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Family of Dead Registered Sex Offender Still Receiving Registry Letters
Loaded on Aug. 25, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
Filed under:
Sex Offender Registration,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Lobbying,
Advocacy,
Prison Reform,
Suicides,
Family.
Location:
Michigan.
When 17-year-old Justin Fawcett admitted to having consensual sex with a 14-year-old student at the same West Bloomfield, Michigan high school he attended he probably never thought that he would die for his crime, but he did. Hounded by the public shaming of his being listed on the Web …
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