Innocent children who have been violated like me have to with this for the rest of our lives. So I don't think sex offenders have paid their debt to society by living in prison and I don't think they should ever get to live in peace. We have been violated so our minds do not get to live in peace. Why should they live in peace? They should suffer for the rest of their lives for what they have done to children like us.
Anyway, what exactly did your son do when he was 12? And did you witness it?
His story is here in AD. And I too have been on the other side of this debate. I too was molested from the age of 5 until I was 14 by our so-called landlord. Did he ever see a day in jail for this. NO! But yet, I can look at this objectively and not hate from it. There is no 100% fool proof way of protecting your kids, not even when your asleep. All you can do is the best you can do.
I wish they would do away with this registry. Only the cops and courts should know where they live. It is not our business to know and so far it is proven that this is not working. All it is doing is causing people to do things that they normally would not do. I have heard of sex offenders being killed by their neighbors, have their homes vandalized, and not allowed to live in peace at all. They get harrassed more than they harrass us usually.
My son is not dangerous. In fact he should never have even been prosecuted, but this town being what it is, they went ahead with it and got away with it.
Lucia,
Just because you hear that someone has been prosecuted of it and convicted does not actually make them guilty no matter what. Many, many, many accused sex offenders have now been released because the DNA does not match up. Once accused it follows them for the rest of their lives, even if they are later found NOT to have done it. On top of that, there have been stories where kids will make things up to get *revenge* alot of good teachers have lost their jobs over this. Yet, were later found to NOT have done anything. After the accusations their lives were destroyed and their careers in the dumpster. Once accused they couldnt go back to teaching, regardless if they DIDNT do it and was PROVED not to have done it.
There are MANY stories out there that is proven to be lies and the justice system used for revenge. But once accused too many people do NOT care about the outcome, only that they were accused.
That is why I push and push for stricter laws when it comes to sex offenses. I believe we SHOULD not be able to prosecute WITHOUT DNA proving that that person did it. Otherwise, it is a he said, she said situation. With no real proof.
What if there was a gf that got dumped by her bf? She could EASILY go to the cops and say he raped her, just out of revenge for being dumped. Then that boyfriend is branded for life.
The way people think today scares me more than the sex offenders do.
With the way people think today the safest thing is to NEVER have sex with ANYONE.
Even a wife can accuse her husband of rape and put him in jail! Think about that!
This is not a black and white issue. There are many of shades of grey in this issue.
There is two cases that I know of, one is personal and one is someone I dont know.
My husband's ex gf and the mother of his other daughter accused her brother of raping her. He was sentenced to jail for 20 years, he killed himself while in jail and maintained his innocence the whole time he was in jail. Later, this woman turned around and admitted she lied about the whole thing, and that it never happened. After her brother had killed himself! So you tell me, is this worth it?
Some of you may say oh a few innocents lost are worth it, simply because it does get the bad ones away from us and off the streets. Is it? What if that innocent one is someday you or someone very close to you?
Another man, this person I dont know, he was arrested for raping a woman. He looked alot like the man in the description. He spent many years in jail before DNA testing came along. They were finally able to test the DNA from the crime. It was found it was not HIM that did it!!! They finally released him, but only after his whole life was ruined.
I personally think, that no matter what was done to me in the past, that this is not about me. There is a bigger picture here. Regardless of how mad I am about what happened to me, it isnt worth someone not being able to live their lives, it isnt worth an innocent person having their whole lives destroyed over, and it isnt worth making it so that a person cannot at least have the possibility of finally making a decent and law abiding life for themselves.