The Pros And Cons Of Sex Offenders

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Should Sex Offenders be allowed to Adopt Children

The law to keep our children safe from any harm that may come their way includes sex offenders. While most people might argue that sex offenders have human rights just like the rest of us, the fact remains is that they gave up that right hurting a child. Before anyone can care for a child in any way they must be checked out with background checks, personal interviews, as well as reports. However, in 2001 a sex offender served as a foster parent to over fifty children. On his application he put he was a sex offender. Is it just routine or paperwork that allows sex offenders the right to attempt the adoption of children, or is the system so absorbed in its on bias with human rights that correctly
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In 1981, Walsh was kidnapped while playing video games in the store his mother worked at. Sixteen days after he was kidnapped they found his decapitated head was found. Unfortunately, Walsh’s body was never found. In 2006, President Bush signed law called The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. It simply states that sex offenders face and information is to be put on the internet. In October 1989, Wetterling was riding home when a man wearing a mask grab him. Later on in the investigation they police found out that a halfway houses kept sex offenders after they have been release from prison. They came up with The Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act. This act requires states to have registration programs for sex offenders. Lychner was brutally assaulted in her home by a twice-convicted felon but her husband arrived on time to help her. After her and her daughters died in a plane crash Senators Phil Gramm and Joseph Biden passed a bill that a national computer database will track sex offenders. Kanka was tricked by a neighbor who was a twice-convicted pedophile who told her she was going to see a puppy tricked Kanka. He raped and murdered her then dumped her body in a park. No one knew he was a pedophile who lived in their neighborhood. He also housed sex offenders who he met in prison. Because of Kanka’s story sex offender cannot live around

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