@ no hope:

Well over 10 or 15k. Last year I read that of 70+ thousand Florida registrants, over 40 thousand were either dead, incarcerated, or have left the state. I can safely assume both numbers have increased since then.

I still wish someone would audit the funds Florida gets from whatever grants are given for its registry, likely calculated on a per-registrant basis. If for no other reason, I’d like to read the verbal gymnastics from FDLE of how their dead, incarcerated, and out-of-state registrants are “substantially compliant.”

She posted an ad on craigslist offering sex for money. The guy answered her ad, paid her $200, and only AFTER the deed was done did she confess she was only 14.
Now they did meet at least 2 more times after that, and I have a strong suspicion that she probably threatened to go to the police if he did not continue to meet with her. That’s just my opinion.
But the fact of the matter is she initiated the first encounter and intentionally withheld her age from him until after they had sex, so to call her a victim is inaccurate. Her parents are responsible for her actions as well. Proper parenting would have prevented her from posting an ad for sex in the first place, and there’s no way in hell a good parent would allow their 14 year old daughter to be out running the streets. I doubt she had the guy meet her at her home, so they probably met up at a motel.
Had she never posted the ad, or if she would have at least told him she was 14 to begin with, I doubt this guy would have ever met up with her and he’s still be alive. She is responsible for his death and you can’t convince me otherwise.

I’ve heard of situations where guys were completely duped by a more mature-looking minor (E.g. she presents a fake ID, looks adult) and still got charged with abusing/raping a minor. If they’re going to treat children like well, children, even when they have sex acts, then hell, treat them like children when they burn down something, steal, or sell drugs….or kill. I mean, they’re just little baby children who have no concept of right and wrong, right?!
(Goes into a profanity-fueled rage about how F*ed up “sex crime laws” are.)

A 14-year-old can’t consent to sex with a 57-year-old. A 57-year-old who allows that to happen is committing a crime.

I thought we all agreed on that here. Are we now suggesting that the victim and her parents are culpable? Hopefully I’m misreading.

The problem is that the USA is very fake when it comes to ‘real talk’ and common sense as well as the concept of personal responsibility.

LOL there are dead people on the registry. they will get their money one way or another if you commit suicide they will take years to remove you from the registry
Florida has over 10-15K of people that are no longer alive or no longer live in the state on the registry

Sometimes doing so is necessary to illustrate a larger point.

But no larger point is at play in this report, other than what we each personally deduce from it.

Most notably, this is not a story about registration scheme(s), except in our imaginations. The man was in shock at having just been convicted of serious crimes and facing a Texas-sized sentence.

We need to be sure in all cases that we are continuing to discourage suicide and serving as a resource for those contemplating such thoughts, as CherokeeJack demonstrated the other day following the Joliet fiasco.

Actually i think they want us alive, either in jail and or on the registry, the more sex offenders the more money they get,