MI: Former Detroit City Council president just before prison release: ‘What I did was wrong’

Source: freep.com 12/24/21

Clouds hovered overhead on the morning Charles Pugh, 50, took his first steps to freedom outside the doors of the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility into the brisk December air.

Pugh was met by his friends and family who were waiting to pick him up in Ionia from the place where he had spent the last 5½ years following his 2016 convictions on two felony counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a child under 16.

“What I did was wrong,” Pugh admitted to the Detroit Free Press in an interview in prison shortly before his release. “It is something that is indefensible. It was wrong and I shouldn’t have done it.”

On the nearly two-hour drive back to the place Pugh always knew as home — Detroit — he said his focus would not be on his past, but on restarting his life.

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Two statements sum up what everybody should realize: 1. “We all have sinned. We all are born into sin. And with that being the case you don’t get a pass to condemn another person’s sin”. The other one, of course is when people say that everybody deserves a 2nd chance. Pretty much common sense.

Maybe that reporter would be open to a few more stories about how difficult it is to reenter (society) from 25+ year ppl on the registry, from the Detroit area.
Someone that has better language skills than me,,,,

Everyone is all about “second chances,” forgiveness, attrition and so on; however, if it pertains to anything SEX, then all you get from the Christians is: “I only care about the victims.”