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Texas sex offender registry includes kids as young as ten

In the Dallas News this morning, Diane Jennings has a story on Texas' policy of allowing judges to place juveniles as young as 10 years old on the sex offender registry ("Some say sex offender registry ruins a juvenile's 2nd chance," July 19). Here's how the article opens:The faces of child sex offenders are startling ? chubby cheeks, big eyes, a mop of hair, or wispy strands held back with barrettes. The descriptions on Texas' public registry are equally jolting: 4 feet tall, 65 pounds; 4 feet, 2 inches, 70 pounds."Those are not the people that we're walking around terrified of," says Michele Deitch, a University of Texas law professor.The inclusion of children as young as 10 on the state's public sex offender registry is a little-known policy ? even to juvenile justice experts such as Deitch...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 19, 2009 (boomark / email).