There is no proof the registry has saved a single child...  Yet it has prompted several murders.  States list people forever that visited the state once years ago for a few days. They never return, but they are still listed by the State. They also keep registered those that have died. These citizens may still be within their borders, but they are DEAD!!! They are buried and only a threat if you believe in GHOSTS! \n\nStates do this to inflate numbers. States do this so that they can suck more of our tax dollars from Federal programs. States do this because there is no oversight. States do this because they can.
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lalala, I too was molested as a child. Twice. Once at the tender age of 6 and once at the age of 11. Both times were by people known to the family. BUT. I am not a victim. I am a survivor. Megans Law is WRONG. It is denying Constitutional Rights to rehabilitated former sex offenders. It is not protecting anyone. The registries have never and will never protect a child. They are a false sense of security. A parents responsibility is to protect their child! Are you aware that little Megan Kanka, at the age of 7 was left outside for THREE HOURS with no parental supervision? Never was checked on! \n\nThe states inflate the numbers on the registries to get more federal funding. They create more sex crimes for the same reason. Do you realize that in some states, urinating in public is a sex offense and will put you on the registry? Did you realize that in some states, I will choose WI as I know the law there, if a teen couple is 16 and have consensual sex, they will arrest and charge both with sexual assault against the other? That makes them both a victim and an offender. WI is not the only state that does this. \n\nThere are many variables that you are not aware of. I have done my homework. I work with rehabilitated former sex offenders everyday. I do know what I am talking about.
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The original intent of the Registries were for Sexually Violent Predators. Not the Romeo/Juliets, not the children who are exploring as children will sometimes do. There are states that have children on their internet registries as young as 11. There are states that will convict two 16 year olds of sexual assault against each other if they are caught having sex. That makes them both offender and victim. But it does not matter. If they are 16 and the age of consent is 17, then they are not old enough to consent. I wonder, how many of our esteemed politicians had teen consensual sex many years ago?\n\nRehabilitated former sex offenders are the least likely of all criminals to recidivate, with the exceptoin of murderers. Your child has a higher chance of being molested by someone known to the child and the parent. \n\nDo your research. Learn. That is what I have done. These registries are wrong, they are causing vigilante acts and one day, the rehabilitated offender is going to have a family member murdered by a vigilante. Perhaps if it is his/her child something will then be done about the registries. After all, the Government likes to make you think it is all for the children. It is actually all for the votes.
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Wow - I was wondering when someone would resurrect this... it's old news, I'm afraid. Here's one of many web sites, too...\n\nhttp://www.aip.org/isns/reports/2002/058.html
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Funny. Google's record seems to have gone bye-bye.\n\nLook for newspapers around that area - especiallty the smaller ones closest to the crime. People there are more likely to remember the inident and details because it would have been a big story for a local paper.
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NO! This information should not be made available! It is unconstitutional and in the majority of cases it is ex post facto and due process of law is not followed. \n\nFurthermore, rehabilitated former sex offenders have a 5.3% recidivism for re arrest and 3.5% recidivism for re conviction. Out of that 3.5%, 1.2% are recidivists who offend a child. The registries are nothing but feel good, knee jerk legislation. They have not and will not save one child. Your child has a larger chance of being harmed by a drug dealer/user, drunk driver, playground accident, drowning and parental neglect than they have of being harmed by a rehabilitated former sex offender. \n\n90 to 95% of sex offenses are committed by someone known to the child in their family or the families circle of friends, as well as, coaches, teachers, police and other people in positions of authority. \n\nStranger danger is not prevalent. You are the only one that can protect your child. Parental Supervision while the children are out playing or while they are on the internet is paramount to their safety.
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Exactly!  I figure if the country has a person who committed murder or drug or gang crimes, why would they tell the US about it on enquiry with a background check?  They will be glad to be rid of the problem person from their society.
