Sex offenders near us

[Anonymous]

Does that actually make you feel safer or more prepared?

What about all of the people who aren't on the list? What about those who haven't offended yet? Or caught? I mean, it's an absolutely nothing measure. Are you less vigilant on blocks where there are no known/reported offenders? Do you plan routes to work around residential areas with people listed? How does this information help you? How does it inform or change your parenting?

I honestly do not understand this.

[Anonymous]

I discovered that a whole bunch of them worked in the restaurant I frequented with my co-workers. They were cooks, waiters, bus boys, etc. We don't go there anymore. Just don't feel the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sex offenders are everywhere. Especially as cooks in all the popular restaurants. The ones who don't register are the ones you need to really be worried about. And, as PP said, a lot of people are never caught.

I think the registeries are pointless.

I disagree, and will make two points that refute your "pointless" comment (no pun or disrespect intended. We just disagree)

There was something "off" about a man who was renting my uncle's house, next door to my uncle, on his ranch, so I looked him up. Turns out he was a former schoolteacher whose target was little boys. My uncle had not mentioned this to my brother, who was coming to visit with his little boy (because my uncle felt it would all be safe, after all, the guy had done his time and was on probation). omg. I told my brother so he could make up his own mind.

Also, in my mom's condo where DH and I and my DD stayed, there was a guy renting below us who liked little girls our DD's age. Good to know.

Sure, there are others that will not be on the registry so we should always be vigilant as parents, but if there is some info out there that you can use for your benefit, why not use it?

[Anonymous]

I did search when looking for a house, I didn't want to live near a bunch of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sex offenders are everywhere. Especially as cooks in all the popular restaurants. The ones who don't register are the ones you need to really be worried about. And, as PP said, a lot of people are never caught.

I think the registeries are pointless.

I disagree, and will make two points that refute your "pointless" comment (no pun or disrespect intended. We just disagree)

There was something "off" about a man who was renting my uncle's house, next door to my uncle, on his ranch, so I looked him up. Turns out he was a former schoolteacher whose target was little boys. My uncle had not mentioned this to my brother, who was coming to visit with his little boy (because my uncle felt it would all be safe, after all, the guy had done his time and was on probation). omg. I told my brother so he could make up his own mind.

Also, in my mom's condo where DH and I and my DD stayed, there was a guy renting below us who liked little girls our DD's age. Good to know.

Sure, there are others that will not be on the registry so we should always be vigilant as parents, but if there is some info out there that you can use for your benefit, why not use it?

This is a case were the registery did the job it was intended to do and a person who WAS potentially dangerous. But as others have already noted most of the people on the registeries committed minor offenses and are not. And there are people who are dangerous who haven't been caught. Better to teach your kids to be safe and trust your instincts about people.

Honestly, if that guy wasn't on the registery it's wouldn't have negated your feeling that he was off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sex offenders are everywhere. Especially as cooks in all the popular restaurants. The ones who don't register are the ones you need to really be worried about. And, as PP said, a lot of people are never caught.

I think the registeries are pointless.

I disagree, and will make two points that refute your "pointless" comment (no pun or disrespect intended. We just disagree)

There was something "off" about a man who was renting my uncle's house, next door to my uncle, on his ranch, so I looked him up. Turns out he was a former schoolteacher whose target was little boys. My uncle had not mentioned this to my brother, who was coming to visit with his little boy (because my uncle felt it would all be safe, after all, the guy had done his time and was on probation). omg. I told my brother so he could make up his own mind.

Also, in my mom's condo where DH and I and my DD stayed, there was a guy renting below us who liked little girls our DD's age. Good to know.

Sure, there are others that will not be on the registry so we should always be vigilant as parents, but if there is some info out there that you can use for your benefit, why not use it?

I am not the poster who said that the registries are pointless, but I agree with her.

In the first scenario you described, I cannot imagine why a person would allow a stranger they felt "off" about to spend time alone with their child, no matter what age or gender. Your second scenario is similar to your first scenario. Why would you allow your daughter to spend time alone with a strange man who rents a home near your mother? How does your parenting change with the knowledge that these people molested children?

Do you vet everyone your child comes into contact with? Do you stop at sex offenders? What if a person has used drugs? What if they've committed a violent crime?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sex offenders are everywhere. Especially as cooks in all the popular restaurants. The ones who don't register are the ones you need to really be worried about. And, as PP said, a lot of people are never caught.

I think the registeries are pointless.

I disagree, and will make two points that refute your "pointless" comment (no pun or disrespect intended. We just disagree)

There was something "off" about a man who was renting my uncle's house, next door to my uncle, on his ranch, so I looked him up. Turns out he was a former schoolteacher whose target was little boys. My uncle had not mentioned this to my brother, who was coming to visit with his little boy (because my uncle felt it would all be safe, after all, the guy had done his time and was on probation). omg. I told my brother so he could make up his own mind.

Also, in my mom's condo where DH and I and my DD stayed, there was a guy renting below us who liked little girls our DD's age. Good to know.

Sure, there are others that will not be on the registry so we should always be vigilant as parents, but if there is some info out there that you can use for your benefit, why not use it?

