originally posted 11/28/2009
My husband is on the sex offender registry in Illinois, for 15 years for having a consensual relationship with me, his wife, when I was 16. He is lumped in with (child molesters), rapists and the worst kind of perverts. We have three children and my husband can’t keep a job (he has a P.H.D), he can’t pick up our kids from school,we’ve been thrown out of our home twice because we live by a school and police monitor our home.
Why in God’s name isn’t any common sense prevailing around this issue and start letting people off the registry who are not a public threat? This is destroying our family, our children’s well being and my father in law( a decorated war veteran) has depleted his pension supporting us. We have testified before the Illinois legislature, had several favorable articles on us in the Chicago Tribune, yet they wont let my husband off the registry. He only has a misdemeanor for being with me, his devoted wife of 5 years now. We were married by the same judge who gave Mark the misdemeanor.
Please, please someone help us. Neighbors stare at our home, people think a rapist lives in the home. Mark’s oldest son(from a previous marriage) was assaulted in Hyde Park,defending Mark from fellow classmates calling Mark a rapist!! This is ruining my children’s welfare and I, the “victim”, am begging some one to take his name off the sex offender registry!! Please, someone help my family from this horror. We have been pulled over by police and Mark detained (while our children scream in the car) so many times I can’t count. This is profoundly unfair. We need your help immediately,please help us!!!!! This law (Megan’s Law) was designed to protect children, not ransack and destroy families and put a scarlet letter around people’s necks who do not deserve to be labeled sex offenders. Someone: Please, please help us!!!!