What's the Appropriate Punishment for INTERENT PREDATORS?

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Submitted by realitycheck on May 3, 2006 - 8:40pm.

I have not been on BP that much lately because I started another blogging project and wanted to get it going. Those of you who blog know how long it takes to set up quality content and get reads. The site I created is called The Latest Celebrity Gossip I really love this program and I hope more police stations set up task forces especially for this kind of crime. I realize that it won’t stop every case, but hopefully it may make some people think before they act.

Now, here’s the part I don’t like. In 1998 there was a bill passed (H.R. 3494, the "Child Protection and Sexual Predator Punishment Act of 1998."). It prohibits contacting a minor over the Internet for the purposes of engaging in illegal sexual activity and punishes those who knowingly send obscenity to children. – this is good. But the problem arises once the criminal has been arrested. Did you know that a first time offender can get off with community service and some fines? The main concern is
1.) Remember that this is the first time these offenders have been CAUGHT. This does not mean it is their first time committing the crime,
2.) 80% of sex offenders will offend again. Those are alarming statistics.

But what is the solution? As Dateline clearly demonstrated, many of the sex offenders had prior records for the same thing! But for whatever reason, the most time previously served was 11 months!

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first of all it should be

#57033 On May 5, 2006 4:16am Drake Bobby said,

first of all it should be noted that there are two types of sex offenders-the real ones, the bad ones and the other kind that are just labeled(I knew a dude who was 18 and dated a 16 year old girl in high school-her mom called the cops on him and he's now/forever labeled a sex offender which is sorta fucked if you ask me.)

Anyway assuming we're talking about the bad kind, I feel they should face stiffer punishment from the courts.

Also after they're released I also feel they should all be required to wear ankle bracelets at all times. We have phones with gps sytems in it, so it can't be too hard.

Bascially once an offender is realeased from jail, they should start a life of parole. Maybe even start training specific people to sex offender parole officers that are trained to look for specific signs.

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I think Drake's on the right track

#57040 On May 5, 2006 9:52am Maverick said,
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Too large a number of "sex offenders" are victims of vindictive parents and the law or their own stupidity, being easily manipulated, and the law. Two high school seniors, both 17, been a couple for their entire time in high school and sexually active for half that time, she turns 18, they have sex on her birthday, his parents never liked her and call the police, in far too many states she's a sex offender. Or, guy's in a bar, 17 year old girl with a fake ID is in the same bar. They hit it off. They even show eachother their IDs to show off how bad their DMV photos are, so he's sure she's 23. After fucking her brains out, he drops her off at her parent's house and mom writes down his license plate number and calls the police. He's a sex offender. Desperate lonely guy is seduced by a 16 year old girl online. He hasn't gotten laid in years but for some reason she wants him and yeah she's 16 but they've really got something here. She convinces him to come over for a bj, but on the way over he decides to just chat with her and let her know he's willing to wait until she's of age. He knocks on the door and now he's a sex offender because there are police waiting for him because it was a cop seducing him.

To varying degrees all of the situations above happened to people because they were stupid, but stupidity is not a crime.

Don't get me wrong, I'm about as far from the side of the sex offenders as possible, both my children are girls. But, the methods of policing this catch a lot of people for being idiots.

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Sex Offenders & More

#57041 On May 5, 2006 10:37am realitycheck said,
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I do like the syatem where cops are trying to catch sex offenders by posing as children but it also seems to have two sides.
If a cop (supposed 13 year old) lures someone to their home by instigating the situation, should the punishment be the same as if a man lures the cop/13-year old?
You're right Drake and Mav, there's a complete difference between "bad" sex offenders and "good" sex offenders. It sound horrible to say it like that, but it's true. I can relate to Drake's example. I have a friend who got all drunk at a party one night and grabbed a girl's ass. This is innappropriate, but I hardly think it makes him a sex offender. Well the girl had no intention of doing anything about it until her boyfriend found out. Next thing you know charges were pressed and my friend is now on the registered sex offenders list! That's just plain awful.
But the difference is that my friend was 19 and the girl was 16. It would have been a whole new ball game if she was 13, or 10, ya know?

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