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Well, what is the answer? While child sex offenders have perpetrated a horrible crime, once their sentence is up, just where are they supposed to live if there are restrictions that effectively relegate them to the streets?

Personally, I don't know the answer to this one. Once someone has served the time for their crime, are they to be further punished? Don't get me wrong, sex offenses against children are dastardly crimes. Either execute-or life sentences. But to create a circumstance where a paroled offender can find no where to live, then really, where is the justice in that?

Good question. If they’re that dangerous, they have no place in this world.

In that sense, the other poster is right, Jessica’s Law isn’t the right solution.

While child sex offenders have perpetrated a horrible crime, once their sentence is up, just where are they supposed to live if there are restrictions that effectively relegate them to the streets?

I voted against it for exactly that reason. This day was inevitable.

Well, what is the answer? While child sex offenders have perpetrated a horrible crime, once their sentence is up, just where are they supposed to live if there are restrictions that effectively relegate them to the streets? Personally, I don't know the answer to this one. Once someone has served the time for their crime, are they to be further punished? Don't get me wrong, sex offenses against children are dastardly crimes. Either execute-or life sentences. But to create a circumstance where a paroled offender can find no where to live, then really, where is the justice in that?

You are entirely correct - in our system of justice, once having served the punishment as prescribed by society, a citizen should be allowed to resume his life as a citizen. It is the American way.

If people are appalled at this attitude, I can empathize. My suggestion is that the penalty for the crime be mandatory life imprisonment - with no parole, even for first-time offenders.

This would necessitate a change in the current penalties, but then it would become the prescribed punishment levelled by society - and I would be fine with that.

the problem being, that with a thief, when his time is up, he can get out, and often be ok with not thieving. No so with pedophiles. Many will tell you, candidly, that when they get out, it is open season again.

Well, what is the answer? While child sex offenders have perpetrated a horrible crime, once their sentence is up, just where are they supposed to live if there are restrictions that effectively relegate them to the streets?

Assuming that they have served their entire sentence, they end up in very rual counties where they are MUCH more difficult to monitor, if that's the desire. If they are still on parole or probation you end up with a situation where they are unable to get housing anywhere so they end up living on the streets, where, you guessed it, they are much more difficult to monitor!