On 9/28/2015 after a lengthy court process Bill Allen plead guilty to a class D felony of dissemination of harmful materials to a minor after admitting to buying a sex toy for a 13 year old girl and was sentenced to 1 1/2 year supervised probation and 1 year unsupervised probation. At the time of the offense Bill Allen was the Oolitic Town Marshall's deputy. The other 3 charges of Child molestation (2 class A felonies and 1 class C felony) magically disappeared. Therefore, he was not required to register as a sex offender. The Judge, then stated that "[allen] must earn the misdemeanor" and could petition the court after his probation to have his charges reduced to a misdemeanor. If his petition to the court was granted, it would allow him to reapply to become a law enforcement officer again, own a firearm, and potentially put him in the same position of power that was abused in the first place.
We have just passed the one year point of his sentencing hearing. Which means in 18 months Bill Allen will be petitioning the court to reduce his felony to a misdemeanor.
We as a community cannot allow this to happen in our community or any other. We ask for your signature as support to petition the court to maintain his status as a felon and keep him out of a law enforcement position.
Updates
October 4, 2016
I have been spending my nights reviewing the court documents and preparing our formal response for when the time arrives to block his request. Hearing from so many of you who refuse to look away from what happened to that girl gives me the strength to keep pushing forward.
October 4, 2016
Seeing this kind of momentum proves that our community refuses to let someone like Bill Allen return to a position of power. Knowing that so many of you care about the safety of our children gives me hope that we can prevent this man from ever wearing a badge again.
Reached 100 supporters
October 4, 2016
41 Comments
This is wrong!! He was given lieniency because of what he did for a living?? No one else would get off that easy and neither should he!!!
Bull crap! He wouldn't have agreed to a lesser plea deal if he didn't do it. He would have gone to court and proven himself innocent. Quit making excuses for these perverts and do something about it! Our children need to be protected from people like this! And quit blaming the young girl and give blame to the person who deserves it!
Just because he's got a badge doesn't mean he should get away with it. Treat him the same way anyone else would be treated!! If it was anyone else they would of been doing prison time not just a little probation(which is him just hanging out with his law enforcement buddies!!!)
This needs to be forever on his criminal record, just like every charge I have ever been arrested for in Lawrence county.
For what he has done he doesn't deserve to be in law enforcement or be around children.
To let this man off so easily, is sad and just wrong. That little girl did not get justice.
He needs to stay a felon. These people want to do their nasty crimes and then cry when they get caught and charged for them...
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On 9/28/2015 after a lengthy court process Bill Allen plead guilty to a class D felony of dissemination of harmful materials to a minor after admitting to buying a sex toy for a 13 year old girl and was sentenced to 1 1/2 year supervised probation and 1 year unsupervised probation. At the time of the offense Bill Allen was the Oolitic Town Marshall's deputy. The other 3 charges of Child molestation (2 class A felonies and 1 class C felony) magically disappeared. Therefore, he was not required to register as a sex offender. The Judge, then stated that "[allen] must earn the misdemeanor" and could petition the court after his probation to have his charges reduced to a misdemeanor. If his petition to the court was granted, it would allow him to reapply to become a law enforcement officer again, own a firearm, and potentially put him in the same position of power that was abused in the first place.
We have just passed the one year point of his sentencing hearing. Which means in 18 months Bill Allen will be petitioning the court to reduce his felony to a misdemeanor.
We as a community cannot allow this to happen in our community or any other. We ask for your signature as support to petition the court to maintain his status as a felon and keep him out of a law enforcement position.
Updates
October 4, 2016
I have been spending my nights reviewing the court documents and preparing our formal response for when the time arrives to block his request. Hearing from so many of you who refuse to look away from what happened to that girl gives me the strength to keep pushing forward.
October 4, 2016
Seeing this kind of momentum proves that our community refuses to let someone like Bill Allen return to a position of power. Knowing that so many of you care about the safety of our children gives me hope that we can prevent this man from ever wearing a badge again.
Reached 100 supporters
October 4, 2016
41 Comments
I have been so angry since all this happened, my son has been in the justice system and he deserved his punishment with that said, his last sentence he was sent to prison for a year and his crime was nowhere close to what Bill done. Thank you for starting this petition hopefully something will be done.
This is wrong!! He was given lieniency because of what he did for a living?? No one else would get off that easy and neither should he!!!
Bull crap! He wouldn't have agreed to a lesser plea deal if he didn't do it. He would have gone to court and proven himself innocent. Quit making excuses for these perverts and do something about it! Our children need to be protected from people like this! And quit blaming the young girl and give blame to the person who deserves it!
Just because he's got a badge doesn't mean he should get away with it. Treat him the same way anyone else would be treated!! If it was anyone else they would of been doing prison time not just a little probation(which is him just hanging out with his law enforcement buddies!!!)
This needs to be forever on his criminal record, just like every charge I have ever been arrested for in Lawrence county.
For what he has done he doesn't deserve to be in law enforcement or be around children.
To let this man off so easily, is sad and just wrong. That little girl did not get justice.
He needs to stay a felon. These people want to do their nasty crimes and then cry when they get caught and charged for them...
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I have been so angry since all this happened, my son has been in the justice system and he deserved his punishment with that said, his last sentence he was sent to prison for a year and his crime was nowhere close to what Bill done. Thank you for starting this petition hopefully something will be done.