Baby Killer Worried About Bad Rep

Tony Dameron, a man convicted of brutally killing his 3-month-old daughter in 1998, has filed a petition to have his name removed from the Illinois Sex Offender Registry. Dameron, a current resident at the Pontiac Correctional Center, is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder after being found guilty of beating his baby to death and stuffing her in a duffel bag. He says that he was unfairly put on the list after being charged with "aggravated criminal sexual assault of a child younger than 13," but he was not convicted of that crime. Dameron says that being on the sex offender list is damaging to his reputation.

Dameron, in his court filing, wants to be taken off the sex offender registry, and instead he says he's better suited to be placed on the Illinois Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registry. Because that looks so much better on a resume. Dameron's request will go in front of a judge in January.