“A man who has a history of smashing windows to indulge his fetish for female mannequins could draw a long prison term for his latest arrest. Ronald A. Dotson, 39, of Detroit faces up to life in prison if convicted of a charge of attempted breaking and entering at a cleaning-supply company in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale. The potential life sentence is because prosecutors charged him as a habitual offender. Authorities say he has at least six convictions for breaking and entering and a stint in state prison over the last 13 years… Dotson was arrested Oct. 9 after police say he smashed a window at a cleaning-supply company to get at a female mannequin dressed in a black and white French maid’s uniform. He had been out of prison for less than a week. Dotson was arrested in Ferndale in July 2000 and later convicted for breaking and entering at a women’s clothing shop to get at a mannequin in a pink dress with bobbed hair. Ferndale police also arrested Dotson in 1993 after finding him in an alley behind a woman’s store with three lingerie-clad mannequins. He also has similar convictions in Detroit and suburban Oak Park.” — Detroit Free Press (US)

(Thanks to William for the link.)

Here is Mr. Dotson’s page on the Michigan Offender Tracking Information System. Aside from being a little short (only 5′4″) and having such a long rap sheet, he doesn’t look like such a bad guy. It’s hard to fathom that anybody could get a life sentence for what amounts to little more than vandalism. It’s especially ironic given that he’s been in the Michigan prison system for so long. Authorities say he obviously needs help — but shouldn’t he have received that help a few offenses ago? It would seem to make sense, but his defense attorney points out in a different story that Michigan doesn’t have any treatment programs for mannequin fetishists. This leaves Mr. Dotson caught between a rock and a hard place. (And miserably enough for him, the hard place is not the plastic surface of a mannequin’s bosom.)

Mr. Dotson recently told his parole officer that he was thinking about getting his own mannequin so that he wouldn’t keep getting in trouble for breaking and entering. Really it’s a sensible solution, and you have to wonder if the best “treatment” for him might not be just to set him up with a doll or two. It’s sure cheaper than maintaining him in prison.

If he does end up receiving a draconian sentence, somebody will have to start printing up “Free Ron Dotson” t-shirts and bumper stickers. Maybe the band The Trophy Wife Boys, which cites him as an influence and claims that “all of their songs are written through the trials and tribulations of one Mr. Ronald A. Dotson,” can hold a benefit concert on his behalf? After all, the band must want him out of prison — how else can Mr. Dotson continue the adventures that inspire their songs?

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