Posted on 09/14/2007 7:38:19 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. laws informing communities where former sexual offenders live do little to protect children, but can lead to harassment and violence against the offenders, a Human Rights Watch report said on Wednesday.
The laws are ill conceived because children are more at risk of sexual abuse from a family member or trusted friend of the family than from a former sexual offender, Jamie Fellner, director of the U.S. program of Human Rights Watch, told reporters on a conference call.
"Stranger danger is not the norm," Fellner said about community fears of repeat attacks by sexual offenders. Government studies show that 90 percent of sexual attacks are committed by family members or trusted friends, she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
“The laws are ill conceived because children are more at risk of sexual abuse from a family member or trusted friend of the family than from a former sexual offender, Jamie Fellner, director of the U.S. program of Human Rights Watch, told reporters on a conference call.”
Tell that to Mark Lundsford Jamie.
Family members are the ones that get caught and reported. The homosexuals have an international organization devoted to molesting boys called NAMBLA.org, the North American Men Boys Love Association. Notice how the name couches the rape of young boys by homosexuals as a manifestation of their love. Sometimes the facts are disgusting, no?
BOO FRICKING HOO.
B.S. Total B.S. Complete and comprehensive B.S. What kind of people take the side of sex offenders against the side of innocent children? Have these people been living on the moon, or do they have a vested interest in the freedom of sex offenders to prey on children?
The link to the story is about a carjacking, not sex offenders.
“do little to protect children”
Exactly. And if you’ve got to issue the warning, that means they should not be on the street in the first place. Keep them in jail.
Animals that act as animals should expect to be treated as an animal. So maybe we should put peta in charge of perverts.
http://www.hrw.org/contact.html
U.S. (Fill-In-The-Blank) Laws Do More Harm Than Good.
That is the real problem with those laws, not that people pick on the poor wittle sex offenders. John Couey, for instance, should not have been out.
Your observation was ...oh, what's the adjective I'm looking for?
What happened to the “if we can help just one child” mantra that these people trot out every time there is a liberal cause they want us to support?
I agree that there needs to be some clarity given to the law.
The term “sex offender” is far too broad and does not reflect what the public wants in enforcement. It *should* mean someone who commits an overtly sexual act against someone else; *not* some drunk frat boy who urinated on a public street.
Yet today, both of these cases appear as “sex offenders”.
Even a crime that someone is convicted of may not represent what the public deems a “sex offense”. I knew a young man who while at a strip club, heavily tipped a stripper, then patted her on the rear as she was leaving. She giggled. The undercover police officer behind him arrested him.
Before he had even seen a judge, five different assistant prosecutors were assigned to his case, one after the other. The harshest of these men wanted him to serve four years in prison and be registered as a “sex offender” for life.
The fifth prosecutor said “this is a joke”, and dismissed the charges.
This is not what I would call “reasonable discretion” in prosecution. Few people would believe he deserved time served, much less years in prison.
Most people are capable of judging what a real “sex offender” is, and how much security society needs to protect itself from further offenses from them. And this common sense approach should be applied to the law, even if it results in hundreds or thousands of current “sex offenders” being removed from the roles and being forgotten.
Ain't karma a b*tch!
So let's forget about the other 10 percent...-sarc.
The recidivism rate for child molesters is about %100. We should not let them out because there is no rehabilitation for these monsters.
It's what they do to the car after they steal it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSKRA34717120070913?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true
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