Sex Offender Laws Do More Harm Than Good - Professor Heather Cucolo

Recorded back in 2010, Professor Cucolo has long been a voice to the ineffectiveness of sex offender laws. Brad Sussman interviews with Prof Heather Cucolo on what we think and need to know about this problem of society. Anger, fear and justice all have to be considered. This is the full un-edited version of the broadcast version.
Professor Heather Cucolo is an Adjunct Professor at the Emory University School of Law. She is a proponent of Therapeutic jurisprudence which is an interdisciplinary method of legal scholarship that aims to reform the law in order to positively impact the psychological well-being of the accused person.

[@somekindofaguyat47]

Sex offender laws are legalized continuous punishment. They are not about public safety, but rather public shaming of individuals while providing a false sense of safety to the community.

[@redeemingpatriot3487]

what would you do about it

[@goldenvulture6818]

worthy petition: change.org/p/abolish-the-sex-offender-registry

[@waltergeorge9617]

@@redeemingpatriot3487 use tiering, check it out..

[@redeemingpatriot3487]

@@waltergeorge9617 it barely works and lets be honest some people choose to stop while others are repeat offenders that dont give a fuck about people

[@waltergeorge9617]

@@redeemingpatriot3487 Put it back solely into the Police Force....These Karen's need to worry more about their own family 👪 and acquaintances, they're the ones doing it..Do Research !!! I tell them. Everybody loves to hate somebody, Makes their ego inflate !! So let's all be Gang Stalking Vigilantes and unleash FELONIES on the already convicted...Who's the real criminals here ?? WTF ???

[@chrisjohnson6118]

A person's past doesn't make them the person they have become.

[@mobleyMobley]

Usually does in fact

[@salvador8923]

You can never escape it it’s a part of you

[@TomikaKelly]

If that's the case, every single person should be let out of prison....🤨🤔

[@JoseTorres-dl3kh]

I'm on the offender registry without ever being charged any where in the country. My name is the same as over 10000 people on the registry. I've never been in prison never served time have no victims nothing yet I am and have been listed for 16 years, my allegations on the registry have been changed more than 7 times because of the number of individuals with my name. I've been on this registry for 16 years as a tier 3 for crimes I've have no charges for. The state of Michigan has taken my children because of the list and not one attorney in the entire state wants to be a lawyer who releases a "monster/predator". Once, I tried to be removed and now I have no other chance to be removed ever again because of the tiering level I have attributed to my name. I am currently facing ten years of prison for Michigan suspending the registry duties during the COVID pandemic by judge cleland from Port Huron Michigan. No not every offender is guilty as over the 16 years I've been on this list Ive seen children, all boys, as young as ten years old put on this list for things like having to pee and going in public areas and someone calling cops on them for such a thing. You need to learn more about the truth of the registry and how it has destroyed the lives of innocent men. Many teens are put on the list between the ages of 12-17 are on the list because in many cases the older woman they were with claimed rape on them so they themselves would not get into trouble for statutory rape. This is wrong on so many levels that too ma y are suffering from. Do I think the real monsters be listed. No they should be kept behind bars for the horrors they inflict on people. please go learn the truth and try not to be ignorant or speak ignorantly about this subject until you learn more. Sadly not enough people argue the case by case and only go after the laws being unconstitutional which is the wrong arguement or only part of the arguement.

[@enderthexenocide760]

Im sorry but that is hard to believe. If you actually have no charges against you and you are mistakenly on the Sex Offender Registry because of a common name then that will be readily apparent by cross-checking police files. It would be a fairly simply matter to clear up and there is no way that you could be told you can never appeal it again. You are either leaving out something, like an actual offense, or you need to find yourself an attorney with a handful of functioning brain cells. A case like yours would be some lawyers dreams.

[@JoseTorres-dl3kh]

@@enderthexenocide760 for what it's worth I don't know why I was put on it. All I know is cops came to my house while I was practicing softball with my kid. Several car in force with guns drawn demanding I go register this was in Saint Clair shores Michigan. Yet I was never charged no victim no jail time nothing. I explain this to the cops and no matter what I said, I could sign the paperwork or be a dead rapist my choice. I chose to go home to my kids instead of the gun pointed to my skull. I've been fighting ever since. and now for the first time in 16+ years I'm finally free.

