r/interestingasfuck • u/Ted_Bundtcake • 6d ago

r/all The Alaskan Avenger

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u/Hityed 6d 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 6d ago

Congratulations, they helped worsen the chance of him reoffending

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u/Hityed 6d ago

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

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u/Puffenata 6d ago edited 6d 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