Sex Offenders

[Softballkid]

Sex offenders classifications:

Levels of Sex Offenders

California laws... but, indecent exposure is a sexual offense.

Registerable Sex Offenses - Megan's Law - California Dept. of Justice - Office of the Attorney General

 

[tom88]

Sex offenders classifications:

Levels of Sex Offenders

California laws... but, indecent exposure is a sexual offense.

Registerable Sex Offenses - Megan's Law - California Dept. of Justice - Office of the Attorney General

Based on your scenario, who is going to charge the father with indecent exposure. We are in Maryland, not la la land. How does someone changing in their own bedroom become indecent exposure.

Don't you get that there has to be an investigation and EVIDENCE for someone to be found guilty? If you were on a jury, would you find someone guilty of indecent exposure because they were getting dressed in their own bedroom?

 

[lovinmaryland]

Sex offenders classifications:

Levels of Sex Offenders

California laws... but, indecent exposure is a sexual offense.

Registerable Sex Offenses - Megan's Law - California Dept. of Justice - Office of the Attorney General

So would those numbers being listed for CA be the same here in MD? I check the registry here in our area but am sometimes confused by all the different listings they have on the site. It is hard to tell what someone is actually on the list for.

 

[tom88]

Indecent exposure is the deliberate exposure in public or in view of the general public by a person of a portion or portions of their body, in circumstances where the exposure is contrary to local moral or other standards of appropriate behavior.

 

[officeguy]

I don't think in Maryland they label them as child sex offenders any longer. I believe they have gone to a tier system, level's I II and III.

They do have the tiers, the mapping feature still lists them separately as:

Child Sexual Offender
Offender
Sexually Violent Offender
Sexually Violent Predator

I find those categories a lot more meaningful than the tier system.

 

[itsrequired]

They do have the tiers, the mapping feature still lists them separately as:

Child Sexual Offender
Offender
Sexually Violent Offender
Sexually Violent Predator

I find those categories a lot more meaningful than the tier system.

I don't know if it has started yet, but they are going to be putting plain language on each offenders status. That way you can look them up and find out what they really did.

 

[NorthBeachPerso]

Based on your scenario, who is going to charge the father with indecent exposure. We are in Maryland, not la la land. How does someone changing in their own bedroom become indecent exposure.

Don't you get that there has to be an investigation and EVIDENCE for someone to be found guilty? If you were on a jury, would you find someone guilty of indecent exposure because they were getting dressed in their own bedroom?

You have your answer.

 

[twinoaks207]

Based on your scenario, who is going to charge the father with indecent exposure. We are in Maryland, not la la land. How does someone changing in their own bedroom become indecent exposure.

Don't you get that there has to be an investigation and EVIDENCE for someone to be found guilty? If you were on a jury, would you find someone guilty of indecent exposure because they were getting dressed in their own bedroom?

Well, remember this guy? He was in his own kitchen drinking coffee and the lady & her kid were trespassing in his yard...

http://forums.somd.com/news-current-events/192804-indecent-exposure.html

(He was lucky! Things could very easily have gone the other way!)

 

[BOP]

Also, how many people are on the list that honestly don't need to be.

All it takes: I go to take a shower, close the bed room door, when I come out into the bedroom, kid had walked in to grab something. Nothing happens, kid walks out, I finish getting ready. (1 time only occurance)

Kid goes to daycare next day and says 'I seen daddy naked'. Daycare calls police, daddy is now a sex offender.

Now granted, I bet 1 in a 1000 cases are like that. But, I'm just trying to point out that it does not take much to make the list.

In some places, you can be charged as a sex offender if you stop beside the highway in the middle of the night to take a pee, and a cop happens upon you.

Seen it in the newspapers.

 

[BOP]

Based on your scenario, who is going to charge the father with indecent exposure. We are in Maryland, not la la land. How does someone changing in their own bedroom become indecent exposure.

Don't you get that there has to be an investigation and EVIDENCE for someone to be found guilty? If you were on a jury, would you find someone guilty of indecent exposure because they were getting dressed in their own bedroom?

The world used to work that way, but good luck to anyone who finds themselves in that situation. You have to prove you're innocent in today's day and age.

