Youths convicted of sexual offenses should be kept off sex offender registries because they are counterproductive to effective treatment, a report out Tuesday recommends. The Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission’s Juvenile Sex Offender report also states that youth offenders have a better chance at effective treatment when they are kept at home rather than sent to detention centers.
Recent reports by Human Rights Watch and the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission — both critical of juvenile registries — found that children lash out sexually for different reasons than adults and are less likely to reoffend. One survey involving about 11,000 young offenders put the recidivism rate at 7 percent, compared with 13 percent for adult sex offenders, according to the Human Rights Watch report.
You’re citing leftist human rights watch? seriously? Duggar, at 15, was close enough to 18. It’s not like he was 10.