Judge Moses, Jessica's Law, an Updated on Secular Progressivism in Massachusetts

A few months back I wrote this provocative piece on Massachusetts. I pointed out the absurdity of Massachusetts considering an anti spanking law while disregarding Jessica's Law. A reader objected to my characterization. They pointed out that the anti spanking law wasn't going to get anymore than a passing hearing, and they further pointed out that Jessica's Law was on the agenda with a realistic chance of being passed. While I agree that I twisted the reality of the situation of the two laws in my first piece, it is not twisting reality to say that Massachusetts remains one of the few states that hasn't passed Jessica's Law and it won't be passed in that state anytime in the near future.



Meanwhile, the state has become a magnet for what Jessica's Law tries to avoid.





Judge Richard Moses may wind up being the poster child in the fight to bring Jessica's Law to all remaining states that don't have it. Moses has commuted the sentences of three sex offenders who went on to offend again. Here is how it was reported...

Corey Saunders, 26, was arrested Jan. 30 after allegedly assaulting the boy in a second-floor magazine room, police said.

Saunders, who had recently moved to New Bedford, is charged with rape of a child by force, indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. Saunders was convicted in 2001 of child rape and assault and battery on a child.

Last week another so-called "Level 3" sex offender - considered the most likely to re-offend - was arrested for allegedly peeping at a woman under a restroom stall at a retail store in Quincy.David Flavell had been released from a treatment center in February 2006 after Superior Court Judge Richard Moses found he was not sexually dangerous...

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Judge Richard Moses did it again. Another Level 3 sex offender he let loose was accused of committing yet another sex crime.

Before the ink was dry on the story, the apologists lined up. "It isn't Judge Moses' fault - he was just following the law." Blah, blah, blah. Not really.

Kenneth Stone had a long rap sheet and he'd been charged or convicted at least four times for sex crimes between 1989 and 1995, already far too many bites at the apple. Moses should have known better no matter what the so-called "experts" said.

A few things have become clear to me since I wrote that piece linking the anti spanking law to Jessica's Law in Massachusetts. Massachusetts has absolutely no intention of passing this anti spanking law, but they currently also have no intention of passing Jessica's Law either. In the meantime, judges all to often in that state show the kind of judgement that makes Jessica's Law necessary. Jessica's Law would put a mandatory 25 year sentence on any sexual assault of a minor under 13. Jessica's Law would take the discretion out of the judge's hands in cases of predators like Sanders, Flavell, and Stone.



It is also clear that Massachusetts is among the most secular progressive states in the union. It is the only one that allows gay marriage. The anti spanking law would take secular progressivism to its most extreme, however there are few if any states that would allow such a bill to get as far as it did in Massachusetts. It is of course no surprise that Massachusetts remains a handful of states where Jessica's Law is still not law.

Here is what one Massachusetts prisoner is asking of Massachusetts.

Now in Massachusetts, this guy, who's murdered his wife. He's in jail forever. Robert Cuselack, 58-years old, wants to be Michelle Cuselack. And he wants to the taxpayers -- there, there's Michelle. To pay for it.

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Now back to Robert AKA Michele, so far he has cost the taxpayers of Massachusetts over 56,000 dollars in sex therapies {Hormone therapies and laser hair removal

Examples of Massachusetts libertine attitude is everywhere. While some of these other issues have a debateable effect on society, what is clear is that Massachusetts refusal to enact Jessica's Law continues to harm the kids of that state. What is clear since I wrote that piece is that the state has no motivation to pass Jessica's Law and all the while kids are being abused as a result there.