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originally posted 3/23/2012   I agree with no help anywhere. We need to join together. My son is on the list too. He got involved with a girl one month from being of age. I keep trying to get someone to stand with me, but it’s hard. We have to do more than just write letters and complain. We have to take action or they will continue to turn a blind eye. I have no use for the people who push these laws. NO HELP ANYWHERE; GET IN TOUCH WITH ME!     s.

originally posted 3/23/2012   In 2008 I was convicted of a sex crime in Michigan. My sentence…zero jail, zero probation, zero community service, zero fine, and 25 years as a registered offender.   My crime? Shoving a $5 bill (as a joke) inside a young lady’s shirt collar. She claimed the back of my knuckles grazed over her breast for a split second. In Michigan, that is called a CSC IV. My attorney did not put me on the stand to explain myself.   After the trial, people from this small northern Michigan town reached out to me with incredible stories about “the victim.” It seems making up stories and trying to ruin people’s lives is a habit of this young lady. Some believe her bi-polar. None of it is reason for a new trial, says the Judge. Her occupation today…you guessed it; she’s a stripper! Oh, one more thing: as a youth, this girl spent many a summer day playing…

originally posted 3/22/2012   I am under a ten year post registration for a non violent crime that took place back in 2007. I served my entire three years in prison and completed the Sex Offender Rehabilitation program by choice. I also completed several other courses offered through the prison system. I just feel that if the Risk Assessment people that determine your level of risk for registration finds you as a non violent offender and gives you a low to a moderate level risk then why have to register? The whole point of the registration is to show the difference in violent and non violent criminals. If they determine that I am no threat to society, then why put me in a situation that could potentially have me charged and incarcerated again for a single rule that can easily be broken or forgotten about. I want to know if there is a way to hire an attorney to have my registration taken off me for good since its only for ten…

originally posted 3/22/2012 My son is 22 years old.  He was sentenced February 20, 2012, in Collier County, Florida, to 10 years in prison, followed by 5 years Sex Offender Probation and permanent Sex Offender Registry thereafter. His crime was having a consensual relationship with a girl who was 14 when he was 20 – his first relationship and her second. He wanted to marry her, but her parents wanted prison for him. He was facing 80 years or more in prison if convicted (as the prosecutor counted each act as a separate charge) but took the 10 year plea offered by the prosecutor. He is not a sex offender! He is undeserving of this sentence and the lifetime sentence of registration that follows the prison sentence. Our hard earned tax dollars are paying our government to keep our young men locked up in prisons where they cannot be productive citizens and face many horrors and humiliation; they must become part…

originally posted 3/16/2012   My fiance is a registered sex offender; the thing is he was convicted under false circumstances. I am the girl he got in trouble with. I was 14 and he was 19; we were not involved sexually at all; my father got mad at him and called the cops on him. He served 4 years in prison and is forced to register for the rest of his life. The thing I don’t understand is why is it that he has to register for the rest of his life when you have offenders out there who have raped 3 to 4 kids and they only have to register for a certain amount of time. I do not understand it; now he is in jail for failure to register because we lost our apartment due to him being terminated from his job. so did they want him to register at that address even though he didn’t  live there? I don’t understand…

originally posted 3/8/2012   I was convicted of sexual assault of a 15 year old. We worked at the same company for over a year and everyone was under the impression she was 18 because that’s what she told us. She worked full time which child labor laws prohibit, which also led us to believe her told age. I got involved with her relation-wise but  not sexually active. The night of my arrest I was under heavy medication due to pulled groin muscle from heavy lifting at work. It was around one in the morning when the police came to arrest me. I don’t remember anything from the time I took my medication at six in the evening to the time I awoke in the city jail being charged for a sex crime. My mother told me that when the police came it took three of them to hold me up because I couldn’t stand on my own due to…

originally posted 3/4/2012 On June 6, 2010, I was arrested for failure to register. I was homeless and failed to get to the police station within the 3 days of being made homeless. When I was arrested I did not have my shirt on, but it was brought with me to the station and laid on a bench. While being booked in, I asked if I could put it on. The Sex Offender Registration Officer told me no. I asked him why, and his response was, We don’t like Sex Offenders in our town. He then began to verbally abuse and taunt me. After several minutes of this, as we were heading out of the booking room, I reached over to pick up my shirt. The officer then attacked me and beat me severely. He slammed my head against the wall so hard that I blacked out for a second. I then found myself on the ground with his knee…

originally posted 3/7/2012   I have been on line searching for a website to help. I have found many where people are telling their stories but it doesn’t seem like people are banding together to really accomplish getting something done about the horrid realities of the SO registry. I am at my wit’s end. My grandchildren have suffered so much that they constantly talk of suicide. And all because there were 3 pictures of children that popped up when my son was looking for other pictures to do a work flyer project that involved a child’s hearing device because he was the artist in the company. He immediately deleted them. No one could pull them up, trade them, share them or anything. But at the time the city was doing a internet SO sweep, and he was one of the unfortunate ones that the cops came knocking on his door. He was very cooperative and told them what happened. It…

originally posted 2/26/2012 The registry has caused our family much humiliation and grief. My husband is a RSO,who has done his time, completed all therapy, and complied with all registry requirements. It’s a joke that there is a disclaimer posted on these sites that it can’t be used for harassment. This story is based on not only my husband (the RSO) but the family. My daughter’s ex boy friend used the information from the registry to try to gain custody of the daughter they share together. He involved a television station that took video of our home and my husband, and my daughter, his step-daughter, who was the victim. We went to an attorney and were told that it’s public record and nothing can be done. This is just one of several instances where this ex boy friend has used this information only for us to be told time and time again that we can’t do anything to him because…

originally posted 2/19/2012   Though I have had other personal incidents and difficulties with having to retroactively register as a sex offender, I will relate only one of many that illustrate an unintended consequence. My wife and I, (now ex in large part because of her fear of public humiliation) my youngest step-daughter, and her friends were pulled over for going 3 miles over the speed limit. (The policeman was upset because I decided to pass him.) While at our car window, the fact that I am a registered sex offender is loudly announced on the officer’s radio. My wife, who is now mortified, gets out of the car and almost runs down the road. My daughter, stuck between her friends, is fighting to hold back tears of embarrassment as the police officer, hand on gun, follows me as I get out of the car to go after my wife in an attempt to console her. How is publicly embarrassing…