On Saturday, May 22 the Colvill Fire Department held its annual pancake breakfast. What a shock to enter the building and have to face Susan Thompson at the cashier table. When Judge Sandvik ordered Mr. Thompson to abstain from the fire department it never entered our minds that she would remain as the spousal support.
Thesad part is that when a fireman was questioned about her appearance at the front door he said that it was “okay.” He also said, “that we should keep an open mind and hear both sides of the story.”
Since last year both the Duluth News Tribune and the Cook
County News-Herald
have kept this community abreast of the case. We have kept our minds open as the attorneys for all parties and Judge Sandvik heard the evidence and made the pertinent legal decisions based on the facts.
In the May 15 News-Herald
the results of the plea hearing were published, including all the “yes” answers that both Mr. and Mrs. Thompson swore before the court. Thisis their side of this story and the guilty pleas speak for themselves.
Since County Attorney Tim Scannell and Judge Sandvik have come to a conclusion based on the facts we don’t believe that the members of this community should be asked to “keep an open mind.” It was very uncomfortable for many of us from Colvill, Grand Marais and Lutsen to have a sexual criminal flaunted in our faces and for two of us to be told that this is “okay.”
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