Posted on 09/24/2004 10:17:55 PM PDT by OldBlondBabe
And your implication is what...? That I am unqualified to comment about how being sexually assaulted has affected me, because I am not an "expert". Ok, I do have alphabet soup behind my name, but not in psychology. Do you?
I guess a parent must exert the effort to really know and understand their children, and craft their lessons about the world in terms the child can understand and appreciate. A little fear sometimes is a powerful motivator, wouldn't you say?
Go down there and ask if any of them wants to mow your lawns.
Precisely the point.
thanks for the post--i'm going to use that paper in a class i teach on sexual disorders.
i spoke with some people in the local probation dept. who work with sex offenders, particularly pedophiles. their impression is that the offenders lie, and that they have to be monitored extremely closely. they had some rather chilling tales to tell about some of these guys.
i'm sure some offenders get better, but i assume that most don't. i would prefer close monitoring by parole and probation depts. if they re-offend, the monitoring (after prison) should be life-long.
the probation officers make them take lie-detector tests, because so much of what the offenders say are lies. the PO's also check their computers for pornography.
wow! that was an amazing post.
I'll buy that if someone is fighting to get someone locked back up. However, if you're just trying to get them out of your neighborhood (In my 40 years, I've never seen one without children btw) you don't have my support, because they'll just be in somone elses neighborhood.
As much as it will pain you, one day you will see the whole person behind your child's mask; you may likely be pleasantly surprised.
IMHO, there are only 2 choices here. Locked away, or in neighborhoods. All neighborhoods have children in them. If you're living in society, there are children nearby.
While that position may be quite profitable for you I must question how it serves we who must tolerate or avoid those who you know are simply marking time.
The logical conclusion is to put them into a Del Web community (or some other old folks only place). After all they don't allow children (and it will serve them right).
Problem with that idea is that current real estate laws give sellers little or no control over who they can sell their property too. Essentially, you have to sell to anyone who can meet your price.
Then you volunteer you next door house for the sex offender?
I'll say it. If a sex offender has to live next to door to anyone, he has just as much right to live next door to me in the suburbs, as he has to live in the apartment across the hall from a family in an inner city. The problem with this whole mindset that permeates this thread is that unless you lock them back up, denying them the house next door just puts them next door to someone else. Nothing is solved.
The way your post was written, it appears that the presence of a group home in your neighborhood was the primary complaint, and the presence of the sex offender was only a secondary concern. The headline and content of your article would have been more effective if the group home were not the main topic of the post, and the sentence about the sex offender had been expanded to become the main focus of the article.
Actually, what it means is that it was dissolved due to poor management. We have several group homes in our area that blend in well and make good neighbors. It's the mismanaged ones that cause problems.
Then lock them up. They are institutionalized whether it be in prison, or the house across the street. Obviously they are not deemed completely rehabilitated or safe lest they would not be in a "group home".
And I do not care whether that offends your sensabilities or not. I'd rather pedophiles be shot anyway.
The problem is not with the group home, but with it's lack of supervision. The neighbor who lives next door was told by someone in authority that there would be no sexual predators. Unless there is some mistake on the Michigan registry, he lied.
This same neighbor came home to find one of the residents "flopping" around on her pool cover. She tried to help him out and was told by the other residents that he was off his meds and not to touch him. The supervisor did not offer assistance to the man. He was able to get out himself and proceeded to run around people's yards until his mother came in a car to take him off somewhere, still soaking wet. We do not believe, based on the description provided on the registry that the one on the pool is the sex offender.
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