WAUKESHA, Wis. A former firefighter says its unfair for him to be listed on the state’s sex offender registry for having pornographic pictures of children.
Dean Brewer of Waukesha and his attorney say he’s being forced to register when people who have committed worse crimes are not.Eva Schiffrin, an attorney for the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, says Wisconsin has strict rules about who must register.But some offenders have slipped through by pleading guilty to crimes that do not require registration.In one case, an Indiana man who traveled to Wisconsin to have sex with a girl he thought he chatted with on the Internet escaped registration by cutting a plea deal.Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher says he made that deal because it was better than risking losing at trial and having the man go free.
