originally posted 2/16/2010 My nephew just looked at pics online – he NEVER touched anyone – just looked! He is a quiet young man who plays games on computers and I guess looked and e-mailed a pic to a “friend” who convinced him to mail it to him. Does anyone other than me smell a setup? I think it is VERY important to weed out the false sex offenders. If the law jumps to arrest all that they “THINK” are offenders – the jails will be overflowing.
originally posted 2/16/2010 I am a Son, Husband, Father, Marine, and a SO. And my Family is highly affected by these unjust laws, even my 15 month old son suffers because of it. When will common sense and logic be used? Reform is not just a need but a requirement.
originally posted 2/16/2010 Please forgive me for this letter because I am a disabled mother of a sex offender. I felt overwhelmed attempting to understand what your site is about. My son is now 34 years old and he had consensual sex with a 15 year old girl with he was 19 years old. He has truly suffered over this situation for years and has never been arrested for this type of behavior again. He is now homeless, can’t find a job and I haven’t seen him in 10 years though we talk all the time on the phone. I am working on the laws in Florida. My son has been suffering with this horrid label since he was 19 years old. He is now 34. I want him to have a life. This is ridiculous.
originally posted 2/16/2010 Currently sex offender laws damage the lives of children and families of nonviolent offenders. They take away basic civil liberties like safety, the ability to make a living, and the right to private lives. No one should be punished after they have completed their sentence or probation. Additionally, this law means that all groups of offenders are classified the same way and this is simply bad policy. Our family lives in fear everyday that someone will commit acts of violence against us because our address is listed publicly. The whole process has been horrific for our daughter, my husband, and myself.
originally posted 2/6/2010 It seems no matter how hard we try to change some of these laws we will not be able to. Once a law is made it is forever on the books and rarely ever changed. I was 19 years old and met a girl who was 14 years old at the mall; well, we ended up having sex and dated for just a few weeks and than we stopped seeing each other. Almost 2 years went by and I was called downtown and asked about how I knew this girl…. .Long story short – her parents found an old letter that she wrote to one of her girl friends about me and her parents read it and went down town to file a complaint. This was 2 years later. By that time, I had a fiancee and she was four months pregnant with our baby! I go to court for having sex with a…
originally posted 2/3/2010 I am SO UPSET with this law, it is tearing my family APART; HELP, PLEASE!!! I fell in love with a man who had done time for an offense that happened at a party when he was high school age, he is now in his 40’s and NOT ANY risk to anyone but himself. Or, am I just the stupid one to have fallen in love with him?? He and I have 4, beautiful, intelligent children together and it is hard for me to move on without him, I DO NOT want to take my children from THEIR FATHER! He and I both lost our mothers when in our childhood and I do not want my children to grow up without BOTH parents! We have been living in motels for SIX YEARS, because we CANNOT get into affordable housing; NO ONE will deal with us. I was doing housekeeping at this last…
originally posted 2/3/2010 I am a FORMER convicted sex offender… Arrested for a misdemeanor charge, Class B indecent exposure OVER 12 years ago….Since my arrest I have SUCCESSFULLY completed sex offender treatment as well as all requirements for two years probation. I was released from probation in 1999. For TEN YEARS after that I was required to register as a sex offender… During that time I have been blatantly discriminated against by SEVERAL apartment complexes, as well as KICKED OUT of APARTMENTS and HOTELS on more then one occasion… I have been FIRED from jobs as well as DENIED the right to work because of my PAST criminal record. I have MORE THAN paid my debt to society! After being released OFF the sex offender list in October of this past year, I had anticipated being treated differently by both apartment complexes as well as prospective places of employment. I STILL TO THIS DAY AM BEING DENIED THE RIGHT…
originally posted 2/2/2010 My son went to court for three years on a charge of statutory rape. He was 18 when this happened; he was at a friend’s and some girls pulled up he didn’t know. The one driving was all over him and asked to go with him, they went to his grandparents and asked to stay the night. The girl said she was 17, he had no reason to doubt it since she pulled up driving. Needless to say they ended up sleeping together. Later on some man went to the jail and made a statement that she told him they slept together. From hearsay they took a warrant. He went to court for 3 years,during that time he was arrested for anything they could arrest him for. Example: He was at a club and sprayed himself with cologne. an officer in plainclothes that knew him walked over to him and asked what are you spraying son…
originally published 2/2/2010 I m a person who was accused as a sex offender based on Colo laws that even state persons caught using the bathroom in public (at the top of a mountian) are sex offenders and have been told even though I was only going to coach a person in soccer as i have done for 10 years that I am and will always be considered a SO, and can no longer coach!
originally posted 2/2/2010 I am a voice who wishes to speak out about the unfair side of the law, from the insider’s prospective. I am one that was burned by the law; I lost my whole life, my job, and I can live hardly anywhere because of schools, churches, parks, and day-cares, and I am the last person that would ever hurt a child. Thank you for making the petition I have been trying to figure out how to make, and thank you for fighting this. It isn’t fair to the people that aren’t hard core predators to be forced to live like we are. Most people on the registry are on there for having a girlfriend that was ‘too young’ when they were still too young themselves. And they get punished for life for that one moment. If that isn’t unjust, I don’t know what is. Again thank you, and may we see a change.
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