Mosay Ordered to Visit Wisconsin Grave Site as Part of Sentence |TODAY|

Submitted by dan. on 2007-12-05 21:50.
Restorative Systems

A 22-year-old Luck man has been ordered to pay yearly visits to the grave of the man he ran over with a van and killed in September of 2006 as part of a sentence handed down Nov. 8. Derek Mosay will spend four years in state prison and four years under extended supervision in accordance with a sentence handed down by Judge Molly GaleWyrick.

Mosay was ordered to take part in the Restorative Justice Victim?Impact Panel and Victim Offender Conferencing, if the victim’s family so desires. He must visit the gravesite of the victim every year on the anniversary of the victim’s death while on extended supervision....

He was also ordered to pay $13,098 in restitution.

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RJ participants

Posted by sarah gatt at 2008-02-26 13:16

In the article, it says that Mosay was ordered to join a RJ mediation meeting. I thought that to be apart of a mediation process, it has to be wanted by both parties. If someone is ordered to join into the process, it has no meaning to it. Mosay pleaded no contest and I thought that you have to admit guilt as part of RJ.

Restorative Justice?

Posted by courtney m at 2008-02-28 08:42

After reading this article i am not sure how restorative justice plays a part. if the man was sentenced to jail time what is the point of restorative justice, and what is the reasoning for him having to visit the grave site of the man he killed, i don't see that as helping someone overcome what they have done wrong. if anything it would being back the horrible memories of what happened on that day.

Strange Justice

Posted by Beth Rudder at 2008-02-28 16:24

At first I thought this was the strangest form of justice I had ever heard of, but then the article indicates that Ellis was the Uncle of Mosay. I agree with the other comment, I do not really see how any of this is restorative justice. If he is to spend four years in jail, pay over 13,000 in restitution, and visit the gravesite once a year then his justice is not really being restored but rather exploited. I also noticed that the article stated that Mosay ORDERED to "take part in the Restorative Justice Victim?Impact Panel and Victim Offender Conferencing, if the victim’s family so desires..." I thought that a key component of restorative justice was that each and every person involved voluntarily take part in the process. In order for rj to work and be effective there is a need for all sides wanting to work together towards understanding and amends.

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Posted by Elizabeth Corral at 2008-02-29 03:16

This is a form of restoritive justice...by forcing the offender to visit the victims grave it allows for two things to happen...first it gives the victims family a form of satisfaction to know that the offender gets physically reminded of the horrible thing that he did...second it allows for the offender to really soak in everything that has happened... and since in this case the victim was the offenders uncle this might be particularly a hard for the offender to do.