Jeremy Giefer could be Tim Pawlenty's Willie Horton (story from last November)

[Maine-ah]

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2010/11/jeremy_giefer_tim_pawlenty.php


When Jeremy Geifer was charged with 11 counts of sexual misconduct November 18th, Tim Pawlenty might have envisioned his presidential ambitions going up in smoke.

Just over three years ago, the Minnesota governor granted Giefer a pardon extraordinary, voting with the two other members of the Board of Pardons to wipe clean his previous criminal sexual record.

Oops?

In 1993, Giefer, then 19 years old, had fathered a daughter with his girlfriend, who was only 14 years old at the time of conception. He pleaded guilty to statutory rape, but claimed to the Star Tribune that he was being unfairly singled out for sticking around and supporting his girlfriend when other men would have bolted.

Giefer served 45 days in jail for the transgression, and 15 years later asked for a pardon extraordinary, the term for a pardon granted to someone who has already served the sentence for the crime they committed. With a pardon extraordinary, Giefer would no longer have to report his conviction, except in special circumstances.

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more at the link above, this guy has been raping/molesting his daughter for 6 years before he was pardoned, it started when she was nine years old.

[jbnow]

1. That story itself sounds like you can't really blame tim BUT the other links

show it was a careless decision, there were many careless things. He'd faced charges in the interim... one for hitting a child and yet pardon was so wife could open child care right next door
records weren't asked for
and more.
It is a bad story
(It already was for the little girl)