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Fiction by Annie Proulx: “Was it not his responsibility to save the woman who had saved him?”
Putting sex offenders on local probation or in jail, helps ensure they get the treatment they need, according to Olmsted County Attorney Mark Ostrem. Rehabilitation is a key priority for his office.
A 20-year-old man from Rochester, Minnesota, will spend less than 180 days in jail for raping two girls under thirteen.
The victims were between 4 and 9 years old at the time. "There is no moving on or getting over it," one said in court.
“There are over 70 counties in the state of Minnesota that don't have a juvenile detention center and they work through similar challenges,” said Travis Gransee, Olmsted County's deputy administrator of health, housing and human services. “We are one more county that is a county without a JDC.