Do not defy the educators!
By jimrob | March 31, 2008
Library Employee Fired For Reporting Patron’s Use Of Child Pornography
On February 28, while working at the Lindsay Branch Library, Biesterfeld noticed Donny Lynn Chrisler, a 39-year-old man, viewing child pornography on one of the public-use computers in the library. She immediately went to her supervisor, Judi Hill, who instructed her to give him a warning and explain that on his second warning he would be banned from the library. When Biesterfeld asked if she should call the police, Hill told her not to and that the library would handle it internally. Biesterfeld was also told that similar events happen more often than she would think. Unsettled by the situation, the next day Biesterfeld went to the police.
On March 4, when Chrisler returned, Biesterfeld saw him viewing more child pornography and summoned police. When police officers arrived they caught Chrisler viewing the child pornography, arrested him, and placed him in the Tulare County Jail, where he remains in custody on $10,000 bail. Further investigation uncovered more child pornography in Chrisler’s home.
When police confiscated the computer from the library, Judi Hill confronted them. She claimed that law enforcement had no business interfering in the situation and that county librarians were handling the matter. Even after the police captain explained that a federal law had been violated, making it a legal matter to be handled by the police, Hill never offered to help. Instead, she demanded to know who made the report. Police concealed Biesterfeld’s identity; but Hill claimed she knew it was Biesterfeld. Within twenty minutes the Captain received a call from Biesterfeld saying that Hill had called and rebuked her for reporting the incident.
Two days later and without explanation, Biesterfeld was terminated. The firing of Biesterfeld has outraged the Lindsay community and has raised concerns over how the Library responds to the viewing of illegal child pornography on library property.
How dare she interfere with this man’s free speech rights. How dare she defy the rulings of our educrat overlords! The police have no business getting involved in this matter. The librarians, a group of degreed intellectuals, were handling this on their own. There was no need for this woman to bring in help from outside sources.
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