Audit says employee at Iowa sex offender unit falsified husband’s work hours to collect more than $50,000
Iowa’s sex offender treatment facility is facing questions over falsified time card records said to have netted an employee and her husband more than $52,000 in unearned income.
For more than a year, the administrative assistant manipulated records to show her husband — a part-time employee of the facility — was working at times he wasn’t, according to an investigation released Wednesday by the state auditor’s office.
The Civil Commitment Unit for Sexual Offenders holds up to 150 “sexually violent predators” who have served out their criminal sentences but been ordered to held for treatment until they are deemed by a court no longer to be likely to commit future sexual violence.
The facility is on of the grounds of a state mental hospital in Cherokee.
It has survived multiple legal challenges — most recently in 2018, when a federal judge Sioux City found it is a legitimate treatment program and does not violate the civil rights of the men held there.
Along the way it has had problems that included a female psychologist developing an improper relationship with a male patient, misuse of confidential information and even a lawsuit by residents who claimed their religious rights as Satanists were violated because they couldn’t eat leftover fried chicken.
This civil commitment is a bunch of crap. Yes maybe for Predators or repeat offenders, but not for all.
When is this going to change?
Not in my lifetime.
It’s unconstitutional for ALL.
The State of FL designates someone a Predator without ANY risk assessment whatsoever. Our movement needs to avoid the temptation to throw FL’s misnamed “Predators” under the bus.
I know someone I would like to throw under a bus, and their name’s rhyme with Mook.
Tereto, I love word games. So, first name is three letters in the middle of the word WRONG?
On a more serious note, keep in mind that FloriDUH is NOT alone in throwing the “predator” label around haphazardly, so I’m disheartened when certain members of our “movement” is eager to sacrifice some folks for the sake of some small victory. It is that mentality that merely divides us further.
I believe that employee and her husband should get life time sentences. Or at least not be able to be employed the rest of their life. If your taking away from folks that have life sentences from being on the registry, I think you should be put in their shoes if your going to steal from them.
Civil Commitment is a bunch of Hog Wash! It’s assumed your going to reoffend and your marked guilty before it ever happens. I hope someone will do a study on recidivism of the ones that get through Civil Commitment. Our Constitution may as well be written in sand. There are to many courts and judges that keep changing the meanings to suit their agenda. Strange how laymen can tell you exactly what it says. Life sentences should only be served in prison.