[@enderthexenocide760]

@@JoseTorres-dl3kh no one can force you to sign something. They must have had some kind of accusation because even if they thought you were already on the registry because of a common name mistake they wouldn't show up with guns drawn over a failure to register and all you would need to do is request an attorney and demand to see the charges against you. It is possible you were railroaded and pressured into signing a false confession, that does happen, but usually after many hours of interrogation and generally the accused is low on the IQ spectrum. What do you mean by you are free after 16 years? Were you in prison over this? Your account of what happened is confusing.

[@salvador8923]

@@JoseTorres-dl3kh No one is going to pull up to your house with guns forcing you to register & no one can make you sign anything either, quit lying 🤡

[@IndianCurrycel]

@@salvador8923Yes cops can force people to sign it has happened in many countries like India, Mexico your country since you have Spanish username and China

[@jamesjackson8521]

Registration for every felony Or no registration at all. Makes much more sense.

[@martinkaye6397]

not allsex offenders are nasty rapists or evil child abusers believe it or not there are some ordinary human beings out there

[@monicamitchell7827]

Exactly. Some are two teenagers consensually having sex.

[@RandomDad2024]

We are a country that are obsessed with sex. It’s really sadistic way of isolating a group. It makes us feel better about ourselves though in short term.

[@edwarddelgado9654]

With those labels and those restrictions why would anybody aspire to be anything else

[@goldenvulture6818]

worthy petition: change.org/p/abolish-the-sex-offender-registry

[@jackbruce4046]

@@goldenvulture6818 thanks👍

[@jackbruce4046]

You are sop right! Hopelessness and dark clouds ahead is all they see in their future....YET,IF YOUR RICH AND HAVE POLITICAL CLOUT,YOU CAN MAKE THE WHOLE THING DISAPPEAR

[@goldenvulture6818]

@@jackbruce4046 You're welcome

[@riseoverhere3054]

@@jackbruce4046 true like Clinton, Trump and GHW Bush.

[@charlessmith263]

Professor Cucolo should join up with an organization who wants these hyper-punitive sex offender registry laws struck down - NARSOL - the National Association for the Reform of Sex Offender Laws.

[@charlessmith263]

In my two bits, this is not the way to chastise sexual criminals or transgressors. Sure, sex offender registry laws are currently there to track these people before they even re-offend--until they are off the registry. But there are very serious land mines with these laws. The land mines are--for these registrants..... 1. Massive cancel culture. Even by blood relatives, close friends, and other family members. This includes family friends. They will disown these registrants generally immediately. 2. High risk of homelessness. 3. Continued harassment, belittling, disparagement, and intimidation. 4. High risk of being targeted for gang-beatings, extortion, major malware attacks (if they are allowed to use the Internet), and even assassination/murder! 5. Risk of garbage attacks - that is - vigilantes throwing feces, waste, urine, or other garbage at the offenders by way of walk-ins or drive-bys in vehicles. 6. Blacklisted from future employment, usually permanently. 7. High risk of being demoted or fired if they are already employed. 8. Blacklisted from renting nearly any property. 9. Perpetual shaming, especially at the societal level. 10. Constant threats of arrests/fines/jail for such offenses as trespassing, illegal encampment, and squatting.

[@charlessmith263]

Even worse, if these registrants publicly urinate or defecate as homeless people and they are caught, and police see that they were already charged with these offenses and already ended up on the registry for these minor slip-ups, their rap sheets/arrest records will worsen, and their statuses/reputations will tank to a much worse abyss.

[@bobbyvff]

Why is it nobody ever talks about the large percentage of registered persons who never went to prison and never left society. Many were only given probation but must follow all the registry rules

[@enderthexenocide760]

people do talk about that. Many people are angry that some offenders get off with probation because the judge gave them lenient sentences or let them plead down to lesser charges. That is something that needs to stop. Rape, sexual battery/assault, and any crimes against children should all be met with mandatory minimum sentences (life in my opinion but it's open for debate) but by no means should they ever just be getting probation or even given the chance to plead down and take away from the severity of their actions.

[@nickdelaney6953]

Yeah tons of wrongful convictions took pleas

[@nickdelaney6953]

​@@enderthexenocide760or wrongful convictions

[@enderthexenocide760]

@@nickdelaney6953 yes that does also account for a small percentage of people on the registry, although more often than not the ones who get wrongly convicted also end up doing prison time.

