Where Did He Go??

Another one of Dart's / Prickwrinkle's / Evan's success stories:

• A convenience store clerk convicted in January of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old runaway boy in the Loop has disappeared after the judge refused a prosecution request to keep him in jail to await sentencing.

  A jury needed less than 90 minutes to find Bharath Simha, 22, guilty of criminal sexual assault during the commission of a felony and two counts of kidnapping in connection with the December 2023 attack at 7-Eleven, 4 East Jackson.

  But Judge Peggy Chiampas denied the state’s request to revoke Simha’s electronic monitoring status and have him jailed so he didn’t flee to escape prison time, according to court records.

Great job there Chiampas.

And here's a similar story that anyone who has arrested a parolee ought to be familiar with:

• Meticulous work by Chicago police detectives resulted in the arrest last week of a 12-time convicted burglar suspected of breaking into over two dozen businesses across the city’s North and Northwest Sides.

  But, even though 31-year-old Devon Lawery is currently on parole for four of his 12 previous convictions, the Illinois Department of Corrections decided not to revoke his parole after cops arrested him on the new burglary charges last week, a CPD report said.

  As if that weren’t enough, Lawery failed to show up for his first court date on Friday, prompting a judge to sign off on a failure to appear arrest warrant.

We've asked this before, but what exactly is the point of IDOC people except to release criminals back into society and then fail to hold them to the conditions they were released under?