Child Sex Offender May Sue/Keith Wright

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Child Sex Offender May Sue

CONVICTED child sex offender Keith Wright may take legal action over a ban preventing him from promoting his literacy courses to Queensland schools.
State Education Minister Anna Bligh last week described the 61-year-old former prisoner as an "inappropriate person to be associated with our schools".
Mr Wright's solicitor Andrew Boe today raised the possibility of legal action to overturn the ban.
"There may be decisions made by officials here which are reviewable because they are taking into account irrelevant factors," Mr Boe told ABC radio.
"The fact is, his product is not harmful to children."
Mr Wright, a former state opposition leader and federal Labor member for the central Queensland-based seat of Capricornia, was sentenced to nine years' jail in the 1990s for sex offences against two girls.
He was released on home detention in February 1999 before being granted parole.
Mr Boe said Mr Wright had only been to a school on one occasion to promote his literacy program and that was after hours.
"The 24 teachers at the school did not wish to make the travel to where he was and they asked him to go to the school," Mr Boe explained.
"He's never been in the school during school hours ... when children are about."
Mr Boe said Mr Wright simply wanted to be able to market his product.
"He doesn't want to have a right to go into schools," Mr Boe said.
"The excitement comes because he is a person with a significant profile and a political history.
"The current government might be a little bit concerned because of the fallout politically if they don't do something.
"But the bottom line is, sexual offenders are in the community."
Mr Boe said Mr Wright had a right to earn a living.
"If you have served your time the community expects that you go on with your life," he said.
"It is safer for the community that convicted sex offenders are transparently working in the community and not living in a marginalised fashion.
"There's a significant degree of research that suggests that the likelihood of re-offending is dramatically decreased if the person has a functioning community within which to re-enter."

AAP-(21-6-2003).

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