What offenses that have become commonplace in today's world didn't exist as a crime 20 years ago. That and should someone touch another inappropriately, IE, touched a butt or breast as a challenge in school, a slap on the face normally took care of the problem. Today, send your kids to jail, put them on a registry, deny them any form or type of future. Spread their name from one end of the country to the other. We lost something somewhere...........

You talk about the recidivism rates being so "high" when it comes to sex offenders. The DOJ published that there is a 5.5% +- of rearrest with a 3.2% +- of re-conviction for a NEW sex crime. The figures you read from so many other sources the quote any figure from 10 to 90% do nothing but create abject fear in the population, a population that would believe what the media states, and these statements come from your elected officials who know where to find a gravy trail to re-election.

One comment states that 1 in 10 is to many when it comes to sex offenses. What happened to 7 in 10 that commit drug dealing, assault, battery, theft, and oh so many other crimes? These people live next door to as well as a sex offender. Maybe you have forgotten that the vast majority of sex crimes happen within the home or by someone the victim knows. Stranger danger is in fact a rare occurrence.

Unfortunately, sex crimes have been with us since before time forgotten. These offenses will be with us until the judgment day. Educating your family is your responsibility, not some official looking for votes. The destruction of the American view of forgiveness for offenses committed and paid for per the legal system, terrifies me. Once a person, juvenile or adult, has completed the term of punishment as set forth by a court of law, they, like yourself, deserve the right to build a lawful lifetime with a chance to prove themselves. To continue punishing not only the offender, but their families as well, is abhorrent in a democratic world. This world that claims to protect the children, is the very same that harms the children, "All in the name of the CHILDREN!!"