Jessica Lunsford Act Kicks Domino's YouTube Video Worker out of College

Jessica Lunsford was a nine year old girl who was abducted from her home in Florida in 2005. Police later found her dead. She had been raped and then buried alive. Jessica had lived in North Carolina before moving to Florida and she still has family in North Carolina.

The Jessica Lunsford Act that Governor Perdue signed into law on Friday, is designed to help keep what happened to Jessica and other young children from happen to others. The law restricts those that are sex offenders from being allowed in places that children regularly congregate.

This is where the Jessica Lunsford Act impacted Hammonds on Monday while she was attending class at Wilkes Community College. Hammonds is a registered sex offender due to a sexual battery case involving a teen.

As with most community colleges in North Carolina, Wilkes has some minors that attend classes on the campus. With the new Jessica Lunsford Act that means that no one that is a sex offender can lawful go on campus preventing them from being able to take classes there. Hammonds was not alone in finding out on Monday that she could no longer take classes at the college. Several students were informed of the new law and escorted off the campus.

Hammonds was trying to rebuild her life after the Domino's YouTube incident. She had been attending school for a year and had desire to work in the medical field. Of course that was all depending upon the outcome of her upcoming trail for her arrest for her part in the Domino video.

Hammonds and her co-worker Michael Setzer were both arrested on felony charges of tampering with food and could possibly face jail time. Hammonds has another day in court next week.

North Carolina is not the first state to place a Jessica Lunsford Act into law. In 2005, Florida strengthened their Sexual Offender and Predator Registration Laws and it was commonly known as the Jessica Lunsford Act as well. At this point no one knows how many college students across North Carolina will be impacted. College Administrators have to notify the students that are registered sex offenders they can no longer take classes there.