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Article: Pedophiles? Lock 'em up, throw away the key
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 15, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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For his first sex offense exposing himself to two girls when he
was stationed on an Army base in 1955 Leroy Hendricks' sentence was
a $2.90 fine. Then, after an unrelenting three-decade career of
pedophilia, he got 10 years for his last recorded offense, molesting
two boys.
Problem is, the 10 years ended in 1994 and the state of Kansas did
not want to let him loose. So it committed him to a psychiatric
institution under the state's Sexually Violent Predator Act that
allows it to involuntarily commit habitual sex offenders upon release
from prison.
Last Tuesday the Supreme Court was asked to decide if the law is
constitutional. How can it possibly be? This is a clear case of
double ...