Sex Offender Rights?
Is there a lawyer out there with enough guts to take on the rules governing sex offender rights, sure we made mistakes, and not everyone knows the circumstances behind them, but we are also people who have a right to live our lives in peace, with our family, our friends, but the government seems to impose too many laws, so that people who commit murder or sell drugs get more rights then we do, is there a lawyer out there willing to fight for us and our families. Im sure there will be alot of sarcastis remarks, and ugly ones too, but northing i havent heard before or my family has. thank you
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For all of those who say that sex offenders are the highest recidivists: You are wrong check the Dept. of Justice Statistics. It is the 2nd lowest next to murder. I believe somewhere around 4%. Some circumstances ARE different. Consensual Sex, urinating in public, streaking. Do these offenses really warrant registration, polygraphs, residency restrictions, and not being able to see ones child?? No I don't think so. These laws are out of hand and are directly in violation with the constitution. Get educated people! Learn the stats instead of listening to the media and understand that stability is what keeps all offenders from reoffending. Not to mention right now they are taking rights away from sex offenders. What happens when they get to you and no one is left to fight for your rights? It will happen.
Sex offenders should be locked up for life and be glad of it let alone live their lives in peace.
sex offender don't deserve anything
I'm sure you're right. SOME offenses have very extenuating circumstances. The fact is though, MOST offenders SHOULD only have the right to a slow pain full death. It should also be done publicly to deter any other sick bastards.
dude, ur kinda screwed. my younger brother is in the same boat your in. we've tried numerous lawyers, but once they get our money, they seem to be less helpful. He has improved his position with his probation officers and therapists by staying current with fees and attend all scheduled meetings. We also have taken chaperon classes so that he is able to attend family functions. My advice is to go as straight as u can and make sure your progress is black and white, hope this helps.
the rehabilitation rate for sex offender is extremely low and so many our repeat offenders. why should they/you be out in society praying on the most innocent again and again.
rather than give excuses as to why you can't help this, come up with some positive solutions so that we no longer have to fear what you might do to our children when you act on your impulse and your perversion.
i was abuse by a neighbor when i was 5 years old and it is something that you never completely recover, it permeates every aspect of your life...i don't feel sry for you for you have ruined other lives.
They have the right to accept castration. They have the right to feel humiliated for the rest of their life for scarring another person.
But they don't have the right to live next to me without me knowing... because as they say "once a bank robber... always a bank robber"
Personally, I believe you gave up your rights to a normal life as soon as you committed the sexual offense. The person/people that a sex offender has violated has to live with those memories for the rest of their lives. What about their rights? I believe that as long as a sex offender's victim has to live with memories of that experience, the offender has to live without the rights you are demanding. You made mistakes. Deal with the consequences of those mistakes.
Sex offenders give up their rights when they commit the first illegal and immoral act against another person.
They have the right to extensive psychological counseling and a chance at rehabilitation.
There are no "circumstances" which make this offense any more acceptable. If you were the victim of a predator that should make you even more determined to not offend and make someone else suffer through what you did.
A sexual offender does not make a "mistake", a mistake is something that can be erased or changed and that type of offense will affect the victim for the remainder of their lives.
You know, it amazes me that you can compare your status as a sex offender to that of a drug dealer. I'm not justifying either crime, but PEOPLE CHOOSE TO USE DRUGS. Drug dealers just supply them. Yes, it is wrong, but children/babies do not choose nor ask to be raped, molested, and scarred for the rest of their lives. If I had to choose between the two, I'd rather live next door to a drug dealer than to a child molester.
I know that extenuating circumstances do exist, but for the most part, pedophiles, pederasts, rapists, and the like all deserve one thing, and that is to spend the rest of their lives in jail, with other inmates having free access to them morning, noon and night.
Murderers do not leave victims behind to have nightmares about crimes committed against them. Sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated. Even with castration, they still have the desire to fondle a child. Get off your soapbox and stop whining.
