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I want to make it clear I don't feel sorry for the great majority of these guys (and a few gals) but I was checking out the registered list in my state and two things struck me; there are so many of them and how do they support themselves and live?
What kind of jobs can they do if they can find any to do at all even at minimum wage?
Georgia is particularly hard and while they recently revised where a registered sex offender can live the new law is similar to
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The restrictions are exactly the same as the ones implemented in 2006. In almost every case, all registered sex offenders are treated equally, regardless of whether they were convicted of child rape or public urination. No sex offender may live within 1,000 feet of a child care facility, church, school, or "area where minors congregate." Those areas are defined as: parks, recreation facilities, playgrounds, skating rinks, neighborhood centers, gymnasiums, school bus stops, public libraries and public and community swimming pools. Adding libraries is the only change to that definition.
Nine offenders in Georgia were directed to live in tents in a wooded area because it was the only place they could live until they were chased out.
The people I feel sorry for are the idiots who maybe got drunk and peed in public or the idiot in the news lately that took a picture using his cell phone of underage girls flashing motorists along a highway. Man Arrested for Taking Photo of Underage Girls... | Gather
That he did something stupid is out of the question but if you are a parent of a 22 year old son I am willing to place a bet if he found himself in the same situation with a cell phone changes are 50-50 he'd take a photo. When I was 22 if two 16 or 17 year old girls would have flashed me I would have... lucky we didn't have cell phones back then. So what do we do with the 22 year old male who acted stupidly, put him on the list for the rest of his life? Or what about the 18 year old high school boy that has sex with his 17 year old girlfriend? Stupid thing to do but do we want to wreck the rest of is life for something maybe some here reading this had done?
After reading up on this I would rather be a convicted murderer than convicted on a misdemeanor charge of peeing in public. At least being convicted of murder there would be a chance that crime not might follow me all the way to the grave.
Always wondered this myself but then i see in the news that when a convicted sex offender gets caught it seems he is always hired at a job that didnt do a thurough background check or they failed to register as a sex offender.
I agree that they really need to change who gets registered. Someone who gets arrested for public urination or an 18 year old dating a 16 year old doesn't belong on a list with rapists, flashers, pedophiles etc.
The ones who really do belong on that list, shouldn't be free in the first place.
They don't live. For those who got caught up branded as a 'sex offender' but are not rapists, child molesters, or some sexual deviant; they have no place to live (except under city bridges; ie FLORIDA). They have no place to work (not even telemarketing). So, the entire country has turned these people into thieves for survival. What else are they supposed to do? They can't support themselves in any way.
The sexual predators ought to be in jail & the bull crap branding ought to be dis-assembled. Its just a great source of gossip for people w/nothing better to do.
I agree that they really need to change who gets registered. Someone who gets arrested for public urination or an 18 year old dating a 16 year old doesn't belong on a list with rapists, flashers, pedophiles etc.
The ones who really do belong on that list, shouldn't be free in the first place.
That article that was linked to where the guy who was arrested for taking the picture of the girls flashing their breasts at motorists is freakin ridiculous.
The problem I have with tagging someone as a "sex offender" is that the definition is very broad. Someone who sexually brutalizes a baby is often put in the same category as someone who is convicted of statutory rape, indecent exposure, or even a crime with dubious evidential support. Some have even suggested that soliciting a prostitute should be classified as a sex crime. While most states have varying levels of classification, few citizens bother to find out the specifics. Thus, anyone who is called a sex offender for any reason is stigmatized.
Ultimately, if the individual poses a legitimate threat, they should remain incarcerated, either in a prison or in a psychiatric facility. If they are released, it should be on the premise that they no longer pose a reasonable threat. In which case it should be assumed that they have served their penalty and no longer require any type of supervision or classification.
where someone is initially charged with a sex crime but manages to get a plea to a lesser offense, to an offense that is petty and not even classified as a sex offense?
they would not be on the sex offender database but wouldn't their record show the original charge? can an employer or landlord etc made a decision based on the original charge (which was not what they were convicted of)?
I can see why society would want to brand these people so they know who they are, but there are problems with it, which have already been mentioned in this thread.
It's nice if somebody can find out which sex offenders live in their neighborhood so they can keep their kids away, but then what do you do when a child molester for example has an eight-year old niece? Think the family is going to keep them apart? Possibly unlikely. That my friend is a child who is most at risk there. So it just seems to me that branding people for vague crimes doesn't do much good.
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what happens in this situation?
