Should we get a sex offenders register like they do in the US? In Ohio, they are looking at special licences plates for sex offenders. Is that going too far?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Ohio-wants-car-plates-for-sex-offenders/2007/03/01/1172338746084.html

Are there any neighbourhoods where children don't live?

There should be a register of some sort to alert parents when a ped moves into an area.They should not be allowed to live near schools,bus stops,shops,sporting fixtures,or children.Hence they should not be able to live at all.

Why don't we just make it a punishment to cut off their testicles so thy aren't tempted to do it again? 

Then everyones a winner. 

-I'm dead serious too.

I couldn't vote in the Poll because I don't believe that if you don't support the death penalty you must support peadophilia.

Chemical Castration is the solution combined with education. Better Neighbourhood watch programs would help too from the loitering potential peadophile.

What right do we have to take another persons life? The person who votes for a death penalty is a murderer because he supported it. Respect of all human life is what our modern day civilisation is based on.

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I'm surprised you backed me up on that one, mantra.


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Indeed. There should always be an 'other' option in polls. That makes it easier to vote.

Actually - I do agree as well that the death penalty is too harsh.  Obviously paedophiles are very disturbed and dysfunctional human beings and if we lived in a less tolerant nation, like enviro said -  most of us would opt for castration of the offenders.  

There isn't any real answer to this one.  Paedophiles will always be around - in our churches, amongst politicians and businessmen and also just the ordinary Joe Blow down the road.

It is our job as parents to protect our children and have the courage to stand up to those we believe may be abusing them.  I'm sure some parents suspect their children are being sexually abused, but choose to close their eyes because they don't want to believe it.

Yes - that poll needs to be modified.  Maybe add - long term incarceration and psychiatric help.

It wasn't me.

A simple 'no' would have been better, unless you wanted to allow people to indicate why they say yes or no. But the way it is done is obviously designed to alter the outcome.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/NSW-parolees-allowed-to-travel-the-world/2007/03/04/1172943280907.html

More than 50 NSW parolees were allowed to travel overseas in 2005 - including a rapist who went to Lebanon, with which Australia has no extradition treaty.

Drug dealers have travelled to Vietnam, and a child pornographer went to the Philippines, according State Parole Authority (SPA) figures reported by News Ltd that showed 55 parolees travelled overseas in 2005.

I think casteration for paedophiles and repeated rapists.
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I see a post from me where I said Ididnt add the poll to this topic....which is the end of the matter. I didnt if i said I didnt..so dont go off at me pples..But I do agree with the poll having said that..I do rememer now being perplexed as to who added it to this topic.




Never mind..it doesnt matter.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Anger-over-paedophiles-jail-conditions/2007/05/13/1178994978274.html

Two convicted paedophiles, who plotted to kill a boy they had kidnapped as a sex slave, should not be allowed to spend their days together in prison, the West Australian opposition says.

"Just because it's not a husband and wife, it's two male paedophiles ... what is the difference?

"They should not be allowed to have an association with each other after being found guilty of these crimes."

A spokesman for Corrective Service Minister Margaret Quirk said Wheeler and Urquhart were being treated like all other prisoners.

"To suggest their relationship is continuing is quite incorrect because they do not share a cell. They are under a very high level of supervision."

The Department of Corrective Services released a statement saying it does not comment on the accommodation arrangements of individual prisoners.

"Prisoners in this category are in individual cells and are under very high supervision."

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MySpace detects 29,000 US sex offenders

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/MySpace-detects-29000-US-sex-offenders/2007/07/25/1185043147944.html

MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered US sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking website, North Carolina officials say.

It was more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, the officials said.

North Carolina's Roy Cooper is one of several state attorneys-general who recently demanded the News Corp-owned website provide data on how many registered sex offenders were using the site, along with information about where they live.

After initially withholding the information, citing federal privacy laws, MySpace began sharing the information in May after the states filed formal legal requests.

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'Vigilante fear' over sex offenders list

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Vigilante-fear-over-sex-offenders-list/2007/08/21/1187462241719.html

The Queensland government has criticised an opposition campaign to have the child sex offenders' register made public which has sparked fears of vigilante attacks.

The opposition will soon release a discussion paper flagging the idea of making the register public.

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Reduced sentence for female sex offender

http://news.smh.com.au/reduced-sentence-for-female-sex-offender/20080508-2c5u.html

A 35-year-old Melbourne woman who had sex with a 15-year-old boy has received a reduced jail sentence because treatment is not available to female sex offenders in custody.

Bianca Aleida Smulders, 35, formerly of Pakenham, wept in the dock as she was sentenced in the Victorian County Court on Thursday to at least 12 months in prison.

Smulders had pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual penetration of a child under the age of 16, and was also charged with breaching an intervention order.