Should child sex offenders not have their personal information made available?
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NO! This information should not be made available! It is unconstitutional and in the majority of cases it is ex post facto and due process of law is not followed. \n\nFurthermore, rehabilitated former sex offenders have a 5.3% recidivism for re arrest and 3.5% recidivism for re conviction. Out of that 3.5%, 1.2% are recidivists who offend a child. The registries are nothing but feel good, knee jerk legislation. They have not and will not save one child. Your child has a larger chance of being harmed by a drug dealer/user, drunk driver, playground accident, drowning and parental neglect than they have of being harmed by a rehabilitated former sex offender. \n\n90 to 95% of sex offenses are committed by someone known to the child in their family or the families circle of friends, as well as, coaches, teachers, police and other people in positions of authority. \n\nStranger danger is not prevalent. You are the only one that can protect your child. Parental Supervision while the children are out playing or while they are on the internet is paramount to their safety.
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The original intent of the Registries were for Sexually Violent Predators. Not the Romeo/Juliets, not the children who are exploring as children will sometimes do. There are states that have children on their internet registries as young as 11. There are states that will convict two 16 year olds of sexual assault against each other if they are caught having sex. That makes them both offender and victim. But it does not matter. If they are 16 and the age of consent is 17, then they are not old enough to consent. I wonder, how many of our esteemed politicians had teen consensual sex many years ago?\n\nRehabilitated former sex offenders are the least likely of all criminals to recidivate, with the exceptoin of murderers. Your child has a higher chance of being molested by someone known to the child and the parent. \n\nDo your research. Learn. That is what I have done. These registries are wrong, they are causing vigilante acts and one day, the rehabilitated offender is going to have a family member murdered by a vigilante. Perhaps if it is his/her child something will then be done about the registries. After all, the Government likes to make you think it is all for the children. It is actually all for the votes.
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No such thing, cause its personal/private info, not suppose to be exposed, not to mention about the web.
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No, they only list child molesters and rapists.
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lalala, I too was molested as a child. Twice. Once at the tender age of 6 and once at the age of 11. Both times were by people known to the family. BUT. I am not a victim. I am a survivor. Megans Law is WRONG. It is denying Constitutional Rights to rehabilitated former sex offenders. It is not protecting anyone. The registries have never and will never protect a child. They are a false sense of security. A parents responsibility is to protect their child! Are you aware that little Megan Kanka, at the age of 7 was left outside for THREE HOURS with no parental supervision? Never was checked on! \n\nThe states inflate the numbers on the registries to get more federal funding. They create more sex crimes for the same reason. Do you realize that in some states, urinating in public is a sex offense and will put you on the registry? Did you realize that in some states, I will choose WI as I know the law there, if a teen couple is 16 and have consensual sex, they will arrest and charge both with sexual assault against the other? That makes them both a victim and an offender. WI is not the only state that does this. \n\nThere are many variables that you are not aware of. I have done my homework. I work with rehabilitated former sex offenders everyday. I do know what I am talking about.
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Privacy is an illusion.\n\nCourts can subpeona for any information.\n\nAre you trying to not pay for your kids?
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I am amazed that even though a sex offender pleaded down that they still do not have to register as a sex offender.  Any thing that is public record is not slander.  If he was arrested and it was in the paper then you can let people know.  Was the original offense against a child?  There are different classifications of sex offenders as well. Every state has their own laws.  There are federal laws in place for sex offenders as well. You can also go to Oprah's website they is alot of information on sex offenders there.  Recently on her show she has been pushing for stiffer penalties for sex offenders. That might be a good jumping board for you.
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since this is a public thing...you really shouldn't be putting people's private information like a birthdate  or addresses.  you need to use your head when you are using this kind of public forum!
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Actually, Megan's Law doesn't stop abuse. It only names those who are sex offenders. Study after study in the U.S. show that the majority of child sexual abuse is committed by people the child already knows - parents, step parents, family relatives and friends, babysitters, coaches, teachers, youth pastors, etc. So this fact makes it unlikely that you can protect your child from danger by looking at such a registry. You're better off screening the adults who know your child, and being careful which of these adults are alone with your child. They're more likely to offend than some stranger down the street or in the next town over.
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The offenders willfully gave up their rights when they commited a sexual assault. They violated another's rights. I think notification isn't enough. They should require them to live far away from their victims. The only victims are the actual victims of the crime.
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For those with children and a computer, here are some FACTS. With an estimated 24 million children now online, one out of five have been solicited for sex...and 75% of children would gladly give out their personal information for free stuff. One in four children online were sent pictures of either naked people, or people having sex, and an estimated 725,000 children have been AGRESSIVELY approached for sex. Now i leave it up to parents to decide whether or not doing something to protect their children is worthwhile.
