A Level 3 sex offender accused of committing similar offenses within months of his release from custody entered not guilty pleas in Genesee County Court today to the four counts against him.
Ronald A. Smith, 18, of 679 E. Main St., is charged with failure to register a change of address and three counts of sexual abuses, 1st.
Smith was allegedly living on Thorpe Street when he allegedly sexually abused at least one child. When he moved from Thorpe, he allegedly did not notify police of his correct address.
Smith is being held on $25,000 bail.
Public Defender Jerry Ader will have 45 days to prepare and make motions in the case.
I can't believe all the sex
I can't believe all the sex offenders the City and Town of Batavia, Ny has as residence. So you wonder why the City and Town don't bring in good paying jobs? Here let me tell you. Social Service. Social Security. Department of Parole. Department of Probation. Gcasa, Genesee Justice. The State and Feds, pay the City of Batavia, NY and Town of Batavia, Ny good money, to Babysit these Felons.
I don't know who's worse. The people who commit the crimes or,the Politicians who take the cash.
Jason, Do you really think
Jason,
Do you really think the same percentage of sex offenders do not live in other towns, villages and cities? It's just that this site and a few others let you know about them.
I don't know what this
I don't know what this teenager did when he was 16. I'm not excusing his past. It seems reasonable, if intervention was ever possible; it held greater promise before the kid went to prison than, now, after modeling fellow inmates for two years.
It defies logic, knowing offenders will be returning to our communities, that we don't do more than force them to fester in jail. Is "corrections" merely a euphemism? Is there value in collecting all of society's failures and confining them in one of a dozen colonies for any amount of time? Should we assume anything more than swapping stories occurs?
A prison sentence doesn't constitute restitution. It hardly improves attitude. As for punishment, the taxpayers incur more punishment than the convict.
Maybe we should look into the Indonesian Criminal Justice System. Caning is very cost-effective. I wonder if there are statistics on recidivism and caning?
http://www.correctionsone.com/re-entry-and-recidivism/articles/2030030-…
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Posted by jason reese on January 28, 2011 - 4:36pm
....So you wonder why the City and Town don't bring in good paying jobs? Here let me tell you. Social Service. Social Security......good money, to Babysit these Felons.
Are you saying everyone on social security is a felon?
"Is there value in collecting
"Is there value in collecting all of *society's failures* and confining them in one of a dozen colonies for any amount of time?"
So it is society's fault that this scumbag insists on diddling little girls??!!!
C'mon, CM - that's off the wall - even for you! It angers me that the left so absolves a person of responsibility for one's actions. "It takes a village" my butt.
Penitentiaries were never meant to be rehab centers for moral and social miscreants. The very word is derived from penance - punishment and atonement. Cable TV, weight rooms, and email access do NOT create an environment that is so terrible that one vows to never return.
As for caning, we can agree on that one. Let me be the one to administer 100 "whacks" to Smith's offending appendage. He will not re-offend.
As far as your link, it's quite interesting. Unfortunately it calls for coordination and communication between sundry governmental entities. Yeah, right.
BTW, I went to the website of Doug Hooley's jail. I was going to attempt to file a FOIL request regarding recidivism. I couldn't get past the fact that inmates are referred to as client/patients.....
You interpreted 'society's
You interpreted 'society's failures' as if the failure was society's doing. ...An interpretation I hadn't anticipated. I'm wondering as to the responsibility/ability of society to 'correct' any tendency to fail again. If we get these folks back, once they've served time, shouldn't there be some confidence that course correction might have occurred?
I chose the link because it seemed to reflect the opinions of corrections officers- a rarely cited perspective.
I think this person has
I think this person has proved that there is no "correction" to what these people do....when let go next time he will do the same thing again!!!!
CM, I read the link you
CM, I read the link you posted and while an interesting perspective, I have to point out that the source may be somewhat less than useful as a broad based solution. The authors perspective on Corrections is based on a career in county corrections. County correctional facilities cannot be used as a source of inmate behavior research and/or recidivism since their populations and length of stays are so disproportional to state prison populations. Also, the authors experience uses a population that originates in Oregon. The base that he is working with comes from a societal background so far removed from that of say New York or California. I realize that crime is crime, but the social backgrounds of inmates from Oregon are vividly different from social backgrounds of New York City, Los Angeles, etc.. The entire population of Oregon is approximately 1/3 of New York City alone. The authors experience comes from Lane County Oregon home to the states 2nd largest city, Eugene. As of 2010, Eugene boasted the following statistics: 6.2% unemployment, 24 registered sex offenders(Batavia has more), a ten year average of 2 murders, a minority population of only 18% with Hispanics comprising 4 times the black population.
I respect the author for his years in a crappy, thankless job, but his perspective on Corrections would not be where I would base my research.
Fair assessment, Jeff, and I
Fair assessment, Jeff, and I agree the website's point of view is limited in scope. I hoped it would be a springboard for discussing the social goals of 'correction.' We seem to belabor punishment without consideration of results, behavior modification- if at all quantifiable or even relevant. Punishment seems to enable three responses: acceptable behavior, cautious behavior and aggressive behavior. ..Only the former, the desired outcome.
Perhaps a link to Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" would have been more evocative. The coincidence of server reassignment didn't bode well for dialogue.