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"Pastor Offers Sex Offenders A 'Miracle': A New Start"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new NPR story about a pastor in Florida who ministers to a community of convicted sex offenders.  Here is how the piece gets started: More than 20 states, including Florida, limit where convicted sex offenders can live ? keeping them away from schools, parks and other places where children congregate.  In Miami, dozens of homeless sex offenders live under a bridge because there are few, if any, options nearby.  But 90 miles away, there's a community dedicated to housing sex offenders. Here is a segment of the piece providing part of the pastor's interesting back-story: [Dick] Witherow believes people can change.  At Miracle Park, those on probation attend weekly court-ordered sex therapy sessions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).