Sunday, June 30, 2019

Giles Co TN Sheriff Kyle Helton and his monkey-see-monkey-do law

Why does Sheriff Kyle Helton look like Darryl's racist brother in The Walking Dead?
Tennessee recently passed a law preventing many registrants from living with their own kids. While that law might be Shiitake-worthy in itself, how it came to pass was more noteworthy.

Below is not the full article. It is long. I just wanted to focus on Sheriff Kyle Helton's role in destroying many families. He got the idea from the next state over, Alabama. In other words, monkey see, monkey do.

Hopefully THIS LAWSUIT will prevent that from happening.

https://theappeal.org/new-law-forces-dozens-on-tennessees-sex-offender-registry-from-their-homes/

NEW LAW FORCES DOZENS ON TENNESSEE’S SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY FROM THEIR HOMES
The legislation also makes it illegal for many ex-offenders to be alone with their own children.

Steven Yoder Jun 28, 2019

Last Sunday, Jason broke the news to his 7-year-old daughter: He’d be moving out. When a new Tennessee law goes into effect Monday, he will be barred from living with her. The law, Senate Bill 425, also forbids him from being alone with his daughter, meaning he can’t handle doctor’s appointments or pick her up from school, and he and his wife will need to hire childcare since she works full-time. His daughter cried when she heard but understood, Jason said, and told him she didn’t want her father to go to jail.

Seven years ago, a stepdaughter accused Jason of sexual touching, a charge he denies and attributes to discipline that he and his wife imposed. With the prosecutor threatening up to 18 years in prison, Jason says his lawyer advised him to take a plea deal that included probation, rather than risk a trial. Jason, whose name has been changed to protect his wife’s job, says the judge imposed no restrictions on him being around his daughter, and the Tennessee sex offense registry shows that he has no other criminal history.

Their predicament is likely to be felt more widely in coming months, as Tennessee implements the new law. It was spurred by Kyle Helton, sheriff of Giles County, which borders Alabama.

Alabama legislators pride themselves on making the state inhospitable to people with a sex crime in their past. Among other provisions, the state just enacted a chemical castration law and forbids adults whose offenses involved a victim younger than 12 from living with their own minor children. Helton has said that Alabama’s strict laws against former sex offenders were driving them over the border, and he wanted to put a stop to it. So he talked to his state senator, Joey Hensley, about introducing a bill that would match Alabama’s ban on living with children, according to Hensley. (The Giles County Sheriff’s Department said that Helton was not available to talk before deadline.)

Research shows relatively low reoffense rates for people convicted of sexual crimes—12 percent on average, according to a definitive 2014 study. But Helton’s lobbying paid off. Hensley introduced SB 425, which banishes people convicted of an offense involving someone under 12 from their homes if they have a child living there who’s a minor. On May 10, Governor Bill Lee signed it into law. On May 29, the Tennessee Department of Correction sent a letter to 78 people on the state sex offender registry advising them that they would need to pack up by July 1 or face arrest and prosecution...

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  1. Julian Calfy, 23, John Carollo, 28, and Nicholas Holloway, 20 arrested in Grindr attack before group's planned protest of Knox PrideFest

    Neo-Nazis arrested in Grindr attack before group's planned protest of Knox PrideFest
    Travis Dorman, Knoxville News Sentinel Published 7:00 p.m. ET June 30, 2019 | Updated 8:52 p.m. ET June 30, 2019
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    White nationalists in Arkansas are accused of luring a man to a home through a dating app.
    When he arrived, they threatened and beat him, saying he was trying to meet a minor.
    The extremists' group had planned a protest at Knox PrideFest, but did not have a large turnout.
    Some of the group's members have Knoxville ties through extremist networks.

    Three white nationalists whose organization planned to protest Knox PrideFest were arrested days before the event on charges they assaulted a man they lured to an Arkansas home through the LGBTQ dating app Grindr.

    Julian Calfy, 23, John Carollo, 28, and Nicholas Holloway, 20, each face felony charges of second-degree battery in connection with the June 20 attack. The three men have been identified as members of an Arkansas-based neo-Nazi group.
    What happened in Atkins?

    The arrests came after Calfy called 911 and claimed the trio had caught a man in a vigilante child-predator sting, according to an incident report from the sheriff's office in Pope County, Arkansas.

    Holloway told deputies he posed as a 15-year-old boy on Grindr to lure the man to a home in the small town of Atkins, the report states.

    The victim, who also called 911, told deputies the three men pulled him from his car, forced him to the ground, beat him and put a gun to his head before allowing him to leave, according to the report. As he drove away, the men damaged his windshield.

    An investigator later testified at a bond hearing that the victim had a cut on his chest and a "knot on his head the size of a golf ball," local newspaper The Courier reported.

    It's unclear whether police believe the trio's story that the man was trying to meet with a 15-year-old boy. The incident report does not elaborate, and Pope County Sheriff's Office Lt. Jacob Yarbrough said Friday the agency would not comment due to an ongoing investigation.
    Johan Carollo of the Traditionalist Worker Party attends a protest in Knoxville against what the group called a pro-abortion feminist agenda Jan. 21, 2018.Buy Photo

    Johan Carollo of the Traditionalist Worker Party attends a protest in Knoxville against what the group called a pro-abortion feminist agenda Jan. 21, 2018. (Photo: Michael Patrick/News Sentinel)

    Investigators obtained a search warrant for the home on State Highway 105 North. Records showing the results of that search weren't publicly available Friday.
    Arrests and protests

    Calfy, Carollo, Holloway were booked into the Pope County jail, where they remained June 22 while some 6,000 people celebrated the LGBTQ community nearly 600 miles away in Knoxville.

    "Allies and affiliates" of the Arkansas-based neo-Nazi group, led by Kynan Dutton, had planned to hold a "bold but peaceful demonstration" against PrideFest, the group's leader, Billy Roper, wrote on social media ahead of the event. The extremist group, formed in 2017, promotes racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric, and its members aspire to build a white ethno-state, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
    Kynan Dutton

    Kynan Dutton (Photo: Provided / KPD)

    Dutton was one of about 10 protesters who showed up to PrideFest this year. He also protested the event last year, when he was arrested for shoving a man to the ground.

    More: White nationalist arrested at Knox Pridefest once helped try to take over North Dakota town




    https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2019/06/30/neo-nazis-arrested-grindr-attack-before-planned-pridefest-protest/1596436001/

    Now a Neo-Nazi Group has been charged with a hate crime.

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