What is wrong with a 'Megan's Law' exactly?

Question

In UK recently, a watered down verion of Megan's Law was rejected partly because the government feared that paedophiles would go underground and be more dangerous.

Does this happen in the US where they have Megan's Law?

Answer 1

In the USA, there have been a number of results of Megan's Law.

Released paedophiles have suffered vigilante attacks, with five murders occuring. I don't care how much these people deserve it, the rule of the lynch mob is not the way of a civilised society.

Many more have disappeared and are no longer under the supervision of the authorities, which means that they are more dangerous to children.

Megan's Law is not protecting children, it is just allowing adults to exact revenge on these people.

If you look at the problem, not putting your hatred of the offenders first, but putting the protection of children first, you will see that Megan's / Sarah's Law is a foolish idea.

How many of the answers here tonight talk not about how to protect the children, but about how to hurt the offenders? Too many people are focussing on the criminal, not the victim.

How does forcing offenders to live rough protect children from them???

Answer 2

I was interested to read your reply from 'Mr Scept', because I had wondered for a long time how this system could possibly work in USA, (Now I see that there are a few backlashes)!
I am pretty certain it wont work in the UK, there will be more than a few acts of violence here!
Imagine a letter on your door mat informing you that (a couple of houses away from your home and family) a peodo has just moved in? What would you do? Gather your children around you and explain "there is a very nasty man just moved in so dont speak to him" !!
There are many valid points in your reply from 'Mr Scept' it would do no good to give them a daily battering and drive them underground , unless of course its a permanent underground move, like 6 foot deep!!!
There are not many things in life that get me really fuming, but paedophiles are one of the few things.
Another one is the idea of some clever bast*rd sitting in an office who can say "Oh he's OK now we can send him back out into the world"!!! Then the 'OK cured' peodo has a go at another kid, maybe yours this time!!
So 'Mr Scept' I guess I am yet another hatred filled feller.
But when I read about a 3 year old kid being raped by a completly mental freak, I do get annoyed, then I hear the clever bast*rds in authority have made up their minds hes now been sorted, let him out, but keep track of him, I am even more annoyed.
The released or paroled whatever have actually been photographed gazing into kids playgrounds at school etc etc.
Whats the answer then? It's certainly not to try to integrate them back into the world!!
If it's not possible or 'socially acceptable' to have them humainly put to sleep, lock them up for life, I mean for life, I dont want to ever see any of the scum on the streets.
I am obviously not a Christian "Repent and you will be forgiven"???? Not by me they wont.
BTW if your question was meant to get 'right up my nose', it worked!!

Answer 3

Yes it does happen. The registration requirements (and more appropriately the "informing your neighbors" and "segregation" requirements where people can't live within so many feet / miles of a school) have made it virtually impossible for sex offenders (even those with minor, nonviolent convictions) to function in society. Thus, rather than register and abide by the law (which may mean not being able to live in a city at all), they simply go underground without monitoring.

Answer 4

Read the responses your getting! if people got hold of paedophiles addresses then they would be targeted by idiots acting in a vigilante manner! The appropriate authorities know who they are and where they live and that should be enough!

Answer 5

The problem with Megans law is that it is inconsistent with the punishment.

It lets offenders out of jail, but then ridicules them by making a spectacle of them. Now don't get me wrong on this point. If their crime was minor enough to let them out, then let them out. If they are dangerous to children, then keep them locked up. This scarlet letter thing does not work.

Answer 6

Your politicians lied when they gave their "reasons."

There's nothing wrong with such a law, and Pedophiles are ALREADY underground in the civilized world. Look into the politicians who voted against it, and you'll find they are themselves child rapists looking to hide their own sins and protect themselves form punishment.

The Pedophiles voted against the law. Root them out and replace them.

Answer 7

There is nothing wrong but our Government is more concerned by human rights of child molesters and serial rapists. It is time we should take a leaf out of American justice system where child abusers are forced to sleep rough. Read all about it here:

http://www.itv.com/news/index_83227d9f8a9813caba17fa98239c6f7f.html

Hope this helps.

Answer 8

mob rule is dangerous, once your names in print and you may be innocent of all charges your screwed. a peado must be under supervision at all times by the cops. but in an ideal world they should be strung up by the neck.

Answer 9

it gives out names of naughty judges , politicians and rude business people who like children .Cant have that in Britain you would have all the courts empty cos all the judges would be locked up

Answer 10

If they go "underground' then a warrant for their arrest is issued.