State gave sex offenders free Viagra

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May 24, 2005

State gave sex offenders free Viagra
From James Bone in New York



HUNDREDS of high-risk sex offenders have received free Viagra under the state-run Medicaid health service for the poor, it emerged yesterday.

The pills, prescribed to enhance sexual performance, have been given to convicted rapists and child abusers whose victims range in age from 2 to 90. The discovery was made by Alan Hevesi, the New York state comptroller, who found that 198 sex offenders had received Viagra from Medicaid in New York over the past five years.

Mr Hevesi wrote to Michael Leavitt, the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, to demand “immediate action to ensure that sex offenders do not receive erectile dysfunction medication paid for by taxpayers”.

“Megan’s Law”, passed in New York after seven-year-old Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by a paroled convict in 1994, requires that the photographs and addresses of all high-risk “Class 3” sex offenders are posted on the internet. Acting on a tip, Mr Havesi compared the 7,400 names on the state’s sex offender registry with the Medicaid records of Viagra recipients.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-1625041,00.html

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1. There's nothing wrong with that

as long as they don't provide women with birth control ! :sarcasm:

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2. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1492597