[@nickdelaney6953]

@@enderthexenocide760 small percentage my ass wrongful convictions happen everyday

[@natedogathisbestnatedogath9044]

100% get rid of registry laws

[@lukeblersch7097]

They most absolutely will maintain its respected place the registry is Never ever going away it will be there indefinitely....

[@riseoverhere3054]

Yeah eliminate the registry.

[@eddiegranberry5276]

no we don't have to get rid of it but if we do lets set a warning that if anyone molests or rapes a child they will be put up for life and if they rape and murder a child they get the death penalty.

[@krishang364]

I agree, eliminate the registry

[@redeemingpatriot3487]

​@Eddie Granberry isnt rape under molestation

[@RogerHatmaker-zo6ro]

I was only sentence by the court 10 years not life

[@user-mc8xt1iq7c]

no one cares

[@nickdelaney6953]

​@@user-mc8xt1iq7cyes people care

[@sabrewolf4129]

@@user-mc8xt1iq7c That's the problem.

[@martinkaye6397]

i have just opened an international petition about wether the sex laws should be changed the petition is with an on - line company called change - and as it has been newly opened it will be found under -recent - the present date is 24/07/2023 i need some signatures

[@joschawil]

Changing an illegal law, unconstitutional at that, is ridiculous. Get your name off of the petition. A polishing illegal laws is what our great country puts faith in. Smuh.

[@mikewhite8009]

It absolutely depends on their case and what they did or what happened because some people are becoming sex offenders for girls lying about their age picking them up in a bar and they still get in trouble or just pissing outside a barn you become a sex offender it's a joke anymore

[@monicamitchell7827]

This is what happened to my 19 year old son in Illinois. The girl lied about her age. Illinois needs to adopt Romeo and Juliet laws for these teenage romances that are consensual.

[@Jose-ti5wz]

Time recollection:1980s to 1999>The registries have been fed by a history exagerrated hysteria a media fed fearmongering:feeding the ego to shame individual in no way gives people security! The costs to feed this machine devours more than any suxess to protect communitues: if anything to feed more piverty joblessness and contributes to cycle of more crime instead of investigation of the root causes solutiobs to the problems of community relations to solve problems of exagerrated civil committment.

[@purposesusage5655]

I remember one man who was so much sex Offenders, going around talking loud about about how bad sex offenders were, until it was found out that he had in his past sexual offended but kept quiet. So how many out there were really sex offendeders that no one knew about..in a cowboy bar, or in college, or blind date?

[@phoque4611]

I know someone who is a sex offender and has been put in jail even though he has not actively gone out and committed a crime. He didn't steal anything, harm anyone, or rob anyone or anything. The registry is just continued punishment even though he has done his time in Canada. He's not a dangerous person. In Canada they let murderers walk free after only 7 years.

[@doom8944]

Murder is not as bad as being a child molester or rapists. They deserve no sympathy. Bury them 10ft under? You are sick for defending these animals

[@nickdelaney6953]

​@@doom8944are u slow

[@salvador8923]

It doesn’t matter if he didn’t “actively go out and committed a crime” if he committed a crime then it’s fair to charge him and be put on the registry. I’m guessing his crime was possession of CP or distribution which DOES HURT SOMEONE.

[@IndianCurrycel]

@@salvador8923No it doesn’t you gringo

[@TomikaKelly]

​@doom8944 Youre being emotional and irrational...🤡 BOTH are bad. This isn't the "which is worse" Olympics. 🙄

[@howardjones4852]

