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Dividing Sex Offenders

By Corey Rayburnyung

Sentencing Law & Policy points to a Houston Chronicle article about an effort to only list the most dangerous sex offenders on registries. From the article:Martin Ezell is tired of the dead-end jobs and unrelenting stigma that comes with being a registered sex offender.He has a master's degree in liberal arts and wants to be a teacher.But employers have been unable to see beyond his presence on the state's sex offender registry, which he is required to be on for the rest of his life.It's true that a decade ago, he was convicted of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl who was half his age. But the registry doesn't divulge that his victim was his girlfriend who now is his wife, with whom he has three children.Glancing at his profile, there's little to distinguish him from the repeat pedophiles and violent rapists who are among the 54,000-plus registered sex offenders in the state's database...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).