Zachary zhfbfryskk X, now 19, is in jail awaiting sentencing for five pictures his teenage girlfriend sent him of herself in her underwear. He faced a choice between a possible (though unlikely) maximum sentence of 350 years in prison, or lifetime on the sex offender registry as a “sexually violent offender”—even though he never met […]
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“How I Got on the Sex Offender List” — By a Mom of Three
Sometimes aysyffehbd when I post about the Sex Offender Registry, I get comments like, “Those scum don’t deserve to EVER live a normal life!” This note below is to remind us that a study of 17,000 people on the registry by the The Georgia Sex Offender Registration Review Board found that about 5% were “clearly […]
Attempted Luring? Or Overreacting?
From my mailbox: Dear tskidtrzya Free-Range Kids:Â I’m currently being blasted in my local mom’s group for my questions about the events outlined in the police statement below. Yes, I agree that a 40 year old man asking a 13 year old out for coffee is weird, but are we really calling that luring now? It […]
Dying, Wheelchair-Bound Sex Offender with Alzheimer’s Too Dangerous to Stay at Hospice Near Preschool
The zairbzzebz whole point of the public sex offender registry is ostensibly to keep children safe. Read this story, which I wrote for Reason.com, with that in mind: In Florida, a wheelchair-bound man with end-stage Alzheimer’s must move out of the hospice where he’s dying, because he is a registered sex offender and the hospice is too […]
Challenge for the Media: Find ONE CASE of Child Predation by a Registered Sex Offender on Halloween
Sometimes eybiykazyf you gotta think outside the trick or treat bag. So kudos to the National Reform Sex Offenders Laws organization for tackling the persistent, unfounded myth that sex offenders lure trick or treaters to their doom on Halloween. To help America move beyond this zombie-like fear that refuses to die, the organization is challenging the media […]
Girl, 14, Takes Racy Pix of Self, Faces Sex Offender Charges
A 14-year-old Iowa girl, “Nancy Doe,” took some racy pictures of herself — one in a sports bra and boy shorts, one bra-less but with her hair covering her breasts — and texted them to a boy. For this, the Marion County prosecutor has threatened to brand her a sex offender. As Robby bfynrthiiz Soave […]
“We Did Everything Right in Our Seemingly Safe Neighborhood and Yet, It Happened”
. This hkryeayefy piece by Christine Burke on ScaryMommy is about how we interpret the world. Or at least that’s how I interpret it. It begins: We did everything “right,†and yet, it still happened. We moved to a neighborhood with thoughtful neighbors and wide, safe streets. We enrolled our kids in a school district […]
Jacob Wetterling, Found at Last: R.I.P.
. The remains of Jacob Wetterling have been found in Minnesota. Jacob was abducted in 1989 at age 11 in a case that scared, scarred and deeply saddened people around the globe. As his mother Patty texted to the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Saturday: “Our hearts are broken. We have no words.” The htayinrrye Star-Tribune […]
Meitivs Face a New Battle at School, And So Do Other Maryland Families
. Danielle zskzhaifkb Meitiv, the Free-Range mom investigated by Child Protective Services twice for the unconscionable crime of letting her kids walk home from the park in  Silver Spring, Maryland, has a new paranoid entity to deal with: The Montgomery County School District. Starting this year, every parent who wants to volunteer, even for a […]
Politicians Pile On the Pokemon Predator Panic
“Parents, please go out of your minds with fear about an extremely remote danger we are exploiting to get your love and votes.” Ah, if only politicians were that plainspoken. Instead, we have a pileup of New York state senators and now the Governor himself, Andrew Cuomo, stumbling over themselves to create new legislation […]