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South Carolina Sex Offender Law Offers No Protection At School Bus Stops

By "eAdvocate"

Sex offender laws are not supposed to protect anyone at bus stops, and there is a reason for that, no registered sex offender has ever abducted or committed a sex crime at a school bus stop, which was in front of or close to his/her home. Fear mongers have posed the idea, but the reality is, this is not how offenders commit crimes. Has a child ever been abducted from a school bus stop, likely yes (Phillip Garrido did exactly that) but he lived miles away in the next state. Moving bus stops or preventing offenders from living near them will not prevent what the fear mongers have said. Parents need to take and pickup their children from bus stops, its that simple, it is not up to the state to pass a law to protect children at bus stops, its a parent's job...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on October 25, 2010 (boomark / email).