Registries continue to punish youth years and even decades after they have served time. Data and research show that registries don’t improve public safety.
I don’t think so, especially considering that we have 8 year olds on sex offender registries which is just removed.
The problem with rape is that many times its very hard to impossible to prove, especially when time has passed. Sometimes it’s possible with messages sent to and from, sometimes with a rape kit.
But what if there was a rape without witnesses where she was so afraid that she didn’t move, and later je “simply” claims she was a consenting partner?
What if she actually was a consenting partner and then retroactively claimed it was rape?
Things get very muddy and dicey very quickly and we’re still living in a “innocent until proven guilty” society, thankfully, but it does make rape a very complicated subject
I don’t think so, especially considering that we have 8 year olds on sex offender registries which is just removed.
The problem with rape is that many times its very hard to impossible to prove, especially when time has passed. Sometimes it’s possible with messages sent to and from, sometimes with a rape kit.
But what if there was a rape without witnesses where she was so afraid that she didn’t move, and later je “simply” claims she was a consenting partner?
What if she actually was a consenting partner and then retroactively claimed it was rape?
Things get very muddy and dicey very quickly and we’re still living in a “innocent until proven guilty” society, thankfully, but it does make rape a very complicated subject
Well, what do you propose?
Is it really so hard for you to agree we should start with “not putting 8-year-olds on the sex offender registry”?
I don’t live in a country where something like that is a thing. We don’t have a register for any type of offense.
But the person I asked wrote about rape in general. That’s why I asked. It wasn’t about a register for juvenile offenders.