One Tweet Sends Sex Offender Back to Jail
If his crime wasn’t so disgusting, this would be a completely eye-roll-worthy story: a sex offender has landed himself in jail, after being offered probation, for breaking a single rule that his judge had set – no Twitter.
stltoday.com, a St. Louis news site, reports that Reginald Hicks Jr. was convicted for having sex with a 16-year-old, but was able to avoid prison by subscribing to a strict probation.
The judge at his trial decided that Hicks could skip prison and instead serve five years’ probation.
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