Lawmakers consider site for elderly offenders

Iowa may have to establish a special nursing home for elderly sex offenders and other criminals, according to a handful of local lawmakers.

''These individuals should not be turned loose,'' state Rep. Helen Miller, D-Fort Dodge, said Saturday morning. ''We will have to have a facility where these individuals will be contained.''

Miller and other legislators addressed the issue during an Eggs and Issues forum in Fort Dodge held months after a registered sex offender living at the Pomeroy Care Center in Pomeroy reportedly sexually assaulted another resident of the facility.  Read more...