Sex offender registries are such bullshiat they should only be for violent offenders.

The trooper aimed a laser gun at the school building and determined Freeman was living 326 feet away

So it's OK for the cops to go around wantonly lasering grade schools now?

This country is messed up.

borg: Sex offender registries are such bullshiat they should only be for violent offenders. Period.

If tougher sentences are needed, fine. Impose life sentences for dangerous offenders.

But the whole notion of 'offender registries' sucks. If somebody's done his time, let him out and leave him the hell alone.

Sounds like another case of overzealous laws destroying another person's life. About par for the course today.

House of Tards: Well I feel safer knowing that this 23 year old man will not be employable until 2028.

That's what this country needs, you know. More poor, unskilled laborers making $130/week.

Crusader: Sounds like another case of overzealous laws destroying another person's life. About par for the course today.

Yea, but they're just thinking about the children so you are not allowed to question the way they go about that.

This story makes me very angry.

while i feel for the guy because he is stuck being unfairly labeled as a sex offender, my sympathy dropped off significantly because he violated his parole.

he knew the rules. even if the junk about being too close to his girlfriend was bogus, lifting the video games was pretty stupid. according to TFA, if he'd completed his probation successfully, the school-zone restriction wouldn't be in place and his current predicament could have been avoided completely.

House of Tards: Well, it's not like anything bad has ever come from having a large, poor underclass that has a tough time getting laid.



THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!

kevinshields: I love how the ex-girlfriend's mother, who started this whole thing because she's a nasty biatch who didn't want her daughter dating the kid, is now asking for his record to be expunged and that he be removed from the registry. Like that somehow makes it ok that, since she was pissed that her 15-year-old daughter was having sex, she ruined this kid's life.

Don't you get it? She's a single mother. She doesn't have time to do the right thing, she's a single mother. Whatever she does is justifiable if it's for her child, no matter how retarded or vengeful. She's a noble lioness protecting her cubs. Don't blame her, she's a single mother.

Sounds like he better be careful where he dribbles in the future.

borg: Sex offender registries are such bullshiat they should only be for violent offenders.

What would the registries do if it were only for violent offenders? Let's say someone brutally raped & beat a girl, was released from jail after 10 years, & goes on the registry. If he wants to rape another girl, what exactly is stopping him from driving 3 hours to the next state and doing it there?

In that scenario, what effectiveness is the registry supposed to have? The whole thing was put in place as a knee-jerk reaction to the rape & murder of Megan Kanka here in NJ. 3 sex offenders lived across the street from her & one of them killed her while his housemates were away. So naturally, the only way to protect the children was to let everyone know at any given time where the sex offenders in their neighborhood was.

Stupid law then, even more stupid now. There's a sex offender living a few blocks away. He got caught masturbating in his car while parked behind an adult book store. So now he's branded for 10 years because he couldn't wait until he got home.

Wow. I had a 15 year old girlfriend when I was 17. I guess that makes me a sex offender.


/giggity

bighasbeen: Don't you get it? She's a single mother. She doesn't have time to do the right thing, she's a single mother. Whatever she does is justifiable if it's for her child, no matter how retarded or vengeful. She's a noble lioness protecting her cubs. Don't blame her, she's a single mother.

Well, at least she REALIZES she farked up and now wants to fix it. Too bad she didn't understand what she was doing at the time.

However, I think it's GOOD news that this case is going to court. The only way this sort of overapplying the booga-booga is going to be solved or even looked at with some sort of rational eye is if an actual case makes it through the courts.

I'm just surprised the two year age difference was enough to trigger the statutory rape charge to begin with, mom in favor OR not. Don't most places have a "...or within X years of each other" exemption for this sort of thing?

brigid_fitch: Stupid law then, even more stupid now. There's a sex offender living a few blocks away. He got caught masturbating in his car while parked behind an adult book store. So now he's branded for 10 years because he couldn't wait until he got home.

Not to mention, no one knows where the regular garden variety murderers are living.

I won't deny that surely it's worse to be raped first, but y'know, I don't want to be just straight up slashed to death EITHER.

wasnt there a judge (appellate judge?) in mass or conn who was reviewing the disparity between male and females being charged with statutory rape

this (new window)

nothing personal, but isnt illegal for her to consent to have sex?
wasnt she breaking the law?

/arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

namatad: nothing personal, but isnt illegal for her to consent to have sex?
wasnt she breaking the law?

Yeah, but statutory rape is pretty much only filed when a parent complains - if there's truly unconsensual sex going on such that one of the actual participants complains, it's a regular ol' rape charge.

And for various social reasons in the US, it's not too surprising that it's the parents of the girl who files. Plus, she was the younger one, so if there's "ZOMG my baby is being taken advantage of!!!" it'd be her parents.

That said, haven't there been articles linked here on Fark where girls were charged with child porn charges for posting pics of their own underaged nekkid selves on the Internet?

itazurakko: Yeah, but statutory rape is pretty much only filed when a parent complains

...I should add, "in these cases where it's two teenagers getting it on."

3-2-1 swish! Nothing but NET! Yahoo!

- That was the sex tape transcript in its entirety.

This particular law is in place to protect children, so that's obviously a very serious matter

Obviously...

brainiac-dumdum: Some city in Florida is experiencing a boom in homeless sex offenders because of strict zoning laws.

let's make a law, it SOUNDS good on the surface.
no doing X within Y feet of schools or where children would be likely to be.

logically, that is almost ok.
schools, playgrounds, amusement parks.

NO ONE wants X around kids.

the problem starts when Y feet is large enough and the number of places which kids congregate bascially creates a law where X is not allowed anywhere within the city limits. but, the law doesnt outright BAN X in the city ... just defacto

this crap happens in chicago all the time
you cant have a new bar license within X feet of a school or church. so people cant sell their bar because the new owners are unable to get a new license ....

sigh

/god I hate these people

brainiac-dumdum: wonder if his girlfriend was as well or if he was after white women. Everyone knows white women belong to white men for their personal enjoyment and well as to cook, clean and have white babies

clearly the GF must have been black. if the girl was white, he would have been charged with RAPE.

/god I hate parents ... funny how they forget what they did when they were that age
/lost a friend, he suicided soon after being arrested for statutory rape
/someone should have killed the father who had him arrested for having sex with this daughter
/if you dont want your daughter to have sex without your permission, kill her soon after birth. it is the only way to prevent it

borg: Sex offender registries are such bullshiat they should only be for violent offenders.

THIS

Also, angry young black man with a cause.
Wearing too much white.