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Check out this website - it's like the sex offender database on steroids. Enter your street, state and zip and watch the dots appear on the map. Click on the dots to see the offender and their offense... kind of puts a new perspective on it when you can see exactly where they are near your house!
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These things freak me out but I like having photos just in case I see one at the store. I'm working on my "you are the lowest piece of crap on this planet" look.
Zman: Thank you for sharing your opinion. Are you a parent? Were you molested as a child or know anyone who was?
Wow, someone's rather defensive, don'tcha think? Man, I would so love to debate this issue with this guy, but don't worry, I won't start a war of words over here.
I don't have kids and never will, but you better believe I'm all for these types of registries. We deserve to know this type of information and protect ourselves from sex offenders. I wouldn't knowingly live next to or allow my nieces and nephews to hang out with a sex offender. It's creepy seeing all those little dots come up though. Wonder if we could just put them all on an island and let them do what they do to each other?
After seeing the comment by Zman!, I have a few things to add that could offend. Forgive me, Lora.
The sex offender registry isn't perfect. The biggest problem is with repeat offenders as many anointed visionaries feel denying liberties with incarceration is far worse than a repeat offense.
But, the bigger problem is that many of these registered offenders are living next to schools. Sure this could be looked at as forcing the former-offender to deal with the issue daily and fight said demons... or could be too much for their willpower.
Of course, many of these repeat offenders will not show up on this list as many stop registering their location and disappear. We hear this often when a new offense happens and that offender is taken in again for the additional crimes. GPS could keep that from happening but would take a lot more enforcement.
Discriminate? Hell yes! Taking away the innocence of a child, scarring them for life and introducing cold realities of adulthood so early on isn't easily forgivable. The law doesn't forgive but sets aside societal judgments for such transgressions. I don't think you will find people logging on to track possible auto thieves for fear of their car being stolen but a child's innocence... it can not be insured or replaced. Only protected, as that is why parents are also called "guardians."
Yes, a tiered system would be much better. A parent that takes what would have been a traditional photo of a baby on a bearskin rug can currently be registered with pedophiles of the most extreme nature. It is also nearly impossible to be removed from such a list for taking a photo of your child that someone else may find obscene. This may be my only point of agreement with him as I know someone in that position.
Therapy is an interesting notion as there has been no known therapy that has worked on repeat sex offenders. Could more research go into it, sure. The problem with this is tied to our treatment of the mentally ill. Advocates posed the notion that keeping them medicated and "locked up" against their will in institutions was again taking away their civil liberties. We see many of them roaming the streets with "Feed Me" signs and sleeping in parks. An uncured sex offender doesn't wear such a sign.
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