Wish FAC should post the names and stories of the hundreds of regular people, not in any position of authority, who are sentenced every month for a sex offense. Looks like the reason FAC features those in authority who offend is for shaming and gloating by registered offenders.

Amen Brueges

It’s not about who was caught, it’s about what the registry didn’t prevent from happening. A registry that has so many stipulations etc. Yet, it does not prevent these crimes from happening? And in the same idea that the registry didn’t prevent any sex crimes from happening, the “professional lawmakers” continue to add restriction after restriction to the registry? In hopes that it will prevent the person not on the registry from committing a crime? I don’t know the actual statistics, but I am willing to bet that about 97% who are on the registry will not reoffend. Yet, the registry is a false security blanket for society. Also, the lawmakers say the registry is not additional punishment.

It’s ok, it won’t be long and those lawmakers will continue to add stipulations that are a form of punishment and the entire registry will be deemed and unconstitutional and will have to be reworked entirely.

Just like the felony registry, it has no type of living restrictions etc but it doesn’t stop anyone from robbing a bank, store, etc. It doesn’t stop the person not on the registry from committing a home invasion. It doesn’t stop the neighborhood drug dealer. But that has no living restrictions whatsoever? Yet, the crimes still happen. The felon registry is not an additional form of punishment. It’s informative only as so the SO registry should be as well.

good good good point 👏👏👏

Bruegel,
The ‘condition’ you ascribe to those registered citizens is really something that plagues a lot of people who want to feel superior or justified in some way. But Whataboutism is not restricted to those on the registry. Internet trolls and other ‘good, moral people’, for example, love to call us names. They feel emboldened and better about themselves, too, although they know nothing of our characters, cases, how the ‘justice’ system works, sex stings, or how easily one can get on the registry (false accusations, adult prostitution twisted into ‘child sex trafficking’, urinating in the forest seen by a young person, ‘convicted’ as juvenile/child, etc). I have been told by these ‘good’ people how decent they are, how intelligent (sometimes spelled with three ls or two ns) such that they would never find themselves in a situation like us, and how they were ‘raised right.’ Some, like this British CO, fancy they are one of the decent, honorable people, but they are just like everyone else with a libido, lapse in judgement, an addiction, mental illness, or simply being set up by cops.

If anything, the article should spark a discussion about what sex abuse is and is not, or how loneliness and despair causes people to act, or other focus on the true cause of the problem, instead of seeing pedophiles behind every shrub.

We had a local police officer here in Pennsylvania who was busted engaging in oral s*x with a 14 year old girl. Judge ruled he didn’t have to register. Think of all the times where this happens and the true culprits never get punished.

So here was a guy in a public office, who wasn’t on the registry, who now is. The man’s convicted further illustrates the pointlessness of the registry and all of its restrictions added. The registry did nothing to prevent the crime.

If you think that people who are in authority positrons rarely offend you are in for a rude awakening. They account for over 95% of sex crimes and are rarely on the registry. What we’ve been lead to believe about sex offenses and the registry is actually doing society as a whole a grave disservice. And this is way we are not making a dent in lowering sex crimes or, even worse, preventing them.

I would go even further than sometimes. There are countless stories of people in positions of trust that offend.

It’s important to point out that those you think are the “safe ones” are sometimes the ones out there offending – teachers, coaches, religious leaders, treatment providers.