or, rehabilitation is a fukkin myth that bitch-ass libs think is real. also, 35 yr old BLACK guy kills 14 year old WHITE girl:
Suspect in East Liberty girl's death was labeled 'low risk'
Saturday, July 17, 2010
By Sadie Gurman and Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tushon Brown served just half of his maximum 15-year prison stint on rape and other charges because he had good behavior, took responsibility for his crimes and underwent a battery of tests that the state's parole board said showed he was at low risk to reoffend.
Tushon Brown
He participated in prison rehabilitation and drug treatment programs, spent time in a halfway house and agreed to outpatient sex offender treatment, probation and parole records show.
Yet less than a year after his release, Mr. Brown, 35, was charged again, this time with a crime more gruesome than the last -- the rape and fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old girl. City police said Friday he would be returning to Pittsburgh for arraignment from Goldsboro, N.C., where he was being held on a parole violation from the earlier sex assault case.
While Lauren Deis' friends and neighbors voiced their outrage through comments on a Facebook page, officials said Mr. Brown fulfilled a string of parole requirements for his release from prison.
Though he wouldn't disclose the specifics of Mr. Brown's treatment, citing privacy concerns, state Board of Probation and Parole spokesman Leo Dunn said he completed a list of programs prescribed for him while in prison, which could have included anything from drug and alcohol treatment to mental health, parenting or educational programs.
He showed "positive institutional behavior" while at SCI Graterford and later at the state penitentiary on the North Side, according to the board's decision to grant him parole, and accepted responsibility for his offenses. He also completed a "risk and needs assessment" indicating his level of risk to the community, in which officials asked an inmate a series of questions and probed his background for signs of whether he might reoffend, Mr. Dunn said.
He also underwent what a Department of Corrections spokeswoman described as "intensive drug and alcohol treatment" before entering a halfway house through Renewal Inc. in the city. Employees there could not be reached for comment about what programs and treatment he underwent there.
"Outpatient sex offender treatment is a special condition of your parole supervision until the treatment source and or parole supervision staff determine it is no longer necessary," the parole board wrote, adding that Mr. Brown was to attend a community support group and submit to an evaluation to determine whether he needed further drug or alcohol treatment, among other restrictions listed in the board's decision.
Further details about what sex offender treatment he underwent were unavailable.
On Aug. 31, 2009 he was released to Renewal and it was unclear how long he stayed. He was living at his home on Glen Mawr Street in Sheraden on July 7, when he told police he met Ms. Deis near Langley High School while "looking for sex."
Police said he told them they returned to his home where he stabbed her to death. Mr. Brown told detectives he offered the girl $200 for sex and she agreed, but the encounter quickly turned violent.
After he made sure she was dead, he carried her body to his basement, telling police he was "thinking about life in prison." He tried to erase evidence of the attack, police said, and then sexually assaulted the body.
He left the body at Langley High School, where it was discovered Tuesday. Also that day the probation and parole board declared Mr. Brown in violation of his parole, which lasts until 2016.
Mr. Brown was charged with criminal homicide, statutory sexual assault, tampering with evidence, abuse of a corpse and failing to comply with registration of sexual offenders.
His prison time was for a 2002 conviction stemming from an incident the year before in Whitehall. He pleaded guilty to voluntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated assault, unlawful restraint, burglary and numerous other charges.
The state's Megan's Law website, which catalogs sex offenders and where they live, lists Mr. Brown's last residence as in Wilkinsburg. The law required him to register his address each year and report changes to state police within two days, which police said he failed to do.
On Friday, state Auditor General Jack Wagner again criticized the site, saying "many individuals listed on the website don't have accurate information."
"What needs to happen periodically, state police, local and county agencies should come together to determine if, in fact, people convicted of sexual crimes are living where they said they live," he said. "If not, they should be returned to jail."
Mr. Brown's wife, Jessica Walters, whom he married in March, couldn't be reached for comment Friday. He shared the Sheraden home with her and her three children. Court records show he had at least two children by two different women, neither of whom could be located for comment.