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Good luck in finding it. Just remember that not all sex offenders are pedophiles. Some just made a bad decision when they were younger and got involved with a seductive 16 year old or were got masturbating in a public bathroom or their tent at a campground. \n\nIn fact, the majority are probably not a threat to you or your children at all. Despite what Oprah says.
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We are way too easy on those who decide to abuse children. Here is my answer to these people who abuse our loved ones\nSex Offender Legislation “Wish List” \n1-GPS and lifetime supervision/treatment Law The failure of today's solutions regarding sexual offenders is because we are stuck in the strategy of “public notification” rather than “controlling offenders”. The current model puts the burden on parents rather than offenders, and makes the wrong people work to prevent abuse. Remotely (GPS) knowing where an offender is at all times throughout his lifetime can help to prevent that offender from creating new cases of sexual abuse.\n2-Include all known offenders in the management plan-for life. It is wrong to include just those under supervision since the Meagan’s Law was written. People do not ever age out of this behavior so why an old is charge less important than a new charge. Sexual offences are the most under reported crimes (according to the FBI). The fact that a molester has not been arrested recently does not necessarily means he has not offended. In my opinion all offenders should be included in any plan, regardless of when their offense occurred. I believe some states have done this already. \n3-Put all offenders , levels I, II or III on the website . I believe Florida does this. The leveling tool is very poor and pedophiles often end up with only a level I because they did not use force, and they superficially complied with treatment. The way the leveling system works pedophilic “groomers” who do not use force (and are the most busy of all offenders with hundreds of victims) are often not level III’s and therefore are able to have their offense relatively unknown. In New York for example offenders can lawyer up and reduce the “level” they get at their hearing. Molesters can assert they are “non violent”, “sober”, ect, and get the “points” reduced or get the judge to “override” the scale. Currently the public notification system is failing. All offenders of all levels should be on the website. \n4- “Victim Shield Law”. As you know one of the few protections we offer rape victims is “Rape shield laws”, in order to at least try and prevent a rape victim’s sexual history from being put on trial rather than the rapist. In child sexual abuse cases there are no “Rape shield laws” to prevent the victim, or the victim’s family (often the mother) from being made the center of negative attention. In the past defense lawyers for rapists would portray rape victims as promiscuous, today child molester’s lawyers portray victims and victim’s mothers as manipulative, litigious, unreliable, angry, mentally ill, sociopathic, medicated, or undedicated. Because we as a society love to blame women, especially mothers, molesters have been able to harness the misogyny in our culture in order to escape responsibility for their offences. Like the old rape cases that would revolve around the victims sexual past, today molester cases revolve around a child or a mother’s real or fictional problems instead of the focus of attention being the sexual abuse committed by the offender. I do not know if there can ever be a “victim shield law” to prevent the victim/victim’s mother being put on trial rather than the molester, but I know it would help victims avoid being re-traumatized in the system and help society hold sexual offenders accountable. One of the things to always remember with offenders is they are control seekers, and will take any opportunity to attack rather than just defend. They feel entitled to their behavior and see being held accountable as an injustice they are being forced to suffer, and they have zero guilt in harming any number of people (even their children) in order to escape the consequences they deserve.\n5-Plea deals down to “Endangering the welfare of a minor”. Despite the underlying behavior being the sexual abuse of children offenders are often
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There are a lot of resources that track sex offenders and where they live.  look around on the Internet.
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.I DON'T THINK THE COURT SYSTEM WILL RELEASE THAT INFORMATION IF IT HAPPENED WHEN YOU WERE UNDER AGE.
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No.  Paedophiles admit themselves that they will reoffend.  They can't help themselves.  It's an overwhelming desire within them that drives them to such monstrosities.  However, it is possible that they are repentant, and that prison is extremely unmerciful for Paedophiles.  As such, they should be released from prison after their sentence is complete, and into full -time residential Psychiatric care, like a sealed community, into which no innocent children must ever venture.  It will remain a prison because it must be secure, but it will contain only child-molesters.  Psychiatric help should be available to these individuals as it may be that they have traumatic pasts themselves, but they should never, ever be released into society - ours or another.\n\nIt is true that this will rely on the tax-payer's money, but who would rather they roamed the streets amongst our children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews than we paid a few extra quid to keep them locked away?\n\nP.S. Castration is a good idea in theory, but they still have hands and mouths... (sorry to be distasteful, but it's an ugly truth...)
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It depends on the state.  If you believe someone is a sex offender, I know in CA we can look it up by going to Megan's Law and type in the area we are looking for.