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[Ganhyun]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ghts-victim-s-son-n809196?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma


Some important info from the article in a few quotes:

Sanilac County Circuit Judge Gregory Ross made the decision after a DNA test last month confirmed that 27-year-old Christopher Mirasolo is the biological father of the boy, who is now 8, said the lawyer, Rebecca Kiessling, on Sunday.

Mirasolo pleaded guilty in 2008 to attempted third-degree criminal sexual conduct and served six months in jail for the crime. In 2010, he went to prison for four years in a separate sex crime case.

Kiessling said her client, who is now 21, had not requested joint custody — “I hope [Mirasolo] never has any rights to him at all,” the mother told NBC affiliate WDIV — even though the judge’s order, on September 25, said the decision was “based solely on consent.”

That “consent, however, was never obtained,” Kiessling said in court documents. “No one ever even conferred with the Plaintiff regarding the ‘consent judgment,’ she did not sign the ‘consent judgment,’ nor was the Plaintiff afforded legal representation in the matter.”

You'd think this was already bad enough, but no, it gets worse.

In the process, Kiessling added, the mother’s address was revealed to Mirasolo and the judge ordered that his name be added to the child’s birth certificate.

So now, the guy who raped a 12 year old girl and has also committed another sex crime as well afterwards, has direct knowledge of a former victim's address due to this Judge.

what caused this to happen you ask?

Kiessling said the arrangement was set in motion after the mother applied for food stamps.

Federal law required the mother to name the child’s father so the state could seek child support reimbursement, she said. Because Mirasolo wasn’t included on the child’s birth certificate, Kiessling said, the local prosecutor’s office filed a case to identify him.

After a DNA test, Ross gave Mirasolo joint custody and ordered him to pay $316 in monthly child support, according to court documents.

So, basically, since she asked for help and a law required the father's name be on the birth certificate so the government could go after him for reimbursement, the guy ended up being given parental rights to the child.

however, it seems the guy has some brains:

But Mirasolo’s lawyer, Barbara Yockey, said he had not initiated the request. “My client will not be seeing the child,” she said.

My thoughts:

I understand why the government would want to know who the father of the child is and want to have them support their child. However, there should be some sort of exception to a child rapist who has also been convicted of another sex crime as well being given parental rights to a child. And to give him his former victim's address as well? Just all around stupidity.

If they had confirmed he was the father, saw his record, and made him pay child support with no rights and no knowledge of his victim's location, then it would be fine.

What say you GAF?

(I searched and did not see a thread. Lock/mock/etc if old and my GAF-searchfu is weak.)

 

[super-famicom]

We already had a thread on this
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1444634

 

[Ganhyun]

We already had a thread on this
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1444634

And I missed it. Mock/lock incoming.