That would require the (now presumably 20-to-30-something) victim to press charges against him and the dysfunctional legal system to care enough to follow through. Like a case doesn’t get opened just because someone publicly confesses to a crime, it requires something to establish that it was even a thing that happened (a police report, a specific currently-still-a-minor suspected victim [which allows the state to open a case on behalf of said victim], a body, a missing person, etc) before anyone might even hypothetically look at it, and even there cops notoriously don’t usually bother unless it’s something high profile or they have an axe to grind with someone.
I’m sure there are examples of cops just starting from a confession (or alleged confession) and working backwards towards a crime and getting results even in the absence of establishing that any crime took place, but that tends to be a way of harassing minorities or settling personal scores. Remember that cops are both draconian, petty racists and lazy bastards who generally don’t care about the victims they do already know about.
He presumably didn’t voluntarily put himself on the registry. He was caught and charged. Otherwise it wouldn’t have been classified in any way, he wouldn’t have been sentenced, and he wouldn’t be on the registry.
The fact this experience apparently didn’t communicate to him how fucked up this is is a sad indictment of punitive “justice” systems and should lead us to consider rehabilitative justice. This guy should still be doing the work to reform/rehab himself, not just be back out in society defending his actions.
Yeah his registration with that database was updated this year. Someone dropped his mugshot and the record of the conviction / offender registry entry on LinkedIn. He’s registered for life as a violent offender.
That would require the (now presumably 20-to-30-something) victim to press charges against him and the dysfunctional legal system to care enough to follow through. Like a case doesn’t get opened just because someone publicly confesses to a crime, it requires something to establish that it was even a thing that happened (a police report, a specific currently-still-a-minor suspected victim [which allows the state to open a case on behalf of said victim], a body, a missing person, etc) before anyone might even hypothetically look at it, and even there cops notoriously don’t usually bother unless it’s something high profile or they have an axe to grind with someone.
I’m sure there are examples of cops just starting from a confession (or alleged confession) and working backwards towards a crime and getting results even in the absence of establishing that any crime took place, but that tends to be a way of harassing minorities or settling personal scores. Remember that cops are both draconian, petty racists and lazy bastards who generally don’t care about the victims they do already know about.
He presumably didn’t voluntarily put himself on the registry. He was caught and charged. Otherwise it wouldn’t have been classified in any way, he wouldn’t have been sentenced, and he wouldn’t be on the registry.
The fact this experience apparently didn’t communicate to him how fucked up this is is a sad indictment of punitive “justice” systems and should lead us to consider rehabilitative justice. This guy should still be doing the work to reform/rehab himself, not just be back out in society defending his actions.
Yeah his registration with that database was updated this year. Someone dropped his mugshot and the record of the conviction / offender registry entry on LinkedIn. He’s registered for life as a violent offender.