Topic : 03/07 Dr. Phil Now: Sex Offenders Next Door

Sex offenders are an obvious danger to society, however, there are many crime that are incorrectly classfied as sex crimes that compel those convicted to register as a sex offender when they are not predators. A college girl who flashes someone on spring break is considered to have committed a sexual offense, a senior in high school who dates a sophmore (and has a sexual relationship with the underclass person-as many teenagers do) is guilty of a sex crime. I think that the large number of sex offenders registered today has much more to do with the new classification of crimes rather than a rise in the number of predators. I personally would want to know if someone was convicted of a rape or molestation, but, only those who are actual predators should be listed on a registry because only they pose a risk to the community.

I also don't believe most of what the two former resients had to say, I think they embellished to get some airtime. And for that Dawna, she's a complete liar, if anyone were being "stalked" by  a registered sex offender one would only need to contact the police and they'd pick him/her up immediately.

I'm very disappointed that Dr. Phil would allow his producers to schedule guests who only give one, half-truthful side of a story. If a real investigator went to find out what was really happening I'm sure the facts would not support the stories of the two former residents.

The problem is there is NO evidence these registries work - and many studies that show they create many more problems then they solve.  More and more RSOs will become homeless, and by definition, impossible for law enforcement to keep track of.  Also, most studies show that true molesters/predators don't hunt in their own neighborhood.  So if these guys on the registry are re-offending then they are going two towns over where no one knows them.  And the guy two towns over is in your neighborhood.

If you want "ALL the information" then where to we stop?  I'd like to know the drunk drivers in my neighborhood, and the drug dealers, and the burglars, and the politicians because they are all FAR more dangerous to my family!

My issue on the board and on this show topic is that it is based on fear, prejudice and hysteria, NOT facts and information.  Hitler once said that the way you get people to allow you to do whatever you want is to tell them it is for the good of our children.

Nice to know our government is taking civics lessons from him.

It's very scary to know how many sex offenders live next to you!  There are about 170 in the 10 mile radius from where I live (I need to move).  There's about 20 that live half a mile away!  It's a shocking reality check, thats for sure.

You can find out the # of sex offenders that live in your area, their names, addresses and pictures from the the family watchdog site:

http://www.familywatchdog.us/

What to do when the jails are so overcrowded that these sociopaths are free?

Do you know that in Illinois juvenile sex offenders have to register but the information is not available to the public?  I know this because my daughter a senior in high school was dating this fellow that had graduated from another area high school the year before.  Recently we just had a regulation passed here in Robinson saying that if you wanted to bring a date that did not go to your school to the prom you had to fill out paperwork and give a copy of that persons id.  Well my daughter had already been dating this guy for 4 months.  And surprise, surprise the school calls me and says your daughters boyfriend cannot attend the dance with her because he is a registered juvenile sex offender.  Well I live in a small community and it did not take much to find out the particulars on this offender.  The only thing I found out is it happened when he was 14 and it was with a 10 year old boy.  I have a 10 year old boy I would have liked to known before I let this man into my house. 

And it gets even better a few years ago my stepbrother who lives in Indiana molested my nieces who at the time the youngest was 5 years old.  They sent him away for a couple of years to live in a group home with counseling and then he got to move back in with my dad and stepmom (who live in a retirement community) and he did not have to register and do you know when these sex offenders turn 18 it goes off their record.

The young man my daughter was dating also was a noncompliant sex offender because he moved to a different state and when he moved back did not reregister and they didn't catch him until he was an adult and he still only has to reregister for 7 more years,.  So there isn't even any probation violation recourse for such things.  I will tell you only our voices will change these laws I have been writing to senators and governors anybody I can get to listen and call them they get sick of hearing from you and they might finally do something about this. 

I am not saying they cannot be rehabilitated but studies show that 85% of the time these offenders will do it again.  Its attrocious that we as a country care more about protecting illegal aliens rights than our own children.  Thank you concerned in illinois

I think there does need to be a better distinction made between someone who truly is a predator and someone who did something petty.  If there is verifiable evidence that an offender has raped, molested or killed a child I don't think they could EVER serve "their time"!  The man on the show today, said that at 70 years old he still has the desire, and he admitted that he did it to his own child!  I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy for where these "people" should live.  I think they should live on an island, with no chance of escape.  They should not be supported.  They should have to earn their keep, in some way.

The heck with having them live near innocent kids!  This is idiotic!  I do not believe that they can be rehabilitated and just because they haven't been caught, after they are released, might just prove that they got away with it because they got a little smarter.  Most of them have been proven to have committed many crimes before they were even caught the first time.

The ACLU has even defended the right of NAMBLA, (a group that supports the right of men to have sex with boys as young as eight), to have a website promoting their lifestyle and giving tips on how to lure young boys!  Americans need to wake up to the fact that the ACLU is destroying America with it's "free speech" garbage!  Our founding fathers never intended it to protect deviant lifestyles, "art", violent movies, or internet porn!  Anyone with a pea brain should know that it was meant to protect political and religious free speech.  Instead rogue judges have interpreted it to include anything, except religious liberties. Society has been pushed down a very slippery slope because of this organization.

If your kids and grandkids are truly important to you, then you need to google The ACLU vs. America: Exposing the Agenda to Redefine Moral Values.  It is really an eye-opener!