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From: Mom of Six
Date: 02-04-2007, 11:30 PM (1 of 14)
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I don't know if this works outside the US but if you put your address in this website it will tell you if there are any sex offenders or child molesters in your neighborhood. www.familywatchdog.us Barb
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From: lendube
Date: 02-05-2007, 11:35 AM (2 of 14)
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We've got one apparently. I've seen him around but don't know him personally. It's a very small town. Lennie |
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From: Patty22
Date: 02-05-2007, 11:58 AM (3 of 14)
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There are two states that don't list offenders...PA is one of them. I only know this because I insisted that my daughter and her girlfriends should be cautious and check out the area before they started searching for apartments off campus. My daughter told me she is more concerned who carries a gun rather than anything else. Patty
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From: SheliaHC
Date: 02-05-2007, 12:19 PM (4 of 14)
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The other thing to remember is that this site only shows the offenders that register. Shelia |
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From: Ann Made
Date: 02-05-2007, 08:14 PM (5 of 14)
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The site only works for the US. Truthfully, I think every sex offender should be registered in both the US and Canada. How else are we to protect all people. Ann Learning is a journey, not a race.
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From: PaulineG
Date: 02-05-2007, 09:39 PM (6 of 14)
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Ann - Unfortunately there's a lot more out there who are uncaught than there are convicted. Just look at the statistics on the website - 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 6 boys. And these would be the reported cases. How many of the more "subtle" molestations are unreported. Better just to teach your kids to be very, very careful (without making them paranoid - a fine line). As a parent there are very few adults whom I trust absolutely with my kids (around a dozen or so). I'm sure that there are plenty of others I know who ARE ok. It's just that the difference between 98% sure and 100% sure would be a terrible thing to have to find out about. At the end of the day - do everything you can to protect them and cross your fingers. Pauline
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From: Carol in ME
Date: 02-08-2007, 08:20 PM (7 of 14)
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On another board this was a hot topic for a while. It was pointed out that these list only contain, 1) the ones who have already been caught, and 2) the ones who register. Had a young relative molested some years ago...Perpetrator had never been arrested before, although rumors had circulated for years, nobody had come forward and filed a complaint. Had a neighbor in the old neighborhood, molested two children in his own family, and said it was the fault of the kids. They enticed him. (They were about six years old.) Whole family was so nutso they sat in the courtroom and snickered as the charges against the man were read. The judge threatened to throw them out of the courtroom. And another thing...a man came into our state and shot someone on the list in cold blood. No connection with the man at all. The shooter's identity became known to the police, and he killed himself in the standoff that followed. Had the names of several other sex offenders in his pockets. The man he killed was mentally handicapped. He was convicted as a "sex offender" because at nineteen, he'd been intimate with his girlfriend, three months before she had reached the legal age of consent. (16 years) While most would probably like to see a girl a little older before she enters into a physical relationship (maybe boys, too) most who knew the people involved didn't think a handicapped nineteen-year-old had undue influence over a girl almost sixteen. |
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From: Patty22
Date: 02-09-2007, 03:10 PM (8 of 14)
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Yes, let's not forget that not everyone who is convicted through the system is guilty. Sexual assault is horrible and I am not making light of the situation, but there are individuals that abuse the system. Also, punishment for crimes varies from community to community as well as state to state. Just food for thought here. Patty
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From: Magot
Date: 02-09-2007, 05:39 PM (9 of 14)
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Also remember that most offenders are known to and probably relatives of the victims - so therefore not as likely to be dangerous to the general public as people like to think. I am more concerned with the emergent gun culture - there is a whole youth element that do not realise the danger of weapons and that the damage you inflict is not instantly repairable. We don't all flash like Mario and come back for another life. Death is death, victims survive and can go on to live productive and happy lives - they do not need to become paedophiles themselves - don't believe the lies. love and kisses, Jan
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From: DorothyL
Date: 02-10-2007, 07:55 AM (10 of 14)
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I am more concerned with the emergent gun culture Jan We are so used to that here that we don't even think about it. You are watching too many American movies and TV, I think. People here feel they have a constitutional right to carry handguns with armor piercing bullets. For hunting you know. Dorothy |
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From: Magot
Date: 02-10-2007, 09:22 AM (11 of 14)
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I guess I am thinking about gang culture in our big cities Dorothy, rather than soaps. Every now and then we have a knife amnesty - loads of knives and handed in and still people are knifed at the school gates. There is a growing feeling that you have to carry a knife to feel safe- scarey.
love and kisses, Jan
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From: Sancin
Date: 02-10-2007, 08:42 PM (12 of 14)
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Sorry, Dorothy, but I don't think it is just TV. I am terrified any time I am in a US airport and see the security and luggage people with guns in plain view. I could never become used to that. As you may know we don't have the same constitutional right to bear arms in Canada and our new gun laws are very controversial. I don't think I will ever be used to seeing guns readily in view or available in public --- and I grew up in a gun collecting family. I can shoot very well, but won't have a gun anywhere near me. As for knives, all I can think of is that if a knife to be used the person would have to be very close to another, which brings a lot of other images to mind. I live in hunting country and hunters are the loudest about caring guns. Yet the ones I hear and see ranting on are the most scary, illogical people addressing the issue - angry at everything. Before the gun laws it was not uncommon to see, in winter, pickup trucks in shopping malls with 1 or 2 rifles in special racks behind the driver seat, the truck running and the driver in shopping!! A new VERY scary phenomena around here lately is the number of machete injuries (read deaths) from fights. It appears we are becoming a centre for the drug trade and a hide away for big gangs. Fortunately the phenomena, according to our newspapers, seems to be happening to people 'known to police'. But how long before our teenagers think it is neat to scare others. There has been a move to post the names of prostitutes and customers lately to cut down on that business - again controversial as often prostitutes are actually child slaves, but I would like to see the names of those who have unlicenced guns confiscated. They may not be up to any mischief, but it may make them think before not licencing them and then bring them out of their compulsory safes. I know, I know - guns don't kill people, people do. People with guns!! *~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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From: DorothyL
Date: 02-11-2007, 09:25 AM (13 of 14)
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Yet the ones I hear and see ranting on are the most scary, illogical people addressing the issue - angry at everything. Nancy We've got those guys here too. This is big time hunting country. We also have a huge lobby supported by weapons manufacturers to get 'em going. In Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore points out that Canadians have a lot more guns than we do but only a small fractions of the gun murders. But probably we are getting a little political here. Dorothy |
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From: Patty22
Date: 02-12-2007, 10:20 AM (14 of 14)
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Nancy, when you were posting about the knives, it reminded me of growing up as a kid. We lived out in what was considered "the sticks." My father, thinking of how he was going to protect his family if the car broke down (or that is what he told us), had a BIG machete hidden under the driver's seat. As a kid, I knew that knife was there and it petrified me. Looking back on the situation I now realize that my father, who was easy to set off and often unrational and very prejudice, was the last person I would have wanted having access to a weapon. When Dorothy said hunting is big in our area, read this as when a hunting store moved into the area it saved a local mall from going under; their presence has trigger growth and development which hasn't been seen in over twenty years. Patty
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