A wealthy Connecticut woman went from socialite to registered sex offender Tuesday when she was slapped with a one-year prison sentence for secretly filming a minor and other people at her ritzy se…
Hadley Palmer, 54, will have to spend 10 years on the sex-offender registry and 20 years on probation afterin January — even as details of her case have mysteriously been kept from public view.
“She’s taken responsibility for her actions,” defense attorney Michael Meehan said of Palmer, who already did 90 days behind bars. “This is a very caring, loving and sincere human being.”Palmer, a mother of four who comes from a wealthy family, admitted she filmed people who were naked or in their underwear from 2017-18 with the “intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desire of such person [Palmer] or any other person.
Palmer’s case file remains sealed in a move open-government advocates called highly unusual. The Associated Press argued that Palmer’s records could have been made public with the names of victims redacted or changed to fake names to protect their privacy, as is typical with Connecticut sex-crime cases.Patrick McMullan/PMC
Palmer was arrested in October 2021 and she was quickly accepted into an accelerated rehabilitation program, which requires cases be sealed. But the charges against her were so serious she should’ve been ineligible for the program, according to the AP.
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