As Southbury gears for David Pollitt’s release today [previous post here], the Courant has this fine piece about the impact of the neighborhood’s uproar on his sister.

“I really shouldn’t come out and talk with you because we’ve received so many hate letters and calls already, and you might say what I look like,” Rosengren said Thursday. She spoke by phone to a reporter standing at the end of her driveway, but refused to come to the door. “I just think the public should hear someone with the courage to say: `I love my brother dearly. He’s family.’”

Despite being told that none of Pollitt’s victim’s were young girls, sex offender blinders lead people to believe what they want to:

“I’m scared,” [a neighbor] says. “My 11-year-old daughter looks like she’s 16. The state probation officers tried to reassure us yesterday that [Pollitt's] `MO’ wasn’t to go for girls that young, but I don’t believe that. …

Pollitt’s sister’s family doesn’t have it easy either. Both she and her daughters have had to undergo intensive training as approved supervisors of a sex offender. This has led them to cancel a tour of colleges so as to stay in CT and complete their training.

This week, at high school, the 17-year-old daughter was mocked so viciously during volleyball practice, Attanasio said, that she had to leave early.

I’m sure there’ll be plenty more of that in the coming days and weeks.

In other legal news:

  • Russell Kirby, whose conviction was overturned as unconstitutional under Crawford [previous coverage here and here] has rejected a plea deal and looks like we’ll have another trial in that matter.
  • The jury in Russell Peeler’s capital trial has just ended its second day of deliberations.
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