Elderly Sex Assault Inmate Loses Bid For Early Release Due To Pandemic

Mealey's (November 17, 2020, 6:53 PM EST) -- ABERDEEN, S.D. — A 74-year-old Native American with a long history of sexually molesting teenage girls, including his granddaughter and stepdaughter, is not entitled to a compassionate release from prison due to the rapidly expanding COVID-19 pandemic because he is still a danger to society and will be safer in custody than in home confinement in South Dakota, which has the second highest per capita cases of the disease in the country, a federal judge in that state ruled Nov. 13 (United States v. William T. Carter, No. 03-cr-30041, D. S.D., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 214129)....