IL - Gary Welsh, sex offender who murdered 3yo girl in 1962, seeks freedom

[Litlred]

Report details conditions McHenry Co. child killer would face if released
By Charles Keeshan | Daily Herald Staff

Published: 2/11/2010 1:27 PM | Updated: 2/11/2010 1:30 PM

A convicted child killer locked up for nearly five decades would move to Rockford and live under home confinement, at least for a while, if a McHenry County judge orders him released, according to a state report filed in court Thursday.

The Department of Human Services report lists 37 conditions it would require Gary Welsh to abide by, including possible GPS monitoring, a ban on contact with children and requirements he undergo sex offender treatment.

The 14-page report outlines what would happen to Welsh, 70, if a judge follows a DHS recommendation next month and allow him free for the first time since he raped and murdered a 3-year-old girl. Judge Sharon Prather initially balked on the recommendation in December, but said she would reconsider after she saw how the agency would deal with Welsh if he is let go.

more of the story here......

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=358465

 

[kbl8201]

stupid morons learn nothing......keep repeating the same mistake of letting monsters out

 

[Litlred]

Ruling on releasing man who killed girl at least 3 weeks out

RRSTAR.COM STAFF REPORTS
Posted Mar 18, 2010 @ 05:05 PM
Last update Mar 18, 2010 @ 07:23 PM
WOODSTOCK — The fate of Gary Welsh, a 70-year-old McHenry County man who sexually assaulted and killed a 3-year-old girl nearly 50 years ago will remain in limbo for at least the next three weeks.

The case was brought before McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather today and was continued until 1:30 p.m. April 8.

Prather is expected to make a decision to release Welsh to Chicago or Rockford, or keep him institutionalized.

more....
http://www.rrstar.com/news/x673427156/Ruling-on-releasing-man-who-killed-girl-at-least-3-weeks-away

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McHenry County child killer won't go free yet

A McHenry County man convicted of raping and killing a 3-year-old girl will remain in state custody for the time being.

Under a December 2009 ruling, Gary Welsh, 70, could be released from a state institution for the first time since September 1962. He was convicted of raping a girl he was baby-sitting in Harvard and suffocating the girl with a pillow.

That December ruling ordered the Department of Human Services to prepare a report outlining where Welsh would live, how he would be supervised, what treatment he would receive and how the safety of the community would be ensured.

more.....
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=367006

 

[Litlred]

Unbelievable

"I frankly find it incredible that a witness from the DHS comes in the courtroom and testifies that he doesn't know anything about Mr. Welsh," Prather said.

Welsh's next court date is April 3.

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=367006

 

[kbl8201]

if the judge releases him, lit him move in with the judge and his kids/grandkids.

since the guys not a threat, right?

 

[Openmind]

Why are they so determined to release this man? He has spent his entire adult life in jail and they aren't sure he isn't still sexually violent. Some government agency is going to be taking care of him no matter what. So why not leave him where they know he will not harm an innocent personn -- particularly a child. This is ridiculous.

Do they really think he has "healed" himself in the last 6 years and after fifty years is equipped to live alone?

 

[foxbluff]

I'm OK with it if his victim says she's OK with it.

Wow...that's a really great answer!!!!

 

[tut med]

Another failure of the system-wonder how many excuses they will come up with if he hurts or kills another child?

 

[kbl8201]

'how could we have known?' thats an oldie but goodie

 

[Litlred]

They are releasing this monster! I can't believe this.
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http://www.nwherald.com/articles/2010/04/08/08032303/index.xml

Man who murdered toddler in 1962 given home confinement

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Authorities have said Welsh suffocated a 3-year-old girl with a pillow after he raped her in September 1962, when he was 23.

Welsh had been rooming with little girl’s family for about a month. He was left in charge of her and her two brothers while her mother was hospitalized and her father fetched her aunt to watch the children on a more permanent basis.

Authorities also have indicated Welsh molested a 10-year-old female cousin in 1953, when he was 13, and raped his 12-year-old sister in 1956, when he was 17.

 

[Litlred]

Sex offender released after 47 years

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=7376479

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Child Killer Released to Rockford
Despite major protest from the Attorney General's Office a convicted child rapist and murderer is now a free man and he's moving to Rockford.


http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/90282217.html

 

[Litlred]

Rockford IL beware.

 

[kbl8201]

fantsatic.

our justice system is beyond repair.