Sex offenders 'rights'

[joeluke]

They should stay on the register for life

'Only individuals sentenced to more than 30 months for a sex-related crime are required to register with police for life'

Anyone sentenced to 30 months+ has obviously committed a serious sex crime

Sex offenders rights? What about the rights of their victims? They have to live with what was done to them for the rest of their lives, they don't have the option to 'de-register'


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12476979

[sandyRoe]

I agree. If a sex offender was truly repentant he wouldn't mind being on the register. He'd accept that as a fair consequence of what he's done.

[Lonnie]

No matter where they live, residents, schools etc should be made aware of who is living in their midst.

[Coobeastie]

And then what lonnie? People should teach their children to keep themselves safe anyway.

Agree though that should have to remain on the register

[bednobs]

i don't really understand how you can prove that you are not a pervert anymore anyway

[ooh-la-la]

they should all just have there di*ks cut off

[joeluke]

^ 'do not think for one minute that local people should be told when a registered sex offender moves into the area'

Would you not want to know if a paedo or rapist had moved in next door to you?

I would

[ummmm]

Surely this has no relevance to rapists and paedophiles. Aren't they on the 30+ serious crime aspect?

[ummmm]

Housemouse - I've worked with lot's of them as well. I'm still undecided whether treatment works.

[Coobeastie]

How do you know you haven't already joeluke? If you were told what would you do complain? What if they owned the house, you couldn't get rid of them so you'd either have to watch them like a hawk possibly ignoring those in the neighbourhood who hadn't got caught and therefore put on a register or take the law in to you own hands.

[joeluke]

ummmm 'I'm still undecided whether treatment works'.

A length of hemp around their necks would certainly work.......and would go some way to help with the overcrowding problem in our prisons too

[rockyracoon]

What exactly is the purpose of the Register? This is a real question, it's not meant to cause a hooha. When a CRB is carried out, all convictions are looked into aren't they, so any sex offences would appear.

[The-Toff-]

Agree, child sex offenders should be put down.

[ummmm]

Well Joe, and please don't shoot me down, imo there are different types. Working in a psychiatric hospital that housed sex offenders I really do believe that their past has a great deal to do with it. You have sex offenders that, again imo, are plain evil/sick and are out for their own gratification and will justify it with sentiments such as 'the child enjoys it'. There are others, more treatable, that have been abused so badly themselves that to them it is normal. I've read some history on patients that have gone on to commit similar crimes...and it's horrific. These ones should be given treatment...as much as possible as they are also victims. The evil/sick ones...do as you please with them..

[joeluke]

ummmm, I take your point but being abused themselves is no justification for them doing it to others

I think some offenders just use the 'I was abused as a child' excuse to gain a certain degree of sympathy and shorter sentences.....it's a bit like rapists using the 'I was blind drunk and can't really recall what happened' excuse

If your house was burgled would you want to go out and burgle someone elses?

[jake-the-peg]

Here we go again reactionary rant - string them up cut them off yawn!!!

The point is that this judgement says people put on the sex offenders register "for life" with no possibility for appeal is fundamentally wrong.

The Sex offenders register is not meant to be a punishment but a tool.

This says there should be a mechanism for people to be able to prove that they shouldn't be on it.

[joeluke]

JTP.....'able to prove that they shouldn't be on it'

Raping/child molesting proves they should never have the right to come off it

Would you be so defensive of them if one of your children had been a victim?