The Massachusetts Bail Fund is a private organization that works to free offenders on Bail up to $2000.00. Their focus was on low-income offenders who could lose a job or who could not prepare for trial if incarcerated. But suddenly flush with donations “doing more” just got a woman raped by a violent offender they bailed out.
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After the riots and protests began, private and non-profit bail funds have found themselves loaded with donations. Free the “peaceful” protesters, seems to be the motivation. And The Massachusetts Bail Fund was no different. But instead of keeping to their mission to help low-level offenders, they started freeing offenders being held on significantly larger sums. Shawn McClinton (a registered level 3 sex-offender) was released on 15,000.00 dollars bail provided by the Mass Bail Fund.
Free from jail, he proceeded to violently offend again.
Three weeks after being freed from the jail where he was being held on rape charges, Level 3 sex offender Shawn McClinton faced new allegations Thursday that he kidnapped, beat, and raped a woman he met walking along a Quincy street.
McClinton, who was convicted of rape in 1994 and 2007 and has a pending rape case in Suffolk Superior Court, was ordered held without Bail Thursday by Judge Lisa Grant of Dorchester District Court.
He’s not their only “problem child.” According to the Boston Globe,
“…the fund… put up $85,000 to free Karmau Cotton-Landers, 25, who is accused of shooting someone in the daytime on Boston Common in early April. When he was arrested, officers found a loaded firearm and ammunition in his Puma camouflage backpack, Boston police said.
On the day after Cotton-Landers was freed, the fund bailed out someone who had been arrested on looting charges hours after the May 31 demonstration in Boston. Darren McFadden also has an extensive criminal history including 60 cases in Suffolk County and a three-year prison sentence for robbing someone at knifepoint. The Bail Fund paid McFadden’s $2,500 bail on larceny and breaking and entering charges.
That all happened in three days. Other defendants recently freed by the Bail Fund include Walker Browning, accused of robbing five women, two at knifepoint; David Privette, facing charges of holding up a gas station at gunpoint; and Otis Walker, who had been held since late 2018 on three counts of child rape.
The result of this seems predictable. Courts will jack up Bail even higher if the offender has a history of violence. I know that sounds like it makes sense, but nothing really does, and this will probably spill over to the non-violent offenders the “nice” folks at The Massachusetts Bail Fund claim they want to help.
A charity to which, on the whole, I have zero objection. The bail system is abused as frequently as any other part of the government. But when you turn that into the equivalent of nut-job Democrat mayors letting dangerous street criminals loose to join in or take advantage of a parallel lack of enforcement of the law just because you can, that’s a problem.
Even Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins, who has argued for freeing many prisoners, said releasing McClinton is going too far.
The Bail Fund, she said, often posts Bail for low-level offenders, who remain behind bars unfairly mainly because they’re poor.
“However, aggravated rape, kidnapping for the purpose of sexual assault, strangulation and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon are not low-level misdemeanors. They are violent felonies,” Rollins said. “And the person they bailed out is a sexual predator that hurts and rapes women and children.
Student-run WTBU Radio, Boston University, has canceled a fundraising benefit concert to support the group. I’d expect other likely or repeat donors to think twice, but will that make any difference at Mass Bail Fund. Their motto is, “Free them all.”
