Once, a long time ago- I was a teenager. Okay, it actually wasn't all that long ago- but it sure feels that way sometimes. My point is that as a teenager, I had things I was suppose to do. Like dishes. I didn't do them all that much. Like homework, which again I successfully dodged. And of course there was that time I promised my best friends parents that I would watch out for her at school (she was a few years younger than me) and make sure she didn't hang around the "wrong crowd". That one really got me. Because, strangely enough- you're sweet Lilo was, well I was part of the "wrong crowd" back then. We were the kids standing in the alley smoking before school started. The ones that ditched class more often than we went, who could get a case beer before lunch period... you get the point. The thing is, I didn't give the appearance of being in the wrong crowd- and even my grades seemed to suggest that I wasn't. So when my friends mother pulled me aside, and asked that I keep her updated on the people my friend was hanging around, and watch out that she didn't befriend the wrong sort of kids- I just knew I was in trouble. And that there was no way I was going to do it. It'd be like cutting off my own arm, because in order to tell her the truth- I'd have to admit my own behavior... and I was having none of that.
Because, I was a teenager. And teenagers know how to do one thing if they know how to do anything- lie to protect themselves.
Which brings me to the 17 year old who was convicted of sexually abusing his 6 year old step sister when he was 14.
It seems that a court ordered him to... well, to inform the parents of any girl he dates until he is 18 that he was convicted of a sexual offense.
Had I told my friends mother what she expected me to, my friend most likely wouldn't have started smoking. She surely wouldn't have ended up dating that one guy, and most likely would have been a little less like me. But, I'd have had to take some unwanted heat from my parents- and let's face it- teenagers are all about making things easy on themselves.
You have a teenager who committed a sexual offense, proving right there that this boy is more interested in himself than protecting other people. He's already walked past the line of someone you can't, someone you shouldn't trust. And yet, the court actually thinks that he's going to become all honorable and step up and tell some girls parents that he is a child molester? That's damn near the funniest thing I've read all day.
My idea, put his name, his address and his offense on the sex offender database. Protect everyone, from his girlfriends to his best friends little sister. Let's stop treating these monsters different just because they haven't reached the magic age of 18. He lost his right to privacy and protect under the juvenile laws when he committed an adult offense.
Categories: predators, molesters,
Because, I was a teenager. And teenagers know how to do one thing if they know how to do anything- lie to protect themselves.
Which brings me to the 17 year old who was convicted of sexually abusing his 6 year old step sister when he was 14.
It seems that a court ordered him to... well, to inform the parents of any girl he dates until he is 18 that he was convicted of a sexual offense.
Sussex County Assistant Prosecutor Jerome Neidhardt said he was set to argue in favor of the notification requirement imposed on the teenager, who pleaded guilty in 2004 to committing a sex act against his 6-year-old half-sister when he was 14.
"I think it was an appropriate decision," Neidhardt said. "I understand the reasons why the family court judge imposed the conditions."
The youth was sentenced to three years of probation, required to register as a sex offender and ordered to have no contact with his half-sister or any unsupervised contact with children 10 years or younger. The judge also ordered the boy to notify the parents of anyone he dates about his conviction until he turns 18.
Had I told my friends mother what she expected me to, my friend most likely wouldn't have started smoking. She surely wouldn't have ended up dating that one guy, and most likely would have been a little less like me. But, I'd have had to take some unwanted heat from my parents- and let's face it- teenagers are all about making things easy on themselves.
You have a teenager who committed a sexual offense, proving right there that this boy is more interested in himself than protecting other people. He's already walked past the line of someone you can't, someone you shouldn't trust. And yet, the court actually thinks that he's going to become all honorable and step up and tell some girls parents that he is a child molester? That's damn near the funniest thing I've read all day.
My idea, put his name, his address and his offense on the sex offender database. Protect everyone, from his girlfriends to his best friends little sister. Let's stop treating these monsters different just because they haven't reached the magic age of 18. He lost his right to privacy and protect under the juvenile laws when he committed an adult offense.
Categories: predators, molesters,