Comments on: Keeping Sex Offenders From Your Business and Tenants

By: C W

C W — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:05:49 +0000

I personally think that sex offenders should get locked up for a lot longer than most of them do. There are so many that serve a minimum sentence and then they are back on the streets to become repeat offenders. Lockup Sex Offenders’s last blog post: Sacha Baron Cohen Insults Madonna

By: CommercialPropertyAgent

CommercialPropertyAgent — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:51:53 +0000

I’m a UK landlord so would be interested to find out whether anybody here can clarify what the situation is in the UK?

By: TimP

TimP — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:10:11 +0000

Amy it is NOT a proven fact that most sex offenders do it again and again. Look to the facts and study that the US Dept. Of Justice has done on the issue of sex offender recidivism. They state that sex offenders have one of the lowest recidivism rates amoung all criminals with a 3.5% reconviction rate within 3 years of release from prison. Now as for unreported sex crimes; of course sex crimes are under reported. The problem is just as the word says unreported, thus to make a state that they do it again and again until caught is out of line, because they are unreported we do not know for sure how many sex crimes take place. But that is the case with all crimes including murder. Many times the police will miss the fact that a death is in fact a murder, and report it as natural causes or death by suicide. This happens with all crimes, but I would agree that sex crimes are probably way under reported. The main reason is again what was found out by the US Dept. Of Justice; 90% of sexual assaults are commited by a person well known and trusted by the victim with OVER 50% OF THEM BEING A FAMILY MEMBER. With the sex offender registry the reporting of family members commiting sexual assaults has gone down. Not because in real life the number has gone down, but because family members are not as quick to report a family member knowning that the whole house hold will suffer, based on being placed on the sex offender registry or if they live to close to a restricted area for sex offenders to live, they will have to move.

By: amy

amy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:52:40 +0000

Its a proven fact that most sex offenders do it again and again, and most have hurt many victims before they are caught. I think most of you are being very selfish and morons. have any of you thought about the victims or the familys, they have to live with what happened to them every day of thier life not to mention the parents who will never see thier children again, or the wife and mother who cant function because of a rape. You may think your doing something helpful but your just supporting thier actions.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:38:06 +0000

I have one thing to say to you powerball winner. RIGHT ON!!! God bless you for your efforts. My husband and I are doing similar things in our state and would really like to get in touch with you. Please let me know if this is possible.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:05:55 +0000

You are so wrong in your statement Cammy. So, so wrong. You are wrong about why we are mad and you are wrong that we want sympathy. You are wrong that we want you to feel sorry for us. You are wrong that I want you to forget that I am a felon. You are wrong about us being selfish. We were selfish when we committed our acts, that is a true fact, but we have given up our selfishness so that we do not victimize another person. Our goal is “No More Victims”. You know the best way to have “No More Victims” besides death and life imprisonment (which will not happen)? A support group that has the same goal of “No More Victims”. You can make all the laws you want that ostracize us, but you are not making the world a safer place for your children. If you have the same goal of “No More Victims” as we “ex” sex offenders, then you might look deeper into the programs that help offenders succeed (having no more victims). Until you look, you will never help the situation and children will be in more danger than they have ever been.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:18:30 +0000

What powerball winner probably meant was that he buys up those businesses and then puts them out of business. I don’t know where other people went with that one, but when you go where you went, I worry about society.

To Powerball winner. God bless you. I hope that more people like you win the lottery and do the same thing. Use the money to make a good impact on those who have changed their lives and who want to stay victim free. Soemething that mainstream society does not understand. If they did, they would do everything in their power to help us stay victim free instead of hindering us and causing more problems for children in society. God bless you. I hope to be on your playing field one day. I try every Sat and Wed. Someday I will do what you do.