I would like to tell my story briefly, I am one of the first group of children to be placed on Megan’s law in 1994 For lifting up a girlfriend skirt at school I just turned 14 years old . I am now 43 years old which means I been on there for 30 years . I was forced to drop out of school in the 8th grade because of this and I choose to work instead. I choose to learn about Glass which is called a Glazier and I am one of the best Glaziers in the country. Why have I been on there so long is the million dollar question ? At the age of 18 I had consensual sex with a 14 year old who told me she was 17 , she got pregnant and that’s how my name came up. I was arrested and was told her real age. I did 2 years in prison and was released in 2003 I then found out I would have to be on Megan’s law for 15 years with a parole officer and was given dozens of Unhuman rules , requirements and restrictions I was completely shocked. I Did about 7 years and they found out I was one of the top 10 charcoal artists in the country and just opened my own Glass company LLC . I was starting to make the papers from my art so they took me off the registry but kept me on supervised psl. I ended up doing 15 years on parole or Psl as they call it and the most I got was a small motor vehicle ticket in all that time. I was easily removed from the psl after 15 years which was 2018 , my lawyer was fighting for me to be removed from Megan’s law all together but the court said hey remember when u were 14 and lifted a girl skirt up ? Well we are not removing u off . That made me stronger to be even more successful, so I started more businesses and always stayed as a Glazier to the point where I became so good no matter what glass company I worked for I was the highest paid employee. I was never fired from a job because of this , I never was turned down from a job , I was never denied a apartment or house. I have horror stories from life on psl and I mean horror stories. I would like to tell those stories along with how I beat them and didn’t fail in life and right now I am extremely successful. I earn a 6 figure salary, I had No problems since I been removed from Psl until Now . I had a opportunity in Arizona where I can double my success and the NJ detective found out and violated me for leaving NJ and not telling Arizona police that I was there to work within 10 days smh . I am pissed that Law does Not want anyone on Megan’s law to be successful. I have a story where a police officer tried to set me up in NJ for crimes he knew I didn’t commit and if I didn’t have the money or resources I would have went back to jail and everything I done would have been wasted. But I out smarted him and hired a private investigator and he got the truth and all charges was dropped with a apology from the judge I have that report right now in my icould that I want to make public a long with all the illegal stuff I seen in these past 30 years . I have stories and proof that will raise so many eyebrows my email is [e-mail]

[@ljkljk4694]

God help our country and everyone in it in Jesus name Amen

[@barrypeterson6725]

Amen!

[@Tinman2955]

Amen 🙏

[@Kevin-qp5we]

How about this god just stops dump crap. Easy.

[@robertbusso6859]

We adapt to our environment. Can you imagine how desensitized one must become to face the ostracization on a day to day basis? May as well wear blinders and ear plugs, and turn a blind eye to anyone in distress due to fear of risking one's own welfare, or just to return the favor of disregard.

[@kurtisroberts9375]

So how do we reverse the registry laws that well to do started?

[@jamesbeemer7855]

Excuse me Ma’am , but explain that to the federal congress , because you’re talking to the quire other wise . The federal government has over riding authority over the states from what I understand . And your protest would be best heard there .

[@WolfDaddy81]

Unfortunately, no matter how true it is that the laws are unconstitutional or unfair it would be political suicide to undo anything. Even for those who have never had a " real person" victim. They will never make changes that benefit offenders they will only make it worse.

[@dperry9406]

The offenders become victims of the system and never mind that many of them were victims of abuses themselves. STOP ABUSE.

[@riseoverhere3054]

True some damaged people damage other people.

[@salvador8923]

@@riseoverhere3054no excuse

[@patriotfighter8694]

I am sorry but the laws don't work.

[@patriotfighter8694]

They should be abolished

[@redeemingpatriot3487]

@@patriotfighter8694 well said

[@justinrabbitt9492]

They never worked exept to give the media a means to get ratings and control people while giving those in power easy meams to votes based on junk science from over 20 years ago.

[@goldenvulture6818]

worthy petition: change.org/p/abolish-the-sex-offender-registry

[@justinrabbitt9492]

@@goldenvulture6818 signed

[@joschawil]

State law is 100% forbidden to overturn the federal US Constitution. There is no barren ground on that

[@user-mc8xt1iq7c]

thye consstituion apllies to humans. 99% of the people on this planet dont consider pedophiles human

[@JoseTorres-dl3kh]

This lady claims that incest rape is the big issue when in reality what is not accounted for in her arguement is the women who are caught cheating on their spouses or the division of the family life where the men are forced out of the home under these false allegations so the female can be with another man. So they are accised of raping their children so these women can have the freedom to cheat or be with someone else. This is the number one cause of how so many men can be on the registry without ever being guilty and because of the threats of life in prison and threats of never seeing their children again plead to lesser cases. In the hopes of being in their childrens lives. For those who are actually guilty they are the ones who have mulitple crimes mulitple attacks in which they should be imprisoned for life rather than released. Many first time offenders are only listed because they were forced to cop to plea deals when facing life in prison even though they may have not offender or because of those victimized as children not understanding that what happened to them shouldnt be done to another. Their minds are broken and dont know better and with the lack of help for victim of child abuse or children of sex slavery never getting help to show and teach them its not right and after being forced to see their own actions should be given a chance to live their lives. As for the churches and the list of other child programs that children are apart of boy scouts , colleges, or the like are what many need to see is a major issue. Unless you are personally familiar with the registry you will continue to think like so many who say they are all child predators and deserve xyz punishments. I have never been convicted any where in america and ive been listed for 16 years for having the same name as over 10000 people on the list.

