Could this ugly tale still somehow deserve "frivolous lawsuit" status? Here's the link (above) in The Chicago Tribune (free reg. req.); and the answer, I believe, may be at least half a "Yes."

In DuPage County, west of Chicago, two Elmhurst College students are suing the school and one Michael J. Suits, after the school - with no on-campus housing available for the two - referred them to an apartment complex where Suits, an already convicted and released sex offender, lived. He gave the young women a clock radio as a welcome gift. They placed it in their (shared) bedroom, according to the Trib story, but one later discovered it had a hidden camera. If true, WHAT a sick loser Suits is.....huh?

However, according to the Trib's report, Suits had not registered as a sex offender under state law, despite an earlier conviction for aggravated criminal sexual abuse of an individual under age 13.

So, then......just whose fault was his failure to register and thus provide public notitification of his status? Elmhurst College's? Nope. The housing complex management's? Nuh. The State of Illinois? Um....yeah......getting warm.

Perhaps the lawyer representing the two women figures the college will countersue the state. Who knows? Nonetheless, with Suits not registered as a released sex offender - it's difficult to know how the school could arguably be held responsible for what reportedly happened.

A liitle bit of common sense goes a long way, as well. In an age when Seattle City Council members must ignominiously ride to the rescue of "upskirt photography" victims, women should also beware of total strangers bearing consumer electronics devices as gifts.

The larger issue is the ongoing attempt to "mainstream" repeat sex offenders. Can these guys - and they are almost always guys - ever really be "cured?" I must be a heartless law-and-order Republican, because when it comes to sex offenses, my instinct is something along the lines of "Two Strikes and You're Out," i.e. life, no parole. Naturally, Washington state courts champion the rights of repeat sex offenders rather than those of their victims, mandating rehabilitative "solutions" that verge on faux-utopian insanity.

Of course, were common sense and a tougher brand of justice to prevail, a lot of social workers and therapists might be out of work.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at January 1, 2005 02:38 PM

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