I believe the parents should be on the registry.
They delayed any treatment for months, always allowed the boy back into the home, and what “treatment” he got was at the hands of another accused child molester.
Oh, and the police officer they eventually took him to to give him a talking to? A child pornographer.
The adults in the family sure do know a lot of pedophiles, don’t they?
They downplayed their son’s crimes, got him inadequate therapy, and have only issued statements in his support, not the children he harmed.
It’s all good. They’re forgiven.
Praise the LORD!
“I believe the parents should be on the registry.”
The sex offender registry is not intended to be a punishment for crime, even though it has that effect. It is also for actual sex offenders.
So, while you find what you perceive (because there is no way possible for any of us to fully know what they said and did in private) to be the actions of the parents wrong or evil, the parents don’t belong on a registry, unless they are actually admitted or otherwise proven sex offenders.
The sex offender registry is not a tool to be used to punish people we don’t like.