MI- Admitted sex offender ordered to get treatment

No matter what, treatment is proven to reduce recidivism. If you fall over a rock in your path everyday, falling to move it virtually guarantees you will fall over it again.

9-2-2009 Michigan:

MUSKEGON COUNTY -- A 47-year-old sex offender charged with exposing himself earlier this year to a young woman next door will spend time on probation and in a treatment facility.

____, of 1227 Oaklea, Muskegon Township, was sentenced Monday in Muskegon County's 14th Circuit Court on one count of aggravated indecent exposure to 169 days in jail, with credit for 169 days already served, and six months probation by Judge James M. Graves Jr.

In addition, Graves ordered ____ to spend six months on an electronic tether and to remain in an outpatient sex-offender treatment program. Pummel also has to pay $328 in fines and costs.

____ -- who pleaded guilty to the sex charge earlier this month -- was charged in March with exposing himself Feb. 24 through a window of his home to a young woman in the driveway next door, with ____ wearing only a shirt and masturbating. At the time, he was still on probation for a 2008 misdemeanor conviction of indecent exposure.

According to state law, Graves could have imposed a much harsher sentence on ____, including a life sentence in state prison.

Aggravated indecent exposure is ordinarily a high-court misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of two years in prison. ..Source.. by Heather Lynn Peters | The Muskegon Chronicle