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Snuckles
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posted 01 September 2006 06:08 PM      Profile for Snuckles   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Plan gains to publicly identify accused
Ohio panel backs registry proposal

BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU

COLUMBUS - An Ohio legislative panel yesterday rubber-stamped an unprecedented process that would allow sex offenders to be publicly identified and tracked even if they've never been charged with a crime.

No one in attendance voiced opposition to rules submitted by Attorney General Jim Petro's office to the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review, consisting of members of the Ohio House and Senate.

The committee's decision not to interfere with the rules puts Ohio in a position to become the first state to test a "civil registry."

The concept was offered by Roman Catholic bishops as an alternative to opening a one-time window for the filing of civil lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse that occurred as long as 35 years ago.

A recently enacted law allows county prosecutors, the state attorney general, or, as a last resort, alleged victims to ask judges to civilly declare someone to be a sex offender even when there has been no criminal verdict or successful lawsuit.


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500_Apples
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posted 01 September 2006 06:29 PM      Profile for 500_Apples   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Disgusting.

The surest way for an attorney general to boost one's career, and that is an elected position down there, is to go after as many sex offenders as possible. They had a recent documentary on TV about it, I think iot was Dateline. A 1980s case. Some 25 of 50 or so "paedophiles" who were convicted by this overzealous prosecutor have been found to be innocent, or have had their guilty verdicts dismissed.


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Croghan27
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posted 06 September 2006 11:05 AM      Profile for Croghan27     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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allow sex offenders to be publicly identified and tracked even if they've never been charged with a crime

Isn't there a Supreme Court that looks after these things ... and isn't it some kind of blot on your copybook if your decision is overturned by that body?


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Frustrated Mess
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posted 06 September 2006 11:18 AM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What will the Ohio taxpayers say when someone's name is added maliciously resulting in a ruined life and and humongous legal claim comes due? Calling someone a pedophile is the modern equivalent of "witch!" Only instead of the relatively merciful burning at the stake there is public and professional ostracism.
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Steppenwolf Allende
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posted 06 September 2006 01:32 PM      Profile for Steppenwolf Allende     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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An Ohio legislative panel yesterday rubber-stamped an unprecedented process that would allow sex offenders to be publicly identified and tracked even if they've never been charged with a crime.

The question is how will they know they are sex offenders if they have never been charged with a crime.

That's prima fascia of all law: someone has to commit a crime before they are considered a criminal.

I hate child molesters as much as anyone. But the fact is you can't just point at someone you don't like with accusations without any direct evidence, and as a result they stand automatically guilty.

Or can you? If the answer in Ohio is now yes, then it's the first US state to re-introduce a legal practice since the US broke from the British Empire in 1776.

I guess the Bush Administration won't be far behind, given the brutal fascism of the Patriot Act and similar laws in has brought in.


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