NEW ORLEANS (CN) - A man claims Terrebonne Parish and a Houma police officer warned school districts that he was "essentially a child predator" because the cop saw him resting after a 2-mile run on a public jogging path near a school.
Ronald Stuard, 47, says he took a break after a 2-mile run on a public jogging path near St. Gregory's School, where students were playing sports. Stuard says a teacher asked him what he was doing and though he told her "he was merely resting between running intervals on the public track, the teacher called police."
Stuard says Houma city police came and told him not to go there again. Then, he says, Houma police, including defendant Officer Angela Domangue, sent his photo, birth date and information about the car he drove to "several schools in the parish."
"The communication also indicated that Mr. Stuard had been 'watching school children outside.' It further indicated that if Mr. Stuard was seen near the recipient's school, he or she should contact the Houma Police Department," Stuard's complaint states. "The communications further indicated that the police department recognized that Mr. Stuard was not a registered sex offender, but that they wanted to 'keep the kids safe' and 'be in his face' if he was near a school.
"These actions by the defendants resulted in Ronald Stuard being named and published as essentially a child predator."
Stuard demands damages for defamation and privacy invasion. He is represented in Federal Court by R. Glenn Cater.
Ever notice How far some will go in the name of Keeping Children Safe? This quote is taken from Nazi Germany's plan to rule the minds of people....
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as thegovernment is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure
almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation”
We must stop having a knee jerk reaction to the media and politicians when they say they are protecting the children or if it protects one child. We must ask ourselves hard questions. Does what they are saying make sense? Is this the best way to protect children? Will what they are proposing hurt other children i.e. collateral damages? Do these people have some other motivation other then protecting children, like selling newspapers or getting votes!? Lets stop letting them cow us into blindly excepting their word for what will protect the children, let's step up, stand up and let our voices be heard!
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