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The first few posters don't have a clue as to what they're talking about - strictly speaking from the emotions rather than from logic. Because California has been registering sex offenders since 1947 and Megan's List goes back to 1944, the felony sex offenders who did molest children did their offenses WAY back (like 40 years ago) and we don't think it proper to put someone in state prison for life for child molesting (25 years, but not life). And since California has something like 107 different offenses that qualify someone for a sex offender in this state, many of these are felony sex offenders, but the majority are not child molesters.\n\nI wonder when society is going to realize that a sex offender is an offender but not necessarily a child molester or child rapist. \n\nAlso some of you stated that they should clear out the petty thieves and place the sex offenders back into prison. Ever hear of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights? Ex post facto? Do these concepts ring a bell with anyone?  Once you have paid the consequences at the time of sentencing, the government cannot re-arrest you to pay additional consequences for the same offense. \n\nI seriously doubt if the GPS requirement will go through. The state currently has 1,000 high risk sex offendes on GPS. This initiative is talking about placing 80,000 anklets on felony sex offenders. The cost is astronomical and seriously limited technologically. The California Department of Corrections has a hard enough time handling the 1,000. Multiply that by 80 and it's nearly impossible.  \n\nTwo other considerations - the state has not had an epidemic of sexual offending by strangers, never has. Most of these stranger danger cases have happened in other states and opportunistic politicians (Sharon and George Runner, sponsors of 83) have taken advantage of the public hysteria. We do have interfamilial child sex abuse cases, as do all states. Yet GPS will not work within homes. Expensive and useless technology.\n\nThe other consideration - the politicians who were up for reelection wanted 83, the public wants it, but the experts who deal with the problem day in and day out (parole agents, the California Coalition on Sex Offending, CALCASA (84 sexual assault advocacy centers), and many, many others thought it was a red herring. \n\nIt's hardly a liberal judge thing letting people out of prison. If anything, California is a punitive state when it comes to criminal justice system. But our prisons are extremely overcrowded. We just went on a prison building spree to build spaces for 100,000 prisoners in the past 20 years; we now have 173,000 in state prison alone. The feds have threatened to take it over. This propsotion will just add to the problem and may be the tipping point to a federal take over. \n\nYou reap what you sow. California has been in a get tough on crime for a long time, but the taxpayers don't want to pay the bill. something's got to give.
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So what, he threatened to sell to a sex offender? What is the problem there? At least he didn't threaten to sell to a drug dealer/user or a drunk driver. They both have a much higher rate of recidivism than a rehabilitated former sex offender. They also kill more children than a rehabilitated former sex offender. So would you rather have those in your neighborhood? Of course, in all actuality, you most likely already have them in your neighborhood. You just don't know it because there is no registry for them.\n\nYour child also has a 90 to 95% chance of being sexually abused by someone known to the family that isn't on a registry. Compare that to the 5.3% rearrest and 3.5% reconviction rate for rehabilitated former sex offenders.\n\nJust leave the guy alone. You people are feeding into him. He is enjoying the fight. You already know you can't beat him so just ignore him. You know what they say, "Ignorance is Bliss".
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They should not have to live that way. It is definitely not right. Rehabilitated former sex offenders deserve, along with their families, the rights all Americans deserve. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, once they have paid their debt to society. \n\nTo prevent these murders from happening the United States needs to get back to the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights! They need to take down all the Registries. The original intent of these registeries were for LAW ENFORCEMENT and only for the Violent Sexual Predators. That is how it should be!\n\nAmerica wake up! You will be next. Your Civil Rights are eroding daily with the Patriot Act and similar laws. Eventually you will see, but by then, it will be too late.
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The better question to ask is,"How many times has life support been removed from someone without a living will or medical power of attorney?" The government only had the husband's word as to what his wife wanted, despite the fact there were serious questions as to his motivation for seeing his wife euthanized. Neither legal documents were present in the Schiavo case. If they had been none of the problems we saw would have happened.
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It has been proven to the satisfaction of many people, but there are some that are extremely hard to convince, for a variety of reasons. These reasons are mainly faith based, in that they have faith in the government, and do not want to believe that their government could murder three thousand of its own citizens. They will all wake up in due time, probably when the country is under Martial law, with curfews imposed, and they become prisoners in their own house.\nThat's for the lucky ones of course. The less lucky will become prisoners in the 600 or so concentration camps which have been built around the country, and are already manned and waiting for their presence.
