Byron Dorgan: “This is a poster that shows what I discovered on the Internet in North Dakota. I discovered this in the month of April.…”

“This is a poster that shows what I discovered on the Internet in North Dakota. I discovered this in the month of April. I was going to have a meeting in Fargo and, just out of curiosity, I called up the North Dakota registry of sex offenders, to find out who was living within 2 miles of where I was having the meeting, at city hall in Fargo, ND. In the briefing book I had, I described this fellow to the people who came. His name is Joseph Duncan. The entire country knows of Joseph Duncan now. When I described Mr. Duncan, many people in the area didn't know him. This sheet from the North Dakota Attorney General's Office, Bureau of Criminal Investigation, shows that Joseph Duncan was living in Fargo, ND. He was a sexual predator, and he had served a 20-year prison sentence for a first-degree rape. In 1980, he raped a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint, burned the victim, and made the victim believe he was going to be killed by firing the gun twice on empty chambers. And he went to prison. In 2000, he was released from prison. He completed his full sentence, and was released without probation or parole. He went to live in North Dakota. Again, I mentioned him in April of this year at a meeting simply because his name came up on an inquiry I did about who was living in Fargo, ND. What I didn't know in April, when I mentioned Mr. Duncan, was that 1 month earlier he had been charged with molesting a 6-year-old boy at a playground in Detroit Lakes, MN.…”