Yet another sex offender making a mockery of the Registry:
A suburban Philadelphia police chief said he is outraged after learning that a violent sex predator was able to list his address as a park popular among children…Sherlock, 30, pleaded guilty in 2003 to aggravated indecent assault of a 13-year-old girl and was sentenced to two to four years in prison, according to the newspaper.
Chitwood said that Sherlock, who is required to publicly list his address, is labeled homeless on the Megan Law’s website, with the popular children’s park listed as his residence.
One of the more common tricks I hear about are when the Sex Offender transitions from Prison to the home of a friend or family member…then they get an apartment of their own, and they don’t change the registration. So they’re listed as living in Mom’s retirement community where nobody on the street is under 65, but they’ve since signed a lease at the cheap apartment across the street from the municipal swimming pool and playground.
Really the crux is that these people may have legal restrictions, but they’re unsupervised and free to go wherever they please. Either they’re safe to freely walk among our children or they should still be locked up, or dead.
I don’t think I’m unreasonable. NOT raping children is EASY, I do it every day, all day long. I don’t have much sympathy for those so damaged that somehow that horrible behavior is not only not repugnant, but agreeable to them. We have lots of good people out there, let’s not waste time trying to fix the monsters.
Sometimes they don’t register their actual residence because they want to live across from the school, but because the ‘school safety zone’ is so large that there are almost no other places for them to live. A local offender who is now married to and has children with his victim was told he has to move because he was too close to school property…a seldom-used stadium across the river from his home.
Which further illustrates the inanity of registration laws.
If he ISN’T too dangerous to live whereever he wants, why register him?
If he IS, how does a “Perv Free Zone” work any better than a “Gun Free Zone”?
Geodkyt
More like: if he ISN’T too dangerous, why register him? If he IS too dangerous, why the HELL isn’t he still behind bars?
Like David Codrea says frequently: Anybody who can’t be trusted with a gun, can’t be trusted without a custodian. This guy can’t be trusted, and if he’s going to willfully dodge the system like that, he shouldn’t be out of prison.
It also points to that “banned for life” problem ex-cons have. Trustworthy enough to be let out of prison, trustworthy enough to be let out of probation, to have a job, to pay their own bills, to rent or own a home, to vote. Trustworthy enough to have their life back. Still not trustworthy enough to have the tools to defend it, even decades later.
It mystifies me why sexual predators get let out of prison at all. I’m not talking about some guy who stops to pee in the bushes. I mean someone who commits rape or molests a child. Monsters like that don’t get better. They don’t reform. After a while, they get old and can’t get it up any more, but their perversion doesn’t change. Sexual crimes like that should be treated in the same manner as murder–and I don’t mean a light-weight sentence, either.
I’m not talking about some guy who stops to pee in the bushes.
And it mystifies me why *that* guy was is prison as a sexual offender….
Peeing in the bushes and getting caught by Johnny Law or by a bystander who calls the cops rather than looking away until they finish, often results in an “indecent exposure” charge which is often treated no different than a pervy park flasher.
Dumb law is dumb!