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Bruce, you added an excellent point. I had a friend who was dating someone who was 2 years younger than him, she was barely a minor. Parents were okay with them being together until he broke up with her for someone else... and the parents pressed charges. Now he's on the registry.
And recently they changed the registry, I believe. Now you either ARE or you AREN'T an offender. the old registry listed them by class. So now, the guy who slapped the girl's ass at the bar because he thought she was hot gets lumped in with the guy who raped 5 women and 2 kids. My kids' school sent home a note about the new changes, and I was talking to someone who said their so-and-so couldn't go to see his kids' recitals at school anymore, because he had some bogus charge before he was even a parent. It didn't matter to the school a few weeks before the law was changed, but now- under the new law- he's not allowed on the school grounds. Talk about failing the public. I'm all for protecting the school yard from sexual predators, but I think in rare cases like these, they should be able to petition the school board for some sort of waiver, to show that they didn't really do anything, and don't really deserve to be shut out.
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