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Forum: In the News
Thread (Discussion): [The Holland Sentinel] Man gets probation in sex offender list scam
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Message 124932 (In Reply to Message 124930)
Scam involving Michigan Sex Offender Registry
Posted by steve
on Jan 13, 2004 03:24 PM | Also by steve
| Gender: Male,
Age Bracket: 30 - 39,
State: Virginia,
Country: United States |
An Ottawa County man convicted of swindling sex Ducham, 51, avoided that possibility by pleading guilty in November to using false pretenses to gain $35 apiece from 269 convicted sex offenders in a scheme in which he promised to remove a sex offender's name from the state's registry.
It sounded like a pretty clever scam, except I don't understand how he thought he'd get away with it. He identified his market, he determined his target customers' needs and he made a pitch that was hard to resist. Anyone who can do that can find a way to make fistloads of money if they focus on legitimate endeavors.
Hanging over Ducham's head during the case was a charge accusing him of being a fourth-time habitual offender because of his prior criminal record. Normally, the felony false pretenses charge carries a maximum five-year prison sentence, but with the fourth-time enhancement, Ducham could have been sentenced to life in prison.
He has 3 felony convictions from 1988 (ok, that *is* 16 years ago). He faced a 5 year sentence or life in prison and wound up with probation, a $1,000 fine and having to pay back the $9,415 he swindled the registered sex offenders out of. Probation? Interesting.
Then there's the Detroit area dad (same state - Michigan) who faces criminal sexual conduct charges for allowing his 15 year old daughter to have sex with a 20 year old man he thought was 18 (which was still illegal by the way). The father took the initiative to file a complaint against the 20 year old man so it wasn't as though the police found out and caught him - he brought it to their attention. Now the father was charged with three counts of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree because "it could be considered a conspiracy-type charge". Think he'll get probation?
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Message 124930
Introduction
Posted by admin
on Jan 13, 2004 10:11 AM | Also by admin
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124930, admin, Jan 13, 2004 10:11 AM [Introduction]
124932, steve, Jan 13, 2004 03:24 PM [Scam involving Michigan Sex Offender Registry]
124971, orolan, Jan 13, 2004 10:25 PM
124977, Silverthorne, Jan 14, 2004 12:50 AM
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