Posted on 08/16/2011 6:09:31 AM PDT by wizard1358
The Delaware American Civil Liberties Union has filed court papers to stop sex offenders from being evicted from a safe house that is located near a new day care center.
The ACLU along with an attorney representing the safe house and three sex offenders has asked a judge to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent the city from evicting the residents.
“The state has asked the residents to leave and if they don’t leave they will be arrested,” attorney Daniel Wolcott, Jr. told Fox News Radio.
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“Safe” for who?
Not to play the devil’s advocate, but do sex offenders lose all rights whatsoever? Especially when many “sex offences” are sort of bogus. Maybe they should go build the toddler care centre somewhere else?
“Not to play the devil’s advocate, but do sex offenders lose all rights whatsoever? “
Unfortunately I agree with you, if they have done their time they should be free to live wherever they want. The problem is that we don’t distinguish between someone convicted of peeing in the alleyway (yes believe it or not but urinating in public can make you a convicted sex offender) and child molesters. The first should not be on a sex offender registry that the second should not be released from prison. The other problem is that there is a general hysteria surrounding people accused of sex crimes and they are convicted on far too little evidence (or none at all). Just look at the innocence projects web page for examples, it is way too easy to be convicted on just the word of some woman or child than it should be.
Two years ago, two 14-year-old boys from New Jersey decided they wanted to get a laugh out of their buddies. So they pulled down their pants and sat on the faces of two younger classmates, one 11 and the other 12. Young boys apparently consider this funny...
Under normal circumstances, a virtuous yet hard-a$$ed principal would have put the fear of God in them, forced them to apologize to the kids and their parents, then given them about a billion hours of work to do around the school, just so they'd have plenty of time to remember to stop acting like little a$$holes.
Unfortunately, there are no hard-a$$ but virtuous principals anymore. Instead, the boys faced criminal sex charges.
One pleaded guilty to criminal sexual contact. A judge found the other guilty of the same crime, since it's legally defined as a crime with the intent of sexual gratification or to degrade the victim.
The problem is that under New Jersey's Megan's Law, such crimes automatically mean you'll spend the rest of your life as a registered sex offender.
I'd believe it. I once read a news story about a guy who was out camping, didn't think there was anyone else around for a mile, and went behind a bush to urinate. He got busted by undercover cops hiding out in the forest who were trying to catch homosexuals doing their thing, and was charged (and convicted) for indecent exposure, and has to spend the rest of his life on a sex offender registry list.
Those things just another way for the state to have power over people who've often done nothing wrong, or at least proportionate to the punishment.
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