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Tonight, we exposed a state program that's bringing sexual deviants on field trips to places filled with kids. The mentally ill people are patients at the Lindemann Mental Health Center in Boston. Some are convicted sex offenders. Others suffer from what the state calls problematic sexual behaviors. Recent outings include the circus, the aquarium, the swan boats and a Celtics game.

The Department of Mental Health says the patients are supervised closely. But we didn't see evidence of that at the circus outing. Check out our video. One staff member was spotted sleeping throughout the entire event. So much for the supervision the state assured us is happening.

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bufadelli1 read my blog
Feb 12, 2008 | 5:38 AM

They should send Channel 25 reporter Mike Beaudet along on these trips to monitor the inmates. He was proven to be invaluable for finding people sleeping on the job, as he did while investigating the Big Dig.

skipalo read my blog
Feb 12, 2008 | 9:41 AM

I'd like to see how much sleep those mental health workers would get if one of their family members had been a victim of one one of those scumbags! Disgusting!

CandiceMcD read my blog view my photos
Feb 12, 2008 | 1:07 PM

I can understand (though still gives me the willies) an outing to a Celtics game - however, the circus? Seriously? I think that whoever organizes these events needs to go along. Hey, they should bring their family along with their own children. Then maybe they would see how inappropriate this is. People don't think about things ahead of time unless it directly concerns them. The sexual deviants, perhaps, need to be excluded from any type of family related area field trips. How many people signed off on this one before the field trips took place? Bad form.

sirB read my blog
Feb 12, 2008 | 3:36 PM

State worker snoozing on the job? No way!!

This looks like an accident waiting to happen.

Bad idea!

thedarkknight
Feb 12, 2008 | 4:41 PM

DMH does stuff like this all the time. It is never clinically appropriate to expose sexual deviants to children in public

legendkiller34 read my blog
Feb 13, 2008 | 8:34 AM

Mike,
Once again this just prooves that the victim
has no rights.
With this government both at state level and country level, the government doesn't care about us.
It's all just a DOG AND PONY SHOW, when it's election time they scramble for your votes so they promise you the world. After the election
you get nothing, not to get off topic, but as an example just look at the people from
Hurricane Katrina, I mean my god this happened in our country, and they still got screwed.
Remember people THEY DON'T CARE

nonjudgemental
Feb 13, 2008 | 2:42 PM

People,

Don't be so quick to throw stones. The staff member sleeping is not entirely to blame, yet she may lose her job. The decision-makers who thought it was ok for her to take the mentally-ill clients to a circus are to blame. Yet they are sitting pretty whilst the poor exhausted single mother who takes care of much extended family in Africa and has to take on 2-3 jobs to make ends meet is their scape goat. Its not fair. More pressure should be put on her superiors. I happen to know that there were 2 staff members on duty with her at the Circus. I also know her character. She must have been exhausted to fall asleep like that. Not that it excuses it but it may explain. Having another staff member to keep watch, she allowed herself to be comfortable enough to let exhaustion take over.

bufadelli1 read my blog
Feb 13, 2008 | 4:22 PM

Nonjudgemental, I agree that the staff member is not who should be blamed. My original comment was sarcastic. It didn't translate well to print, but I dislike it when highly paid "investigative" reporters spy on and diss regular working people, which happens frequently. Whoever the administrator who decided this was a good idea, they are fair game.

C_Fox read my blog view my photos
Feb 13, 2008 | 4:58 PM

Thanks for bringing this 'program' to our attention, Mike! They need to do one of two things; fire the person(s) who came up with this "brilliant" idea, or change the destinations that won't have an impact on the patients' mental status.

In any case, if you are going to create a program...don't just create it...MONITOR IT!!!
Some people are so busy adding new programs to make themselves look they they are doing a fine job...when all they are doing is making new headaches and problems. Too many fingers in the pie...and the pie gets ruined.

