Registered Sex Offender Caught Assaulting Nursing Home Patient; No Charges Filed

Just when you thought things couldn't be any more decrepit or depressing, this happens.

So apparently just because you are some crusty, dusty old Registered Sex Offender, that doesn't prevent you from being left to live on an Alzheimer's unit full of elderly women that you can grope at your leisure.  Even if you're on probation and they catch you red-handed, if you're 90 years old they just leave you to it.

A nurse reportedly found some RSO actively groping this 96-year-old dementia patient who was minding her own business in her own room.  What surprises me the most is that the staff member reported it, to be honest. 

This particular menace to society, when caught, had two comments:

1. I'm dumb, I messed up.
2. She didn't say no or tell me to stop.

So that should be pretty straightforward, right?  He's a known asshole, an RSO in the first place.  He's diagnosed with a mental disorder that makes him "a violent sexual predator."  He's on probation and can be sent directly to prison for this incident.  In my opinion that's what should happen.   Lord knows what would have happened if the nurse hadn't walked in.

But no, it's all a big shrug from the legal system, really no matter how infuriating it may be.  He was left right where he is.  His probation was not violated.  As of this writing he has not been charged with anything.

The home where he lives is required by law to have a treatment plan in place for someone with any mental disorder, including one that makes them dangerous to others.  They wouldn't say if they had one in place for this attacker of a 96-year-old uncommunicative woman.  Ask yourself if it's a coincidence that he picked a person who can't communicate to pull this on, and what are the odds that this is the only thing he's done?

I understand that RSOs are human beings, and they need to live somewhere.  AND, it's not fair to have them living among vulnerable populations without warning.  That's the whole point of registering them in the first place, isn't it?  They're not supposed to be able to grope elderly dementia patients just because they enjoy that hobby.  The rest of us aren't here for their entertainment. 

I'm not in favor of turning the rest of society loose on punishing them at will.  I don't want him tarred, feathered, and lynched.  But it can't continue to be the reverse, either, where they get to exploit and abuse us freely.

So they can make separate group homes for RSOs.  The inconvenience can fall to their side, not the rest of us.  Because I hate to say it, but this will not get prosecuted as it should.  There were two of them in this one nursing home.  Rapists get old too, you know?  It sucks.  It's infuriating for this lady.  And I don't believe she will get justice.

So, since we don't have nursing homes for sex offenders, and he can't keep his hands to himself, he can go back to prison for what he just did there.  What's that you say?  Joliet is no place for a 90-year-old man?  Fuck that grandma titty groper.  Choices have consequences.  He's not safe for the rest of us and he never will be.  If they can't come up with some home for elderly sex menaces, he can go live out his days with the younger ones.