The Appeal: Still on the Registry For Life.

Search for Zhuo “Simon” Liu in California’s online database of registered sex offenders and you’ll see a snapshot of his offenses. You’ll learn that he was convicted of “rape in concert with force or violence” and “assault with intent to commit a specified sex offense.” You’ll also see his photo, his home address, and his birthdate, showing that he’s now 38.

But you won’t learn that Liu was labeled a sex offender for an assault that someone else committed. Or that Liu was 16 at the time, a recent Chinese immigrant who spoke little English. And there’s no mention of the good that he has done for his community since his release on parole in 2017. To the California Department of Justice, which publishes the database, Liu is just another one of the state’s 106,000 registered sex offenders, someone the public should fear and be warned of.

The restrictions and stigma of the sex offender label are “suffocating,” Liu told The Appeal. “People just assume I’m a monster.” On some days, he said, “I wake up in the morning and I look at this [GPS monitor] on my ankle, and it just sends a chill through my body that the system is doing this to me.”

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2 thoughts on “The Appeal: Still on the Registry For Life.

  • May 15, 2019

    If a million sex offenders and those supporting them were to make a peaceful demonstration , if law enforcement didn’t put a stop to it vigilantes would attack and have a hay day. There would be bloodshed and everyone would praise the vigilantes.

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  • May 14, 2019

    please explain how anything short of violent force will restore your humanity ? you are not even allowed to leave country and escape the torturing and abuse any more.1997 this abuse started and everyone said “trust the law to restore itself” “sane minds will prevail “.I told you then,and I am telling you now!.. look at the torturing in place then and the horror the demonic succubus of a government has created now…are you ready to see and admit the truth yet? you were chosen out of all crime allegations choices NOT for the crime but for the KNOWN passivity..Guam is looking to castration and electrocution therapy again and so are three other states….still trust the government or others to care more about you and your family then you do?..time to rally ! there are an easy one million on the registry and an easy one million support if everyone has only one person..that’s a standing force of at least two million people..2 million that can either peacefully get in the cattle cars for the gas chambers like before or can stand and fight..is it dangerous ?..not as dangerous as doing nothing.!..look at the pictures of the claw Mark’s on gas chamber walls…those were people trusting others too..

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