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Originally Posted by GoldFinger
Wait for it....
Little kid: "yea dooooode, lemme get out my MW2 game and eye'll laze that target for shizzle!!!"
Keep in mind that you can become a sex offender just from changing your pants in your car while in the parking lot if the right/wrong person walks by. It can mean literally nothing to be on a list. Hell, I know a registered sex offender. I had no idea until I heard about it later.
Just saying don't get too upset about that map. Not every sex offender = child molester.
"There are no finger prints under water."
Understood, and I actually know of someone that had a similar situation happen. However, with over 25 of them in one place, even if half of them are benign, that leaves something to be concerned about.
Especially 71 in a 5 mile radius... come on....
Goes to show you that there is something wrong with the criteria for becoming a registered sex offender.
"There are no finger prints under water."
What's the amount of space required between an offender and a school? I apparently have one three doors down and a school I could throw a rock to. Besides that one not another within a 1/2 mile radius (outside of that though...) so I thought that might be the reason.
You must be referring to these criteria, a conviction under one or more of the following statutes. Sections 16-22-102(9) and 18-1.3-1008, C.R.S. defines a sex offender as a person convicted of one [or more] of the following sex offenses:
- Sexual assault in the first, second or third degree;
- Unlawful sexual contact;
- Sexual assault on a child;
- Sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust;
- Sexual assault on a client by a psychotherapist;
- Enticement of a child;
- Incest;
- Aggravated Incest;
- Trafficking in children;
- Sexual exploitation of children;
- Procurement of a child for sexual exploitation;
- Indecent exposure; (<-- Here's your example from above used in a catch-all attempt to trivialize the value of having a registry)
- Soliciting for child prostitution;
- Pandering of a child;
- Procurement of a child for prostitution;
- Keeping a place of child prostitution;
- Pimping of a child;
- Inducement of child prostitution;
- Patronizing a prostituted child;
- Engaging in Sexual Conduct in a Penal Institution;
- Wholesale Promotion of Obscenity to Minors; and
- Promotion of Obscenity to Minors
- Criminal attempt, conspiracy or solicitation to commit any of the above offenses.
Further,
Sexually Violent Predator (SVP)
1) Per 18-3-414.5 C.R.S., a "Sexually violent predator" is an offender:
(I) Who is eighteen years of age or older as of the date the offense is committed or who is less than eighteen years of age as of the date the offense is committed but is tried as an adult;
(II) Who has been convicted on or after July 1, 1999, of one of the following offenses committed on or after July 1, 1997:
(A) Sexual assault in the first, second, or third degree (felony);
(B) Unlawful sexual contact;
(D) Sexual assault on a child;
(E) Sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust;
(III) Whose victim was a stranger to the offender or a person with whom the offender established or promoted a relationship primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization; and
[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif'](IV) Who, based upon the results of a risk assessment screening instrument developed by the division of criminal justice in consultation with and approved by the sex offender management board, is likely to subsequently commit one or more of the offenses specified in subparagraph (II) under the circumstances described in subparagraph (III).[/FONT]
so if you encourage one inmate to sodomize another (because he was a child molester- "he deserves a good taste of his own medicine"), that would be conspiring, and you could classified as a sex offender... hmm
so remove the more trivial offenses from the list, and there will no longer be a reason to trivialize the value of the list...
You have to admit it's a pretty broad range of offenses all lumped under one title... it should be changed- then there would be no argument.. as it is, getting a sex offender charge to stick- even if it's streaking at a football game by an 18yo drunk college student is a notch in the DA's belt, but ruins that guy's(or woman's) life
so for the sake of not trivializing the other serious offenses on the list- either remove those offenses, or create another class for them that doesn't lump such broad crimes together..
Check out this nasty sex offender.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ile-naked.html
He was convicted by the way.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/loca...in-home-121809
"There are no finger prints under water."
Old news Stuart, and rest assured I am/was privy to that miscarriage of justice as well. Since you choose to "pick the extremes" let me ask you a few questions:
1. What does that singular failure, or any similar, have to do with the value of a registry as a whole? You choose one-offs to base your position that a "registry map" is to be disregarded by society? Note: I concur, a travesty this case was, lives are ruined and that cannot be over-looked so, next question
2. There were 10,096-registered sex offenders in Colorado, as of June 2, 2008, what percentage [or hard metric] of those do you sincerely believe were not egregious sexual offenses deserving of conviction and registration? How many of that 10K+ were "indecent exposure" or the proverbial "streaking 18 year-old?" I submit your number will be a small one.
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