The charge of sex offender status is pure bullshit. That was sex between two consenting adults. Fine, punish her as a normal person if you must. But placing her on a sex offender list for consensual sex? That is pure bullshit. Her life is already ruined for having been caught and going to jail for this. She will have to serve 5 years on probation. Listing her as a sex offender is nothing short of vindictive. That label will follow her the rest of her life as she cannot shake that label. Sex offender labels cannot be discarded and continue to punish you years after you have completed your term. It will place restrictions on her life and allow people to publicly look her up over her indiscretion.(CNN) -- A former prison secretary has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for having sex with an inmate she was supposed to be supervising, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in the District of Colorado said Friday.
Janine Sligar, 47, of Wray, Colorado, was sentenced Thursday for sexual abuse of a ward. After serving her sentence, she will serve five years of supervised release and must register as a sex offender, spokesman Jeff Dorschner said in a news release.
Sligar, who must surrender to a facility designated by the Bureau of Prisons on March 2, did not respond to a telephone call to her home for comment.
She was indicted in July by a federal grand jury in Denver and pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in October.
According to the plea agreement, Sligar, a 14-year Bureau of Prisons veteran, said she and inmate Eric McClain met in February 2007, when he was assigned to clean her office.
"They began to have conversations and realized they had similar interests," the plea agreement said.
That summer, they initiated a sexual relationship that included 10 to 20 sessions of oral sex and sexual intercourse, ending in October 2007, it said.
The liaisons primarily occurred in a staff restroom in the housing unit at the Federal Prison Camp in Florence, Colorado, according to the agreement.
Sligar, who acknowledged having detailed her activities in a journal, said she obtained a cell phone with a non-local phone number so McClain could call her without raising suspicion and admitted she gave him contraband that included photographs with explicit sexual poses, the plea agreement added.
"Defendant also admitted using her cell phone camera to take graphic pictures of a sexual nature which depict defendant and this inmate," it said.
Authorities began investigating the incident after receiving a tip about the inappropriate relationship. They then learned that Sligar had changed the primary beneficiary on an insurance policy from her children to McClain. A subsequent search of her home turned up the journal and photographs.
This is why I think the sex offender label is pure bullshit. It has been misapplied to innocent or harmless individuals. I have heard cases of the label being used on young adults for having 17 year old girlfriends that they ended up marrying afterwords anyway. I have heard about it used against teenagers who had sex under age. Two 14 year olds having sex were charged with statutory rape against each other. Or the 16 year old girl that was convicted of child pornography for taking pictures of herself and selling them over the internet. Better yet, schools hunting down the new sexting craze where they automatically punish the recipient with child porn charges regardless of their intent. Right now the sex offender label is causing more harm then good and should be done away with.
Sexting leads to child porn charges
Look man, there are times when uncommon sense MUST over come technicalities. This is one of those times.
