Posted on 04/04/2002 2:34:17 PM PST by let freedom sing
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:34:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Some Sacramento area child-care providers are questioning Gov. Gray Davis' emergency regulations forcing them to tell parents if anyone working in or around their facilities was ever convicted of a crime.
"I have to inform every parent in my school, whether I have someone who was convicted of shoplifting 15 years ago, or someone who got caught with marijuana when they were 19," said Julie Jenkins, director of Caring Connection Children's Center in West Sacramento.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
"I presume the laws are set up in such a way that anyone who would endanger children, or would be called into question, would be weeded out," Vance said. "I don't know that I necessarily want to weed through all the rest of this stuff."
This MTB has read all the "PC" weed books, and stocked up on plenty of Campbell's Canned Liberal Motherhood.
But, if I had sex with a minor, the neighborhood will be alerted, despite the fact that I have served my time. The punishment is unending. What's more, there have been incidents in LA where innocent people have been beaten and killed because they lived where a child-molester 'used to' live ... and the police records were not up-to-date.
I am not a child molester, have not done so, and will not do so in the future. But I do take issue with publishing crimes that may be decades old. Either kill the vermin, or set him free. I prefer to death, personally ... but the point remains that 'he paid his debt'.
Tell that to the child (whose suffering usually continues long after the abuser dies)
All the more reason to inform the parents. This is much like the scandal going on in the Church now ---covering up past crimes of people who are working around kids. Time for the Church and the Society to stop protecting criminals.
What makes you think that "paying a criminal penalty" for a crime somehow gives you a clean slate? It is always on your record.Many people can and do change.People can not change what they did in their past.That is a given.
Don't expect everyone to forgive and forget a criminal act,just because the courts assigned a penalty.Believe it or not, most people have never seen the inside of a jail cell.
If you have a past that includes a criminal record, do you really think your future is not,or should not, be impacted?
In the real world,which a lot of people deal with daily,childcare decisions are a fact of life.
You just may want to stop being so supercillious and acknowledge that there is a reality for many, many families that does not mirror your perfect situation.I hope you are never put in the same position,whether by death or divorce.
At some point, people will agree there is a need for decent child care if we are going to continue to villify women who refuse to be "welfare" statistics.Under various circumstances, a lot of women will face the same situation, through no fault of their own.I have seen this to be more the norm than the exception.With a more than 50% divorce rate in the US, I will sit back and be heartily amused by the "perfect people" responces.there but for the grace of God......
The public is given to understand that they are never safe where offenders are present. While some haters may take the law into their own hands-- and harrass or kill an offender, the offender is entitled to the same justice by which they were judged.
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