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Limit Where Sex Offenders Live?
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Discussion Started: 06-15-2006, 1:11 PM
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ONLY RESPONSES THAT INCLUDE A FIRST NAME, LAST NAME AND CITY ARE ELIGIBLE TO BE USED IN WESH 2 NEWSCASTS.
Do you think cities should limit where sexual offenders live?
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BBR
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08-03-2006, 1:33 PM
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my state just released some more info about me, to the public, yet they dont bother to say anything "positive" about how i've turned my life around in fifteen years. i spend 5+ years in intensive counseling in dealing with this addiction. I dont congregate around children. i live a nice quiet life, yet i am judged continually by society. be very careful. the gov't may well be judging you next.
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BBR
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07-29-2006, 7:00 PM
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no. i'm a convicted SO here in Florida. I obey the laws of the land and its been 15 yrs since i was arrested, and i havent reoffended. yet i cant understand WHY i should continue to be punished.
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gro-upjuan
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07-12-2006, 5:59 PM
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actually, 26 secs (not 43) are needed to cover increase from 1000' to 2500' at 40mph; feel safer about your kids (or duly elected representatives)? pardon my arithmetic skills, or lack thereof, but mores the point...
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gro-upjuan
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07-11-2006, 3:03 PM
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this only became an issue after a few communities increased the ban an extra 1500 ft; a car travelling at 40 mph covers this distance in 43 seconds; this has less to do with keeping your kids safe and more to do with keeping some blowhard councilman's seat safe...
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Tom Robert
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07-10-2006, 2:04 PM
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Limit? Yes..jail/prisons, to hurt a child is to hurt this entire countries' future. Rid us of these plague like sub-humans. Tom Roberts
Semper Fi, Tom
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ye777pod
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07-05-2006, 7:54 AM
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i'm sure you wouldn't want signs posted in your yard or neighborhood saying "such and such lives here". these aren't fair to the family or other children the offender has living at home. yes the sexual offender needs to be punished. some can be just like alcoholics and recover, never cured, just recovered. counseling helps a great deal which they don't get much while in jail.
now a days there is no excuse for someone not to know where an offender lives. all you have to do is go on the internet or once in a while their pictures will be put in the paper.
these people also deserve to live a life and so do their families. so think twice about what you do, would you want it done to you? you want to hurt innocent people?
signing out - yepod
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JoanM45
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06-30-2006, 2:26 PM
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I see several issues requiring clarification. Fist of all, families of sex offenders do NOT enable sex offender behavior. Lengthy prison sentences, probation and court ordered counseling holds these person accountable. Most sex offenders are willing candidates for treatment and therefore, I fail to understand why anyone would think we promote their behavior when recent studies unequivocally show that treatment works in roughly 95% of the cases.
The other issue is confusion over the delineation between sex OFFENDER and sexual PREDATOR. The predator (often sociopath) comprises roughly the 5% untreatable offenders that society needs to fear. We, as family members of sex offenders, also fear the PREDATORS. As such, NOT ALL THOSE convicted of sexual offenses are the same. ONLY trained psychiatric professionals are qualified to make this determination.
Harsher and harsher sanctions for sex offenders in conjuction with residency restrictions and registries does nothing to prevent these crimes. Proactive measures are the only solution with merit in slowing the tide of a growing epidemic.
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softail06
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06-30-2006, 11:11 AM
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limiting where a sex offender can live will not resolve the problem.. or slow it down.. In the state of Florida by law every resident of a community with in a certain mile radius is to be notified. Reality is that does not happen so If an offender moves close to a school or neighborhood where children abound HOW are we to know ? I found out after a registered offender set his sight on my youngest daughter, at the time she was 12 years old. And don't tell me to "watch" my children more closely either. Once he knew we knew, he set his sights on a two year old child that moved in with her mother and father, as time went by her panites came up missing off the close line , do we call that a mistake and forgive him because he didn't mean it?... What if it were YOUR child?.. As a parent there are times when you just can Not watch or protect your child.. Do you KNOW exactly what your child does for eigth hours a day while he or she is in school, how they act?.... maybe, maybe not... After I found out the story on this person( told by his own step daughter) YES your darn right I posted a sign.. Its public information. For those that say he/ she made a mistake please do all of us a favor and look the meaning up in the dictionary... mistake means ONCE, NOT convicted THREE TIMES!!! That is not a mistake People .. you every heard the old saying once dog always a dog... Well once a sex offender always a sex offender !.... its not something you can turn on and off like a light switch!... I say... POST THE DARN SIGNS!!! and KNOW who's in your neighberhood if you have children or there are children around!
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ye777pod
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06-30-2006, 9:52 AM
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sexual offenders are human beings and even though they made a mistake they shouldn't be treated like animals. yes some of us are married to sex offenders and we are not ENABLERS. some of the victims from sex offenders forgive and move on with their lives and even become closer to the offender. don't mix up sexual offenders with predators. if you people are so much better than anyone else then there should be a special place for offenders.
hope you feel towards woman offenders such as debra lefave as you do men offenders.
signing out - yepod
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marydoogan
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06-28-2006, 4:27 PM
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[[which would lead me to believe they have exposed themselves or like on dateline have been chating online trying to lure young children in and got caught in the process.-- Well you are quite uninformed. In Florida Michele your son or brother or husband or YOU might have a bladder problem and due to circumstances beyond their control must urinate in public (behind a tree let's say). In FLORIDA you are now a SEX OFFENDER!! It used to be a misdemeanor, public exposure. But now it is considered exposing your gen*t*ls. Do this as a kid walks by ( 14 or 13) and you are now considered a CHILD MOLESTER! It is all due to the statutes. You click on the wrong link - it could be child porn. It is LEGAL in other countries and they spam people all the time as well as the FBI spams people Find some facts, not the dribble you hear on Nancy Dis-Grace.
Don't jump to the assumption that everyone on the registry is a real offender or predator. We have already witnessed automatic registration of those persons convicted of a sex-related offense, regardless of judicial discretion, here in Florida (F.S. 943.0436). (JUST and accusation will place you there)
Did ANYONE, EVER ask why are there 'so many' predators/offenders? Check the money trail, Edmond Byrne Memorial Fund $$s for each name and law.
Keep YOUR children off the web, be a parent. Your child might be the next picture on the web.
Then let's see you change your tune.
mary Doogan
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