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MI - Death of homeless sex offender in Grand Rapids poses questions

View the article here Death by legislation! 01/29/2009 By Tom Rademacher - The Grand Rapids Press So is this what it finally takes for us to hear the muffled cries of the homeless -- an ex-con dead in the snow because it's against the law for a sex offender to huddle up at either of two Grand Rapids missions? Thomas Pauli didn't choose to die alone in the cold. He apparently froze to death because of a crime he committed nearly 20 years ago, and a niggling law that's dogged him ever since his release from prison. In the days prior to the discovery of his body Monday morning at a recycling operation in the 600 block of South Division Avenue, he reportedly attempted to score a bed at either or both the Guiding Light Mission and Mel Trotter Ministries, just blocks away...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).