It’s all about the $$$$$
And the piece of shit attorneys Love It.
They won’t fight against registration, IT’S THEIR LIVELIHOOD.

David,

Trust, it’s fooling enough people that their laws/rules towards us are getting them elected.

Sandy,

It’s actually a difficult decision. Let me first pretend I’m a prosecutor or law maker so I can get inside their minds…..

“We need to get tougher on crime and criminals! Send these bastards away for a long time, followed by years of supervision and outcasting from society. They must never lead a normal life again. Forgiveness is NOT an option.
Besides, none of OUR loved ones or even ourselves will ever commit these horrible acts so we need not worry.”

How’s that?

And therein lies the Freudian slip! It’s about retaliatory vengeance and punitive “get even” punishment, NOT “justice.”

They really do need to stop playing the “children in constant peril” card.

Probably not so much hypocritical as just what it takes to see the abuses in the system. How many of us would be on the ‘side’ we are on if we hadn’t become embroiled in it either personally or through someone we know or love? Before that happened, if someone had asked you if you favored laws that were tougher on criminals or laws that made it easier on criminals, what would you have said? Be honest.

Until the day one of THEIR juvenile (or even adult) kids commits a sex offense.
Anyone remember the prosecutor whose son got caught up in a sting on “To Catch A Predator”? She quickly went from wanting to send everyone to prison to trying to defend her son in front of the very same court where she tries to send everyone to prison. Hypocritical.

People who become prosecutors must have been bullied back in school.

And the tired excuse “it’s for the public safety” isn’t fooling anyone. Show us the data proving registries have made society safer. If 95% of new sex crimes are committed by first time offenders (not on the registry) then the registry is hardly doing what it’s supposed to.

Keep the registry private- for law enforcement only. If a judge ordered someone to stand on a busy street corner wearing a sign that said “i’m a sex offender” for the rest of their lives, that would be cruel and unusual, no? Putting someone on the public registry for life is essentially the same thing. How horrible that must feel for a young person to realize they will never have a normal life.

The youngster who was on the receiving end of this from the teen will be able to move on with their life with the right support, help and knowledge and avoid the perpetual victim label should they chose to.

S. Carolina, Bible Belt, hypocrites? Makes you think so about the Palmetto State…