Suspect in East Liberty girl's death was labeled 'low risk'
Saturday, July 17, 2010
By Sadie Gurman and Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tushon Brown served just half of his maximum 15-year prison stint on rape and other charges because he had good behavior, took responsibility for his crimes and underwent a battery of tests that the state's parole board said showed he was at low risk to reoffend.
Tushon Brown
He participated in prison rehabilitation and drug treatment programs, spent time in a halfway house and agreed to outpatient sex offender treatment, probation and parole records show.
Yet less than a year after his release, Mr. Brown, 35, was charged again, this time with a crime more gruesome than the last -- the rape and fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old girl. City police said Friday he would be returning to Pittsburgh for arraignment from Goldsboro, N.C., where he was being held on a parole violation from the earlier sex assault case.
While Lauren Deis' friends and neighbors voiced their outrage through comments on a Facebook page, officials said Mr. Brown fulfilled a string of parole requirements for his release from prison.
Though he wouldn't disclose the specifics of Mr. Brown's treatment, citing privacy concerns, state Board of Probation and Parole spokesman Leo Dunn said he completed a list of programs prescribed for him while in prison, which could have included anything from drug and alcohol treatment to mental health, parenting or educational programs.
He showed "positive institutional behavior" while at SCI Graterford and later at the state penitentiary on the North Side, according to the board's decision to grant him parole, and accepted responsibility for his offenses. He also completed a "risk and needs assessment" indicating his level of risk to the community, in which officials asked an inmate a series of questions and probed his background for signs of whether he might reoffend, Mr. Dunn said.
He also underwent what a Department of Corrections spokeswoman described as "intensive drug and alcohol treatment" before entering a halfway house through Renewal Inc. in the city. Employees there could not be reached for comment about what programs and treatment he underwent there.
"Outpatient sex offender treatment is a special condition of your parole supervision until the treatment source and or parole supervision staff determine it is no longer necessary," the parole board wrote, adding that Mr. Brown was to attend a community support group and submit to an evaluation to determine whether he needed further drug or alcohol treatment, among other restrictions listed in the board's decision.
Further details about what sex offender treatment he underwent were unavailable.
On Aug. 31, 2009 he was released to Renewal and it was unclear how long he stayed. He was living at his home on Glen Mawr Street in Sheraden on July 7, when he told police he met Ms. Deis near Langley High School while "looking for sex."
Police said he told them they returned to his home where he stabbed her to death. Mr. Brown told detectives he offered the girl $200 for sex and she agreed, but the encounter quickly turned violent.
After he made sure she was dead, he carried her body to his basement, telling police he was "thinking about life in prison." He tried to erase evidence of the attack, police said, and then sexually assaulted the body.
He left the body at Langley High School, where it was discovered Tuesday. Also that day the probation and parole board declared Mr. Brown in violation of his parole, which lasts until 2016.
Mr. Brown was charged with criminal homicide, statutory sexual assault, tampering with evidence, abuse of a corpse and failing to comply with registration of sexual offenders.
His prison time was for a 2002 conviction stemming from an incident the year before in Whitehall. He pleaded guilty to voluntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated assault, unlawful restraint, burglary and numerous other charges.
The state's Megan's Law website, which catalogs sex offenders and where they live, lists Mr. Brown's last residence as in Wilkinsburg. The law required him to register his address each year and report changes to state police within two days, which police said he failed to do.
On Friday, state Auditor General Jack Wagner again criticized the site, saying "many individuals listed on the website don't have accurate information."
"What needs to happen periodically, state police, local and county agencies should come together to determine if, in fact, people convicted of sexual crimes are living where they said they live," he said. "If not, they should be returned to jail."
Mr. Brown's wife, Jessica Walters, whom he married in March, couldn't be reached for comment Friday. He shared the Sheraden home with her and her three children. Court records show he had at least two children by two different women, neither of whom could be located for comment.
