PA: Child taken from woman who left son with person required to register for a decades old conviction.
This is a really scary decision out of Pennsylvania where a mom had her 9-year old son removed from her custody because her boyfriend, who had a 1992 conviction for a sex offense, had been left alone with the child.
There were no allegations that the boyfriend had harmed the child, there is merely a law in PA where under the definition of child abuse, it includes “leaving a child unsupervised with someone who has to register (as a sex offender) for life.”
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So, in this case, the child is the biggest victim of the law! Birth parents rarely sexually abuse their own children. As punishment for leaving the child with someone the parent trusts that the government doesn’t trust, the child is left with someone the government trusts that the parent does not trust. I believe most of the time the parent is the better judge of character.
Some people just can’t get away from the idea of having a slave class. It makes them feel superior I guess. By having a class of people they call sex offenders they can have those they can look down on and publicly ridicule without being called prejudice. Even though that’s exactly what there doing. If it were done to anyone else it would be called “bullying “ harassment, prejudice, with a self righteous disposition. Besides being unconstitutional. George Washington who had much to do with trying to establish justice never would have stood for the registry as it stands today. It’s an example of tyranny that he would not stand for , since he had to put up with it for many years from England.
Every story like this proves my point. Eventually every person in the U.S will have some sort of connection to the registry, even if not directly.
Maybe a neighbor who will only let your kid play at their house and not their kids at yours because of a registrant. Or a grand child that is not allowed to have Grand pops attend their school play.
Besides the absurdity of laws that ordinary people would have no knowledge of, just imagine the trauma suffered by the boy, INFLICTED BY THE STATE! Talk about child abuse.
So in Pen. a sex offender cannot date a woman with a kid under any circumstance? I don’t think FL is even that extreme.
In other words, the PA Supreme Court has ruled that this mother is just too stupid to determine for herself if her boyfriend was a threat to her son.
What happened to allowing the public to make their own safety decisions based on the information provided? Are they saying you can think for yourself, provided you come to the same conclusion as the benevolent, all-knowing state?