Mary Margaret Olohan
Social Issues Reporter
January 30, 2020 4:50 PM ET
Iowa officials will release a sex offender who is a biological man who obtained a sex change.
News of the sex offender’s release comes after a preliminary report indicated the offender is not a threat.
Joseph Matthew Smith, 23, molested up to 15 children between the ages of 1 and 13.
Iowa officials will release a biological man who molested up to 15 children and then obtained a sex change after a preliminary report indicated the sex offender is not a threat.
The Iowa attorney general’s office filed a Jan. 9 motion announcing that it will no longer recommend that 23-year-old Joseph Matthew Smith, who now identifies as a woman, be institutionalized in the Cherokee Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders (CCUSO), the Storm Lake Times reported in January.
Authorities convicted Smith of second-degree sex abuse as a juvenile in 2012 and of lascivious acts with a child in 2014, attorney general spokesman Lynn Hicks told the Daily Caller News Foundation, whereby Smith was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The motion, Hicks provided to the DCNF, asks that Smith “be released from confinement to begin serving his 903B supervision after he has completed sex offender registration.â€
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