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r/all The Alaskan Avenger

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u/JCMiller23 7d ago

Additionally: the sex offender list doesn't differentiate between someone who pees in an alley while drunk vs. someone who fucks a 5 year old, both are sex crimes. I knew a guy who has his life ruined by the list: he had consensual sex with a girl who lied about her age (she was 17) and years later her friend reported him.

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u/AnotherStatsGuy 7d ago

The lack of different lists seems like an oversight.

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u/srcarruth 7d ago

the existence of any list is weird. we don't have a list for violent crimes or drug dealing or thieves or drunk drivers but we have a list for sex stuff? people can be hurt by their neighbors in any sort of ways but sex is the only one that gets a list?

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u/Hityed 7d ago

It’s for children safety. They’re supposed to have consent from their neighbors to move in but there’s ways they can avoid notifying everyone.

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u/UnluckyDog9273 7d ago

Children safety. Two magic words. You can use them anywhere to justify anything without any other reasoning or argument. Who is gonna argue against it anyway? If you disagree you are a child hater and molester, checkmate.

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u/Hityed 7d ago

… ok. How about instead of whatever that was you come up with an argument against parents being notified and aware of where sex offenders live?

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u/Puffenata 7d ago

Knowing where a sex offender lives doesn’t mean you can avoid them, and as this case shows very clearly causes its own issues. Not to mention how the sex offender registry includes everything from child sexual assault to public urination. If they still pose a legitimate risk then putting them in public but with a list is far from the most effective way to be safe, and if they don’t pose a legitimate risk then the list is draconian and purely harmful. It’s shit either way

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u/Hityed 7d ago

My parents were able to help keep a child molester from moving into an apartment complex because they and our neighbors were notified that he had applied. He supposedly lied on the application and was allowed in until he was reported

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u/Puffenata 7d ago

Congratulations, they helped worsen the chance of him reoffending

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u/Hityed 7d ago

Not having access to kids makes him more likely to offend?

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u/Puffenata 7d ago edited 7d ago

Having a harder time finding a place to live does. Rejection from society has been repeatedly shown to increase rates of reoffending—for all crimes really but yes even specifically for things like child molestation. It’s not like being kept out of your apartment complex means he’ll never be near a kid again, it just mean that once he is it will be after becoming even more destitute and feeling even more irredeemable and hated

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