[@josesantiago3867]

Sorry, but the Public registry has made this homeless pklulation worst, than back i the early 80s, the registry of public shaming has got to go! Put orisoners, exfelons back to work, community labor programs, and partial military training for able bodied ex offenders, get rid of the Federal public registry!

[@justinrabbitt9492]

Fully agree. They need to stop making the nearly million people and growing on the registry into outcast. Get rid of the registry, have work programs in place to help them all get better than minimum wage/construction/truck driving jobs especially while on probation, and let them reintegrate back into society like all other felons. Have an actual line in the sand so to speak that says once you get to that point your free to live your life without restrictions. They can have a family, leave the country, not have any label on any forms of id, and get better employment if they haven't already gotten a good one they are happy with thru the work program. Get more true "second chance" companies that aren't gonna play the whole "oh we are feliny friendly but we are family oriented so we won't hire anyone with a sex offense"

[@goldenvulture6818]

worthy petition: change.org/p/abolish-the-sex-offender-registry

[@justinrabbitt9492]

@@goldenvulture6818 signed

[@achen5689]

Community labor programs? Is that all ex felons are worth? How about scientists discovering new planets, high-honors professors for prestigious universities, adult celebrities for American Idol/Dancing on the Stars/America's Got Talent/The Voice? What about *_these_* jobs?

[@justinrabbitt9492]

@@achen5689 maybe even work on radio, become mechanics, maybe even be able to work at a courthouse. Being more able to be a lawyer or something. It always seems like the only jobs available are either construction, truck driving, or pay by the day jobs.

[@kdw75]

There shouldn't be a sex offender registry. It is bad, just like drug laws, gun laws and most other laws.

[@RogerHatmaker-zo6ro]

I been homeless four years one time im only level one offender state indiana gave me life when i went in to Derigster

[@Nightmarefuel66]

Has your 10 year registration expired? Yes? STOP REGISTERING!!! F**k them.

[@salvador8923]

@@Nightmarefuel66lol u want him to go to jail

[@Nightmarefuel66]

@salvador8923 Idk what happened to my previous comment. All I was saying is he needs to stand up for himself. Of course I don't want him to go to jail, I think this whole Megan's Law thing is CRAP. Yeah Indiana D.O.C. handles the registry in that state, they made the decision to increase his registration from 10 years to life, he should fight that. Take them to court, have the judge make D.O.C. change him back to 10 years so he can be done with this nonsense. In no way, shape, or form do I agree with registration in any capacity. It's what the Nazi's did to the Jews isn't it? It strips human rights, its takes away liberty, and that's not ok.

[@martinkaye6397]

now i have got some more signatures my petition is easier to find its under: reforming sex registration for a more effective system. - change

[@amirahp1690]

They will just twist it into something else for their greed.

[@martinkaye6397]

No

[@paulaoppedisano3685]

More harm than good to who? The offender or the victim?

[@dperry9406]

The offenders become victims of the system and never mind many of tthem were victims of abuses themselves STOP ABUSE.

[@riseoverhere3054]

I would say both because the dangerous offenders might want to take revenge on the victim if they know where they live. The offenders that don’t have victims will be assaulted by vigilantes.

[@salvador8923]

@@dperry9406Sex offenders are not victims of the system if anything they are victims of their own actions which have consequences. It doesn’t matter if you were a victim, once you decide to become an abuser/perpetrator you will be dealt with.

[@IndianCurrycel]

@@salvador8923Bill Clinton hasn’t been dealt with. Donald Trump hasn’t been dealt with.

