Pedophile walks free despite confessing to abusing 13-year-old boy because prosecutor turned up to court drunk
A man who admitted to sexually abusing a child walked out of jail a free man as a drunk Clark County Attorney Michelle Rivera botched up the case
Dennis Simmerman, 22, was charged with having sex with a 13-year-old boy in September last year. He admitted to Clark County, Iowa detectives that he had also traded inappropriate images with the child, police said.
While it would seem like an open and shut case considering the police already had a confession, the American justice system proved it does not move with a sense of urgency. Simmerman was prepared to plead to a class D felony after a full year of intense back-and-forth. However, as fate would have it, a drunken prosecutor turned the case around completely, City Pages reports.
