Joe,
First off, Thank You for the sbynews blog with your news and information that is more useful than the newspaper and the 2 news station. My reason for writing you today is that I am not to happy about these criminal suspects, convicts, and sex offenders having more rights than the victims. I am outraged by that issue. 6 years ago my family encountered a teenager living here in Md and this teenager was a registered Delaware Sex Offender and was attending a school here in Salisbury with a younger sibling of mine. How we found out that this teenager was a registered sex offender was through the mouth of a kid who rode the bus. At first, It was something I did not believe due to anyone under the age of 18 isnt required to register in Md. Intuition told me to check Delaware and there was this kids picture and address, plus seen where this kid did a sexual act to a child who was under the age of 5.
My relatives written to those who represent us in Annapolis. 3 or 4 letters went out and only one response with only literature on the SOR laws and that was no help to us and nothing accomplished. I would like to see stiffer penalties on those who are under 18 and those who are attending school with our children because they are just as bad as the over 18 sex offenders. If you are under 18 and registered from another state, it should be a mandatory registration in Maryland. That needs to be the law. I worry for our children and those who are defenseless, I worry about everyones safety. I would like to encourage your readers to flood the offices of the elected officials. We need to do something about sex offenders all together with stiffer laws and punishment. I hope you post this on your blog and get my point out to the
readers. Please take my first email and put this together with this email.
Thank You!
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
Joe, you should post contact info for Lower Shore senators and delegates, so people can send letters, emails, and make phone calls.
ReplyDeleteLet me one up this for you. I work in education. Had an incident with a student who sexually assaulted another student directly in front of me. And I literally do mean less than 10 feet away from me!
ReplyDeleteTurns out, through some colleagues research, the juvenile was on the sex offender registry in DE.
How is it possible for a student to be sitting in front of you, and you not know that he is an offender, and needs to have a extra special eye on him? Why weren't we informed of this?
One of the problems is, if they move, how do you keep track of them? They are basically on their honor system to re-register in other states, but you know that doesn't always happen. Shall we brand a big ole S.O. on their forehead? Hell, i'm all for that one!
ReplyDeleteYou're a class act Joe.
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ReplyDeleteI'd like to ask you if you reported this to the proper authorities when it happened or did you just talk to your colleagues about it and then they researched it.
Part of the problem, and I can't stress enough how much of a BIG problem with all of this is people don't report things! They disregard it and keep going on hoping what they saw, or what they were told is not true.
As a survivor of sex abuse, many children are not believed when they tell an adult what is happening. That was my case. Nobody believed me. 20 years later, I found out that he had also sexually abused one of his daughters which at the time called me a liar.
People need to start listening to the children! Not only that, they need to be talking to the children and educating them as to what is inappropriate touching, etc.
Until this is done, we will continue to have cases where the child doesn't feel they can talk to anyone and the molesters and other sexual criminals will continue to walk the streets!
There is NEVER only ONE child! They don't work that way. There is ALWAYS more than one being abused!
1 in 3 girls and 1 in 7 boys will be molested before age 18.
ReplyDeleteA typical molester will abuse 30 to 60 children before they are arrested - as many as 380 during their lifetime.
Almost half of all sex offenders are under 18. ~1991 FBI Uniform Crime Report
1 in 3 girls and 1 in 7 boys will be molested before age 18.
ReplyDeleteA typical molester will abuse 30 to 60 children before they are arrested - as many as 380 during their lifetime.
Almost half of all sex offenders are under 18. ~1991 FBI Uniform Crime Report
The community and the schools need to step up and help educate our young people. We need to empower them to learn the signs of abuse, to speak up, to learn the tricks a predator might use to lure them, to teach them that a predator isn't always "a stranger", to teach them skills to escape from bad situations...to protect themselves when you can't be there to protect them.
If you don't have a radKiDS program in your community/schools, I encourage you to get involved as a parent, as a teacher and get one in place:
for more information:
http://www.radkids.org
When I was a teenager, a friend of mine confided in me that she had been molested ongoing by her grandfather for years.
ReplyDeleteHer parents were going away and they were making her stay with him.
She came to me crying begging that I find a way that she could stay with me.
Finally, she told me what he had been doing. The little brother confirmed it since he heard chaos in the room she was in at her grandfather's house and he walked in on her running around the room being chased by the grandfather.
I begged her to tell her mother while I was a witness. She did, and after doing so, her older brother had a memory that he had blocked out of his mind. He had walked into the basement of his grandfather's house when he was five and she was three and saw the grandfather using jelly and making the three year old preform oral sex.
Well, the parents were appauled that she told them this. They blamed her and never confronted the grandfather.
This old man was a successful business owner, attended church every Sunday, and said grace at every meal.
To this day, my friend who is now 39, does not associate with her family. She moved away to another state and has basically deleted her past.
She refuses to have any children because she dreads the potential of them having to go through this pain.
Again, the victim is blamed. It is important to keep an open communication relationship with your kids even when it comes to discussing sex so they will be open to you should something happen to them.
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ReplyDeleteThis issue has NOTHING to do with political affiliations.
Give it a rest!
If it did, then someone might ask you what the Republicans did about this when THEY were in control.
See? One has NOTHING to do with the other.
I get so tired of someone (probably you) posting this stuff on just about every post Joe puts up. If you're so disgusted and or interested in politics, then run for office and see how you can help. Otherwise, please shut up.
Not all sex offneders are that bad. all it takes is for someone to say someone did somthing to them and guess what they beleive the child. Yes some may be true sex offenders but until you know the real story do not criticize a sex offender when yuo do not know the story.
ReplyDeleteAs I said before, the evil Mr. Leuschner taught us NOTHING!
ReplyDelete6:46-You are a sick bastard.
ReplyDeleteOMG, 6:46, are you serious? Not all are bad. Holy shit!! ALL sex offenders are bad!! Have you fell off the wagon or something?
ReplyDeleteApparently some do not know just how easy it is to end up on a sex offender list.
ReplyDeleteThere are SOME (probably not many) cases where the person really shouldn't be on the same list with people like Leggs but they are and they will always be.
If you end up in a relationship with the 17 year old babysitter and also end up getting married, and staying married for many years, because she was only 17 at the time, you are considered a sex offender.
I believe that the laws need to be strengthened too but as with all the other government stuff, they need to do it RIGHT.
Laws and other government programs have too many loop holes and some are too vague. Go back to square one and get it right!
let me guess...An enabling female who is standing by her man. Take your blinders off.
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