More on Pollitt and a bit on Crawford and the death penalty
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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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Komisarjevsky’s MO wasn’t rape either, but that didn’t stop him from repeatedly raping a young girl, now did it? Your casual dismissal of people’s concerns for their own children’s safety is sick. Sick.
It’s awful that the woman’s daughter has to endure such abuse. I would be completely ashamed if my children did such a thing.
Don’t be so quick to try and pull our heart-strings with posts about the plight of Pollitt’s family. Though yes, and abuse leveled at the sister or daughter is reprehensible.
Pollitt’s sister says, “…`I love my brother dearly. He’s family.’”
She loves a serial rapist, just because they share biological parents and some portion of their genetic makeup? If my brother were a serial rapist, someone who had visited terrible, terrible violence on innocent people, I seriously doubt I’d love him, family or not.
I have to wonder, of the people voicing outrage and disbelief regarding Pollitt’s release-
How many have made efforts in the past to contact lawmakers and push for a change related sentencing guidelines?
How many will make a continued effort in demanding changes?
How many will fade back into the woodwork after the threat to their immediate community ends?
[quote comment="6728"]I have to wonder, of the people voicing outrage and disbelief regarding Pollitt’s release-
How many have made efforts in the past to contact lawmakers and push for a change related sentencing guidelines?
How many will make a continued effort in demanding changes?
How many will fade back into the woodwork after the threat to their immediate community ends?[/quote]
Very well said. If it doesn’t happen in my neighborhood, I don’t care.