Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Watertown Daily Times | Sex offender sent to prison for not registering Facebook page

Watertown Daily Times | Sex offender sent to prison for not registering Facebook page

LOWVILLE — A certified sex offender was sentenced Friday in Lewis County Court to state prison time for not registering a Facebook page.
Anthony D. Pignone, 32, of 7171 Murphy Road, Port Leyden, is to serve 1½ to 3 years in prison on a charge of failure to register or verify as a sex offender, to which he pleaded guilty June 22. Pignone, a second felony offender, also was ordered to pay $325 in court fees.
He was accused in January of failing to register a Facebook page opened under the name of Anthony Campany.
This is New York, but it happens in Wisconsin too.  People going to prison for things where tax dollars are spent to house them.  People that had businesses and jobs, that WERE paying taxes and now are forced to start all over again.  This is not a "justice system" this is nothing short of a debacle of our "legal system".

Prison? for not registering a business website?  Disappointing and absurd.

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