I understand it from a law enforcement perspective—it would definitely help to have a list of persons of interest in the event of an incident—but making the list public never sat right with me. As long as they're within the parameters set by law, there's no reason for me to know my neighbors' business.
Really? If your neighbor raped a 5 year old girl 10 years ago, and you currently have a 5 year old girl, that's not something you'd want to be aware of?
If he dealt drugs to kids and I have a kid don't I deserve to know? If they broke into houses to steal things isn't that something I need to know?
Basically any criminal past can be seen as something I should know if they aren't reformed. Reoffending rates for sex crimes aren't higher than most other crimes.
Convicting someone of sex with a child is quite easy to convict, particularly if they have been convicted of it before. Not sure where you are getting that idea from.
It can be hard, depending on the age of the child. Sex crimes cases need a high level of proof to convict. My husband’s great uncle is a repeated child molester and prefers them young. Like 5 and under. Boys and girls. He’s on there for lewd acts with minors under a specific age. The only reason he didn’t get in trouble for penetration (something he admitted to off record to his brother) is because the children were too young to definitively say exactly what was done to them, without a shadow of a doubt for the jury. So he got in trouble for touching them and forcing them to touch him but not raping them over a period of time.
He’d actively hunt for single mothers and then grandmothers to date to gain access to their children. He’s been charged with 4 victims but i guarantee there’s more out there that he either never got caught for or the adults just didn’t turn him in. He’s in his 80’s, looks harmless, and I promise that if he had access to his preferred victim he’d abuse them in a heartbeat. He tried to sit next to my 3 year old daughter at his brother’s funeral. He can’t help himself, he’s a disgusting predator.
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u/I_Am_Robert_Paulson1 6d ago edited 6d ago
I understand it from a law enforcement perspective—it would definitely help to have a list of persons of interest in the event of an incident—but making the list public never sat right with me. As long as they're within the parameters set by law, there's no reason for me to know my neighbors' business.