Oh, and one more thing. If your circumstance has anything to do with the molestation/victimization of a child, you are lucky. Because if it were one of my children, you'd be dead by now. And they wouldn't have even been able to find your body (or the pieces of it) to give you a decent burial.
I agree with becrebec1004, most people here are just paranoid. Truth is, a REAL offender isn't going to care about residence restrictions, or even the fact that you know he lives next door. People arent going to understand the offenders until someone they care about is charged with it. As for the laws, people wont see how wrong they are until they come up and bite them on the ***. Dont you people see? The government is trying to justify taking away a persons rights and put us into a dictatorship, they are simply trying out thier little laws on sex offenders because the public looks down on them most and wont care. Truth is, someday, EVERYONE will have to register with the authorities! When that day comes, normal people, drug dealers, etc, will be fighting this all together. It's really ironic, the same laws people say 'protect' thier children, will be used against thier children when the time comes. Our freedoms are at stake, put aside your personal feelings and wake up and smell the roses!
Far be it from me to ever defend or condone the behavior of a sexual predator. To say it is unacceptable is putting it mildly.
However, I do believe we need to revisit the sex offender laws. While it is true that society needs to be protected from sexual predators, these laws have gone awry, and affect, for instance, the guy who had a seventeen year old girlfriend when he was twenty, or the guy who peed behind a dumpster too close to a playground, maybe the girl who once was a prostitute. Maybe even the the weirdo in a raincoat who flashed an old lady. Or the poor fool caught whacking off in an adult movie theatre. Are these people predators? No. And unfortunately, they are not the exception. Most of the people required to register as sex offenders fall into this category.
The term "sex offender" is loaded with connotations. We think of child molesters, rapists, men luring children into their house, stalkers etc. So when we hear that someone is a "Sex offender", we automatically assume they raped a woman, or, worse, molested a child. We assume they are on parole for a violent offense. That only makes up a minority of people on the registry.
Political grandstanding has been a big factor. Polititions love do "crack down" on undesirables.
The welfare mom who drives a mercedes and lives in a mansion.
The illegal immigrant who will steal your job
The guy with the Arabic name who will bomb you.
Polititians love to play off people's hatred for people perceived as worse than us. We love to have an underclass.
And if the person is unfairly labeled, well, they're a sex offender, so , who cares?
It is a neat political trick, and it requires the polititian to be very well tuned in to the psyche of his constituants.
Unfortuantely, the sex offender laws, as they exist now, don't protect anyone from anyone. They simply serve to stigmatize a large portion of our population, and create an underclass. A group of people we love to hate.
Here is what I think would be a good sex offender law:
Low level offenses that are non violent and do not involve a child (under 16, for instance) should result in a fine, maybe some jail, probation, community service, etc, then move on. No registry, no nothing. Just the fine or jail or whatever.
People who are predatory, especially against children, should be committed in a high security facility for an indeterminate period of time, likely permanent. They should spend all their time in counselling, work, therapy, more work. Any proceeds generated from their (hard) work will be used for restitution, either directly to the victim, or to help fund, perhaps a rape crisis center, or something like that. Every day they would be reminded of the wound they inflicted on their victims, as well as society. In addition to counselling, they would work and toil to attone and make ammends for their behavior.
When the set amount of restitution has been generated, and it appears they will not offend again, they will appear before a board. If the board determines they are no longer a threat, they will be fitted up with a GPRS monitor, and required to live in a housing area under close supervision for a set amount of time.
If the offender does anything, ANYTHING, that might indicate he could re offend, he would be immediately returned to secure housing, no hearing, no nothing, just immediately returned. The person who recommended his release would be immediately fired.
Under those circumstances, I doubt any predators would be released in the first place, and we would be much safer.
Bottom line, leave two bit, non violent offenders alone, but we probably shouldn't even let predators out of jail. it's too risky.
There's your solution.
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