Getting on the Sex Offenders List. . .

isn't exactly cheap, if the judgment lodged against Toby Donovan of Cascade set down Wed. Feb. 19 is any indication. 

Last fall, Donovan plead guilty to a charge of Enticing a Minor and  last Wed. Judge Monica L. Ackley delivered the verdict: a 5-year suspended sentence, the 1^st year to be served at ”Elm Street Correctional Facility or until “maximum benefits are achieved.” So we could see him on the street sooner or later than next Feb. The judgment also includes a $750 fine, and a “No Contact with Minors” order and probation for the balance of the sentence. A probation violation will incarcerate him immediately.

Among other court costs (The Law Initiative Surcharge), Donovan will be assessed $250 to pay for a permanent place on the Iowa Sex Offenders Registry, which presumably relieves the rest of us of the expense of the mandated DNA test required of all individuals on it.

Elm Street told Critical Eye that residents there may not leave unless they have job obligations. Nice irony—he probably wouldn't be there if he had a job to begin with! It was rumored he was offered one here in town, but Critical Eye was unable to verify that.

This feels like an idle-hands-devil's-workshop issue, but Critical Eye intends to look into on the question of whether pedophiles can be “cured.” Considerable opinion maintains not. Check this blog for discussion of what experts think and what the stats reveal.