Thomas Pauli froze to death in 2009
>
> By Ken Kolker
>
> WOOD TV8, USA: 29 December 2011
> http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/homeless-win-frozen-death-lawsuit
> [ http://tinyurl.com/d3w4z99 ]
>
> GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Homeless sex offenders can legally stay
> in overnight shelters, even if they are near schools, according to a
> ruling by a federal judge.
>
>
How many children annua/lly are molested by homeless sex offenders? A child
>
> Thomas Pauli froze to death in 2009
>
> By Ken Kolker
>
> WOOD TV8, USA: 29 December 2011
> http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/homeless-win-frozen-death-lawsuit
> [ http://tinyurl.com/d3w4z99 ]
>
> GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Homeless sex offenders can legally stay
> in overnight shelters, even if they are near schools, according to a
> ruling by a federal judge.
>
>
is more likely to be stuck by ligfhtening than to be sexually attacked. A
child is also more likely to be mouredered by its parents than to be
molested by a sex offender.
Lou Keemia
Dec 29, 2011, 8:01:29 PM12/29/11
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Oglethorpe wrote:
> "Cub Reporter" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:oi9pf7lmbj4d5t168...@4ax.com...
> > Homeless win frozen death lawsuit
> >
> > Thomas Pauli froze to death in 2009
> >
> > By Ken Kolker
> >
> > WOOD TV8, USA: 29 December 2011
> > http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/homeless-win-frozen-death-lawsuit
> > [ http://tinyurl.com/d3w4z99 ]
> >
> > GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Homeless sex offenders can legally stay
> > in overnight shelters, even if they are near schools, according to a
> > ruling by a federal judge.
> >
> >
>
> How many children annua/lly are molested by homeless sex offenders?
Do you believe being homeless means they won't molest?
> "Cub Reporter" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:oi9pf7lmbj4d5t168...@4ax.com...
> > Homeless win frozen death lawsuit
> >
> > Thomas Pauli froze to death in 2009
> >
> > By Ken Kolker
> >
> > WOOD TV8, USA: 29 December 2011
> > http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/homeless-win-frozen-death-lawsuit
> > [ http://tinyurl.com/d3w4z99 ]
> >
> > GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Homeless sex offenders can legally stay
> > in overnight shelters, even if they are near schools, according to a
> > ruling by a federal judge.
> >
> >
>
> How many children annua/lly are molested by homeless sex offenders?
> A child
> is more likely to be stuck by ligfhtening than to be sexually attacked.
made every year in the United States.
> A
> child is also more likely to be mouredered by its parents than to be
> molested by a sex offender.
language.
Fred E Brown
Jan 5, 2012, 7:17:00 AM1/5/12
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"Lou Keemia" <sava...@ojooo.ru> wrote in message
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> Oglethorpe wrote:
>> "Cub Reporter" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
>> news:oi9pf7lmbj4d5t168...@4ax.com...
>> > Homeless win frozen death lawsuit
>> >
>> > Thomas Pauli froze to death in 2009
>> >
>> > By Ken Kolker
>> >
>> > WOOD TV8, USA: 29 December 2011
>> > http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/homeless-win-frozen-death-lawsuit
>> > [ http://tinyurl.com/d3w4z99 ]
>> >
>> > GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Homeless sex offenders can legally stay
>> > in overnight shelters, even if they are near schools, according to a
>> > ruling by a federal judge.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> How many children annua/lly are molested by homeless sex offenders?
>
> Do you believe being homeless means they won't molest?
>
>> A child
>> is more likely to be stuck by ligfhtening than to be sexually attacked.
>
> You've got to be batty! Over 3 million reports of child abuse are
> made every year in the United States.
You are confusing child sexual molestation with child abuse.
>> "Cub Reporter" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
>> news:oi9pf7lmbj4d5t168...@4ax.com...
>> > Homeless win frozen death lawsuit
>> >
>> > Thomas Pauli froze to death in 2009
>> >
>> > By Ken Kolker
>> >
>> > WOOD TV8, USA: 29 December 2011
>> > http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/homeless-win-frozen-death-lawsuit
>> > [ http://tinyurl.com/d3w4z99 ]
>> >
>> > GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Homeless sex offenders can legally stay
>> > in overnight shelters, even if they are near schools, according to a
>> > ruling by a federal judge.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> How many children annua/lly are molested by homeless sex offenders?
>
> Do you believe being homeless means they won't molest?
>
>> A child
>> is more likely to be stuck by ligfhtening than to be sexually attacked.
>
> You've got to be batty! Over 3 million reports of child abuse are
> made every year in the United States.
It is a proven fact that a child is more likely to be sexually molested
by a parant, guardian, sibling, relative, neighbor or family friend than
a stranger.
The sad part is that the vast majority of molestations go unreported.
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Oglethorpe wrote:
> "Cub Reporter" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:oi9pf7lmbj4d5t168...@4ax.com...
> > Homeless win frozen death lawsuit
> >
> > Thomas Pauli froze to death in 2009
> >
> > By Ken Kolker
> >
> > WOOD TV8, USA: 29 December 2011
> > http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/homeless-win-frozen-death-lawsuit
> > [ http://tinyurl.com/d3w4z99 ]
> >
> > GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Homeless sex offenders can legally stay
> > in overnight shelters, even if they are near schools, according to a
> > ruling by a federal judge.
> >
> >
>
> How many children annua/lly are molested by homeless sex offenders? A child
> is more likely to be stuck by ligfhtening than to be sexually attacked
Bullshit!
> "Cub Reporter" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:oi9pf7lmbj4d5t168...@4ax.com...
> > Homeless win frozen death lawsuit
> >
> > Thomas Pauli froze to death in 2009
> >
> > By Ken Kolker
> >
> > WOOD TV8, USA: 29 December 2011
> > http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/homeless-win-frozen-death-lawsuit
> > [ http://tinyurl.com/d3w4z99 ]
> >
> > GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Homeless sex offenders can legally stay
> > in overnight shelters, even if they are near schools, according to a
> > ruling by a federal judge.
> >
> >
>
> How many children annua/lly are molested by homeless sex offenders? A child
> is more likely to be stuck by ligfhtening than to be sexually attacked
''Child sexual abuse has been reported up to 80,000 times a year, but
the number of unreported instances is far greater, because the
children are afraid to tell anyone what has happened''
http://aacap.org/page.ww?name=Child%2BSexual%2BAbuse%26amp%3Bsection%3DFacts%2Bfor%2BFamilies
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rarer. The modst danger to children comes from their own parents who murder
children many more often than children are sexually molested.
Years ago I read an interview with a man who "starred" in a few of the legal
boty-boy sex shorts from the 1960s. He stated that he enjoyed the
experience, was not hurt by any of it and was well cared for by the crew and
was happy with the payment he got fort the films. Persomnally, I brelieve
much of the harm "experts" claim comes from even consentual adult - child or
child - child sex comes from the way the "experts" and LEOs act when
they're "found out"
Many incidents go unreported because the child does not feel they were
molested. Many adults are accused of molestation out of spite by a
disgruntled spouse or lover. We had two cases last year where female
studentas accused teacher in retaliatiobn for bad grades. And a friend's
brother was accused by vindictive parents after he told them he couldn't
afford to keep paying most of their bills anymore because he was retiring
from work. it cost him his job, $100K in legal fees and his face was
plastered all over the media..
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