I doubt that.
A grown woman streaked a golf tournament last week on national TV and received a citation for disorderly conduct.
A week after the incident involving this 15 year old boy, no formal charges had even been filed.
Re: “Reportedly faced expulsion”
In the last 20 years, has anyone EVER been expelled from school in the USA for streaking?
I did a 10 minute Google search and came up with ZERO.
A week after the incident, the kid was still attending school, he had not even been suspended.
I'm going to speculate that this young man may have had psychological issues before streaking and being arrested.
A senseless tragedy, yes.
But minimal research - either by the young man or by his parents - would have provided reassurance that expulsion and sex offender status were NOT going to happen.
No Dad mentioned.
Wonder if the story would be different if there was one in the picture? Someone to say, "Son, that was stupid." then love him enough to help sort things out.
I’m an attorney, and whether he would have made it onto the sex registry depends a lot on the local state’s attorney and the judge on the case. Odds are he would have escaped on lesser charges, but its not a guaranteed thing. People who don’t belong on the registry can get there anyway. And once you’re there, its pretty rational to conclude your life has been ruined, because it probably has been ruined.
I agree with an earlier poster here that the registry has been grossly abused, and does not represent the true “list” of dangerous individuals. If you make a mistake, you should pay the price. But the price should match the mistake. Its wrong to threaten the moral equivalent of a death sentence over a youthful prank that was completely unrelated to dangerous sexual behavior. And all the more irresponsible if the child was already known to have behavioral/psychological problems.