He was convicted in 1975 on charges including statutory rape, indecent assault and corrupting the morals of minors. Authorities, at the time, thought this was enough bad behavior to put him behind bars, but evidently they now think it is not bad enough behavior to keep an eye on him, as the law dictates.Feigley set up a religious group, the Neo American Church, which authorities have called a sex cult, operated a school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that police said was a front for sexual activity. And he still believes in the church’s manifesto: “We hold that the changes called creation and procreation are divine and that human sexuality is to humans the most available expression of that function of divinity," according to community activist Scott Portzline, who has researched Feigley's history and that of the group. "Sexual activity is the greatest act a human can do."
Activities that were brought up during his trial included beating children for letting anyone but fellow cult members see them, and their genitals were pierced with a lock to be controlled by Feigley, who called himself "The Light of the World." Children also were photographed in graphic sexual poses.
Prison authorities said he was attempting to direct sexual activity involving children by telephone from prison which means a prison term did little to nothing to curb his deviant appetite nor did it convince him that what he did was inhuman. In 1976, Feigley escaped from a Pennsylvania prison and was free for two years before being found living in West Virginia but escaped again from a local jail and was recaptured by the FBI. After all of this, Pennsylvania did not see any reason to extend his prison term. Now that he is free of prison, free of parole constraints, and free of legal surveillance of any kind, he can freely go back to his old ways, which there is every indication that this is exactly what he is going to do.
Feigley "never admitted what he did was wrong," said John Goshert of the Dauphin County district attorney's office, who interviewed him last week as part of a pre-release program.
Neighbors organized a protest against Pennsylvania’s leniency in front of Feigley’s Harrisburg home and the church headquarters, where is wife Sandra still lives. She was convicted in 1975 on one count of corrupting the morals of minors. She served a brief prison sentence, according to the Patriot-News and since then has operated a Web site ostensibly aimed at benefiting state, local and federal prison inmates. The site has a lengthy section with articles discussing sex in prison and elsewhere. Some of them are written by George Feigley, using his own name and some of his aliases.
Here is some of the trash that these people espouse: “Thanks to the Christian crazies who were and are so influential in this country, America has criminalized more sexual conduct than any other Western nation," says an article on the site, which does not name an author. "It's a neurosis. As a result, there are a lot of 'sexual offenses.' " Another article bearing George Feigley's alias of G.G. Stoctay, Ph.D., and included in Portzline's research says, "There is nothing injurious to sexuality. It's good and pleasant, not an evil. Children exposed to it are simply not injured."
Okay, there is nothing injurious to sexuality, in and of itself, and sex is good and pleasant, but these two twists have taken human sexuality between consenting adults and morphed it into something evil to be used to control children.
Megan’s Law, also known as Sexual Offender Act of 1994, requires persons convicted of sex crimes against children to notify local law enforcement of any change of address or employment after release from custody (prison, psychiatric facility). The notification requirement may be imposed for a fixed period of time - usually at least ten years - or permanently. However, Pennsylvania feels that any sexual offender convicted prior to the enactment of this law should not have to suffer under its rule.
According to Wikipedia, this law was amended May 17, 1996 to include provisions requiring community notification. Authored by Congressman Dick Zimmer, it required every state to develop a procedure for notifying the public when a person convicted of certain crimes is released near their homes. The law has been amended several times since the original bill, and different states have different procedures for making the required disclosures.
The letter of this law is clear. Pennsylvania, for some unknown reason, has taken the morally reprehensible action to ignore the intents and purposes of it and have wiped their hands clean of any responsibility for this subhuman.
Dauphin County Pennsylvania should be ashamed of itself for its actions, or rather lack of action in this case. Neighbors fear for their children’s safety, so, clearly the public is upset about this, and still Pennsylvania does nothing.
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