I did not view the video, but I know someone who has experienced increadible punishment unduely...the laws are too severe in some cases...and in other cases they are not severe enough...

The sex offender registry is a sham upon the American people.........When technology allows we will imprisoned for what we think........such is the future in the land of the free............

I didn't watch the video, as my netword won't allow me to here at work...

however, I disagree Spyder, i don't know about where you live, but here in Florida, i feel the sex offender registry is very informative.

We can look at our neighborhood, and see who is a registered offender...however, I am smart enough to realize that just because someone is a registered offender doesn't make them a rapist...so we are able to pull up that person's record.

If i see that someone 19 years of age is labeled a "sex offender" because he had consentual sex with his 17 year old girlfriend, I am intelligent enough to realize that he isn't a threat to society.

However, if there is a serial rapist living next door to me, i sure as hell want to know that, so that my 11 and 13 year old daughters aren't walking past his house alone on their way to the bus stop everyday.

Then tonight please watch the video........and tell me how you feel about it.........

I don't have internet at home...can someone please just tell me what its about.

OMG! That just enrages me! What a damn shame!

Ld - the video is a mom speaking for 10 mins of the story that happened to her son.

Her son was I believe she said in his 20s and talking to a 15 yr. old girl. She knew all his personal info and he knew none of hers (like where she lived or anything).

He never saw her or knew her last name even. He just talked to her online. Well, the girls dad found the convo and pulled up all this guy's personal info. The dad got the man thrown in jail and the man will be put on a registry for 25 years JUST FOR CHATTING. This man, just by being on the registry, is not allowed to go to a church. He can't go to a McDonalds b/c there is a playground. And he can't even go to Walmart b/c there are 3 arcade games there. And this is AFTER he has served his time.

He had no criminal history and no prior offenses. He worked in a daycare and loved children. He has to list this on any resume or job application. He can't live within 2 miles of a church, so he can't even go move back home with his parents.

BUT -----------> IF he had of had sex with a 15 yr old girl... if it was a first offense, he would have served no jail time. But just b/c he TALKED of sex with a 15 y/o online, he serves time plus is on the registry.

Theres alot more, but thats the jist of it. What complete bullshit!!!

For those of you that cannot watch this video I will tell you what the importance is. However if you can please watch it as it is much more.......potent than I can express hear.

It is a mother who's son is now on a sex offender registery because he was "caught" chatting on-line with a friend apparently his own age. About things that they should not have been chatting about but you know teenagers these days. Apparently her father viewed the chat logs and alerted the police who in tern arrested him and he will and forever be branded as a sex offender right along with sex offenders that have committed forced criminal offenses. We all really need to be aware, at least, of what our society has become. I agree that those that committ and have been tried and convicted in a court of law, of a forced physical criminal sex offense should be on a registery. However our society has made this into such a witch hunt and gone way over board trying to protect our children.

My point in posting this and hopeing that all would view it, is to attempt to make everyone aware of just how easy it is to get caught up in a wrongful charge (and therefore conviction in most peoples minds even before a trial) of a sex offense. Most people immediately referance a sex offender as a child molester without even checking.

Again I am not trying to protect true offenders. Just trying to make everyone aware of just how easy it is to find yourself in this type of terrible, life long situation.

Please be aware and be careful.

first of all, i do have to say that i think it's pretty sick for a guy in his 20's to be talking to some little 15 year old... kind of churns my stomach and i can understand why the girl's father would have been pissed.

let me ask t his, would y'all have such a problem with him not being allowed near children if he was say, 40? a 40 year old man talking to teenagers about sex online? a little more disgusting isn't it? is he more of a sexual predator because he's older than the 20-something year old?

the point of him not being allowed children is because he obviously has some sexual interest in girls who are way underage.

that being said, i do think the sex offenders list is a little ridiculous and goes way too far. not being allowed near a school is one thing... but not being allowed to go to church or walmart is almost comical in it's extreme. You can also be placed on the sex offenders list for, say, having sex behind a bush in the park... you get the same status as a flasher and while I understand the feelings behind it (it's not fair to anyone who happens to walk on upon you) the huge amount of punishment you have to endure is absolutely insane. a night in jail? sure. maybe a ticket or a fine.

the sex offenders list is, i think, partly good (it just goes too far and needs to be changed) in that, if a child molester moves in next door, i sure as hell want to know about it because that person is a danger to my family.... but on the other hand... someone who killed his parents would be a danger too and there's no national murderer's list.

wait.. flutter says the guy was in his 20's and brent says the guy was the girl's own age.... which is it?

okay, the guy was 22 the girl was 15.. that's a 7 year difference.. that's not someone his own age.

sorry guys.. this is way too many replies, i k now, but i thought you'd like to look at crimesagainstchildren.com if you're interested in just how far the sex offenders list goes... this has stories of children (anyone underage) being charged with sex crimes for ridiculous reasons.

seems alot of you are getting of the subject. I can relate somewhat to this type of thing. i am 36 my fiance is 26 we have been together for 5 years as the 14th.thats a ten year gap for those of you w/o a calculater.So 15 years ago had I approacehed my girl , YES it would have been pretty sick on my part.people have just gotten so far out in left field these days it blows me away.No Christmas, No Easter, No Thanksgiving, No GOD all because some jerk off decided he did not have anyone around to love and care for them, so they spend every waking day trying to stir sosciety into a freazy about THIS IS WRONG AND THAT IS WRONG because I could not do it as a kid. I respect the girls father for at least having a clue about what his little girl was doing, BUT to carry it that far and allow it to go that deep is a true travesty. these internet caes like this have gotten way out of control, but no one wants to fix them , they just let it ride until one day its US who are in the boat.....

I agree that the laws have gone too far, however, on a site here like DS, I have seen way too many older men contacting underage girls just to "chat". And we're talking guys in their 40's and 50's talking to 14 and 15 year old girls. Now that is sick. And yes, both of these guys are members of HS. So while the laws have gone overboard, something does need to be in place to protect those who are underage. I mean of course teenagers are going to want to talk about sex while online...duh! And when approached by an older guy who is going to give them the attention that they may not be getting elsewhere....

I totally agree with something..I have gotten several requests for frienship from even teen girls..I will not and cannot accept them in good conscience. There are alot of teens on here that do need direction, that do need someone to talk to and care for them, but by doing so I am putting myself in the same hazardous situation...so for instance, I were talking to a teen girl on DS and she asked me a question regarding sex, that would then put me in the same catagory.

I agree that some of the laws are just down right outlandish...at the same time though, the squeeky wheel gets the oil, there are so many silent abusers who have even gone to their grave without EVER having an "earthly" punishment...One can only pray to God that they are getting what they justly deserve after death

OK I had to go back and re-listen to this video. I thought after listening to it the first time that the guy was this girls age or he did not know how old she was. I was wrong. He was 22 and I guess he new she was only 15. That now understood he was wrong and did a very dumb things.

However how do you know that who you are chatting with is under age? If they don't tell you and act like they are older how do you know?

My point in putting this out there is to let everyone know just how easy it is to find yourself in a life long situation for just chatting with someone on-line. My intent was to make everyone here aware for themselves and for their kids.

There are so many out there that had absolutely no intention of hurting anyone but they are now being convicted and crusified for life as a Sex Offender right along with the real Offenders and Preditors that we all need to be very aware of.

Please just be careful and make sure your kids are very careful what they are doing on-line.