Perry Isley, a convicted sex offender from Shawnee County, escaped from custody at the Larned State Mental Hospital early Tuesday morning. He is known to have family ties to Colorado and Oklahoma.
A 50-year-old man escaped from the Sexual Predator Treatment Program at Larned State Hospital early Tuesday morning.
At 2 a.m. hospital staff were unable to locate Perry Lee Isley Jr.
The Pawnee County Sheriff's Office is leading the investigation with local and state officials to locate Isley. Any individual on escaped status should be considered potentially dangerous.
According to the Kansas Department of Corrections, Isley was convicted in Shawnee County and sentenced on July 6, 1995, on two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14.
Isley has previously escaped from custody in Pawnee County on April 24, 1987.
Authorities describe Isley as white, 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing about 168 pounds. He has brown hair and hazel eyes.
According to Michelle Ponce, director of communications for the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Isley is known to have connections to Colorado and Oklahoma.
Anyone with information regarding Isley or his whereabouts is asked to call 1-800-572-7463.
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cabella (anonymous) says…
He escaped at 2:00 AM and we are just now being notified!?
Luxor (anonymous) says…
Uh, doesn't the Dept. of Corrections have a photo to provide?
kujayhawk (anonymous) says…
It's harder to escape from prison.
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
You would think, since he's been convicted and they've had him in custody, that they'd have a PHOTO of him to post. His written description would fit any number of individuals you might encounter--in other words, he could easily blend right in in any public setting. A posted photo might enable someone to recognize and turn him in before he rapes another child--and/or kills somebody this time. What does he have to lose at this point?You'd also think the authorities would be able to figure out how to keep such a dangerous creep in custody, especially since he had already escaped once.When they catch him, how about keeping him in a straitjacket and tethered by steel cables to the wall? Humane? Well, what he did to a child wasn't very humane, so humanity is obviously not important to him. Also, since he repeatedly has rejected humane confinement by escaping, it's time to do whatever is needed in the interest of public safety.
Manda2831 (anonymous) says…
You can find him on the Department of Corrections website: http://www.dc.state.ks.us/kasper
sherbert (anonymous) says…
How come I had to read about the Lawrence bowling alley fire on cjonline.com? Is there anything on ljworld about it? I've looked through a couple times and can't find it...
jkealing (Jonathan Kealing) says…
We'd been working on this story - based on a tip - for about an hour before we posted it. Sorry we didn't have the photo an the DOC or RO links in the story initially; we wanted to get the words out and then add the other stuff as quickly as we could. Jonathan KealingOnline editorLJWorld.com / Lawrence Journal-World / 6News
sherbert (anonymous) says…
sherbert (Anonymous) says: How come I had to read about the Lawrence bowling alley fire on cjonline.com? Is there anything on ljworld about it? I've looked through a couple times and can't find it:**************************************************Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says: yesterday it was breaking news here I thinkhttp://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/aug/04:If you check the most discussed list/page you can track recent articles through the discussions.http://www2.ljworld.com/discussions/stor:******************Okay, it was an update last night after it happened, is there not an article about it today?
simplyamazed (anonymous) says…
If you have heard about selective hearing then you should know also there is selective writing and reporting as well!
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acg (anonymous) says…
Under the age of 14? Yeah, shoot to kill when looking for this scumbag!
Munsoned (anonymous) says…
His second time? Ummm, when he tells the guards "hey, look over there", maybe they shouldn't look. Surely it was more complex than that, but how genius can you be when you like to diddle kids?
Confrontation (anonymous) says…
A bullet to the head initially would've prevented this whole mess. This man is a disgusting pig and more children are in danger now.
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
Thanks, Jonathan~ The fault lies with the DOC for not sending out a news release, complete with photos, to you guys as soon as the scumbag was discovered missing.Thanks for the update and for your patience with our sometimes impatient remarks!I agree, Marion--there's no such thing as rehabbing these subhuman POS losers. They should be put in whatever facility has the best security.Actually, they should just be shot. That would save lots of tax money, and ensure that no one was ever in danger from them again.
kusp8 (anonymous) says…
WTF!? Seriously, why was this guy in a 'Hospital'!? He clearly needs to be in jail and let him suffer from the wrath of his actions.-Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
cg22165 (anonymous) says…
Umm, yeah, for those of your asking why this guy isn't in jail, Larned does have a criminally insane ward. Maybe he was there.
debengstrom (Deb Engstrom) says…
If you read the article, he was in the Sexual Offender Treatment Program, and is not an inmate. His sentence expired for his sex offenses in 2006.
somebodynew (anonymous) says…
Larned is also the place with the Sexual Predators are housed AFTER they complete their prison term. It is a completely separate commitment and not under the control of KDOC from what I believe.
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
Py-in-the-Sky: "Actually, they should just be shot."Winged, maimed, or murdered?
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
Murder is when an innocent is killed--unjustly. So that's not on the table.Maimed or exterminated (which is the common term for eliminating vermin) would be my choices for those who have committed sexual crimes against children.
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
Py: "Maimed or exterminated..."What is it about a "monster" that just makes us want to become one?... heinous envy?
