Posted on 12/02/2006 5:53:18 AM PST by Man50D
Many people are not aware a registered sex offender maybe living in their neighborhood. Recently a local radio station in my area referred its listners to FamilyWatchdog. Many were shocked to find the number of sex offenders living nearby. I couldn't help but think this is also true for people nationwide. Consequently I am providing the link to Freepers. Just enter your street address, city, state and zipcode in the windows provided at the homepage then click search. A map will appear showing where registered sex offenders live and work near you. There is a map legend to help you interpret the symbols. There are many other features at the website too numerous to mention. I'll let you discover them on your own. Please be aware your state may have laws preventing anyone from harassing registered sex offenders but by knowing where they live we can hopefully keep everyone's kids safe!
"Cruisin' for a bruisin'", as my daddy often said.
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Where did I do that?
Damn, you really suck at reading comprehension! Grab a clue, you are making neither friends nor factual statements tonight. I suggest you go away from your keyboard for a while until you either sober up or get past this dumb/mean streak.
17 year olds having sex with 16 year old girls are not at risk for statutory rape charges. The difference in age has to be 4 years and the girl has to be a minor,,
I think people know that. But still, Polly Klass was safe in her bed when taken. And I think that is what worries people. Parents sleep, children go to school, things happen that no parent could prevent.
You have a curious take on this.
I too have concern about these molester lists and notifications but I understand why they come about.
And an 18 year old boy has no business inappropriately touching a 14 year old and very well knows what he is risking.
She isn't the only one questioning your disdain for parents who are wanting to protect their children from a class of criminal which includes the almost certainty of recidivism.
When these people don't walk the streets, we can do away with reporting. But the reporting comes about because our system of justice has not taken care of this cancer on our lives.
Your anger/disdain/contempt is misplaced Dude and you know it. So that makes people suspicious.
I coach girls softball. I may be stupid for doing so, as one jerk with a video camera could take something totally out of context, like when i help the catchers (thankfully usually my twin daughters).
RP's point is, as I understand it, that it's very easy to become an RSO, and that RSO's face a level of punishment that far exceeds murder, etc.
Why should my friend who got busted for pissing on a dumpster be on an RSO list 40 years after the fact when some punk amigo who killed the guy at the Mobil-mart that same night be done with his sentence free and clear 10 years after?
His contempt for her was inexcusable.
She did not accuse. She asked him a question.
All he had to do was say no. Instead he threatened to have her kicked off. And said she thought every person was a sex offender. He is the person who is insulting.
Not her.
False.
So your answer to the problem of punishing a child molester more than a child murderer is to allow the child molesters, notorious recidivists, to go about neighborhoods with nobody having any warning. Like Polly Klass's killer.
The answer is to put child murderers away for life or to execute them.
This account has been banned or suspended.
I hate it when that happens. Hope your hangover doesn't last as long as your suspension.
I find it hard to believe that peeing on a dumpster resulted in being on the RSO list.
Can you point me to the list where he is publicly listed so I can believe this.
http://www.familywatchdog.us/Default.asp
other offenses (peeing on a dumpster)
I don't think he does. I don't think think he knows that for the rest of his life he'll be branded with the modern day equivalent of the scarlett letter. "Sex offender" will be attached to his name and upon hearing that people will have no idea what he did to deserve it -- I'm sure they'll think the worst.
And that's OK with you. An 18-year-old screws up (by inappropriately touching, no less) and he should pay for it the rest of his life. That makes sense to you?
"but I understand why they come about."
You do? You understand that they came about because people wanted politicians to "do something" about 7% of the problem while ignoring the 93%? (Only 7% of child molestations are done by strangers). Does the registry work? Does it reduce the problem? Have you seen any reports on that? Can you link me to them?
Of course nobody wants and 18 year old branded for life. But if an 18 year old can join the army, get married, hold a job,,,he knows that a 14 year old is off limits. The penalty is extreme, that is true. But easily avoided. Don't touch 14 year olds.
I have no idea if the registries work. I do know child molesters are recidivists. They do what they do over and over. The problem is they should be incarcerated forever,,forever. And they are given slaps on the hands. By people who don't want to ruin their lives. Their lives should be ruined.
And if 7 percent are strangers, the othere 93 perecent who molest are on registries too. Nobody is ignoring the 93 percent of known to family abusers. They get listed too.
I do know that people get on the list who shouldn't be. So some, the one here, gives the crime, the class penalty. Some are for getting booze for underaged girls. But those guys almost uniformly are in mid twenties getting booze for 15 year olds. Frankly I don't care if their lives are ruined,,they did not have any pure intentions doing what they did.
Again, you give the most benign example,,an 18 year old touching a 14 year old,,and maybe it is not so benign. Can you say with certainty that is benign. All lmolestation starts with touching, with one victim and goes on to scores over a lifetime.
But you ignore the child molesters who murder, who maim and who destroy the innocence of children. Branding them for life if they live.
Actually according to the US DOJ (study released 2003), 5.3% of sex offenders are re-arrested for sex offenses within 3 years after release. As a group they have a lower rate of re-offense than other criminals.
That's not a defense of them at all, simply the facts.
Not really. 5% arrested doesn't mean only that man perpetrated. I do think most have scores of victims over a lifetime. And most never go to jail or even are arrested. most get away with it.
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