EYE OPENING WEBSITE!

[TF Admin]

Pontotocmom gets the credit here......

Check out the link below. It's a site where you put in your Address Info and then it displays a map of where convicted sex offenders live in relationship to your home. It also gives you very good pictures of the perps and all the information you need about their convictions.

Looking at static information is one thing, but SEEING where these suckers live on a map and your house is in the middle....VERY EYE OPENING.

I linked this at the top of this board as well. Great find Pontotocmom. You get a blessing for this.

www.familywatchdog.us/Default.asp

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[Pontotocmom]

Your welcome.

[krisco]

Why would a child offender be allowed to live within 1000 ft of milam?

[Pontotocmom]

I don't know but I found out a rapist lived .42 miles from my house. And I check the child molester faithfully. But hadn't checked for rapist. I hope he is scared of Rotts!

[granny2young]

to answer that krisco, I asked some people who would know and they told me that a lot of these people are on the sex registery list because of father's accused by angry ex-wives in custody battles or 18 year guys with 17 year old girls that ticks a parent off, or other that wouldn't necessarily constitute as being a child molester, yet gets them on the list for life. They normally accept pleas to make it go away. He told me not to worry about what I find on the site, it's not as bad as it may seem. The ones by the schools and places were children are within a few feet have been deemed by parole officers or someone as being harmless with extreme circumstances.

[Pontotocmom]

You can click on the information beside the person and it will tell you if it is statutory rape or if it was a child. I don't know who told you that you shouldn't worry about them, but personally, I think everyone should worry about people around children.

[calliope]

You're so right, Ponto/Mom. I know that Granny was just trying to ease folks' minds, but as far as children are concerned, you can't be too careful. The sex offender registry is there for a reason, and the people on it are there for a reason: a jury found each of them guilty of either (1) being unable to control themselves and keep from committing violence against women (rape), OR (2) being unable to control their sexual urges (pedophilia, statutory rape, fondling, etc.). Keeping an eye on these folks is a must.

And before we go down the road of "But some of them are probably wrongly convicted," let's ask ourselves whether we're really willing to take that chance with our children.

Thanks to Ponto/Mom for sharing this web site here.

[King Rat]

When the Yates woman in Texas who was recently found "not guilty by reason of insanity" of drowning her five babies is deemed by a shrink to "no longer be a risk to society", I wonder what her classification will be? And how many people will say she is nothing to worry about? I guess, though, that she really is no longer a threat since she doesn't have any children left to kill.

Of course some people are falsely accused and some are wrongly convicted but that does not excuse the release of convicted child molestors into society - EVER. When a person falsely accuses another person of a crime the accuser should receive double the sentence the accused would have faced if convicted. That would stop that mess.

But the message being handed down by our society is that children have no value. Where you kill them in the womb, partially in the womb or in the bathtub it is your right - as long as you are the mother. If you rape them you will be released if you say you are sorry and a shrink thinks you've been rehabilitated (your "rehabilitation" is their success).

Rehabilitating a child molestor is about like rehabilitating a lion from eating meat.

[Pontotocmom]

I have to agree with you. Personally, Andrea Yates shouldn't of been aquited, in my opinion. She is guilty of killing five children. Yes she was crazy, yes they knew she was crazy. It does not excuse her actions. I think child molesters are mentally ill, but I sure as certain don't want them aquitted. And look at that boy that was found monday dead, a twice convicted child molester is being held for his murder. And the horrible thing is his mother knew he was a child molester, but thought he was "cured". www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4085219.html

[momof3]

First of all, thanks pontotocmom for this web site. Secondly, I for one do not want my children anywhere around a sex offender. If you have ever been a victim as a child of sexual abuse, then you can understand it a little more. Furthermore, they were posting pictures of sex offenders on bill boards a couple of months ago, however, I heard that somone complained about it so they stopped doing it. I do believe that everyone should receive forgiveness if they ask for it, however, I still want to know where they are and what they are doing. It's our job as parents to do everything we can to love, cherish, and protect our children.

[granny2young]

I agree mom, but when you see a loved ones face plastered on a billboard because he was 19 and had consenual sex with a 17 year old girlfriend and now is branded for life it is not too funny. According to the law it don't matter the circumstances, what matters is the outcome. There is one guy on the website that is an old family friend's son. His crime? he tried to get custody of his daughter after his divorce and his ex ran to the welfare dept and said he was molesting the child. Any truth to it? None whatsoever. Any evidence at all? None, other than the mother's twisted words. The outcome? He was arrested and charged. Two full years later his atty advised him to accept a lesser plea and make it all go away. The lesser plea was no jail time, no fines, no more money, no parole, just plead guilty and walk away from it all or go to trial and risk his word against the ex's. What they failed to tell him was he would have to be a registered sex offender the rest of his life. His face is on that watchdog website and it breaks my heart every time I look at it or hear people talk about him that way. You would have to know him. Those kinds of cases bugs me. If the website were true sexual offenders, then yes, I could see the actions they are taking, but they are wrapping all into one basket and not weaning the bad from the good.

[zipzam]

granny2young said:

I agree mom, but when you see a loved ones face plastered on a billboard because he was 19 and had consenual sex with a 17 year old girlfriend and now is branded for life it is not too funny. According to the law it don't matter the circumstances, what matters is the outcome. There is one guy on the website that is an old family friend's son. His crime? he tried to get custody of his daughter after his divorce and his ex ran to the welfare dept and said he was molesting the child. Any truth to it? None whatsoever. Any evidence at all? None, other than the mother's twisted words. The outcome? He was arrested and charged. Two full years later his atty advised him to accept a lesser plea and make it all go away. The lesser plea was no jail time, no fines, no more money, no parole, just plead guilty and walk away from it all or go to trial and risk his word against the ex's. What they failed to tell him was he would have to be a registered sex offender the rest of his life. His face is on that watchdog website and it breaks my heart every time I look at it or hear people talk about him that way. You would have to know him. Those kinds of cases bugs me. If the website were true sexual offenders, then yes, I could see the actions they are taking, but they are wrapping all into one basket and not weaning the bad from the good.

excellent point granny.

not only should we educate ourselves on sex offenders... we should educate ourselves on HOW those sex offenders were convicted/pled.

kinda off topic but relates... a woman can file a restraining order against a man for no reason. it only costs ~$35. the man will be looked at as a "woman beater" the rest of his life.

just b/c someone has something on their record... doesn't necessarily mean they're guilty of anything.

[rutrow]

The site is a good one for people with children. However, I think that granny and zipzam both make good points in that people become victims because of vindictiveness of others. Some folks are so vindictive that they never even have the empathy to put themselves in the position they place others in. They never ask themselves, "How would I feel if the other person was doing this to me?" A lot of people get framed for things that they do not do and it makes life a living hell always trying to prove their innocence.

[granny2young]

so true. That brings up another interesting question. How could someone be so vendictive to another person? What ever happened to think of how someone would feel before you do it to them? I just don't understand people sometimes, thus, my favorite statement "Most of the time I like my dogs more than most people." LOL

[rutrow]

Probably because people react according to what is in their hearts. We are all guilty of reacting before we think at times. But it is another story when people finally sit down and think about the situation, then consciously make the effort to go out to do harm to others. They are the ones who have no self-control. It is one thing to speak your (our) mind, and quite another to go out intentionally to do harm. Don't ya think?