Hello everyone, I apologize in advance for the length of the post. I just needed to get this out here because of what I'm experiencing...



I'd very much like to comment on something Justin said above...

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As a registered sex offender, i would like to clarify a few things, as others have on this website. The one post was perfectly right when it says that the sex registry does not differentiate pedophiles, or sexual predators from people in high school who had sex with another high school girl who wasnt 17 yet.

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I'm dealing with this every day. I am a so called "Low Risk" 290 registrant. I had sexual relations with a young woman years ago who claimed she was 22 and was 2 weeks short of 18. It was the dumbest thing I could have ever done in my life. I completed a program of one year in lockup under the worst circumstances, 5 years of formal probation including 6 polygraphs (passing all of them including the "sexual history" which is almost unheard of) with one of the stiffest probation departments in the US, and 3 years of 2 hours a week in therapy (mandatory), and its still not over. I will pay for this the rest of my life. Not only for what I've done to the young woman, but also for what shame I've caused my friends and family so many years ago.



Now I want to move but I cannot do so without fear or worry. I know the laws are set to protect our women and children, and rightly so. Trust me, if I saw someone hurting a woman or child you'd have to beat me to them! I don't condone such behavior either!! However, I can FEEL the effects (rather than just SEEING them) and I'm telling you these laws just force the scary offenders underground and into high pressure scenarios.



The best I can hope for is to get two law enforcement agencies talking, and come to some kind of understanding ahead of time so that when I go somewhere to be nearer my family and what friends I have left, that I be socialized and introduced in an area [and in a way] that law enforcement knows exactly who I am. My thinking is since I'm living a normal type life and not breaking the laws in any way then I shouldn't have anything to worry about....



Then I read this and felt worried all over again. Not because of something I might do, but because of something I've already done a long time ago, and the world never forgave me.