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By Sarena Straus, Esq.

I wanted to share the following post from a reader in response to me article about pushing pedophiles to poor neighborhoods:"You are assuming anyone with the label "pedophile" has committed a serious crime. Like all crimes in general, most are made up of minor offenses, and haven't resulted in a prison sentence, these people make up the vast majority of people on the sex offenders registry. They are living with social persecution and ruined lives just because politicians know that whacking sex offenders is universally popular, and no one will ever stand up in their defense.If you are wondering what I class as a minor offense, an example is that of my son, who like many teenagers, had a porn collection. In that collection was a single image of a girl who may or may not have been under age (still late teens), a jury decided that she was under age and now he's one of your "pedophiles"...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prosecutor Postscript on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).