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It's really the way that the government is going in these days of severe and proliferating identity theft.  Biometrics will be seen to be on the increase in all areas of our life and it really is to protect us not to be a big brother society as some people rant about.  Kids are at risk of abduction and if the state has a more current picture and their prints on file then this is great if they have to issue an AMBER alert.  The move is on really strongly to get kids to get official state ID's renewed every two years from birth on since their looks change so much when they are that young and parents don't typically get them an ID until it is time for them to get their driving permit.  In Louisiana, this is called the "Save Our Kids" movement and they can get their ID's at a reduced cost, even though we don't collect their fingerprints yet.  Think about it.
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I think you're right! I also believe that we keep alive far too many people who should have died...like the lady in Florida who was kept alive for years on machines. Poor thing...how undignified. brrrr - gives me chills thinking about it!
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More states need it. Oh my gosh too much of it is going on. When I moved out here to Arizona in 1982, a little girl was going to have breakfast with her father and she went out to look for her cat and her father found her in the desert dead. Someone had raped and killed her. \n\nIt is beyond me how anyone can hurt a child and it just infuriates me. There are so many sickos and a lot of them are here on the internet as well.  I nicely asked that these kids do not give their e mails out and I have left messages for girls who are desperately looking for a boy to chat with. \n\nI just keep my fingers crossed that this law spreads. Before putting the suckers to death, they should take an electronic knife and NIP HIM RIGHT IN THE BUD!! \n\nKids cannot even walk to school and feel safe anymore. \nThey deserve to be safe.
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I was willing to give this a reasonable chance until I read this:\n\nOne early morning in '99 Range was returing from Henderson when a low-flying craft dropped a trail right overhead along Boulder Highway. "It covered my car with a sticky web-like coating and I saved a specimen in a jar. Microscopic fiber-like filaments," Range reports\n\nWhat was the outcome of the analysis of this specimen?  If this happened in 1999 don't you think she would've taken it in for analysis by now?  \n\nAnd what does being over 25 have to do with anything?  Are all people over 25 blind or something?\n\nI live in NJ so I can't say that its completely untrue but, I find it hard to believe that so few people have come forward.  A lot of people live in Vegas, I would've expected more people to have said somethin by now and I would expect this to be national news if it were true.  People aren't as complacent as you think they are, when it has to do with their long term health and the health of their children, people are usually very vigilant.
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i think it is because if guns are registered, some criminals can be tracked down. not all people are born criminals, so they buy guns, register them, go hunting, etc. \nLike in murder case of Dr. John Branion, 1967. He shot his wife four times, picked up his son from school and came home to pretend to "find" her dead. The eidence from the autopsy and evidence found in the Branion home showed that the murder weapon was a .38 caliber Walther PPK handgun, which Branion clamied to not own, although he owned a brochure, a Walther PPK target, an ammo clip and ammo for that exact gun. they took the serial number from the products, and found that the gun was registered to a friend of Branion's who had given Branion the gun as a gift. Thanks to the registration of that gun Branion was convicted of his wife's murder.
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I have known other people in similar situations as you are in. One close friend was accused of molesting his daughter by his ex wife. She reported him a few hours after a custody hearing in which she lost.  The child said her father never touched her, the ex and prosicutors convinced a jury the child denied the abuse because she was afraid of the father. He is still in prison for a crime the victim said never happened.  The child is no little kid eather, she was a teen. \n\nPeople need to realize just how false accusations not only hurt the accused but the children too. I wish Americans would wake up and see this sort of thing happens all the time.\n\nThis makes me wonder just how many innocent people are in jail. These people are not going to get freed by DNA testing because there is none. Part of the reason why I became a civil rights activist.\n\nI think CPS has become a tool of the devil and is used to take control of our children. If you can control what the children think you can take over a country. Just look at how uneducated our society is today on Constitutional rights? Your situation is a prime example of many constitutional violations yet we as a society continue to allow it.  Why?\n\nI am sorry I can't give you an answer to quickly solve your problem. The only advice I can give is lots of prayer(and it works no matter what your religous beliefs are) and get a good attorney with experience in these types of cases.