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Wow, this thread has come further than I expected. With that, it's going to be hard for me not to just jump in and state how I feel about the sex offense registries etc.
I'm curious though to the statements about women/girls getting abused more than men. (or that men do more abusing than women). I have a contact with a person who works for the state and rehabilitates sex offenders. She says that while statistically men do more offending than women, the stats are skewed because of a double standard. A boy has sex with his female teacher and it's seen as a badge of honor. It never gets reported and the teacher gets her rocks off to little johnny's tutoring. I have a feeling that if all the instances of this were reported, we'd see quite a difference in the stats and that it would be closer to 50/50.
NC is going to a tiered system for their registries. However it still doesn't differenciate between the 18 yr old kid who slept with a 16 (and legal w/ consent) girl and the 40 year old who plead down to indecent liberties.
The other thing that I'm concered about is how Bush put the law out there that juvenille offenders have to register for 10, 25 and life. If a juvenille offends and isn't found to be mentally disabled, he shouldn't have to worry with such a long registry. Let him try to get his life back together. I think that for every 1 recidivist, there are 1,000's of non-recidivists, but naturally we only hear of the 1, and another witch hunt ensues.
I'm a parent. I understand the fears that parents have; but let's be honest. If someone wants your kid bad enough, no amount of registry or screening or law enforcement will stop them. It's scary, but it's true.
It's early, I'm sure I have plenty of misspellings in there and I apologize but.. as most know this is a subject that I can hash out all day.
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