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 Although this is a local issue, it does have national significance as more and more states crack down on sexual offenders.
I started to comment on the LJ World site because I frankly found the arguments from the people boo hooing the pain the poor slob in the story suffered entertaining.
I’m glad the registry exists because I am so sick of hearing about these sick fucks screwing up the lives of young kids particularly girls. The glaring white light of scrutiny is a bitch huh?
If you want to keep your sick ass off this list, stop molesting little babies, young teens, your step daughters. Stop kidnaping and murdering. 
I find it hilarious how many links there are from people who thinks the registry is unfair, that there needs to be some distinguishing between the various offenses. Naw not me, screw em.
The more and more defending I read that only tells me that there are more and more sickos out there that need to be scared straight.

“The law is too tough and vague, I too want to screw my neighbors 10 year old daughter without consequences”

“I should be allowed to flash kids on their way to school”                                               

 “I though it was ok to pat kids on the butt when they got an answer correct”

“what’s wrong with playing Santa Claus with the kids in July”

The excuses are asinine. From reading about how perverts are scanning My Space looking for young love to watching NBC’s Dateline watching perverted fucks from all walks of life seeking to take advantage of young girls.
I read one sob story back east about two dudes 57 and 24 who were blasted after their names were posted. Boo fucken hoo, if you are a sex offender you should be scared. If you are sleeping with your kids and playing Michael Jackson you should be scared. If you are some college age prick screwing with some 12, 13 or 14 year old, you should be scared.
I know one motherfucker, if I had the money and resources……backing away from keyboard…
Stay away from kids and your mug shot stays off the web.

The article… 

State system makes no distinction between rapists and molesters and young men in a relationship

The other day, Brad Totman says, his wife came home nearly in tears.
Some neighborhood children who play with the couple’s 3-year-old daughter had said they couldn’t play with her anymore because Totman might “touch them.”
The reason: Totman is a registered sex offender, and his picture recently had been published in the local paper in Pittsburg near his home in Mulberry. His crime, which happened in the late 1990s, was having consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 19.
That girl is now his wife, Kristal. They have been married three years.
Kansas has had an “offender registry” since the mid-1990s, designed to alert the public to the presence of dangerous criminals — mostly sex offenders — in their midst. Offenders must register with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and keep their name, current address and photo on a public site.
But Totman says it’s not fair — and misleading to the public — that the registry paints people like him with the same brush as it paints, say, someone who grabbed a child off the street or broke into a home and raped a person. He says the registry instills fear in the public, without providing any meaningful information about what a person actually did to land himself on it.
“It’s lumping you in with pedophiles and rapists, when in fact it’s a consensual thing, especially when you have a continuing relationship with the person,” Totman said. “I want to make waves. I want to see changes.”

‘Way out of proportion’

Sex offenders garner little sympathy in the public eye, and conventional wisdom is that no politician would ever brag about passing laws to make life easier for such a population.
This year, in fact, the Legislature made life harder for people like Totman. The much-touted “Jessica’s Law” didn’t just increase penalties for child molesters; it required all registered offenders to start visiting their county’s sheriff twice a year and paying a $20 fee each time, in addition to the pre-existing requirement to verify their address every 90 days through the mail.
The change, which took effect July 1, also increased the penalties for violating the registration law — for example, by failing to send back a letter. That crime is now a level 5 felony that calls for prison time, on par with violent crimes such as involuntary manslaughter.
The changes concern Ron Stegall, Douglas County’s chief executive probation officer. He pointed out that the penalty for failing to register was far more serious than that handed down for many of the crimes that required someone to be on the registry in the first place.
“I’m certainly not suggesting there should be no penalty for failing to register,” he said. “To me, the penalty is way out of proportion to the crime itself.”

A ‘wide net’

Totman, for example, was convicted of “lewd and lascivious behavior,” a misdemeanor. But if he makes a paperwork mistake, he could go to prison for nearly three years.
Another concern of Stegall’s is that the registry makes no distinction between what he called a “really, really bad guy,” and a “not-such-a-bad guy” who made a youthful mistake. He’s not suggesting that sex with an underage person should be legal — just that the state needs to make a distinction between types of sex crimes.

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This entry was posted on Monday, August 28th, 2006 at 6:00 pm and is filed under Society, Sick Bastards, Sexual Deviants, Crime and Punishment.
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