ME: Maine’s Parents of Murdered Children chapter will honor registered sex offender

[newscentermaine.com – 6/20/18]

BANGOR (NEWS CENTER Maine) — In 2006, William Elliot was sought out and shot because he was a registered sex offender. On Sunday, he will be honored by the Maine chapter of Parents of Murdered Children.

His mother, Shirley Turner, says he was on this list because he had consensual sex with an underage girlfriend.

“But he was 19 when he got involved with a young girl and ended up on the Maine sex offender registry.” She said.

Turner says she’s surprised that Elliot will be honored because she hasn’t gotten much support over the years but is looking forward to talking to other people that have had a child taken away from them. Because losing a loved one to murder, isn’t like anything else.

“After joining the group, I saw the value that it represented for individuals that are going through similar type of loss of life because the way it’s perceived by survivors of murder victims is that you know, you didn’t lose somebody, that person was taken from you. It was an intentional act and it is a different kind of grief and mourning process.” Arthur Jette, memorial organizer, said.

Read more

 

Related posts

Subscribe
Notify of

We welcome a lively discussion with all view points - keeping in mind...

 

  1. Submissions must be in English
  2. Your submission will be reviewed by one of our volunteer moderators. Moderating decisions may be subjective.
  3. Please keep the tone of your comment civil and courteous. This is a public forum.
  4. Swear words should be starred out such as f*k and s*t and a**
  5. Please avoid the use of derogatory labels.  Always use person-first language.
  6. Please stay on topic - both in terms of the organization in general and this post in particular.
  7. Please refrain from general political statements in (dis)favor of one of the major parties or their representatives.
  8. Please take personal conversations off this forum.
  9. We will not publish any comments advocating for violent or any illegal action.
  10. We cannot connect participants privately - feel free to leave your contact info here. You may want to create a new / free, readily available email address that are not personally identifiable.
  11. Please refrain from copying and pasting repetitive and lengthy amounts of text.
  12. Please do not post in all Caps.
  13. If you wish to link to a serious and relevant media article, legitimate advocacy group or other pertinent web site / document, please provide the full link. No abbreviated / obfuscated links. Posts that include a URL may take considerably longer to be approved.
  14. We suggest to compose lengthy comments in a desktop text editor and copy and paste them into the comment form
  15. We will not publish any posts containing any names not mentioned in the original article.
  16. Please choose a short user name that does not contain links to other web sites or identify real people.  Do not use your real name.
  17. Please do not solicit funds
  18. No discussions about weapons
  19. If you use any abbreviation such as Failure To Register (FTR), Person Forced to Register (PFR) or any others, the first time you use it in a thread, please expand it for new people to better understand.
  20. All commenters are required to provide a real email address where we can contact them.  It will not be displayed on the site.
  21. Please send any input regarding moderation or other website issues via email to moderator [at] all4consolaws [dot] org
  22. We no longer post articles about arrests or accusations, only selected convictions. If your comment contains a link to an arrest or accusation article we will not approve your comment.
  23. If addressing another commenter, please address them by exactly their full display name, do not modify their name. 
ACSOL, including but not limited to its board members and agents, does not provide legal advice on this website.  In addition, ACSOL warns that those who provide comments on this website may or may not be legal professionals on whose advice one can reasonably rely.  
 

6 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

Every time I now see a story of a murdered RC due to them being on the registry, I just think of the other story where a city (county?) passed a bill to remove access to police offers names by the general public because they were worried someone might seek them out and hurt them. The law seems to be totally fine in putting everyone on the registry squarely in the crosshairs of vigilantes, and even even often refuse to directly admit that the reason the person was killed was squarely due to the registry as seen in the SoCal case happening right now where the DA refused to level charges against the killers as a hate crime.

it just floors me , that more people are not saying, what the hell is wrong with these law makers and many more courts not looking at the very fact that this registry is clearly getting people killed that did their time and just want to move on in their life , even the highest court in the land turns a blind eye to the unconstitutionality of this registry , LE bosting all the time about new tec that can serval people , yet hold on for dear life this lie that they need this stupid registry .