SEX OFFENDER IN My YARD?

Question

one of my neighbor's just came out of Jail, he did what the law recqures him to do, but most of us in the neighborhood are not comfortable with him around, unfortunately he owns the house he lives in. how can we get him out of our neighborhood?

Answer 1

You can't. He has a legal right to be there. The neighborhood needs to organize a community safety patrol or neighborhood watch and you must always know where your children are as long as he continues to live in that house.

Answer 2

Try lighting a cross on his front yard...

Sorry, you don't own the neighborhood, and as abhorent as he and his actions may be to you and your posse, you don't get to decide where he lives, he has a right to life liberty and happiness, just like you and me.

Just b/c he has been convicted doesn't make him more dangerous. Think about it, most pedophiles and rapists aren't convicted and registered. Teach your kids about him in particular and the dangers out there in general. Everyone is a potential threat. Protect your family by teaching (yourself and) them how to keep people at arms length and protect themselves while still living a normal life.

It's not the stranger who gets the kids, it's he uncle, the super friendly neighbor, the clerk at Walmart, etc...

Answer 3

I'm not altogether certain where to begin here. On the one hand, I refuse to condone this man's actions and on the other, cannot find myself to encourage yours without knowing what it was exactly this guy did and what the circumstances were.

Part of me says that this person has served his time and paid his debt to society and therefore should be forgiven and left alone.
Another part tells me that the evidence points to an ineffectual justice and rehabilitation system given the recitivism rate according to statistics. This same part tells me that this man may have indeed paid his debt to society but not his debt to the victim of the crime.

As I said, I would also have to know the circumstances involved here before I condemn either one of you.
I am of the opinion that certain crimes do not warrant or justify the punishment given to the perpetrator and others deserve more of a punishment than was given.

For instance: If a man rapes a child six weeks in jail and community service is hardly a fitting punishment.
At the same time, if an adult has consentual sex with a minor, a ten year prison sentence is hardly justice.
How is it justice if the adult involved receives a prison sentence and the minor gets grounded for two weeks? Consentual sex is not rape and I refuse to acknowledge the arguement that the minor is not mature enough to make that decision if there is an opposing arguement saying a minor is mature enough to go to prison for committing a murder. Kind of a double standard. How can one make an assertion that a minor can't be mature enough for consentual sex but is mature enough to be tried as an adult for something else? That doesn't make any sense.
As far as I'm concerned, either the offending adult in this case receives a two week house arrest, effectively "grounded" so to speak, or the consenting minor is sentenced to prison too.
What the **** happened to justice? It logically follows that if a minor can be tried as an adult for committing a murder then every child of the same age deserves to be considered an adult otherwise. At this point they deserve the right to make the decision to have sex with whomever they choose, smoke, drive and vote. Period. Anything else is hypocrisy.

Then there is the opposing line of thought with regards to rape and molestation that was forcible and traumatic. It is hardly justice if the offender receives a ten year prison sentence if the victim suffers for a lifetime. Where is the justice in that? How does one reconcile himself to the thought that the person who committed the rape or molested the child can serve a ten year sentence and go on to live a normal life while the victim suffers for the rest of theirs?

As we move on, we come to the subject of cause and effect. Do we take it as gospel that a small child truly does suffer for a lifetime because someone played with their little pp at the age of six? A matter of opinion or a matter of fact? You'd have to ask the victim on an individual basis I would think.
Then we come to the second issue with regards to cause and effect- do we take it as gospel truth that the offender involved performs these acts of sexual perversion because they were themselves abused as children?
I myself refuse to accept this and call bullshit. I strenuously object to the idea that this in any way justifies the actions of those responsible for the crime. I also refuse to believe that it could somehow be the cause of it.
I myself was abused as a child, violently beaten and verbally assaulted by my stepfather and yet I don't stalk the neighborhood children and beat the **** out of them. If the experience were truly so traumatic and terrible why would you ever want someone else to feel that way?
A different method needs to be found to discover the reasons criminals commit the crimes they do. It also follows logically that the absolute last thing one should do is to ask the perpetrator of the crime his reasons for the act and simply take his word for it. That too, doesn't make any sense.

At any rate, in order to fully answer your question specifically I would have to know the circumstances involved in order to form an opinion and thereby provide any semblance of an answer which might provide a solution to your problem.

You may e-mail me if you wish.

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Answer 4

well u cant make him leave. What you can do is let him know in person that the whold neighborhood knows about his time spent and everyone will be watching his every move. **(safety note if he raped a woman send your husband, or have over 6 different households go over together, or send a letter, i went to my neighbor after i found out he was a child molester and told him the same thing) he moved 3 months later.

Answer 5

Its sad that you cant do much but educate the neighborhood about what being a sex offender means and point him out to your kids that way they know. Informed is forewarned

Answer 6

Perhaps you should talk with him and try to find out why he is considered a sex offender. The reasons can vary a lot.

Answer 7

If he did his time and is abiding the law, Sorry, Theres nothing you can do. Be watchful of any suspicious activity.

Answer 8

Ya can't. So sorry. You should check your neighborhood on the sex offender websites---THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!

Answer 9

As a group organize so that someone is always monitoring him, be open about it and folow him everywhere, so that he gets no peace, he will leave.

Answer 10

you try out-sex offending him and see if he got scared and run away.