"The spokesman told the newspaper that ticketing a woman in the park in the middle of the day is not the way you want to enforce the rule."
Well pedophiles wouldn't hang out on a park bench in the middle of the night when all the kids are at home asleep, would they?
Just another way for a municipality to make money. It's all about the money.
That's the entire problem with laws that cannot be written with a precise definition of what constitutes "breaking the law", without the offense being defined far too broadly. Far too many innocents are caught in its web. Police become judges deciding who they will and who they will not arrest, among many individuals who, by definition, are "breaking the law".
Such laws are not needed. Better, targeted, periodic police surveilance is; along with parental surveilance and supervision.
The nanny state is not a replacement for personal, parental responsibitity. The result, as this incident shows, is the loss of liberty for everyone.
As for the ticketed person being a woman, how many times a year do you read of a woman stealing a small child to fill an empty place in her life.
Parents do have the primary responsibility but not all parents are responsible 100% of the time. That's the reality. This code helps protect the children who had the misfortune of being born to that sort of individual.
Disneyland has that same sign on the "Haunted Mansion" ride, but I don't think any non-accompanied adults have been turned away.
If you'd lock up pedophiles for life and/or banished them, you wouldn't have to worry about them ever again, now would you?