Trusted. Respected. Not Registered. Crimes the Registry Never Saw Coming
Recent high-profile cases in Florida again remind us of a hard truth: sex offenders can be anyone — including people we trust like teachers and first responders. In one case, a woman who was sexually assaulted by a paramedic during an ambulance transport is now calling for patient-protection reforms after alleging she was attacked while in an extremely vulnerable state.
In another case, a former teacher and assistant coach at Lake Mary High School, was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for inappropriate sexual contact with a minor student — a relationship that reportedly began through online messaging and continued in private settings, including his home and even his classroom when no one else was present.
These incidents underscore that no matter what safety measures are proposed — whether requiring two paramedics on emergency calls, installing cameras in ambulances, or adding additional oversight policies — sexual crimes will still occur. The uncomfortable reality is that in most cases the perpetrator is someone the victim knows and trusts, and the abuse often happens in private homes or one-on-one settings where cameras and mandated supervision cannot realistically reach. We cannot legislate constant surveillance inside every interaction, nor can we mandate a witness in every personal encounter.
Notably, neither of these perpetrators were on the sex offender registry before committing their crimes. The registry did nothing to prevent these offenses because, as is the case in 95% of offenses, the individuals who committed them were first-time offenders who had no prior registration status. Yet when such high-profile cases dominate headlines, the immediate response is often a call for new laws, expanded restrictions, or additional registry requirements.
These tragedies remind us that while accountability is essential, reactive legislation aimed at people already on a registry does not address the deeper reality: sexual abuse almost always arises from breaches of trust by individuals in respected positions — teachers, coaches, friends and family — and no registry can predict or prevent future crime.
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The purpose of the registry is not to prevent harm to or protect people.
The purpose of this registry is to strip people of their constitutional and civil rights until enough people have been stripped and the general population has consented until it comes to the point that everyone’s constitutional and civil rights are stripped. This has to be what it is because literally nothing else makes sense.
Concerning HB 45 and SB 212, I have today contacted the International Justice Mission, the ACLU, and the Center for Human Rights. I forwarded to them the FAC immediate call to action from last week, containing all the horrific details of what is happening in Tallahassee, and introduced it with my son’s and our story and this mother’s plea for intervention.
Everyone should contact them asap and send them the FAC email detailing this assault on human rights, constitutional rights and civil rights!!!
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These were the only email addresses I could find for IJM:
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The Center for Human Rights only has a web form to fill in so I copied and pasted my emails to the ACLU and IJM into the body of the message and submitted it.
Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
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Thank you for this. Good idea and good share. I know we have tried before and did not get a response, but you can not give up and the more they hear from people it may make a difference.
Registration is an after-the-crime(s) obligation.
No one goes into a sheriff’s office or police station and says they want to register before they commit their crime(s).
Some bright Fl legislator will sponsor a bill that bans registrants from ambulances.
If that isn’t scary of an idea, it would be funny because one could see someone attached to FLA propose it.
In an emergency you’ll have to call an Uber lol, wait, Florida might ban registrants from ride share also lol
Brian
A law such as that would produce a flurry of lawsuits.
We have the ‘inalienable Right to Life’.
Inalienable means it cannot, under any circumstances, be taken away.
We have many inalienable rights that the courts have decided aren’t so much of it anymore when one reads what the Creator has given us and how they have ruled on them when they think they are bigger and more knowing than the Creator.
sounds like a great media release about how lawmakers continually harassing PFRs instead of prevention, education and more.