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While acknowledging it might be "unfair for [Barnaby] to suffer the stigmatization of being labeled a sex offender when his crime was not sexually motivated," the court said his actions are the type that are "often a precursor" to a child being abducted or molested.

When you lump sex offenders into an overly broad category (peeing in public, grabbing a child by the arm, all the way to serial predators who rape and kill children)you make it more difficult to manage the situation.

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Agreed, that's what I was saying on another thread about sex crimes a few days ago. It makes it hard to get the real sex criminals punished as they need to be when taking a whiz in the park is considered a sex crime these days. Clean up the list, make sure only real offenders get on it, then deal with them harshly. What this guy did might not have been too bright in today's sue-happy, pc world, but it sure as hell wasn't a sex crime!