{"id":1663791,"date":"2022-09-29T08:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663791"},"modified":"2022-09-29T08:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:09:29","slug":"vice-doc-on-sex-offender-acceptance-ends-with-interviewee-sending-a-picture-of-his-genitalia-to-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vice-doc-on-sex-offender-acceptance-ends-with-interviewee-sending-a-picture-of-his-genitalia-to-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice Doc On Sex Offender Acceptance Ends With Interviewee Sending A Picture of His Genitalia To Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvice-doc-on-sex-offender-acceptance-ends-with-interviewee-sending-a-picture-of-his-genitalia-to-producer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663791&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A recent Vice News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TjDc4m2xiVQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documentary<\/a> aiming to destigmatize sex predators, dismantle the sex offender registry, and advocate for offenders\u2019 \u201ccivil rights\u201d ended on a hollow note after the doc\u2019s main subject, Aishef, sent \u201ca picture of his penis\u201d to one of the show\u2019s producers following his interview.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Vice journalist Alice Hines set out to shed light on the \u201cinjustice\u201d faced by sex offenders who serve \u201cdead time\u201d (meaning time past their sentence) because they can\u2019t secure housing that abides by the restrictions placed on them as registered sex offenders. Aishef reportedly served nearly six years of dead time after he was convicted of sexual assault. <\/p>\n<p>Today, he is working in a Michelin Star restaurant but says things haven\u2019t turned around for him. He complained to Hines that because of his status as a former sex offender, his life is controlled by the system. \u201cI\u2019m not free,\u201d lamented Aishef. \u201cI\u2019m still in they system and they control my life. They control where I can go, where I can\u2019t go, when I can leave, when I can\u2019t leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite pleading guilty at the time of his conviction, Aishef claimed during his interview with Hines that he is innocent and was wrongfully imprisoned after being accused of engaging in \u201cnonconsensual oral sex and penetrating [the victim] with my fingers.\u201d\u00a0Aishef alleged that DNA evidence proves his innocence. \u201cDNA is my argument,\u201d stated Aishef, \u201cAnd I ain\u2019t f-cking do it is my argument, like period.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hines said, however, that it was actually DNA that proved Aishef\u2019s <em>guilt<\/em>, pointing out that the state sent a DNA sample found on Aishef\u2019s victim\u2019s thigh to two forensic scientists who testified Aishef \u201cwas a match to a high degree of probability.\u201d She also informed Aishef that Vice hired its own DNA experts to look into his case who concluded the same thing. At this point in the interview, Aishef appeared to get hostile with Hines, telling her \u201cyou don\u2019t know DNA.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hines also interviewed Aishef\u2019s victim, Sarah Anderson, who agrees with Hines that the sex offender registry is ineffective and funds should be reallocated to better forms of rehabilitation. When Hines informed her that Aishef denied he ever assaulted her, Anderson broke down in tears, saying, \u201cIt is hard to hear that he doesn\u2019t consider what he did as a sexual assault.\u201d Anderson maintained, however, that his denial could be the result of the state\u2019s insufficient rehabilitation process. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the documentary, all of Aishef\u2019s wrongdoing \u2014 from the unsolicited dick pic to failing to admit he assaulted Anderson \u2014 was attributed to the broken \u201csystem.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hines admitted that she and her team debated whether to disclose that Aishef had illegally sent a photo of his male member to their producer, but opted to include it because it showed viewers \u201cwhat it means to reintegrate successfully and unsuccessfully as someone who\u2019s on the sex offender registry.\u201d The suggestion was that Aishef\u2019s transgression is just a result of the current \u201csystem\u2019s\u201d inability to successfully reintegrate sex offenders into society.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Sex Registry Makes Us \u2018Less Safe\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI think what we have to do is try to see the humanity in people with these convictions,\u201d said Hines at the end of the documentary, \u201cbecause the status quo is not working at all.\u201d The only evidence that Hines provided to prove the sex offender registry is ineffective is that the number of sex offenses has gone down, even though more sex offender laws began being implemented in the \u201990s and onward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only reasonable person in the whole doc was Sheriff James Mendrick of DuPage County, Illinois, who offered a refutation to Hines\u2019 claim. Mendrick pointed out that sex offenses have increased wildly in the digital age. \u201cA large category of sex crime now is possession of child pornography,\u201d explained Mendrick. \u201cThe reason that is a crime is because that entices people to commit sex crimes on children to distribute the pornography. So that keeps that general number climbing, while maybe the human cases are declining.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hines doesn\u2019t only believe the sex offender registry is ineffective, she also suggests it somehow makes us \u201cless safe.\u201d \u201cWhat do you think about the argument that the registry stigmatizes people who are trying to get their lives back together and reintegrate into the community in a way that actually makes that difficult and maybe makes the community less safe?\u201d Hines asked Mendrick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d say don\u2019t commit sex offenses if you don\u2019t want to be on that registry,\u201d responded Mendrick, adding that \u201cif there\u2019s a stigma, it\u2019s because you did something really bad.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Vice Ignores the Nuance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There is nuance to the sex offender registry debate that Vice fails to take into account. The registry can certainly create life-long difficulties for citizens who pose no threat to society. For example, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc4i.com\/news\/boy-14-faces-lifetime-on-sex-offender-registry-for-sex-with-girlfriend\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">minor<\/a> engaging in consensual sexual activity with another minor can land a child on the sex offender registry for a lifetime. <\/p>\n<p>There is clearly room for reform, but Vice isn\u2019t interested in reforming the registry to keep innocent people off of it \u2014 Vice wants <em>everyone<\/em> off of it.\u00a0The documentary decries infringements on the \u201ccivil rights\u201d of convicted rapists, including those with battery, murder, and child abuse tied to their sex crimes. <\/p>\n<p>When Hines went to visit a Wisconsin motel that houses many sex offenders, she stated that \u201cAs a woman, it is a little uncomfortable to be here.\u201d\u00a0Who can blame her? It <em>is<\/em> uncomfortable <em>and<\/em> unsafe to be around dangerous individuals. It\u2019s particularly unsafe when you are unaware that someone is dangerous and have your guard down. This is why we have a sex registry in the first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aishef spent an extra six years doing time for his crime, and one of the first things he did when he finally got out was illegally send a photo of his schlong to a producer from a left-wing news outlet trying to draw sympathy for his case. Perhaps it isn\u2019t stigmatization or underfunded government programs that are behind Aishef\u2019s actions, but the fact that he is a wicked, disturbed individual.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fixing the sex offender registry so it stops targeting harmless people is a fair cause, but Vice\u2019s push to destigmatize dangerous predators at a risk to us all is reprehensible.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Evita Duffy is a staff writer to The Federalist and the co-founder of the Chicago Thinker. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, &#038; her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1 or contact her at evita@thefederalist.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Vice News documentary aiming to destigmatize sex predators, dismantle the sex offender registry, and advocate for offenders\u2019 \u201ccivil rights\u201d ended on a hollow note after the doc\u2019s main<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":1663793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1663793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}