Oregon Beavers Pitcher

[Lpdawg]

That would be a huge blow for a World Series Run if they lost him.

http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2017/06/luke_heimlich_sex_crime_surfac.html

 

[patdog]

Wow! That's both sad and disturbing. If the OSU coaching staff knew about this, it will be a lot worse than just losing a pitcher.

 

[VillagepeopleDogs]

Heimlich maneuver?

 

[PineGroveBully]

It sounds like someone might have been choking on something alright. Ok, it's official, I'm going to hell. I don't care if he was a juvenile, this doesn't rise to the level of penn state looking the other way, but it's not that far from it in my opinion.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

He's riding the pine

for tonight's game against Vandy.

Wonder how things will go, if the need him this weekend?

 

[Hump4Hoops]

When was this announced?

Last I heard he was starting tonight.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Announcers on the A &M game

were talking about it.

Just before I made that post.

 

[dawglawz]

Man, it's certainly disturbing and sad but nowhere near Penn State. Come on.

 

[PineGroveBully]

I agree

That's why I said it DID NOT RISE TO THE LEVEL OF PSU. That said it's as disturbing as anything I've heard in sports before or since. I would have a hard time supporting a program or a coach who brought in a player who just 3 years earlier had sexually abused a 6 yr old. Yes we are a country of second chances, that doesn't mean he deserves to play ball at a top tier college baseball program.

 

[dawglawz]

I agree

Do you?

... but it's not that far from it in my opinion.

 

[57stratdawg]

Unless he hid it from the staff, why stop now? One of the original reports said that OSU officials are suppose to be alerted anytime a sex offender enrolls or a student registers.

Honestly, I feel a little bad for him. I don't know the details obviously, but it sucks something that happened to him at 15 is such an issue today.

 

[Xenomorph]

If OSU knew they should stick by their decision to have him as a member of the team. It looks weak to allow public outcry to make you reconsider something you've already given every possible thought.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

He failed to file his required annual registration

had he done that, I suspect this would not be in discussion.

Most likely.

 

[57stratdawg]

My thoughts as well.

 

[PineGroveBully]

Those that downvoted that I appreciate it

The joke wasn't funny, I was thinking more about the heimlich than the 6 yr old when I started writing that. Nothing funny about a 15 yr old taking advantage of a 6 yr old

 

[Grevlin]

He failed to file his required annual registration

had he done that, I suspect this would not be in discussion.

Most likely.

I doubt it too. That's the only issue now. He pleaded guilty and had completed his sentence about the time he started to school at OSU, so I don't get the Penn State comparison. OSU isn't a court of law; that part was over and he had fulfilled his sentence, so I see no fault on their part for giving him a scholarship.

Stupid move on his part to let registration slip. That seems to be the only thing he hasn't done correctly from a legal standpoint since his sentencing, and they have every right to discipline him for that since it's illegal that he did not register, is bringing negative focus to the school and can't at all be good for team dynamics.

But the worst part about it is that it's big news now and that can't be at all helpful emotionally to the victim and the family.


Excerpts: http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2017/06/luke_heimlich_sex_crime_surfac.html


....Heimlich entered a diversion program, received two years of probation and was ordered to attend sex offender treatment for two years, according to court records. He was sentenced to 40 weeks of detention at Washington's Juvenile Rehabilitation authority. But that sentence was suspended and he served no time, according to court records, because he successfully completed probation.
Heimlich was ordered to register as a Level 1 sex offender in Washington beginning Aug. 27, 2012. Washington characterizes Level 1 offenders as having "the lowest possible risk to the community and their likelihood to re-offend is considered minimal."


Heimlich finished probation and the court-ordered classes in September 2014, about the same time he moved to Corvallis to join Oregon State's baseball team.


....Research shows that the vast majority of juveniles convicted of sex crimes do not reoffend in subsequent years.
After about three years, the likelihood of reoffending is "very small," said psychologist Michael Caldwell, who lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
At five years, the recidivism rate for another sex crime hovers at 2.75 percent, according to a study that Caldwell published in 2016. That's because juvenile sex offenders tend to mature and respond well to intervention, Caldwell said.

 

[Hoover Dawg]

I agree. He paid the first price for his crime. The second price is that you are publicly a sex offender. You can't let that slip.

 

[Miketice]

Cant say I feel bad for him.17 him. At 15 not molesting a 6 year old seemed like an easy decision to me. So yeah run him through the ringer again for all I care.