Jinn

I empathasize with your post and I certainly understand why that is so heart wrenching. Just like murderers, sex offenders can do horrible things to people and any discussion of their court case of their offenses is traumatizing. However, if they are a VIOLENT sex offender with a high liklihood to repeat their offense, they should STAY IN JAIL. I've said it before and I've said it again, if they've been RELEASED from jail, they should be treated like every other felon. No right to vote, no right to a gun, but you're still a CITIZEN of the United States of America. Until you re-offend, we won't be pulling a Minority Report and assuming that you're going to offend again. That would be like creating a registry for everyone who's ever been convicted of a crime, and posting it on the web. If you've been convicted of theft > $500 (a felony, in most states) you aren't allowed to go into a store unescorted. If you've committed Grand Theft Auto, you're no longer allowed to enter a parking garage. These all sound ridiculous, because they assume rehabilititaiton is not possible. There's only one thing missing from the list:
If you've committed a sexual offense, you are no longer allowed to have children.

I'm certainly not defending Mr. WolfHawk, but the fact that sex offenders can have their children, lives, or other things removed because they MIGHT be tempted by a child, I leave you with this:

Is 8-18% really worth taking the civil rights of the 82 - 92% of the convicted sex offenders who don't reoffend?

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