C_Fox read my blog view my photos
Feb 13, 2008 | 5:14 PM

"I dislike it when highly paid "investigative" reporters spy on and diss regular working people, which happens frequently." - bufadelli1

It is their JOB to investigate! You don't like the fact they expose it when our money is being wasted? You don't like it when they show someone who is being paid for a job, not doing their job? A person's personal problems can not be used as an excuse to not do your job you are being paid to do. If FOR ANY REASON you can not do a job...don't take it! And don't expect to be paid for it when you don't do it. What do you suggest?...we all close our eyes to everything that is bad? You sound like you are okay with corruption and mis-management and don't want anyone to know about it.

Chip read my blog view my photos
Feb 13, 2008 | 7:01 PM

C-Fox,

I too have a problem with "investigative reporters", not because there is nothing to investigate, but because they report the sensational and not necessarily the sensible. Now, I'm not sticking up for anyone who sleeps on the job. However, THAT and that alne is not germaine to whether the program is good or bad.

Let me ask yu this: wouod you prefer these patients to be exposed, under controlled conditions to stimulating environmental factors, no matter how distasteful what they "stimulate"? Or would you prefer that they simply be turned loose after their required time...to find their way to the same "stimulating" environments?

But THAT side wasn't reported....because it doesn't sell advertising time...

C_Fox read my blog view my photos
Feb 13, 2008 | 7:45 PM

Chip, my friend, I understand what you are saying, but let's face it...news media *like* to sensationalize...it creates readship and income for them. It won't change anytime soon. Everything one reads has to take this into consideration when reading anything in the media.

And, why am I given only two negative choices?

They should not be exposed to any kind of 'stimulating' circumstance...it can be done; take them to an historical site, a botanical garden, a boat ride, places where there are less likely to be children.

And, they will be turned loose, anyway program, or no program. Pediphiles cannot be 'rehabilitated' any more than you can change a heterosexual into a homosexual. You are who you are. You can only pretend...and that's what many of them do to get out of confinement.

Chip read my blog view my photos
Feb 14, 2008 | 12:54 PM

Actually, six months ago, Xantun wrote a blog on "Pedophile Ismand" where she'd send em all. I suggested it would be a great idea if research could be funded on treatment and measures of safety.

but ultimately, the real test is in open society.....if we don't do it, we destine more folks to sexual victimization...

misty42
Feb 14, 2008 | 8:35 PM

I absolutly love what Mike Beaudet does when he investigates. He heres the tip and investagates. I would be absolutly upset to know that any convicted,sex offender was sitting in the same row while I was on a field trip with my grandchildren. Like Laurie Meyers stated in the interview take less then five minutes for a child to be molested or sexually assaulted. It is all about the public being infromed. Just like in Novemeber Robert Kiernan convicted sex offender working at the horse farm in ipswich ma and interacting with kids we need to know and stick laws need to be put in place. I don't think any sexual deviant should be near any child period. The Governors office don't seem to care, and I also wrote to Coakley's office who passed the buck to this is not our area. Governors own employee was temp suspended for eledgly abusing a boy in a locker room. They need to put all these convicted sex offenders and put them all on a island away from society there is not cure for people like this.

Chip read my blog view my photos
Feb 15, 2008 | 8:08 AM

misty...there are sex offenders sitting next to you and your kids more than you'll ever know...the more important question is....are we doing anything EFFECTIVE?

misty42
Feb 15, 2008 | 6:58 PM

Chip you are correct there could be a sex offender living accross the street. When we walk into the store standing in line there could be one. They have a right to shop,by lottery tickets and win. I educate my kids. I am a survivor of child abuse myself. It is not just us of doing what it is affective the Jessica act now put on the bottom of the list which is suppose to have all sex offenders listedn on the SORB. Seems like no one in the senate,governement all higherups just don't care about protecting our children. As parents all we can do is educate our kids. In this case maybe these deviants should of been separated way away from kids. The worker falling asleep on the job we all know was careless on her part. Should there have been more workders too supervising. The victims have no rights at all. offenders have more rights more than you know. They also have the right if they get conficted there given a choice if they are encarerated with probabation. they also have the right not to be on the registry list SORB. as far as we being affective are we suppose to ask if we go to a circus,aquarium are there any groups of sex offenders here today through an organzation. it is a grey area.

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