If he had been convicted of the sex crime, Dougherty could have spent up to two years in jail and 10 years on the sex offender registry. He wouldn't have been able to live in any dorm at any state university in Iowa because registered sex offenders are prohibited. And for the rest of his life, he couldn't live within 2,000 feet of a K-12 school or child care center.Dougherty's dad Jim agrees that his son made a mistake and should be punished, but has been trying to get the laws changed so that children are not penalized so harshly for making stupid mistakes.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Des Moines Democrat, was listed in court documents as one of the lawyers for the Doughertys. McCarthy said he doesn’t think the laws need to be amended. “I support getting tougher on sex offenders and, as a former prosecutor, I believe that the prosecutorial edict of seeking justice, not merely convictions, provides safeguards in the process of certain charges being appropriately matched to the underlying facts of a situation,” he said.The problem is that many overzealous prosecutors in election years are not interested in fairness, they are looking for headlines. Sex always sells to the media and lawyers get their names in the papers. It's time we stopped criminalizing the sexual behavior of our Nation's youth, otherwise the sex offender registry will quickly fill up with perfectly normal and healthy people who simply did something stupid. The real perversion here is on the part of the government which outrageously oversteps its bounds.
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