 

[itsrequired]

In some places, you can be charged as a sex offender if you stop beside the highway in the middle of the night to take a pee, and a cop happens upon you.

Seen it in the newspapers.

Do you have a link to this? Is the guy now a registered sex offender?

 

[BOP]

Nobody's Business: Florida Banishes Man for Public Urination

SOL Research: Look Who’s a Sex Offender Now!

From 2008 - don't know what the result was. Lawmakers: Public urination shouldn't lead to sex offender status » New Hampshire » EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

 

[Gemmi]

I actually think that is a good point. I bet if your were to secretly and confidently survey the women in this forum, and if they were to answer honestly, many of them had older boyfriends when they were 15 or 16 that either their parents never knew about or their parents knew about but the boyfriend never did anything to tick her parents off enough to seek charges.

I dated a 23 year old guy when I was 16.

 

[itsrequired]

Nobody's Business: Florida Banishes Man for Public Urination

SOL Research: Look Who’s a Sex Offender Now!

From 2008 - don't know what the result was. Lawmakers: Public urination shouldn't lead to sex offender status » New Hampshire » EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

I always love these people who bring these far away examples of sex offender laws to try and say why they are bad here in Maryland. I think Maryland's rules are pretty fair.

It is funny though, how you go to web-sites obviously created by those who don't want sex offender laws (likely sex offenders) and you believe the crap they put up there. Did you notice they never actually include the police report in their diatribe? They never actually include the statement of charges. Do you think that might be because there is MORE to the story? I'd think so, but maybe I’m a cynic.

 

[Pushrod]

I was reading a story yesterday of two 16 year old boys who played a prank on two 12 year old boys. They dropped their pants and farted in their faces (actually sat on their faces). They were found quilty of sex crimes by a judge and will be on the sex offender registry for the rest of their lives.

That I thought was a bit over the top. Granted the prank was tasteless and immature and should have been met with some punishment, but to be charged and convicted of sex crimes is in itself obscene.

 

[kwillia]

I was reading a story yesterday of two 16 year old boys who played a prank on two 12 year old boys. They dropped their pants and farted in their faces (actually sat on their faces). They were found quilty of sex crimes by a judge and will be on the sex offender registry for the rest of their lives.

That I thought was a bit over the top. Granted the prank was tasteless and immature and should have been met with some punishment, but to be charged and convicted of sex crimes is in itself obscene.

I know a 6 grade boy who without thinking patted a 6 grade girl on the azz like athletes do as they were leaving the school gym. He was treated as a sex offender.

 

[itsrequired]

I was reading a story yesterday of two 16 year old boys who played a prank on two 12 year old boys. They dropped their pants and farted in their faces (actually sat on their faces). They were found quilty of sex crimes by a judge and will be on the sex offender registry for the rest of their lives.

That I thought was a bit over the top. Granted the prank was tasteless and immature and should have been met with some punishment, but to be charged and convicted of sex crimes is in itself obscene.

Can anybody cite any of these cases that are going on in Maryland? It appears that all these crazy things are going on in places other than here.

 

[rdytogo]

I don't get why there are so many people that are willing to believe that sex offenders "don't belong" on the sex offender registry. I have faith in our court system. These examples are usually what the accused put out, not the courts.

 

[tom88]

I don't get why there are so many people that are willing to believe that sex offenders "don't belong" on the sex offender registry. I have faith in our court system. These examples are usually what the accused put out, not the courts.

I think it's because people find it difficult to believe these crimes happen. That is why it's so difficult to convict these people, because unlike a robbery or other crimes, people come look at these crimes with a certain skeptism.

 

[Softballkid]

I believe this stuff happens, but I do know 2 guys, who have been accused of it, and the 'evidence' is friggin LAME. And for their sake, being they have been through enough BS with it, I won't lay it out on here what the accusations are.

I do know that, if someone was CAUGHT doing this to 1 of my children, they wouldn't be on a sex offender registry, they would be in the obits!

But in MARYLAND, the courts are pathetic, and as the rest of the country now, you are guilty until proven innocent.

All I am saying is there are sex crimes, and then there are common sense crimes that shouldn't have been. And as 1 or 2 others have pointed out, they happen everywhere.