What state will it be in?

WASHINGTON...it is already underway. There are currently 8 families in route with moble homes to get started from all over the country.I think itll build fast...IF we can all work together. It is off-grid and the hopes are to get it built and self-sustaining asap.

Hi Mohawk, welcome! I am interested in hearing more about your community. It sounds like a much needed and healing thing you are doing.

Thank you. Much of the community is based on the ASSUMPTION that those we accept on members have completed initial therapy and accept responsibility for their past. After that...it is all gravy. We intend on it being a 'gated community' where we can all live equal to each other and be with our families as well.Only time will tell if its a DREAM...or can be a reality.

Sounds good. But some places when this type of thing was started passed laws that SOS could not live near each other

thats why it is 'off-grid' there are no coded , rules, regulations up here. We build it as we want it. :)

This does sound interesting. Being 'off-grid' might be the only fair way for SOs to live.

I'm definitely interested...what about the ones that have gone through the treatment either in prison or as part of their probation but are still "on paper"? Would they need to wait till they're pretty much free and clear? And what about those that have gone through treatment but are still incarcerated...can their families live there while waiting for them to get out?

yes, their spouse and family could relocate and live here in the community.I doubt anyone on parole would approved to live in the community though...we would not allow the parole officers within the community...and most of us are felons.

Sounds cool -

there are already communities of sex offenders, just look at your nearest trailer park. i would not rush into a program like this, for one it is too far into the woods for a city girl like me, for another, i have no idea who this guy is, and it does sound like it could go terribly wrong, but to give mowhawk credit he was invited here, he did not come looking for us. i do not believe ms. parkhurst or any of her minions have anything to do with this. as far as survivors contributing, it was a question of mine as well. i know that many have forgiven the offenders, but why would they want to endure the hardships of the washington ranges? not sure where you are going with that mohawk...? still, i hope you are successful and find the peace you are looking for.

is it a bad idea in general? i dont know....it is hard to get people to work together and i can see the most conflict coming from within...i would not live in a closed community myself, but maybe some can.

you are suspicious when someone refers to themselves as survivors oneofthem? seems you automatically have an opinion on anyone who says they have been abused...there are many survivors right here on this page, who may not mind being a part of a community like that...have a better word? lets hear it!

One of them makes a lot of good points. I love the way he makes me see things that I didn't see before. Although I don't doubt the intentions are good

I'm with oneofthem: this raises a lot of red flags for me.

I'm not sure why survivors would want to live in this community, honestly. What motivation would a victim of sexual abuse have for joining a commune in the middle of nowhere?

It just seems, as oneofthem said, that it would be a setting ripe for distrust and false allegations, and too far from legal authorities to sort things out with any degree of rationality.

I also agree that I'm not sure why the first 15 members would be the ones to determine the rules/policies (unless I'm reading that wrong). It would seem like anybody joining the community at any time should have equal say.

Anyway, a set-up like this wouldn't work for our family, anyway, because we want our children to have as normal a life as possible.

But I'm not sure how desirable it is. We're seeing more and more people on these lists, an increasing number of non-violent offenses that their neighbors probably honestly wouldn't see as particularly horrific or dangerous. It seems like staying in the community and living your life and showing that the "SO" label is becoming increasingly meaningless as they grow and grow these lists could be the better way to go.

I do realize that a lot of people have huge problems with residency restrictions. But, once you are off parole/probation and able to leave the state you are in, there are a number of states that don't have state-wide residency restrictions, and localities within those states that have no restrictions. I think most people would be better off relocating to one of those states than relocating to an experimental community where it sounds like things could go very wrong very quickly.

It is true I don't agree with that the legal system is working Well in sex offenses

Just to add, I also see why those who have been abused would be suspicious of this. We're reading it and going, "This sounds like a plot by people who hate sex offenders to get a bunch into a remote location and then do terrible things to them." I'm sure a person who has been abused would hear it and think, "This sounds like a plot by people who have sexually abused children to lure new victims far away from the authorities where they can abuse them."

If the idea is for real, I do appreciate the sentiment behind it, and it could work if a few families are really committed. I would be very, very suspicious, though, on both sides.