sex offender residency restriction law actually harm more then help?

I wonder why the news never said anything about the boys father being forced to live where they were due to residency restrictions.HMMMMM.......So by protecting the children so vigalantly as we do in this country we put this little boy in harms way.Oh yea thats right sex offenders children dont count i guess.The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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Your question illustrates the very point that the registry has become too large and too watered down to accomplish any good. From violent offenders and child predators to 'romeo and juliet' relationships of consentual teenagers to someone mooning the wrong person and being reported.

The registries were originally for law enforcement to track the worst of the worst. Now everyone anywhere can see 400,000 (or is it 600,000) people on this 'false sense of safety' registry.

90% of child sex offenses happen from someone the child already knows closely. Stranger danger is big media, but far from reality of what parents really should be wary of. If you have 80 sex offenders in a room with 20 people that are not on the sex offender registry, the next crime will likely be from one of the 20 that aren't on this registry.

What happened to Christopher is sad. Pity that the state of Georgia made his family move there for the father's conviction "statutory rape" in 1998 (when he was about 25 years old). Nine years later, with legislation that forces sex offenders to relocate time and time again, along with the destabliizing factors of difficulties finding housing and employment, are what put Barrios' family and the Edenfields across the street from each other.

Christopher's family KNEW about the Edenfields! So the registry failed in so many ways in this instance.

Registries and residency restrictions don't work. Education and therapy work. When will the public tell the politicians to put their money into effective solutions?

I used to work with offenders and what I saw was that it USUALLY never ends. They place the laws for others protection. I see that there is other victums in this case. I think that they should go ahead and put in GPS systems and track them that way but on the other hand they are offenders and it is public knowledge. So I guess it really is a catch 22.

This is what we need now, enough coddling of these offenders. We need to protect our oved ones and stop giving offenders all the rights, Sex Offender Legislation "Wish List"

1- GPS and lifetime supervision/treatment Law

2- Include all known offenders in the management plan-for life.

3- Put all offenders , levels I, II or III on the website

4- "Victim Shield Law". help society hold sexual offenders accountable. ,

5- Plea deals down to "Endangering the welfare of a minor". Despite the underlying behavior being the sexual abuse of children offenders are often given convictions that hide the nature of their behavior..

6- Make "Endangering the welfare of a minor" registerable , if the judge feels it was a sexually motivated crime..

7- "Standardized" conditions for those on sex offender probation.

8- Sexual Offender Contraband law- as handcuffs, police lights, spy cameras, and software to make their internet behavior more anonymous.

9- Sex Offender use of technology law-

First I grieve for the parents. The registry and its spin off laws are doing nothing to protect children. It is a " feel good" law that makes politicians look good in the public eyes. And lest we forget there are folks on this list that had never laid a hand on a "child". There are teens on the list for the REST OF THEIR LIVES because they had sex with their girlfriends. Hell Pete Townsend from the WHO is on it because he was doing research for anti child porn. Amazing.

I feel that these laws need to be looked at and rewritten. Should there be a registry... yes. but it needs to be looked at and rewritten.

STOP THE WITCH HUNT.

I don't know the details of the case your talking about but as the mother of daughters I like having that info at my fingertips. I don't use it to harass offenders I use it to inform myself and my children. I 100 percent believe in the registration It scares me to think of the offenders that are violating the law and are not registered

The sex offender registry HARMS our children. This is a clear cut case of the failure of the registry.

Criminal Records Search Database - http://infosearchdetective.com/

YES REMOVE IT!!!

Im tired of being hassle by people

my vicitim are NOT suffering any more they are WAY more successful then I am then why should I SUFFER!!!