Man barred from attending his Son's school graduation for a crime committed 18 years ago, because the local district takes a ZT approach. They openly state that they don't deal with individual requests against the ban. But they will spend the time and effort to uphold their position, stating they'll have people at the ceremony waiting for him - "We'll be there. And we'll arrest him if he's there"
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I'm afraid I don't have a lot of sympathy for Mr. Jones. Okay ... he was convicted of a crime that occurred 18 years ago ... he forcibly raped a 15 year old girl. If it had been YOUR daughter, would you think it was okay for him to go hang around a school now? 18 years is not that long ago, I've been a dispatcher at the same police department for 22 years. I've talked to the victims of this kind of crime ... nope, sorry ... Mr. Jones doesn't get a lot of sympathy from me. If he's turned his life around since then, fine, he should be more understanding of the consequences of what he's done. Perhaps if he stood up, admitted that he was still suffering for his own wrong-doings and accepted the consequences, it might be a better example to his son. Instead, he's setting the example that it's okay to feel persecuted when you've been punished for your crimes and that it's okay to continue to ignore the laws.
While he may have been convicted of forcible rape, that doesn't mean it WAS forcible rape. There are many people in prison who have been falsely accused of rape when it was consensual sex where one party regretted it afterward or got mad when they find out it was only a one-night stand for the other. Not to mention those who are convicted when they had nothing to do with the situation to begin with. There is a reason there needs to be an Innocence Project in existence.
I do feel for him particularly if it was a matter where two kids were out doing what teenagers will do and it really had been consensual.