Dear Abby: My fellow community group member is married to a sex offender
DEAR ABBY: I recently became aware that someone I know through various community groups is married to a man who is on the local sex offender list (involving a child under 13). This information was confirmed by another community group member as we needed to see how it would affect his volunteer status and our location near a school.
I don’t know how to respond to this information. The man is pleasant and friendly. If I had not known this information, I would have suggested he and his wife get together with my husband and other friends. There are no children in my household, so no one would be endangered by his presence.
Should this information about his sex offender status change how I see or respect him? Neither he nor his wife know that I know, and I don’t plan to tell them or anyone else. What are my responsibilities if I see him around children? — ON ALERT IN MICHIGAN
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We’ve addressed “Dear Abby” before. She just a relic of a bygone era of newspapers delivered to your doorstep.
As a former newspaper boy who hand delivered newspapers to doorsteps by bicycle in the winter months, I resemble this remark and am not bygone by any stretch. 😀
Keep up the good fight Derek!
This woman has bought the big lie of “frightening and high” recidivism. Anyone dangerous enough to worry her about them kidnapping children would not have been released in the first place. She should be no more worried about this man than she should be about any man, including her own husband.
That said, the best method of prevention is not by keeping your eyes on people on a list. It is educating children so that they won’t let anyone (adult or peer) cross inappropriate boundaries with them. That would stop 99% of all sexual crime going on.
Have to wonder if the original Dear Abby would agree with the current Dear Abby since the current is the offspring of the original…