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texxasco,
the thing I find most compelling about your anecdote are the facts surrounding his victims:
acquantances and family members.
Given your background, you must know by now the majority of molestation cases occur within these two categories. That is, if anyone is going to molest your children, you almost always already know the person.
Given that stark reality, what good does sexual offender registration do? What good does curfews for sexual predators do? One thing is certain, if you keep sexual predators in their homes and bound to the people closest to them, you will increase access to their "natural" prey.
This has got to be one of the most interesting and crucial factoids that rarely makes it into public discourse when the media portrays these kinds of (re)offenses. It's right up there with child kidnaps (hint: you guessed it, someone (non-custodial parent) who knows the child or runaway) and is a grave disservice to rational people (I'm referring to everyone in this thread and elsewhere--not saying some are and some aren't) debating public policiy.
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