In April of 2014, a 5-year-old girl was playing with her brothers on the grounds of the Econo Lodge in Terre Haute, Indiana, where she was staying with her family, when a man grabbed her, took her into his motel room, hit her, pulled off her clothes, and molested her.
Court records show that the man, Timothy Blazier, 50, was a recently paroled, twice-convicted child-molester. He’d been living at the Econo Lodge for three months when he molested the 5-year-old girl. He’s now back in prison, serving a sixty-year sentence for the attack — his third conviction involving the sexual abuse of a child.
The incident spurred protests from some Terre Haute residents when they learned that the Econo Lodge — part of the Choice Hotels International chain — had been home not just to Blazier, but to 12 other convicted sex offenders who, according to local news reports, had been housed there at state expense because the motel was one of the few locations that lay outside the town’s prohibited zones for sex offenders.
Following the attack, Choice Hotels cut its affiliation with the motel, which closed a few months later. Choice Hotels International has not responded to several emails from NBC5, asking for comment on the 2014 incident.
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Unintended Consequences: Sex Offenders in Motels [floridaactioncommittee.org 5/11/18]
Not a bad article. The conclusion in particular highlights the general, factual, problem with the registry actually creating more issues for societies safety as a whole than any intended prevention. I’d love for us to pass a law that would require factual evidence to support the need for any new proposed laws. No more, this feels right so it must be so, legislation.
These are Jim Crow laws. Registrants are forced into the darkest corners of society and humanity the rousted at will. Further proof that the laws are a chaotic web of demagouery in its finest form.