State law in Tennessee prohibits registered sex offenders from re-contacting their victims, but there is no such restriction on anyone convicted of a sex crime before 2007, and still in prison, but who is not yet on the registered list.
Post-2007 sex criminals are automatically registered upon conviction.
Consequently, convicted molester Terry McConnell cannot be prevented from mailing birthday cards to one of his two pre-2007 victims.
One read: “I cannot believe my little tot-tot is already a teenager. You might be tired of me writing this, but I can’t get over how fast you are growing up.”
Prison officials say their limited resources are better used on monitoring incoming mail rather than outgoing.
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Senior Houston police officer Mike Hamby, 51, was suspended after witnesses reported that he, off-duty and not in uniform, had tossed a tear-gas grenade into a group of rivals in a rodeo cooking contest.
Hamby has 30 years’ service and was a member of his union’s board of directors.
About 300 teams compete in the barbecue cook-off, and police were investigating whether Hamby was merely trying to sabotage a competitor’s food.
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Timothy Walker, 48, was hospitalized in Burlington, N.C., after he fell off of an SUV while he was on top, holding down two mattresses for the driver, who apparently rounded a curve too fast.
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