by Duane Kuehn

Created on: March 15, 2010

Not all of those called "sex offenders" should have to register as such on "Megan's Laws" registries.

Statistics show that these sex offender registries do not work to deter or stop child molestation. One reason for the registry’s failure could be that the definition of “sex offender” is now so ludicrously (even somewhat amusingly) expanded. From underage teenagers who have consenting sexual activity to a person as unfortunate as to not find a public toilet available when the bladder can no longer contain its contents.

“Yes officer, I would like to report a person's head sticking out of the bushes and I think there is a sex crime in progress being perpetrated by a lone urinator.”

This is to neither condone nor condemn teen sexual behavior. However, State legislation should have no place in such events of household morality. These events should be removed from the, often abusive, arena of State legislation. This is the jurisdiction of parents and they are the ones to address such issues. If these families come to terms with it, the State has no place to demand prosecution and registration of these children as sex offenders (especially, as is know to happen, using a juxtaposition facts to try them as adults!).

As to the other, the intelligent thing is to place open (to avoid lewd behavior) rest-stations along the walkway as done in Europe. Even without, how is the eye offended by what is hidden from the eye? Though most can deduce what natural event is taking place behind that bush, how does one consider hidden urination to be a sexual offense? This filling of the sex offender registry with such nonsensical items of victimless “crime” has shamefully diminished the objective of the registry itself.

Megan’s Laws, often called by other names, are themselves a result of an emotional zeal. Another reason these laws are ineffective is that such foreknowledge, of itself, is not necessarily a preventative.

On July 29, 1994, young Megan Kankra was sexually abused and murdered. This horrid crime committed by one of three sex offenders living across the street from the Kankra’s home. With all due respect, and condolences to the Kankras, they are apparently the only people in the neighborhood who did not know these three men across the street were child sex offenders. This is not to post blame on anyone but the murderer for this heinous crime. This is only to investigate the use of a very expensive method of sex abuser

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