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[ericcoleman]

A man who pleaded no contest to a sodomy charge involving a sheep says he should not have to register as a sex offender. Jeffrey S. Haynes said the state registry is intended to keep track of people who have committed crimes against humans.

Jeffrey's been Baaaaad

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

The whole concept of the sex offender registry is just wrong. If there are people we can't trust to be in society, we should not let them be out in society, but if we are going to let them back out into society, we should not make it completely impossible for them to be part of society. (I think it is more right to execute them than to keep them locked up for life, but I don't want to get into that debate here.) If they are enough of a threat that they should be on a sex offender registry, then they should not be let out of jail at all.

What chance does a person on a sex offender registry have of getting ANY job, or obtaining ANY housing, or functioning at all? Maybe they can overcome the handicap if they have high-value skills or rich family, but if they're somebody that would only get by if they were normal, they're screwed. They pretty much have no alternative but a life of crime (at the very least, the crime of making up a new identity and hiding their sex offender status).

I think this is an unreasonable way to punish a serial child rapist, but there are people who have been put on the sex offender registry for skinny dipping. I think shagging sheep is a lot closer to skinny dipping on the scale of offenses than being a genuine child rapist.