Doe, Sex Offender Registry Board No. 3974 v. Sex Offender Registry Board

In 1992, the plaintiff, then fifteen years of age, was adjudicated delinquent after committing an indecent assault and *54battery on a child under the age of fourteen. The next decade of his life yielded a marred, albeit nonsexual, criminal record that culminated, for purposes of this case, in a guilty plea in Federal court on one count of distributing a controlled substance. While in Federal custody pending sentencing on the latter charge, the plaintiff was incarcerated in several locations. He began his incarceration in a Federal detention facility in Rhode Island but was soon transferred to…