When news is slow… run a "sex offender" story
Orland Based WFTV (Channel 9) just LOVES to run sex offender stories. We continuously scan the Florida News sites for any relevant news on sex offender issues to share with our membership and aside from South Florida’s Channel 10 (WPLG), WFTV is probably second in line for running shameless, pointless stories on registered citizens.
Today, they air a story, titled, “9 Investigates number of sex offenders in state who don’t have required ID”
The story states that one in 5 don’t have a required ID card. But the reason they don’t have one is because they can’t afford the $35 it costs them. Sex offenders generally can’t find decent employment because of the public registry and stigma, so they are broke. Sex offenders generally have a hard time finding housing because of residency restrictions, so they are transient or move around a lot, each time necessitating another ID and another $35.
Still, they are issued a letter from the DMV stating they showed up but couldn’t be issued an ID because they couldn’t afford one or because they couldn’t produce an electric bill for the streetlight they sleep under because they have no home.
Still, channel 9 puts out a scare piece implying that registrants are evading a rule. Let’s stop to think about how fucking stupid this rule is… Do you think having a designation on one’s ID is preventing crime? Do you really think that there are any instances where a predator approaches an unsuspecting woman and says, “I’m about to rape you, but let me show you my ID first.”? What about, “Hmmm… I was going to molest this kid today but the line at the DMV was two hours long, I guess I’ll have to molest them another day.”?
It’s completely asinine that WFTV has nothing better to “investigate” than this. Must be a slow news day!
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What a crock of shit! You fuck a child, you get to pay the price.
Jeff, respectfully, not everyone on the registry has touched a child or even attempted to. By “you pay the price” what do you suggest the price should be for someone who was 19, had a consensual relationship with a 15 year old girlfriend? should it be a life sentence? How about someone who looked at pictures on a computer? They get five years in prison, complete probation, complete therapy and 15 years pass without incident… should they still be on a life sentence?
Channel 9 cant get anything right. They report about 4000 do not have id’s and at the bottom of the article it says that is about 20%. Do the math. Currently 67,000 offenders reside in florida. That is 13,400. Are they afraid to let the public know the reality that there is an increasing problem. The public would be shocked to know how many of us are here.
of the 67,000 on the registry, only 29,000 actually live in the state. FL keeps people on the registry who have moved, been deported, incarcerated or died.
Uktung! Show me your papers.
sorry, I’m going german grammar nazi on you, mark…
Achtung! Papers please!
WARNING: Not Politically Correct: This is Jeff Deal at Channel 9. He hates RSO’s He knocks and their doors at Halloween and screams at them. He is a trainwreck of a reporter that never is fair. I have written to GM and the reporter with no response. His name is FAKE and in my opinion he has emotional problems. He is Channel 9 Chief Investigated Reporter and reports and invents all Sex Crime News. When he comes on just turn the channel. jv in Orlando
i have a small business and posted on a certain tv station fb page under one of there frequent SO so called news reports that the people that scream the loudest are the ones that need to be watched and as frequently as this station try’s stirring the pot by running and posting SO stories trying to get viewers and clicks if a reporter or producer at this station is hiding things in their closet. About a week and a half/2 weeks after that i received an email in my business e-mail from a lead anchor stating that their friend needed my service, etc…
Wow. Something needs to happen to these laws. It is so wrong and so screwed up. These are Americans people who are living like 3rd world countries. People need to get over it.
Get over sex abuse? Try again. Maybe if you were a victim, you would feel differently.
Jeffie,
GET OVER YOURSELF! I am a survivor of repeated sexual abuse!
Jeffie, from your comments you posted in this thread might i suggest lots of intense mental therapy!
Actually that wasn’t what I was talking about. But if you keep living in the past you will never be able to move on in your life. People will constantly become depressed and never allow themselves to heal. Survivors are just that and they need to be able to let go in time. What good does it serve a person to keep on dwelling on a horrible trauma in their life. There are really bad people in the world. Bad people do really bad things and have to be punished. But when is it enough. But you cannot punish others the same because lobbyist line your pockets with money. The registry does NOT stop a person if they really want to abuse a child or adult, where they live or walk will not have any bearing on them hurting someone. These laws are ridiculous. Hell even background checks are useless. Just ask Ron book whose nanny molested his daughter and he has so much guilt he keeps the Florida congressman’s pockets lines with lots of money. Background checks don’t work. There are so many things which don’t work. It just makes a person unemployable, not able to live in a home, constantly harassed, and the congress rich.
Anyway those who commit sexual abuse need help. Yes they need to go to prison but constantly punishing then is only doing more harm for recidivism for a new crime like theft, burglary, etc because they can’t get a damn job.