6-23-2011 Minnesota:
A patient who was raped in 2009 at the Minnesota Sex Offender Program's facility in Moose Lake has been awarded $130,000 in a settlement with the state Department of Human Services (DHS).
Philip Goldhammer, 35, alleged that he was raped by his roommate after staff ignored his requests to be transferred to another room. William Cardwell, Goldhammer's roommate, tried to commit suicide following his attack.
It took more than a year and a half after the rape before DHS issued a "client compatibility'' policy designed to protect patients from such threatening situations. Prior to the rape, Goldhammer, who weighs just over 140 pounds, described feeling intimidated by being housed with the 266-pound Cardwell.
Goldhammer will have his own room for 18 months to help recover from the assault under the settlement agreement.
Cardwell, 45, was convicted of assault with great bodily harm after the attack and sentenced to more than nine years in prison. ..Source.. by PAUL McENROE
June 23, 2011
Sex offender gets settlement after rape
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JUSTICE SERVED!!! I would bet it would have been setteled in less than 6 months if Mr. Goldhammer
wasn't a SO. Also I would like to see if they EVER release him from CC now that he has forced the hand of the law on the law.
these laws create more violence not lessen it. it's time for the laws to end. they have a tendency to make things worse than the original situation. you ruin a person's life because they had sex with someone and then you allow someone to find his information on the internet and murder him. originally you had one crime of sexual assault now you have one crime of murder . murder or sexual assault which crime is worse?
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