[Immampdah]

this guy had a history of this, dont know if you realise this.
how would you feel if this guy moved in next door to you and you had kids?
think you would be ok with that? everyone deserves a second chance?
he has done this a few times before, how many second chances do you get?

if you want to judge someone for taking something like that into their own hands then fair enough, but the thought that you could have stopped something like that happening, then **** it send me down.

the whole idea of sarahs law is that everyone on the registar is a child sex offender, not an innocent person the has been wrongly identified.
if it makes them live in fear then so be it, its the least they deserve.

You don't seem to realise it but it's people like you who are preventing such a law being implemented. The trouble when people take the law into their own hands is that innocent people end up getting hurt; eg. someone who happens to look a bit like the offender, or has a similar name, or a similar address, or, as in one famous case, people going after a paediatrician because they thought he was a paedophile.

And I don't know about you but I don't want vigilantes roaming the streets looking to beat up anyone they've got into their heads is a "paedophile".

[ensuppono]

It's relevant today because the saddest part is that she would be turning legal next month if still alive.

[Immampdah]

It's relevant today because the saddest part is that she would be turning legal next month if still alive.

Um she would have been legal last year. And why next month? She was born in October.

[Andrius]

i think you maybe confusing me with idiots out there that dont know their arse from their face.
im talking about sarahs law where offenders are named and shamed.
if people are too stupid to realise they have the wrong person then yeah thats wrong.
if you were going to buy a new house and had kids. you would go check the area out, make sure it was nice , was no trouble and everything else. would you not want the oportunity to know if there was a paedophile next door?
if not then you obviously then your alot more liberal than me, and your welcome to them.

[LarryRda]

It seems kind of ironic that you talk about the (good ole?) days when parents sat around watching kids play when it would be better to ask, what happened to the days when you could actually be a child? There was this research done about how far a 9 year old child would be allowed to roam. Back in the 70s it was over a mile radius by the 90s it had dropped down to about 200 yards and today freedom extends about a far as the end of the yard. Personally I find that really depressing clearly you don't.

You see there used to be a time when we didn't let media sensationalism rule our lives. Times when we might have thought rationally about things like 93% of child abuse occurring amongst people we know (most often family) or the fact in a given year the odds of a kid being kidnapped are about 1 in a million and concluded that actually the risk is so minute that yes we can let our kids go out on there own.

I remember these times, I remember being given something called freedom and responsibility. Around the age of 6 I could visit friends on nearby streets and had about 250 yards either way that I could explore. By 10 this was miles and if I wanted to take a train to another town with a friend or even cycle to another town by myself I was welcome to. You told your parents where you were going and when you'd be back and it was your side of the bargain to live up to your word. Nowadays we have become indoctrinated by the media to think differently we are unable to assess real risk anymore.

There's something to be said for those summers roaming around exploring with friends. These days we have allowed the media's OTT reporting of these incidents ruin our offsprings childhoods and rule our own lives. There was a time when if you saw some little kid crying for it's mommy you'd run over and ask the kid if he was okay, then try and help him find his parents. These days you hesitate, you think I'd like to help out but I don't want someone thinking I'm a pedo. So you wait and you hope. Hope that some female will come along and take care of the situation instead.

QFT

It is no more, or in this respect much less likely that a kid go missing today than it was when we were children. With all the education going on today it has to be at it's all time low...and yet
the media has it hyped to near danger levels.
Growing up in the early 80's my away from home range very much mimicked yours...and that is how it was with all my friends.

[Immampdah]

i think you maybe confusing me with idiots out there that dont know their arse from their face.
im talking about sarahs law where offenders are named and shamed.
if people are too stupid to realise they have the wrong person then yeah thats wrong.
if you were going to buy a new house and had kids. you would go check the area out, make sure it was nice , was no trouble and everything else. would you not want the oportunity to know if there was a paedophile next door?
if not then you obviously then your alot more liberal than me, and your welcome to them.

The only person I'm confusing you with is somebody who said if he knew where a paedophile lived he'd go round and castrate them.....Oh wait, you did say that didn't you.

[WeissVine]

How much of that travelling and time away from your parents was spent with aboslutely NO adults present?

The vast majority of the time. Did you never go for a bike ride as a kid?[/QUOTE]

[CindyLavender]

i think you maybe confusing me with idiots out there that dont know their arse from their face.
im talking about sarahs law where offenders are named and shamed.
if people are too stupid to realise they have the wrong person then yeah thats wrong.
if you were going to buy a new house and had kids. you would go check the area out, make sure it was nice , was no trouble and everything else. would you not want the oportunity to know if there was a paedophile next door?
if not then you obviously then your alot more liberal than me, and your welcome to them.

You know, putting their names out there to ridicule them doesn't really help. Really gives them no reason to play by society's rules when they've already done their time and are still punished every day beyond that. We don't do that for murderers, which is a far worse crime. Time heals all wounds, except death.

IMO there should be no public list. If a crime happens you report it to the police and they can do the checking. That, or just make everyone's info all public. That way I know exactly who my neighbors are and what they've been up to.

[Andrius]

The only person I'm confusing you with is somebody who said if he knew where a paedophile lived he'd go round and castrate them.....Oh wait, you did say that didn't you.

i said if i knew where roy whiting, the convicted child molester and paedophile lived i would do that. if you want to hang me to dry for that then go for it.
i wish i was as tolerant as you with these kind of people.
if i ever meet any of these kind of people i can send them to kent for you if you would like. maybe you would make them feel at home.

[Immampdah]

i said if i knew where roy whiting, the convicted child molester and paedophile lived i would do that. if you want to hang me to dry for that then go for it.
i wish i was as tolerant as you with these kind of people.
if i ever meet any of these kind of people i can send them to kent for you if you would like. maybe you would make them feel at home.

As usual with people with your attitude you completely miss the point.