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Originally Posted by buggyone
Take the sex offender list with a grain of salt. All of these are not the perverts trolling the streets. In some states, a person can be placed on the sex offender list just for public urination - probably when drunk and behind some bushes - and be unlucky enough to be caught.
A 20 year old guy can be placed on it for having consensual sex with a 15 year old girl even though she told him she was 19.
True, there are some sexual predators who did something mighty bad and deserve to be identified.
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I do take these with some uneasiness. We should all do more research if we can about how people get on these lists, how the states vary in what kind of information is in them, etc.
http://www.ehow.com/info_8214144_pro...-registry.html http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.co...l#.Uza0vWePLIU