First thing comes to mind? Close the f****** loophole and put him in jail.
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Lonnie Hyrum Johnson, Serial Child Rapist, Will Be Set Free Due to Loophole
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In 2006, 38-year-old Lonnie Johnson was convicted in Washington State of raping a teenager. For reasons unknown, he would serve just a year in jail. But after he was convicted in Washington, his niece and her cousin in Utah would come forth with a tale of their own...
Prior to his Washington rape, it seems Johnson had raped the two little girls for five long years, from 2001 to 2006. But they wouldn't come forward with their own ordeals until Johnson was busted in Washington.
So prosecutors in Utah charged him with 24 felonies ranging from rape to sodomy to aggravated sexual abuse.
Yet in 2008, Johnson was found mentally incompetent to stand trial. Instead, he was committed to a state mental hospital. And now it appears he may be released as early as today.
He can't be charged with the felonies because he's been ruled incompetent. But under Utah law, he can no longer be forcibly hospitalized because a shrink has ruled that he's no longer a a threat to society.
We're not sure how a serial rapist can no longer be deemed a threat, but we don't have a doctorate.
He'll still be required to register as a sex offender. But it seems prosecutors won't get another crack at keep him incarcerated until he rapes again. |
