Posted on 04/22/2005 8:46:01 AM PDT by flutters
Ohio Town Trying To Raise $20,000
LOVELAND, Ohio -- Sheriff Department Web sites let Ohioans pinpoint exact locations where sexual offenders are living in relation to their homes.
One Ohio community is taking a unique approach to making their neighborhood safer, NBC 4 reported.
Residents in Loveland said they wanted safer streets and were willing to take matters into their own hands to get a sexual offender out of their neighborhood.
They were willing to pay to make him go away.
Residents in the upscale Cincinnati suburb are pooling their money to pay a sex offender nearly $20,000 to move away from their community.
But reactions to their tactics are mixed.
"I thought, I've got to be proactive so no other children are harmed," said Elizaveth Rectanus, who lives next to a registered sex offender. "It can really devastate the whole community."
"I don't feel that is right that they can pay to have somebody move, because, I mean, somebody is going to end up having them in their neighborhood," resident Joseph Bolding said.
Researchers who study the behavior patterns of sexual offenders say the idea of paying them to go away won't make society safer. It will simply make it someone else's problem and drive them underground.
Geesh! This is the worst idea ever!
If sex offenders are such that nobody feels safe with them, perhaps they need to stay in jail. That is the only thing that will make society safer. Mandatory life sentence without parole for sexual offenders.
They shoulda just bought a hit man with the money.
Pay a "hit man" the $20,000.
If he lived on my street, I would contribute. Of course if three more pervs moved in hoping for a similar payout, I guess I would have to move.
This has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Well, at least one of the.........
Not unique. Town in Oregon did this a little while back.
High Five
I agree. But add murderers (really, ALL violent offenders, I don't feel safe with any of these jerks) and a whole lot of property offenders to the list. Especially car thieves; I've had two cars stolen -- and I always lock them.
You know what criminal has the absolute highest recidivism rate of all? Car thieves!
It's better for you to move, than to put $20,000 into the hands of a child molestor. You know how much "grooming" could be had for $20K?
That's like paying someone else to make the molester "go away". I like it.
That's probably what will start happening. The neighborhood will become a sex offender magnet for the payouts.
LOL
Howzabout having an alligator molest the molester??? ;-))
I agree. But add murderers (really, ALL violent offenders, . . .
I, too, agree, but where is the tipping point beyond which there aren't enough of us on the outside to pay for the incarceration of those on the inside??
Perhaps we need to once again consider the idea of sending them all to that "no-escape magical island" (same idea as Australia years ago)...oh wait! That would affect their constitutional rights....God forbid!!! Would 20K buy them a one way ticket??
I never thought of that.
Is Clinton a REGISTERED sex offender? And shouldn't he be?
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