Ummm...there is a halfway house right next door to where Andre will be reporting for a good long while. Its up to him to secure a halfway house and fulfill the other requirements of his release. As well, being a registered sex offender will require that he have a residence where he can be checked up on regularly. If he doesn't have a residence when he gets out they will put him in a halfway house...most probably the one next to the Decker unit which is located by the corner of Continental and I-35. Let me know if I can help with more info of have my colleagues give Andre a little "loving counsel"...
Valis, thank you. I have tried and tried to get information on where he would be living, what parole restrictions he will have to abide by (can be be around minors or not, including family members?). I have not gotten any response to my numerous calls.
Do you know how I can get this information? Different people tell me different things. Some say when he gets out, the slate is clean and he starts over and isn't required to register as a sex offender, etc. Some say he cannot be around ANY minors, regardless of whether they are family or not while others say family is not included in this (his victim is his sister). Can he leave the state for any reason even a short visit, or is he confined to the state, and for how long????? He ultimately wants to live in Chicago, but how long before he'd be allowed to leave the state?
Who can I call that can and will give me such information on him specifically? I have no way of putting you in contact with him until he is released since incoming calls are not allowed for "inmates", and he and I haven't spoken for about two months now.
Dearest Lin... may you have peace... and may you find it in your heart to forgive me if I offended you; truly, that was not my intention. My intention was to help a parent save a relationship if at all possible. Based on what you wrote, I felt that need; perhaps things aren't as bad as they sounded, but to me, they sounded pretty bad. And considering how many parent/child relationships are destroyed by outside influences (such as the WTBTS), I felt a little unloving... toward you both... to sit idly by and let it occur again. If nothing else, at least you see that you two have a fairly good relationship.
Some advice (and then I, too, am "done" with this): let your daughter know her mistakes and how/if she hurt... and not others (at least, not unless you have told her... or intend to). Anything in excess of this... from a mother, at least (for if you can't trust mom, who the heck can you trust?)... is unkind... and unloving.