[@ForgingThought]

There can be discussion about reform to better approach cases such as " ending up on the registry because I peed on a school property when school was not in and it was 10 pm" or the "I was dating a 16 year old when I turned 18, but we had been a couple for 3 years"-Those cases or similar iffy ones yeah cool lets figure that out HOWEVER: Child Rapists/groomers, and violent predatory rapists? Nah man, nope. They make the conscious decision to prey on the most vulnerable and defenseless targets possible. There is no remedy or rehabilitation capable of fixing that kind of vampire. The death penalty should be expanded to include repeat offender child rapists and repeat violent sexual battery cases. Saying that you feel bad because they feel depressed? Seriously? If you choose to be inhuman then you don't deserve human emotions. And this argument of it being a family member offender targeting prey within the family so its not as big of a deal-who the hell thinks that way? A large portion of what this woman is saying is absolutely repulsive.

[@ForgingThought]

@@lars_of_the_north I hate it that sexual crimes are committed, and I'm very Intolerant of creatures that willingly prey on the most innocent and vulnerable targets available while fully aware of the horrific and inexcusable nature of their actions. 100%.

[@ForgingThought]

@@lars_of_the_north Why do you support the sexual assault of children? Why do you encourage sexual battery?

[@riseoverhere3054]

It’s not right to categorize all sex offenders as the same just like the media does too alcoholics and drug addicts.

[@ForgingThought]

@@riseoverhere3054 read my comment, reform of the laws? Yes, that makes sense, different offenses deserve different consideration and modifications to the statute or punishment implementation. However this woman is advocating ideas such as if a family member commits sexual assault on another family member its "not as big of a deal" than if it were a stranger.- what kind of world does that make sense? That , along with more of the views she advocates for are completely ridiculous and horrifying.

[@FloridaActionCommittee]

"Violent predatory rapists" are not on the sex offender registry. They are in prison for life. The sex offender registry does not protect anyone from danger or harm because we already have a prison system that does that.

[@robertwysocki2073]

Instead of "It not me, then who?" you can refer to Niemoller's poem, "First They Came," that points to the Nazis and what they did.

[@goldenvulture6818]

worthy petition: change.org/p/abolish-the-sex-offender-registry

[@mrgoblueguy]

Sec offenders have ruined people their whole lives. Why should they get a break?

[@JoseTorres-dl3kh]

I'm on the offender registry without ever being charged any where in the country. My name is the same as over 10000 people on the registry. I've never been in prison never served time have no victims nothing yet I am and have been listed for 16 years, my allegations on the registry have been changed more than 7 times because of the number of individuals with my name. I've been on this registry for 16 years as a tier 3 for crimes I've have no charges for. The state of Michigan has taken my children because of the list and not one attorney in the entire state wants to be a lawyer who releases a "monster/predator". Once, I tried to be removed and now I have no other chance to be removed ever again because of the tiering level I have attributed to my name. I am currently facing ten years of prison for Michigan suspending the registry duties during the COVID pandemic by judge cleland from Port Huron Michigan. No not every offender is guilty as over the 16 years I've been on this list Ive seen children, all boys, as young as ten years old put on this list for things like having to pee and going in public areas and someone calling cops on them for such a thing. You need to learn more about the truth of the registry and how it has destroyed the lives of innocent men. Many teens are put on the list between the ages of 12-17 are on the list because in many cases the older woman they were with claimed rape on them so they themselves would not get into trouble for statutory rape. This is wrong on so many levels that too ma y are suffering from. Do I think the real monsters be listed. No they should be kept behind bars for the horrors they inflict on people. please go learn the truth and try not to be ignorant or speak ignorantly about this subject until you learn more. Sadly not enough people argue the case by case and only go after the laws being unconstitutional which is the wrong arguement or only part of the arguement.

[@rickymiller5297]

Murders ruined people's lives to. The victim cant even get any kind of help. Why because they are dead. Yet no registry for Murders.

[@mrgoblueguy]

@@rickymiller5297 why are you defending sex offenders?