+1000

Being included on the list is part of the punishment. Someone who commits crimes against children deserves to be ostracized by society. That's the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sex offenders are everywhere. Especially as cooks in all the popular restaurants. The ones who don't register are the ones you need to really be worried about. And, as PP said, a lot of people are never caught.

I think the registeries are pointless.

I disagree, and will make two points that refute your "pointless" comment (no pun or disrespect intended. We just disagree)

There was something "off" about a man who was renting my uncle's house, next door to my uncle, on his ranch, so I looked him up. Turns out he was a former schoolteacher whose target was little boys. My uncle had not mentioned this to my brother, who was coming to visit with his little boy (because my uncle felt it would all be safe, after all, the guy had done his time and was on probation). omg. I told my brother so he could make up his own mind.

Also, in my mom's condo where DH and I and my DD stayed, there was a guy renting below us who liked little girls our DD's age. Good to know.

Sure, there are others that will not be on the registry so we should always be vigilant as parents, but if there is some info out there that you can use for your benefit, why not use it?

Why was it good to know? How did this knowledge change your behavior? And what did your brother do?

[Anonymous]

put up fliers and get the neighborhood together to know that the scum bag lives nearby. Make sure he feels the pressure and knows he is under surveillance . Eventually if you make it difficult they will leave. Be vigilant these people deserve to be somewhere else and not near children or families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:put up fliers and get the neighborhood together to know that the scum bag lives nearby. Make sure he feels the pressure and knows he is under surveillance . Eventually if you make it difficult they will leave. Be vigilant these people deserve to be somewhere else and not near children or families.

I will remind you that you said that when your 18 year old son ends up on the list for having sex with his 17 year old girlfriend, that he is a scumbag who does not deserve to be near children or families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:put up fliers and get the neighborhood together to know that the scum bag lives nearby. Make sure he feels the pressure and knows he is under surveillance . Eventually if you make it difficult they will leave. Be vigilant these people deserve to be somewhere else and not near children or families.

I will remind you that you said that when your 18 year old son ends up on the list for having sex with his 17 year old girlfriend, that he is a scumbag who does not deserve to be near children or families.

um, that's the point of the registry, to get an understanding of what a sex offender did. PP is taking about pedophiles and rapists who get it out will do it again.

[Anonymous]

This filth is everywhere including mclean, potomac etc... our laws aren't strong enough to keep these terrible awful people in exile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:put up fliers and get the neighborhood together to know that the scum bag lives nearby. Make sure he feels the pressure and knows he is under surveillance . Eventually if you make it difficult they will leave. Be vigilant these people deserve to be somewhere else and not near children or families.

I will remind you that you said that when your 18 year old son ends up on the list for having sex with his 17 year old girlfriend, that he is a scumbag who does not deserve to be near children or families.

We are talking about chester the 40 year old molester get a grip you idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:put up fliers and get the neighborhood together to know that the scum bag lives nearby. Make sure he feels the pressure and knows he is under surveillance . Eventually if you make it difficult they will leave. Be vigilant these people deserve to be somewhere else and not near children or families.

I will remind you that you said that when your 18 year old son ends up on the list for having sex with his 17 year old girlfriend, that he is a scumbag who does not deserve to be near children or families.

um, that's the point of the registry, to get an understanding of what a sex offender did. PP is taking about pedophiles and rapists who get it out will do it again.

You do realize that not all registries are specific about what an offender did, right? So it would have a picture of that PP's son and the caption that he was convicted of sex with a person under 18. It won't necessarily have the age of the minor, or the age he was when he committed the crime in question. My point was that, in addition to there being many people who should be on the list who aren't, there are also people who are on that list who are absolutely no threat to my 4 year old daughter and that it is not always possible to tell the difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:put up fliers and get the neighborhood together to know that the scum bag lives nearby. Make sure he feels the pressure and knows he is under surveillance . Eventually if you make it difficult they will leave. Be vigilant these people deserve to be somewhere else and not near children or families.

I will remind you that you said that when your 18 year old son ends up on the list for having sex with his 17 year old girlfriend, that he is a scumbag who does not deserve to be near children or families.

um, that's the point of the registry, to get an understanding of what a sex offender did. PP is taking about pedophiles and rapists who get it out will do it again.

You do realize that not all registries are specific about what an offender did, right? So it would have a picture of that PP's son and the caption that he was convicted of sex with a person under 18. It won't necessarily have the age of the minor, or the age he was when he committed the crime in question. My point was that, in addition to there being many people who should be on the list who aren't, there are also people who are on that list who are absolutely no threat to my 4 year old daughter and that it is not always possible to tell the difference.

That's why police records are public information. You can get enough info from the registry to take to your local precinct to research the individual further (or call the PD in the city where the crime took place) and, if the crime was newsworthy, look up the case in the newspaper in the town where the crime was committed. As others have said, it's a resource, just like the Better Business Bureau site. Doesn't tell you enough, but it tells you something. Chances are you'd be hesitant to give your money to a poorly rated vendor. We should be a lot more judicious with our children than we are with our money.