Carolyn, please go to our webpage LRIDD.org. We support our families through this trauma. We also offer some resources. We have recently changed our name to Decriminalize Developmental Disabilities (D3). This better explains our mission. However, we are still linked to LRIDD, Legal Reform for the Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled at LRIDD.org and our Facebook page. I would love to talk with you. If you go to the site to join someone will contact you. Let them know you would like your contact information sent to me. I would very much like to talk with you. We must all stand together to fight unjust laws for all.

Carolyn, the article above contains a link to the website of the organization that authorized this article. Tap on that link and look for the option that says Contact.

Thank you Carl for your kind words. For the first year I hid from everyone. Afraid of all the dangers out there for my son and our family. Then I found the strength to start to fight against this injustice with my son and the registry as a whole. I have met some wonderful people fighting the fight with me. We all must be brave and tell our stories. There’s a saying “Somebody should do something”. That somebody must be us. Maybe someday they will hear and finally that long awaited and needed change will come and instead of treating us like the scum of the earth they will let us once again be contributing members of society,

“Equal justice under law” is a phrase engraved on the West Pediment, above the front entrance of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington D.C.

Go figure. Equal? I am not buying it one bit.

Michigan – I agree with all your points. And by slap on the wrist I meant by parents, not the government. I should have clarified.

I’ve heard this story before too, but I say he does NOT even deserve a slap on the wrist. He mentally functions as a child, and should have been treated as such.
The law states a minor does not have the mental capacity to consent, yet this young man is charged as if he understood? In that case, charge all 14 year old girls who initiate sexual contact with adults.
Fair is fair.

I am so very very sorry. I live in fear every day someone will hurt my son because of his label. My heart goes out to you.