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Maryland Sex Offenders In The News

Bill to close 'loophole' in Maryland sex offender registry
The Daily Record (Baltimore) , Feb 18, 2009 by Caryn Tamber

It took Elizabeth Gilchrest 13 years to talk about the sexual abuse.

Gilchrest came forward with the allegations against her father, David A. Smith, in 2007. Smith pleaded guilty last year to a third- degree sex offense in exchange for a suspended sentence, unsupervised probation and a spot on Maryland's sex offender registry.

But then, Smith's lawyer raised questions about whether he even had to register.

Gilchrest and her husband, Allen, are now pushing for the General Assembly to close what they say is a loophole in state law that allows some people charged with long-ago sex offenses to avoid registration.

"I just sort of felt like, this is his one punishment, to be a registered sex offender," Elizabeth Gilchrest, now 25 and living out of state, said in a phone interview.

Current state law requires a sex offender to register if the crime was committed before July 1, 1997, and the offender was in custody or under supervision as of Oct. 1, 2001. A child sex offender must register if the crime happened before July 1, 1995, and if the offender was in jail or under supervision as of the 2001 date.

That means David Smith, whom Gilchrest said abused her from 1988 to 1994 but who was not charged until 2007, does not have to register, said Smith's lawyer, Dino E. Flores Jr. of Schaffer, Black & Flores P.C. in Frederick.

Flores initially agreed to registration for his client because he thought the law required it, Flores said. When he looked again, though, he decided to challenge the registration.

In November, .....read more

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State Sends Out Halloween Signs To Registered Offenders
By Shawn J. Soper, News Editor
Originally published October 17, 2008 in The Dispatch

BERLIN – When trick-or-treaters young and old head out for the annual Halloween tradition later this month, the scariest sights they might see are the “No Candy at This Residence” signs posted on the doors of the dozens of registered sex offenders in the area.

The rather ominous signs adorned with a sneering pumpkin were sent out to the roughly 1,200 registered violent and child-sex offenders across Maryland last week and are required to be posted on the registrants’ homes on or before Halloween on Oct. 31. Arriving in the mail with the signs is a letter from the state’s Division of Parole and Probation mandating registered sex offenders in the state stay at home, turn off outside lights and do not answer their doors on Halloween.

“Halloween provides a rare opportunity for you to demonstrate to your neighbors that you are making a sincere effort to change the direction of your life,” the letter to registered sex offenders receiving the “no candy” here signs reads.

Maryland began placing the Halloween restrictions on registered sex offenders .....read more in The Dispatch

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