A sex offender in New Hampshire, USA, who has spent seven years in prison as a result of his crimes, has requested the Supreme Court to grant him permission to attend church under the eye of a chaperone.
Jonathan Perfetto, aged 35, complete his seven year sentence in late 2008. He had been sentenced in 2002 to 61 counts of child pornography possession. One of the conditions of his probation, however, is that he is to have no contact with children. Perfetto has requested permission to attend services in a local church with one of the church elders acting as his chaperone.
Perfetto’s request has been denied by a lower court and has now been handed over to New Hampshire’s Supreme Court, which is not being asked for the first time to decide on whether a probation condition that effectively bars church attendance infringes on a person’s constitutional rights to religious freedom.
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