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We had a house sale fall through, with the written explanation that there was a RSO in the neighborhood. In conversation, she mentioned the dining room was too small, and she later tried to get our realtor to pay for the inspections they had done because she advised us not to disclose the Hells Angels clubhouse in the neighborhood (which had a large sign out front, "Hells Angels Clubhouse."
So I think the RSO was just an excuse for changing her mind. That seems wrong, especially when one can be forced to register if caught skinny dipping.
The market was red hot (2005), and the house sold immediately to someone else.
Yes, excuse. No matter where you are there are lots of little dots that come up on the sex registry site.
I was corresponding with a sex offender in AZ for a number of years, he was 17, having had sex with a 14YO and he served a long 12 year sentence for it, and there was no chance I could offer him any refuge in Las Vegas, where I lived, as there was a middle school just up the street from me. He seems to be doing alright, working at a Bakery in Phoenix.
I worked in a LTC/Rehab facility for 17 years and a year before I left some older sex offender was a patient in our facility, and one day, someone caught him using the Day room computer, and that's all it took to throw him back in prison. And being in a wheelchair, what harm could he have done to the elderly patients in the facility?
We had an older sex offender in one too. They caught him in his wheelchair fondling a female resident in a gerichair. The police wouldn’t take him cause he was on 5 liters of oxygen. He was confined to his room and the facility had to pay for a CNA to sit outside his door 24 hours a day. Also just being in a wheelchair doesn’t mean he can’t transfer to a bed. In s setting where many residents cannot tell or speak up for themselves, they have to err on the side of caution.
In some states though, yes. Pretty sure OP said it was from having a younger gf when he was 18.
She didn't say a younger girlfriend. She said the victim was under 18. Big difference. We don't know if it was a consensual relationship or a sexual assault.
Romeo and Juliet laws should apply... it is slightly different from state to state.
They needs something similar to apply to child pornography posession in which the sender and receiver are dating/partnered in close proximity of age. Kids do stupid stuff all the time.. they shouldn't be placed on the registry for such things. It downplays the importance of the registry and at the same time is draconian punishment for some that end up on that list.
I'm a bit scared for my 13 and 11 year old boys in a few years. I'll need to keep reminding them to not send anything, accept anything, and if they get anything inappropriate to delete it immediately and not share.
And this is why these registries are broken, IMO. Don't know what state OP is in, but here in SC.. There is no getting off the registry.. It's for life. Even a pardon doesn't remove you from it.
Minors go on the list. for life.
Prosecutors use the registry to obtain guilty pleas. There was a case where a high school student swiped his teachers phone. The teacher had nude images of herself on it. The student sent those images out. The prosecution charged him with an offense that would land him on the registry in order to get him to plead out to a reduced charge that wouldn't put him on the registry. Peeing outside can technically land you on the registry if you have a solicitor who wants to put you on it.
And, as OP shows.. Most people just see someone on the registry and jump to conclusions. Thankfully, OP did some due diligence and dug into it to find out exactly what happened.
This.
The headline "sex offender" tag is bad, but I'd want to know the particular circumstances of the person's case.
She didn't say a younger girlfriend. She said the victim was under 18. Big difference. We don't know if it was a consensual relationship or a sexual assault.
That is not what she said. Here is what she said, in post number 4:
“Okay thanks for this info as I did extra research, this actually clears things up a bit and I am breathing a little easier. Looks like when he was 18 is when he was officially charged, not two months ago. It's two months ago that he appeared in my area, but after looking at the state's official website, the crime was committed when he was 18, and the victim was 17, so this makes more sense. That was almost a good 15 years ago too. The state has that has being his last (and only) offense.”
If it was a sexual assault, he would have a police record that would be a public record and easy enough to find.
Reminds me I made friends with a neighbor and I ran across my city's offender database...Yep he was there, 7 months previous he was busted for "Indecent liberties with a minor"....I noticed he was wearing an ankle monitor for "DUI" he claimed...I never said anything to him.
I did debate about printing up some flyers and sticking them in paper slots to alert the neighbors, but felt this was beyond what I should do and just kept an eye on him from time to time.
That is not what she said. Here is what she said, in post number 4:
“Okay thanks for this info as I did extra research, this actually clears things up a bit and I am breathing a little easier. Looks like when he was 18 is when he was officially charged, not two months ago. It's two months ago that he appeared in my area, but after looking at the state's official website, the crime was committed when he was 18, and the victim was 17, so this makes more sense. That was almost a good 15 years ago too. The state has that has being his last (and only) offense.”
If it was a sexual assault, he would have a police record that would be a public record and easy enough to find.
I am a "he" btw.
But anyway, the crime is not listed as assault. It's listed exactly to the crime I had mentioned, which was "film/photos of the minor".
With my monthly credit report, I also get updates on local sex offenders that have been registered in my immediate area.
I am not even sure what to do? Do I ask or bring it up? In a way If he did commit this, how can I even be around him anymore? She is a great friend, but if she he did something serious and is looking the other way how can I also be friends with her? This is just also bizarre, and I am not sure how to approach this.
Unfortunately the definition of the crime and register has expanded greatly. Even people who semi-accidentally had stuff on their computer or were snooping around online can be charged. It's not like the olden daze when you actually had to take multiple actions and things like that.
Most real crimes would have plenty of newspaper and other stories following them.
In my extended circle I know of at least two "sex offenders" and there are probably more. I know one relation whose own kids turned them in...for spite....yet there was no crime, abuse or anything other than a report. Teens can do that sort of thing.
One guy....wouldn't call him a friend, just someone I hit tennis balls with....told me the first time we met he had just got out of jail for having a CD found in his lost backpack. He had been a teacher and had lost everything and spent a year in jail...not passing judgment on him, but if he was in my neighborhood I wouldn't worry in the least.
The other guy was a friend of a friends who got busted for having some pot plants in his house and he and his wife were very loose sexually in all ways (open relationship)....and he had some illegal porn found on his computer. Again, not passing judgement and if I did I'd say he was a perv of sort, but not gonna prey upon your or my children (in general)....
Let's put it this way. If we got into the computers, minds and actions of every male in your or my town, we'd have more criminal (in many ways) then we could possibly deal with.
One time in about 1999 my hard drive crashed and I got a utility to see if I could salvage anything. WOW.....just from being on the net there were some very bad words (and maybe images...I couldn't see) that had been downloaded to my computer that I had no idea about!
Consider that if you visited a web page with vast amounts of text relating to sex crimes or such on it..and the writer of that page had made that text white (invisible), all that text would be deposited on your hard drive without you knowing. This is in addition to emails (even SPAM) and attachments and viruses, etc.
I am not even sure what to do? Do I ask or bring it up? In a way If he did commit this, how can I even be around him anymore? She is a great friend, but if she he did something serious and is looking the other way how can I also be friends with her? This is just also bizarre, and I am not sure how to approach this.
If I were in your shoes, I wouldn't associate with a sex offender of that nature.
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