[@JoseTorres-dl3kh]

@@mrgoblueguy I'll answer this. Most if not all sex offenders were victims who survived their own trauma and by a world that will not help them they succumb to their demons. As do all who never receive help for the traumas inflicted on them. Those who are the worst are those with power who by their own power destroy others. I've personally seen the worst of humanity and have personally experienced this pain until I turned 18, from the age of 1 years old. Men Shoving my face into a toilet full of human excrement so none could here me scream. To those who had the most gentle touch and still took from me for there own pleasure. These men were police, lawyers, judges, pastors, teachers, foster parents, and yes loved ones. I had no hero to save me, no one person who showed me anything but my pain. Then those same people put me on this list making me the monster they created. For people like you to hate through ignorance, building off of your fear while they stand idoly by watching you destroy people like me. I've studied into this subject more than any human has given it ear to hear. Those who have their guilt are the broken who were never fixed. God repaired my brokenness as I had none who could. Love showed me the kindness of man of which I've never seen. And in this world filled with hate my heavenly father is who healed my wounds. His grace made me the man I am today. And to those who have been listed with out just cause you condemn not knowing the truth of their lives only listening to those who point fingers. One thing I've learned is those who point their fucking fingers are usually those with the greatest guilt. Not all are guilty and not all are monsters. But if I've learned one thing they are victims as well. Even the worst. Stop throwing your stones lest God shatter your glass house.

[@rickymiller5297]

@@mrgoblueguy I thought I was puting them on equal footing. I'm saying there should be a murder registry also. You surly agree. They both ruin lives. Maybe I've just misunderstood your meaning. Let me know.

[@lukeblersch7097]

those are strict Laws to protect children from being victims of pedophiles ?or offenders.. Those laws are there because children have been traumatised victimised. Because of severe predators if those are not enforced " megans law if not the legal system would be overwhelmed... That is why these Laws are strict i am father i could not imagine if some one has ever happened to a realtive." What happens when it happens again because of people like her?guess what in 2022 2023? the. Laws could get even more strict? As far as i am concerned we as parents have that right to protect our realtives? The sympathetic stops when ya see on the news that some you know was molsted or raped because of an pedophiles offender rapist? someones opinion?

[@lukeblersch7097]

@@lars_of_the_north it has been law for a long long time those Laws are most certainly there to protect childern from preadators? It been like its more then likely always going to be a registry indefinitely end of discussion?

[@riseoverhere3054]

@@lukeblersch7097 if the laws were meant to protect the public, then how come it didn’t protect those actresses from Weinstein and those kids from Jerry Sandusky? Also we wouldn’t hear so many stories about prison rape too.

[@adamtorres833]

93 percent of the time, if a child is sexually abused, it will be someone the child already knows, and won't be on the registry. Your kind of talk proves the brain washing the media and government officials have fed you of the "stranger danger" narrative. It puts money in their pockets and votes. They use your fear. That does nothing to protect your family. Go look up any story involving sexual abuse, and you'll see a consistent pattern, that it was someone close to the child. They create these false sense of securities, and you all fall for it every time. Honestly, you'll only understand if you end up the registry, then you see how messed up it is, and FYI, not everyone on the registry has actually hurt someone.

[@riseoverhere3054]

@@adamtorres833 thank you sir. The suspects of child molestation are teachers, priests, friends, neighbours and family members majority of the time. Also only a rate around a percent of 3 - 5 reoffend.

[@martinkaye6397]

all sex ofenders arent pedophiles - the media just treats them that way - you can have sex registration for urinating in a public place - which is nothing to do with a child - but you are still treated the same way as a pedo

[@patriotfighter8694]

Your calling me a moron??

[@stuartobrien78]

Lexapro being an anti depressant reduces testosterone and can fix up sexual offending.

[@PJ-sh3nh]

"aims to reform the law in order to positively impact the psychological well-being of the accused person" really? I understand the concept and the humanity in this idea. I just reject it, completely. As a survivor of some really nasty stuff when I was a kid...the guy who did it, wasn't thinking of a "positive impact" to my psychological well-being at all. He preyed on me, he stalked me, after he had served his 8 months in jail...he taunted me. Why should I care, or the rest of society care about his psychological well-being? I understand, offenders return to society at some point. But don't ask me to be okay with my tax dollars or my public servants being utilized to enhance their well-being. No one enhanced mine, my parents had to pay for therapy, I suffered years of issues. I. HAVE. NO. EMPATHY. for these monsters. I hate that this video made me so angry I had to leave a long-winded comment. I literally wanted to reach through the screen and shake these people? does she understand her "wokeness" is just insane? I'm literally vibrating. And I never discuss my past....I have never heard such a shovel full of horseshit in my life. What a literal wank-stain of a human being this woman is.

[@boredmad8484]

After listening to you. I understand vengeance. You got what you wished for others.

