Fathers? LOL .........
Posted on 04/04/2008 4:55:02 AM PDT by PurpleMan
Try for yourself. The zip code is 10022. There are 1923 sex offenders that live or work in the area.
http://www.familywatchdog.us/Search.asp
The area might be a bit broad, but take a look at the map.
Do you really think that's a reasonable environment to leave a 9 year old boy alone?
If this were a small town where everyone knows everyone else, I would say it's a different story.
I’m always on that site. I found one in our Plant here at work.
Does it give a breakdown of the actual crimes they've committed? You'd be surprised at what will land someone on a sex offender registry these days.
Rarity? You have no clue.
There are nearly 2000 registered sex offenders that work or live in the area where she let her son ride home alone.
Those are the ones that have already been caught before, and that they know where they are.
My fiance works for children's services, and you would be appalled to see the stream of cases they get where children are preyed upon by family and friends of the family. They don't even get the cases where the kids are preyed upon by strangers.
The cases that result in a kid being killed usually make the papers.
The cases where the kid is molested but makes it home usually aren't because the parents don't want to embarrass their child and scar them even more.
You live in Ohio, and you tell me I have no clue? I've lived in the NY Metro area nearly all my life. I made my first trip into NYC on the LIRR and then the subway up to the planetarium without an adult when I was 11. (I had been on my own in Chicago before that.) Once I was in Jr High, the following year, my friends and I were regulars at Madison Sq Garden (then at 50th Street and requiring a subway ride). No one ever had a bad story to tell about a sex offender.
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I have riden the NYC subway for years. IMHO, this woman is an idiot. Right idea, but taking too far at too young an age. And where is the father when potentially life and death decisions about the child are being made?
er...punctuation. Remind me not to PUI...
There were two men who were involved in trying to grab a young girl in Minneapolis the other day...full daylight. The girl fought the one man off and got away (the other was driving the auto). They caught one, the other is still “at large”. She yelled and screamed, not one person tried to help her!
I bet Kittie Genovese thought the same thing. (showing my age here).
That poor girl. Hope she's ok, though she will live with fear possibly forever.
How about the Central Park jogger? There are plenty of stories from the city to warrant not letting a 9 yr. old ride the subway alone.
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