Journal pudge's Journal: Sex Offender 9
I got a notice that a 15-year-old boy is being released into my neighborhood as a sex offender. He was convicted last summer of Residential Burglary with Sexual Motivation.
I went online to get more details. The county web site notes, "This conviction was the result of [him] entering the residence of a known neighbor, viewing pornography on the victim's computer and masturbating."
There is a little more to it, apparently. The kid is obviously disturbed. "[He] has admitted to going into this residence on several occasions doing the same thing. Previously in 2005 [he] was convicted of Residential Burglary for the same behavior and was given a deferred sentence. As a result of that conviction [he] attended Sexually Aggressive Youth treatment. After four months the deferred sentence was revoked due to inappropriate sexual behavior."
Still, I think I'll worry less about him, than the child rapist who lives nearby. He admitted to raping four children between 2 and 13, some of them over a period of five years, and he served a whole 28 weeks in juvenile detention in 1993. He was found guilty with failing to register as a sex offender when he was 20, in 1998, but served no additional time.
thereby rendering the "sex offender" label a joke (Score:1)
I think you'd be hardpressed to find such a classification in psychological texts.
I don't know what the "inappropriate sexual behavior" was, but sending him to "Sexually Aggressive Youth treatment" seems off the mark. If it fits for him, it probably fits for a majority of the Slashdot reading population then -- from reading the discussion sections here we seem to have a lot of angry and frustrated little weenie wankers.
Being labeled a sex offender is completely inappropriate,
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The kid is obviously disturbed.
I think you'd be hardpressed to find such a classification in psychological texts.
Shrug. It doesn't take a Ph.D. to figure out that someone who gets caught doing this, and is convicted for it, and then does it again has some issues to work out.
I don't know what the "inappropriate sexual behavior" was, but sending him to "Sexually Aggressive Youth treatment" seems off the mark.
Well, we have no idea how inappropriate the behavior was. It could have been anything from masturbating in public to "leering" at girls.
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Hell, *I* leer at girls -- guess I'm "disturbed" as well and should go to "sexual anger" training. Even tho I'm not angry. Just what we need more of in our society, more mandatory types of "re-education". And as if we don't aren't already naturally have enough deviants, we have to go and define and make up some more. Next you'll tell me that I'm obsolete.
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The point being that for a 15-year-old boy liking to get himself off, is not exactly abnormal.
The point being that he was so obssessed that not only did he repeatedly break into someone's house to do it, but he did it again after being caught and convicted for it. That certainly is extremely abnormal.
Hell, *I* leer at girls -- guess I'm "disturbed" as well and should go to "sexual anger" training.
Huh? All I said was that you don't know what his "inappropriate behavior was." As you initially seemed to assume, it could have been something minor, like leering. But it also could have been something significant. You cannot rationally assume it is not something significant. The only things we
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Dude, he broke into other people's homes and masturbated while at their computers.
He's disturbed because (1) he was breaking into other people's homes and (2) he spanked the monkey there after breaking in.
Last time I checked, most of the world didn't need to do (1) in order to get off, which was probably the case for this kid. Hell, when I was 15 all it took was a little imagination, not even a photo.
He may not ha
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As far as needing to do it in another's ho
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I just question that there's really any meaningful difference between choking the chicken in your own house when no one's around and doing it in another's house when no one is around. ... Until it's known that he has some sick fetish for doing it particularly in other peoples' homes, the sex offender bit, much less violent, doesn't fit. He didn't rape anyone, or molest anyone, or expose himself to anyone, or otherwise assault anyone except their good sensibilities.
I mostly agree, which is why I noted that I was far more concerned with the rapist down the street. However, I still contend that the fact that he did it, got caught and convicted, and then did it again means that he has some sort of serious problem, and the "inappropriate sexual behavior" is evidence that there might be more clues to his bad behavior.
Besides, when did y'all become in favor of govt. telling people what they can't do behind closed doors??
I hope you're kidding ... after all, they weren't HIS doors!
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I hope *you're* kidding -- my only point has been that the kid's loving himself has nothing to do with anything. He broke into a house, that's the crime. What he did there is icky, but it's not a crime. To make it so, is to say govt. can tell us what we can't do behind closed doors. That it can tell us that what we do in our homes is okay, but we can't do it at a friend's house, or a hotel room on vacation, etc. Because they aren't YOUR doors! As i
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I hope you're kidding ... after all, they weren't HIS doors!
I hope *you're* kidding -- my only point has been that the kid's loving himself has nothing to do with anything. He broke into a house, that's the crime. What he did there is icky, but it's not a crime. To make it so, is to say govt. can tell us what we can't do behind closed doors. That it can tell us that what we do in our homes is okay, but we can't do it at a friend's house, or a hotel room on vacation, etc. Because they aren't YOUR doors! As if that's sound reasoning.
Um, yes, the government absolutely can tell you what you can't do in someone else's home once you've broken into it. A hotel room is a completely different case than what we have here. And it is a sign of serious mental disorder that he did this, not once, but many times, and even did it again after he got caught.
This has not one tiny thing to do with being "behind closed doors." When you illegally break into someone's home you haven't the slightest expectation of privacy there.