[@PJ-sh3nh]

@Xon Xon at no point did I imply what punishment should be or to continually make someone pay forever. Nor did I try to weigh victims of crime against each other. I'm saying it's disgusting that this woman puts so much effort into enhancing the psychological well-being of the perpetrator. They can do that on their own in court-ordered therapy. I'm saying, the victims crimes againts innocent children who cannot protect themselves, need to have this level of attention, first. And I don't think people see child victims as "disgusting people" as you say.

[@PJ-sh3nh]

@@boredmad8484 I was a child, I did not desire vengeance. I desired it to just go away. I'm not saying what I think punishment should be, or that I should decide it. I'm saying, it's a super hard pill to swallow that someone out there is caring about the perpetrators well-being in a way we don't see being applied to the innocent, child victim.

[@PJ-sh3nh]

@Dick Logger Might have issues, perhaps. Ignorant, no. My comment was because I was angry that people who commit these types of crimes against innocent children who cannot defend themselves or even understand what has happened to them, are getting a sympathetic ear. I'm all for rehabilitation and re-entry and believe our current penal system is broken all the way around. What I'm not for, is a measure of sympathy for the perpetrator in relation to "what they may have been suffering emotionally, that drove them to commit this crime". I simply don't care about their feelings, when they're hurting children willfully.

[@PJ-sh3nh]

@@lars_of_the_north I just feel the path she's taking to get to that point, is very disregarding to the victims of these criminals. I get it, without understanding and support, these criminals are likely to reoffend and it's important to focus on that. I just feel there's an imbalance in her views, when it comes to the victims of the crimes. These are life-sentences for the victims...they didn't choose their position, they hurt greatly in many areas of their life from the acts that were forced upon them. I think the larger balance of empathy needs to be with supporting the victim.

[@1zcott]

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[@michelleeisley9857]

The Rate is low because people avoid them when they know what they are and they keep two children away from them

[@shawncouch2243]

Sussman? That’s kind sus man…

[@joschawil]

In my neighborhood we are at least 500 to 750 households strong, we will not go outside except straight to the car and straight back inside with news of a registrant in our town. We have let everybody know.

[@alexhidell8022]

Sounds like North Korea levels of paranoia

[@r.w.carter9366]

I’m sorry but that is a good bit of the problem with the registries. Sex offender means an actively sexual deviant that is looking for a victim. A registered citizen that has completed their sentence is a citizen and not active. Besides most sex offenses committed today are in the home or and 95% are not committed by registered citizens. Think. Don’t add to the problem. Educate yourself and your community. That’s wrong approach of what you say. That’s creating the revolving door 🚪

[@Nightmarefuel66]

That's gotta be the dumbest crap I've ever heard. And I bet you "decent people" are actively harassing that poor guy, trying to get him to move. What yall gonna do when he ends up beating the crap out of one of you because you won't leave him alone? Bet that'll shut you up.

[@itszach6808]

Keep the registry’s. People should have to have a sign wherever they live

[@michaelholly4866]

I bet the woman is dating a registered offender. That is why she opposes the registry.

[@redeemingpatriot3487]

Your point

[@johndoe-wv3nu]

A child rapist...OK, that person needs to be monitored for life. A 16 y/o with an 18 y/o b/f and parents that hate him? These laws are pretty broad. "Sex offender" is a heavy label that will ruin a person's chances for employment and housing. For the record no, I'm not a sex offender. I just think we need to think our laws through better.

[@redeemingpatriot3487]

@Xon Xon isnt that ultra extreme though even if its for the good of the community wont that make use ultra petty and no less different than the criminals

[@riseoverhere3054]

Way to be judgemental Michael Holly.

[@riseoverhere3054]

@@K94trump are you commenting to me?

[@mobleyMobley]

This is embarassing, protecting pedos. Sex registry for LIFE!

[@mikeystarr1203]

You’re uneducated. Most sex offenders are not pedophiles. Pedophilia is predominant sexual interest in prepubescent children under the age of 13. There’s dozens of different charges that can make someone a registered sex offender. Besides, prison is supposed to be about rehabilitation.

[@mito88]

your comment is embarrassing

[@martinkaye6397]

what if you've got the wrong guy?

[@mobleyMobley]

@@martinkaye6397 could say that about any crime.

[@mobleyMobley]

@martin kaye and if I remember correctly, this guy confessed.