Reply #33: I have mixed feelings about it [View All]

[sweetjake]

I have a 14 year old daughter. My state has a registry with a map and I've looked at it. It's pretty scary even though I live in a nice neighborhood.

But, then, when I link to the records and pictures of those people, it actually tells what level of sexual offender they are. What they were arrested for, etc...

It's sad to see that some of them are level 1 or so and probably were in a circumstance like some described here. A younger girlfriend, public nakedness as joke maybe (even a stupid streaking prank I saw once on MTV that some 18 year old high school kid did got him a level 1 sex offender charge). Those will be on their record forever.

They'll always be on that map and their picture will always be linked to by someone like me, looking.

My husband has no sympathy. He says that anyone who has a conviction for anything sexual has the potential to hurt his daughter and he wants to know where they live.

It's definitely a gray issue.