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I would not want to be a parent of small children in some of those areas. Here’s the horrifying thing. You can click on a “school” (box with an X in it) and it will tell you how many child offenders live nearby and how close. I found some that said 7+ child offenders within a quarter mile. Of an elementary school. I have no words.
I actually went back and tried some other random zip codes. In Nebraska I got the same kind of thing… enough little colored squares to horrify a person. I don’t think it’s limited to any particular area.
The whole thing is really unsettling. I’m not sure if I could sleep if I was able to search my own area and came up with a result like that.
And the photos…. by gum, some of the photos are so creepy, like… do these offenders always look that way or did they just make it special for the mug shot?
Criminy.
lol on the photos. Clicking the “convictions” tab gets me. Like this one… 288 and 288a are crimes against children, but he’s a “yellow” (not red) which means rape was committed. 3 convictions are listed. And this guy is out and living near a school…. why?
Conviction date not reported
207 KIDNAPPING/TO COMMIT 261, 286, 288, 288a, 289 Offender’s age at conviction not reported
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Conviction date not reported
220 ASSAULT W/INTENT TO COMMIT RAPE, SODOMY, OR ORAL COPULATION
Offender’s age at conviction not reported
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Conviction date not reported
261.2 PRIOR CODE-RAPE BY FORCE
Offender’s age at conviction not reported
I used to read over at perverted justice. Now that site will really make a person feel sick. They have volunteers who go online (IM) and pretend to be underage kids. They log in and then just sit and wait for a perv to approach them. They then save all the conversations and if the perv arranges a meeting with what he thinks is an underage child… they call the police and the perv is busted.
The conversations are all posted online along with the person’s photo (including any photos sent via IM to what the perv thinks is a kid) and the perv’s user ID/online handle.
It’s a truly eye-opening site that every parent should read at least once; they will never again think it’s ok to let their child have internet access in their bedroom, etc.
However… the conversations are sickening, and please… anyone reading this comment should know not to go there from work… and NOT to click on the ‘wankers’ link if a photo of some perv’s willy isn’t something they want to be confronted with.
Gak. All this is making me feel like I need a shower.
I still can’t believe our laws are not changed to protect our children. They are the world’s resources. All people have to be accountable for their actions. The consequences for sex offenders should be greater!
The estimate is that some 665,000 registered sex offenders live in this nation and that number is growing fast. The problem is that society’s view of a “sex offender” is a myth created by the media ,which often falsely reports news in this arena, confusing terms like “sex offender” with “sexual predator”, as one example. Most sex offenders in this nation are low risk, first time offenders but those do not make for enthralling news stories. Recidivism rates, also falsely reported by many in the media, range from 3-6% for sex offenders (you can see the US Dept of Justice statistics on our site along with several official state report data). Most sex offenses are committed by someone who is known to the victim, as well ( studies are provided on our site). Therefore, when you know these facts, the maps with the pretty little colored squares do not seem so ominous.
Check out our blog which is loaded with facts, legal documents and links to sources http://www.constitutionalfights.org
AussieBabe – I agree, consequences for sex offenders should be greater. I don’t get why people don’t get that?
constitutionalfights – I visited your site and while you claim it’s loaded with facts… I didn’t see all the citations and references to show what you post is in fact, fact.
“Most sex offenses are committed by someone who is known to the victim, as well ( studies are provided on our site). Therefore, when you know these facts, the maps with the pretty little colored squares do not seem so ominous.”
A neighbour is someone who might be considered ‘known’ to the victim and so your ‘logic’ escapes me. It is exactly the reason those little squares are so ominous. People tend to feel a false sense of security around their neighbours simply because they see them often and are ‘used to’ them when in fact, if we knew someone had a problem with inappropriate sexual content with children, we would we more leery about their having contact with our young children.
You make no sense unless one understands your goal is to protect the abusers instead of the abused.
Using your constitution to excuse people from their abuse of children or to minimize the effects of such abuse on those children for the rest of their lives?
Not cool.
Sources for all information is included in every post on our blog. You need to click on the link to see the sources. The point made about neighbors negates the effectiveness of notification and registration. If you know your neighbor and you know he or she is a sex offender, then the need for notification or registration is made moot. We stand for equal Constitutional rights of all Americans, not just any group. Do not forget, any one of you may one day get a call that someone YOU know just became one of those dirty sex offenders.
Sigh. Ok. first… I went back to the posts that were up at your blog the first time you visited here to see what I ‘missed’. I notice first up… that your clickable links are difficult to discern because you have them colored the same color as the large portions of text within your posts that you’ve colored red. Passing the mouse over the majority of the red text on your site results in nothing… so how do you expect people to know which are links and which aren’t? Seriously… do you think people are going to sit there scanning all the colored text with their mouse just in case they find a link? That’s just bad website design.
Next… what you’ve done is largely reprint articles that aren’t necessarily verification of ‘fact’ as you claim your site it so full of. Sometimes, articles are opinion. Were you writing for a grade, you’d fail. It’s fine when one is just writing for entertainment value, but as soon as you go to other sites claiming people should come read yours because yours has all the facts… you need to do a better job of making sure everything is properly cited. So simply linking to the article you’re copying isn’t an assurance that the article is in fact, fact.
Lastly… your point is lost on me. So if one day I get a call that someone I know just became one of those dirty sex offenders am I supposed to suddenly decide sexual offenses are ok because I know the person? That’s just stupid. Someone who commits an offense has taken the liberty of compromising someone else’s rights. Keep that in mind when you’re so busy defending theirs. Why is it ok for them to have compromised someone elses? If you actually stand for equal Constitutional rights of all Americans, not just any group… then why are you forgetting about ones who’ve had the offense committed upon them? You don’t seem to be worrying too much about that group.
Your inability to see this logic makes me wonder if you might not actually be someone with a sexual offense in your own past.