Posted on Sun, Sep 30, 2012 : 12:02 p.m.
Ypsilanti man faces life in prison after acknowledging he molested three younger sisters
By AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
An Ypsilanti man faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty of sexually molesting his three younger sisters at his parents' home near Fenton, the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus reports.
The 22 year-old pleaded guilty Friday to five counts of first- and second-degree criminal sexual conduct for molesting his sisters, each of whom are under age 15, between 2007 and 2009. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to dismiss seven additional counts of CSC.
The man, who the news organization did not identify to avoid identifying his sisters, will have to register on the state's sex offender registry for lifetime monitoring. He is to be sentenced Nov. 1.
For more, read the Daily Press & Argus story.
Comments
ordmad
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 : 3:35 a.m.
Thanks YpsiVeteran: you do get that monitoring someone on parole is about a tenth of the yearly cost of locking them up. Not that this guy should get out, just so you should have a clue what you are "voting for."
YpsiVeteran
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 : 4:55 p.m.
Sorry...I left out that the MDOC series of articles is now running in the Detroit Free Press (freep.com).
YpsiVeteran
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 : 4:49 p.m.
The sex offender registry does not require active GPS monitoring. The majority of convicted sex offenders are not walking around with GPS monitoring devices. Very few of them are, actually. And, not to burst your bubble or anything, many of the ones that are supposed to be monitored have never been fitted with the devices, and many who are wearing the devices are not being actively managed. See the currently series detailing MDOC incompetence for more information. Don't read it unless you want to be angry.
Richard Carter
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 : 2:01 p.m.
When someone is actively GPS monitored, they DO pay attention.
YpsiVeteran
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 : 3:45 a.m.
Since just about no one is paying any attention in this state to compliance with the registry requirements, it doesn't really matter. However, locking him up will prevent any more innocent children from becoming victims, and that's all that matters. I don't care if costs 10 million dollars a year to keep him in jail. Money has nothing to do with it.
YpsiVeteran
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 : 2:16 a.m.
"The man...will have to register on the state's sex offender registry for lifetime monitoring." Sending him away for life will have the added benefit of saving the the taxpayers the expense of monitoring his compliance with the sex offender registration requirements. That's what I vote for. Also, 1st degree CSC involves quite quite a bit more than "molesting." The chances of this person never doing this again are about zero.
YpsiVeteran
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 : 4:53 p.m.
I don't think that. There was a certain amount of snark behind my post, which I should have made more clear. However, if you include non-monetary considerations in your definition of "cost," like piece of mind for his current victims, the risk to society at large posed by this type of offender, the damage done to his current victims the will now have to live with for the rest of their lives, etc., I think keeping him locked up till he dies is less "expensive." Not all cost can be defined by money.
twokidsmom
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 : 1:19 p.m.
i don't know about the actual cost, but they don't change who they are. Never heard anybody who committed this kind of unforgivable conduct was changed after X years in prison. They will end up in the prison in few months again for similar reasons. And monitoring doesn't protect innocent kids and people from this 100% from this particular creature.
Ed Kimball
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 : 12:48 p.m.
Why do you think that keeping him in prison is less expensive than monitoring?
Basic Bob
Sun, Sep 30, 2012 : 7:34 p.m.
Ypsilanti man is misleading. Should be Fenton man.
Angry Moderate
Sun, Sep 30, 2012 : 10:38 p.m.
It says his parents are from Fenton, not him.
Angry Moderate
Sun, Sep 30, 2012 : 4:16 p.m.
Yet that woman from a few days ago got a slap on the wrist for doing the same thing to 2 children.
Richard Carter
Mon, Oct 1, 2012 : 2 p.m.
Then again, she was a minor when it happened, wasn't she?