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Originally Posted by Piper_
Well said.
And if people had not responded to all the media buzz the way they did, the pedophiles would have been even more emboldened.
If you follow crime boards, you see so many horrors committed by repeat offenders who had no business around kids, it's an atrocity. Our system is broken.
This is a little off topic, but one of my other pet peeves about sex crime laws is that it lumps in things like statutory rape between teens with actual pedophilia and rape. Some states are worse than others; a few at least have Romeo and Juliet clauses.
That failure to distinguish just dilutes the usefulness of the registry, and worse, subjects kids to being tagged forever with the same scarlet letter as the rapists and pedos.
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And "sexting" can get a kid branded as a sex offender for life. That's wrong in most cases.