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
Windlass~ Fine by me.They prey upon innocents. They ruin innocent lives. They---not those who convict them or would gladly eliminate them--divorce themselves from the rest of humanity.We, if we choose (as a society) to eliminate them, are exterminating the criminally depraved and, in so doing, are protecting further innocent people, from predation. I would call that a public service.In my book, t_r_a, capital punishment (whether by shooting, hanging, injection, or other) for convicted molesters, rapists, or murderers would not put us on the same footing with those very criminals, or anywhere in the ballpark, but if you wish to think it does, we'll just have to agree to disagree.Heinous envy? WTF?
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
Py: "Heinous envy? WTF?"( It was a play on words. )And, I, for one ( sometimes two ), refuse to "agree to disagree"( whatever that means ).
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
Py-thagorean Theorem: "... capital punishment (whether by shooting, hanging, injection, or other) for convicted molesters, rapists, or murderers would not put us on the same footing with those very criminals, or anywhere in the ballpark...."Then, not only are you on the same playing field, but you may be further into the game than you realize.How did we arrive here? We identify certain crimes-say, for example, murder-as being the absolute worst form of human behavior, deserving of our worst punishment. And our response to this absolutely unacceptable, despicable *crime* is... to engage in the very same behavior.
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
Again--we must agree to disagree. And what we disagree to boils down to this: you categorize it as the "same behavior" when we kill a murderer, child molester, or rapist. I believe the behaviors are far different. Things are not so black & white as all that.If you walk into the bank and shoot the teller in the face after making her give you the money, is that the "same behavior" and governed by the same rules of ethics as if you came home, discovered your beaten, tortured child in the act of being raped by her tormenter and you shot him in the face to stop him? In either case, you are shooting someone in the face. Is one shooting just as morally indefensible to you as the other?I'm not 20-something, arriving at my beliefs as a hot-headed reaction to one article. I read a lot, and from a variety of sources. I've had lots of "late-night philosophical discussions" with thoughtful, intelligent people over the years (and in the course of such discussion, this subject naturally comes up from time to time).. My views have become more harsh--not less so--toward such offenders, after having absorbed decades of opinion and observation.I have, I think, an honorable sense of right and wrong. If you lost your wallet, and I found it, you would get it back intact. If I dinged your car door in a parking lot, I would stick around and own up to it. If I could save someone from a burning car wreck, I would do so--even if that person were someone I personally despised--because (whether I liked them or not) that would be the right thing to do.What I'm trying to say is that I don't think I would qualify as an unthinking or unfeeling or ignorant thug by most standards. But if your own standards must put me in that category because of my beliefs about capital punishment or my opinions about depraved child molesters, go right ahead. I'm comfortable enough in my beliefs that I will lose no sleep over what others think at the end of the day.I mean--I do respect you and don't openly wish you to think I'm in the same category with those criminals, but I'm not going to change my opinion on this one, so categorize me as you will. I'm not advocating torturing these monsters (although, in the heat of anger, I might occasionally let fly a hot remark to that effect here, deep down I agree that that would be wrong). I'm just advocating a quick, simple, and permanent solution to their miserable existence and to the threat they represent. They've already advocated any pretense to humanity, so at that point, it's a monster, not a human, being put down.
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
I just got ready to post, refreshed, saw your lengthy reply, but have yet to read it. In the meantime...( It's so dark in here, it's hard to see, let alone make sense of someone else's words. )Whenever we act in a vengeful manner or attempt to exact justice by imposing a capital penalty, we chose to devalue life *for whatever reason*. This is the choice of the perpetrator... to devalue life ( or persons ) *for whatever reason*.It doesn't matter what *the reasons* may be. ( We certainly don't attach any validity to the reasoning of the perpetrator. ) It is the devaluing of life ( and persons ) which permits the crime ( and loss ). If we deplore, in others, that which leads to the abuse of children, then we should recognize and deplore this same "devaluing of life" whenever it surfaces within us, ourselves.
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
Working from a weak trace, my paraphrase( you may know the anecdote better than I ) ...As the story goes, a group of learned theologians were arguing the relative severity of "sins," attempting to arrange them hierarchically, when a thoughtful indivdual observed, "The sin is not in the ( particular ) act, it is in the *turning away* from God."And so, perhaps all "sins"-all evil acts-are *equal*... in the sense that they reflect a turning away from that which is Good ( concentric vowels permitted ).
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
One more, and then I'll quit.I hold this absolutely indefensible belief that the Universe is *just*.As just as energy, in all it's forms, is conserved.(This delusion is at the heart of Multi's karmic observations.)But, like Leonard, in Memento, we lack the faculty to appreciate the deeper workings, the broader relationships, the justice inherent in our world. Like Leonard, we have to piece together clues, often going on faith alone. Like Leonard, we can choose a vengeful existence.(And don't misunderstand, for all its shortcomings, vengeance is not an altogether bad thing. I consider it a primitive perception, appreciation, and expression of the broader *quality* of justice to which I've alluded. But vengeance is just a faltering baby step; it won't deliver us to any truly desirable destination; it will leave is all-too-often unexpectedly flat on our... seats.)Protect the children from those who would harm them, remove those who would harm others from society, and let the Universe take care of its monsters, lest we become monsters, attempting to render a justice which invariably lies beyond our reach.