Children of Parents on Sex Offender Registry Are Collateral Damage of Registry
There is not doubt that people find out about people who are on the sex registry. And that will include friends and acquaintances of their children. It is also true that many registered sex offenders have families and are not threats to society.
Hence, the damage to their children is real, because they are ostracized and condemned or shunned because of their parent.
This is a very difficult issue. There are, of course, true human menaces, and the point of the sex offender registry is to protect children and others from potential danger.
And yet, at the same time, the registry causes danger, or at least humiliation, to the registrant’s children and family and often to the registrant him or herself.
It is curious too. People who are arguably equally or more dangerous, like paroled murderers, home invaders, kidnappers, violent felons, burglars, manslaughterers, robbers, drug dealers, drunk drivers who ran over and killed someone, are on no registry and could live next door to you without your knowing.
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Frank compiled the best comments into a follow-up article:
https://frankreport.com/2020/07/04/guest-view-sex-offender-registry-does-no-good-harms-many-and-must-be-abolished/
“The best”? Can’t be, he didn’t include any of mine, lol.
To be fair, I said nothing particularly substantiative. I rarely, rarely put any studies, statistics, etc., on my comments these days. Not as “Will Allen” at least, lol. Will Allen takes a different approach. I’ve found that nearly ALL of the “people” who zealously support the Registries these days are dipsh*ts. Truly most of them are downright stupid. Certainly on these articles, that has been the case.
They are not interested in facts or reality. There’s really no point in arguing with dumb people. Will Allen is following the path of a lot of successful politicians – he is going to simply say “these are the facts, there’s no need to debate them, and I don’t care if you can’t comprehend them”. Over and over and over and over and over again. Just keep repeating it.
There are over 1 million decent people who oppose Registries and a regular basis. We can overwhelm the voices of the harassers/terrorists. When articles like this come out, a thousand people should just overwhelm them. Most “people” who zealously support the Registries are weak. If they feel like they are not being supported by others and it’s not PC, they’ll just change their minds like the sheep they are. Especially if they feel people think less of them because of their beliefs. Most have low self-esteem.
95 comments on the article now. And counting.
Wow, I read some of the comments from the article referenced. What amazes me are people who have had a family member be the victim of a sex crime by someone not on a registry arguing for the registry based on that when it had no effect. In addition, some are siting data not supported by recent studies.
Think about a child having to worry about other children finding out about his or her parent being on the registry. Life and the internet are cruel enough, but this adds a whole new level to mental abuse for families related to an offender. The registry should not be public at all, period.
in these times of troubles with people going nuts at China/statues /police and Asian people in time someone asshole will get the bright Idea of killing registered citizens as a new way to kill more and soften the blow in the public’s eyes
and the problem is the hit list is public knowledge
scary thought to know at anytime people will stop being nuts at the mention entities and direct their killing to RPs and families just saying this public listing of Reg citizens needs to be removed now