Sex offenders in your neighborhood.

**Kfamr** · 10-07-2005, 05:00 PM

Whew, none in my neighbor and only 1 or 2 in the same city. However, there are A LOT in 2 towns over.

Clearwater Beach, very populated areas and most are right near the beach.

**finn's mom** · 10-07-2005, 05:24 PM

Wow, that's so sad.

You know, one thing that always gets me, as far as totally judging these people as I click on each of the little boxes...I had a friend in Texas who would come up as a sex offender if you did a search like this near his home. What's sad about it, though, is that he commited his crime about twenty years ago, when he was about 19. He had sex with his 16-year-old girlfriend (whom he married later), and, the parents pressed charges. It just makes me wary of judging all of these people without knowing what they actually did. I don't know, after meeting Romeo (yeah, that was his real name!), it really made me look at it differently.

I mean, some of them say blah blah something with someone under 16 years old, and, that's pretty obvious that it wasn't consensual. But, just saying minor doesn't necessarily make them a criminal, without knowing more about it. Blech. I have friends that have a sex offender as their next door neighbor. He's married with kids. I don't know his story, though, he could be like Romeo.

Thanks for posting the site, though, Laura.

I guess I see where they are actually splitting the crimes up...does it specify what they consider a child? I mean, is "child" different from "minor?" Same with rape...it may have been consensual and the parents of the 17-year-old pressed charges against the 18-year-old...ugh, i just like to be sure what i'm really looking at, ya know...

**dukedogsmom** · 10-07-2005, 05:29 PM

I was going to make that point, also. We had a discussion on another board about a man that had grabbed a young girl out of the road to save her from getting hit by a car. Can you believe they gave him the title of sex offender? So, though most of them are bad, it's a shame for the others like the boyfriend/girlfriend and other situations like the one I listed.

**finn's mom** · 10-07-2005, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by dukedogsmom

I was going to make that point, also. We had a discussion on another board about a man that had grabbed a young girl out of the road to save her from getting hit by a car. Can you believe they gave him the title of sex offender? So, though most of them are bad, it's a shame for the others like the boyfriend/girlfriend and other situations like the one I listed.

Yeah, it really is. And, like I said, Romeo ended up marrying the girl he was jailed for having sex with. They have two kids, even. I agree with you, I think the majority of them probably are scum sucking $%^&*#@, but, for those few that aren't...it's just unfortunate that they don't list exactly the crime, so, that you could make an informed decision on whether or not you need to avoid them. I guess that's against the law, though, I don't even know for sure...

**lady_zana** · 10-09-2005, 03:02 AM

Originally Posted by finn's mom

Yeah, it really is. And, like I said, Romeo ended up marrying the girl he was jailed for having sex with. They have two kids, even. I agree with you, I think the majority of them probably are scum sucking $%^&*#@, but, for those few that aren't...it's just unfortunate that they don't list exactly the crime, so, that you could make an informed decision on whether or not you need to avoid them. I guess that's against the law, though, I don't even know for sure...

I know someone like that too. He was in my sister's high school class. I don't believe the couple ended up getting married, though; they were just two teenagers and her parents decided to press charges.

However, on that note, I am going to add that I don't know how old the girl was but I knew the boy and knew he did often date girls several years younger than himself. It's quite possible that she was several years from sixteen yet.

Also, I wanted to ask if anyone knew if perhaps this page was just getting started. I'm from KY and even though my state was listed, I checked their list with Kentucky's official list and the watch dog site had nearly everyone listed but not quite.

**Cincy'sMom** · 10-09-2005, 07:27 AM

When my sister and Brian were looking to buy their house, the realator had them get on this site, or a similar one, and check the area before they bought the house. Not a bad idea, with a small child to think of.

I put in our address and wow!!! Toledo is awful!!! 8 offernders in our "big" block alone!! Look closer to the inner city, and there are more coclors then I can count! Scary!

**QueenScoopalot** · 10-10-2005, 09:16 AM

I'm surrounded! No faces I recognize yet. The one problem with databases like this is if you are caught urinating in public (indecent exposure), you can be labeled a sex offender.