Is pushing registered sex offenders further underground a good idea?
When a registered sex offender is:
1) Fired from their job
2) Forced to move
3) Forced to obey new laws created AFTER their conviction (which no other type of crime does this) - and some debate is unconstitutional.
because some nutcase murders a child causing people to go to the sex offender registry to get a shopping list of scapegoats.
This forces the sex offender to go "underground".
Is this a good idea?
Is your community actually any safer?
Really, is it the registered sex offenders you really have to worry about - or the people you know nothing about?
~or~ do you think people do this just to make themselves feel better?
Remember: Sex Offender does NOT equal child molestor - a lot of sex offenders that are listed didn't even commit a crime that was related to sex or had a child victim - or even had a victim.
Your thoughts on the questions and what the Sex Offender Registry means to you.
Answers:
You raise an excellent point. I have no objection to knowing if a pervert is living in my neighborhood but:
1. Make sure he really is a pervert. An 18 year-old having consensual sex with a 16 year-old is not legitimate grounds for being on a sex offenders register in my view.
2. Either stop making it too hard for perverts to live their lives away from children or just give them the needle in the courtroom and be done with it. (I put the second alternative in there to demonstrate the idiocy of the situation).
we have a right to know where they live..I have grandkids and I want to know who they are and where they live to protect the children..they only have themselves to be blame for their mistakes..it's called responsibility
DO you remember the Movie Escape from New York where all the criminals were sent to? It's thought. Find an island and let them go after each other.
I would assume, that you or someone you know is affected by this. I get your point. There should be some difference between the two. If your 19 and have sex with your 16 y/o girlfriend, I understand. If you persuade. or coerce in any way to a minor, they should be able to put a GPS chip in you. They should be able to track you down no matter where you are. The affects a child molester does to that child is a lifetime of pain and confusion. Fix the difference between the two, and until you do, they should be chipped.
Of course not. But people have wanted the government to do their parenting for them for a long time. Promised security so you don't have to worry about your kids. They'll be shocked to find out their kids still aren't safe.
You may get a lot of strong comments here about people who think all sex offenders need to die, but I know what you mean by asking this. When they can't get a job or find a place to live, how do we keep track of them? To what point will desperation push someone who can't find work? And I bet a lot of people don't realize that there are actually registered sex offenders who only have that status due to a charge of indecent exposure because they didn't realize someone saw them whip it out and pee behind a tree. Most people think the sex offender registry is only for vicious child molesters, they don't know the whole picture.
I will guess that 9 out 10 sex offenders will commit the same act over and over until caught, 10 out 10 sex offenders are that "SEX OFFENDERS", I think is a great idea to push them to hell if possible, the offender did something that was and is against the law...Sorry no sympathy here to dirty minded individuals. You think we should feel sorry for these sick bastards? or perhaps you are the offender you are referring to?
It's like watching a car crash.
I agree with everything you just said. Some new laws are making us less safe than we were to begin with, all because sex offenders are the new thing to hate and fear -- thanks to the media.
Don't get me wrong -- most laws about sex offenders are in place for a good reason, and were created with good intentions of protecting society's most vulnerable members. But there are a lot of people who committed relatively minor crimes, and even people who were wrongfully convicted (see Kevin Thornton, http://www.justiceforkevin.org... who now have to be registered alongside truly dangerous and horrible people for the rest of their lives.
Kevin had just turned 18 (10 days before) and was in the backseat of a car with a 17-year-old who was passed out from EXTREME amounts of alcohol, who was raped by someone else and ID'd him! He still maintains his innocence, and even the people who thought the worst about him just thought he was some drunk kid who went too far. But there's his mug shot, right next to a guy who violently raped and forced oral sex on a 12-year-old. Doesn't seem fair to me, either. They're all painted with the same brush, and for life! That's in addition to the fact that even if people like Kevin can prove they are innocent, sex crimes cannot be expunged.
I would say there are some people on those sex offender lists who don't belong there at all. Megan's Law actually discriminates against gay and bisexual men who were prosecuted back in the 1940's, 50's, and 60's when ANY kind of consensual homosexual behavior between adults was considered a sex crime. These are perfectly harmless individuals who today are in their 70's and 80's, who were arrested and convicted many years ago just because they were caught by some cop kissing or holding hands in a car or a public park, and now they get forced to register as sex offenders because they violated some stupid laws that are no longer on the books, and should never have even existed in the first place.
As for most of the other sex offenders, pushing them further underground (6 feet underground to be precise) might not be such a bad idea.
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