Category Archive for : ‘STATE BY STATE OKLAHOMA’

News Channel 4/Jan Smith

6/20/17

An Oklahoma woman says the man who was convicted of molesting her when she was a little girl nowlives next door.

“He’s like right there, practically in my backyard and that kind of makes me nervousand not want to go home ever,” said 21-year-old Danyelle Dyer.

Danyelle and her family say her uncle, Harold English, recently got out of prison and moved inwith his mother whose property is just over the fence.

“When you have to see it, I can only imagine what it does to my daughter when she’sthere

Patrick Kennedy, 43, raped an 8 year old girl and now the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that he may be executed for the rape.  Both sides say the sentence could expand a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held the death penalty for rape violated the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment.  The high court said then that its ruling applied only to adult victims.  Louisiana law allows the death penalty for the aggravated rape of someone less than 12 years old.  Kennedy was convicted in 2003 of