This decision is wrong on so many levels, it demonizes ALL single parents and prevents them from having a relationship IF it is with a registered sex offender, and even when both parties are registered sex offenders. Clearly this encroaches on the family unit and hopefully it will be appealed. The state is treading on thin ice here.
11-14-2008 Iowa:
DES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a law that bars single parents from living with sex offenders.
The case involves a Coralville woman who was found guilty of child endangerment and sentenced to one year probation. The woman, Holly Mitchell, lived with a convicted sex offender and let her children stay with the man while she was at work.
Mitchell appealed her conviction, claiming the state's law is unconstitutional because it treats people who are not married and living with a sex offender differently than people who are married and living with a sex offender.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected that argument, saying it's reasonable to believe that an unmarried parent living with a sex offender poses a greater risk to a child than a parent who is married to a sex offender. ..News Source.. by Chicago Tribune
To read the court decision: Iowa -v- Holly Marie Mitchell, IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA
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November 14, 2008
IA- Court upholds Iowa sex offender cohabitant law
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