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♦ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2006
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place to live.
The local man, only identi
fied as John Doe VII, is 81
and lives with his son and
77-year-old wife of 61 years.
The law has left his wife feel
ing like a victim.
“I can’t find a place to take
him,” she said. “Everywhere
you have to have a criminal
background check.”
Her husband is in the last
stages of Alzheimer’s, which
has disabled him for the last
thrbe years. He was convict
ed of statutory rape in 1994,
she said.
“It’s not fair to me,” Mrs.,
Doe VII said.
“I'm not the problem, it’s
my husband, he’s disabled
and I can’t do anything for
him.”
Mrs. Doe VII and her dis-
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and had a lot of citizen com
plaints about the area.
“We just mounted a large
scale operation,” he said.
“Shut the street down to
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abled son live at the house.
Her other children come
by to help take care of the
father.
She said she’s been noti
fied he has to move by the
sheriff 1 s office.
“They’re kinda working
with us,” she said.
“I was told I might have
to get a paper, go before the
judge to say he’s disabled
not a threat,” so they don’t
have to move or he isn’t put
in jail.
“ By virtue of t heir advanced
age and or physical condi
tion,” the attorneys said in
the brief, “the plaintiffs are
not a danger to anyone.” .
The nine plaintiffs are
elderly, ill and/or severely dis
abled and the enforcement of
the church provision would
force them to move out of
their homes, nursing homes
and in one case a hospice or
put them in jail for not mov-
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Volunteers helping the
create the haunted house
this year include local law
enforcement, citizens, the
Warner Robins High School
North Avenue and across
Ignico Drive,” Clay said.
A field command post was
set up at the intersection,
Edwards said.
“Officers conducted field
interviews and vehicle
checks on everyone who
came through,” Clay said.
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be required to pay for their
costly medical care.
The only source of income
for most is Social Security,
which, like Medicaid, they
cannot receive if in jail.
The nine men are mostly
poor and elderly, except for a
29-year-old who is, according
to the brief, profoundly men
tally and physically disabled
by Huntington’s disease.
Most are in secured nursing
unit locked to prevent elderly
patients with dementia from
wandering, and some are
under 24-hour care.
One with Alzheimer’s
wears an ankle bracelet to
track him if he wanders. His
nursing home, while within a
1,000 feet of a church is next
to a police station.
The local man is one of
three of the nine who are at
home.
Of the others living at
Theater Department and
Air Force personnel, Clay
said. They’ll be out most
nights beginning at 6 p.m.
through Tuesday.
If you want to help,
there are still spots avail
able for persons wanting to
take part in the Haunted
The SWAT Team executed
three narcotics search war
rants, Edwards said. “We
seized some meth, cocaine
and prescription drugs.”
There were 12 arrests in
all, three for narcotics and
some on open warrants.
Edwards said there were
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home, one is 100 years old,
was released from prison a
decade ago and lives with
family. The other has no
family and live in a rented
trailer.
The attorneys claim the
men have no place to go. The
also claim moving the men
“shocks the conscious” and
government action that does
so is prohibited.
“Forcing a terminally
ill man with less than six
months to live out of his hos
pice care facility because he
resides within 1,000 feet of a
church is utterly irrational,”
said lead attorney Sarah
Geraghty, of the Southern
Center for Human Rights.
“A civilized society does not
turn elderly and severely dis
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or force them to jail for con
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The attorneys claim the
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search warrants; ground
operations - the roadblocks;
and the ground units con
ducting knock and talks in
the neighborhood.
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church provision, as applied
to the nine plaintiffs “cannot
survive rational-basis scru
tiny because the relationship
between the classification
and goal of protecting the
children from sex offenses
is so attenuated as to render
the distinction arbitrary or
irrational.”
“Arresting someone who
is already locked in secured
nursing units with 24-hour
supervision, who poses
no threat to society, is yet
more evidence that this
legislation was poorly con
ceived and badly written,”
said Geraghty. “As an elec
tion year stunt for an easy
win, the Georgia Legislature
passed a badly written sex
offender law. They need to
return to the drafting table
and fix the mess that was
made.”
She is referring to House
Bill 1059, passed this year
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which added churches and
school bus stops to the places
where children are likely to
congregate like schools and
parks.
Registered sex offenders
are prevented from living
within 1,000 feet of any of
these places.
Previous lawsuits have
prevented enforcement of
the school bus stop provision.
The original case on the bus
stops and church provisions
was filed June 20, prior to
the new law taking effect on
July 1.
The court decisions have
required school boards to take
action to set and define the
school bus stops before the
provision could be enforced.
Most have not.
Follow-up suits resulted
in restraining orders against
the enforcement in the few
jurisdictions that actually
did.
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