New Hampshire Moving Backwards on Child Sex Crimes
First, there was this:
the Senate takes up the repeal of the parental notification law. There will be a public hearing on May 29. The bill, which would repeal a 2003 law that required a parent to be notified before a minor daughter can have an abortion, easily passed the House, 226-130. Gov. John Lynch favors repeal
Isn’t having sex with a minor, consensual or not, rape? Yes. If you prefer to not call it rape, your daughter is guilty of bad judgement.(It’s still rape whether you like it or not).So your daughter can be raped and have an abortion. She can have a surgical procedure, and you don’t have the right to know.
Now, there’s this:
Should a 20-year-old man who has sex with a 13-year-old girl be on the public sex offender registry? Yes, under current state law. Yes, under federal law.
Maybe, under a bill the Senate is close to passing.
If HB 504, which won a 4-1 vote in committee, goes ahead this week, anyone under 21 could ask the court for removal from the public list of convicted sex offenders if the victim was as young as 13. If the bill passes, the state would fall out of compliance with the federal Adam Walsh Act, meant to tighten laws that protect children against sex crimes.
Perfect, beautiful, this is great, isn’t it? I don’t know what’s going on in my state any more. This is just getting way out of hand. A twenty year old can rape a thirteen year old and not be a sex offender? What’s next? Here’s what’s next, all these people that have raped a thirteen year old can move to this state and be removed from the sex offender list. That’s just the type of people we want to move here. They can then leave the state and not have to re-register.
The bill, sponsored by Reps. Jennifer Brown of Dover, Lee Hammond of Lebanon, Ellen Nielsen of Claremont and Laura Pantelakos of Portsmouth, would allow an offender taken off the list here to move to other states and not be tracked.
Remember those two names New Hampshire, Rep. Jennifer Brown and Rep. Lee Hammond, they need to be voted out.
While the rest of the country is enacting Jessica’s law to become tough on child sex offenders, New Hampshire moves in the other direction and joins Vermont as being weak on child sex offenders.
Governor Lynch is beginning to show his true colors now that he has a Democrat majority in both branches of state government. I hope New Hampshire voters wake up in two years and vote all these people out of office.
I am just afraid New Hampshire will be a vastly different state by then, it will be, gulp, Massachusetts or Vermont. It may be too late already.
America's Watchtower 
In my opinion this is nothing but political grandstanding. I have done a lot of research and cannot find one instance where residency restrictions of any kind has protected anyone. Child or adult.
This political grandstanding is insane. It ignores scientific fact for political expediency.
Randy Lopp says it best in reference to These political grandstanding knee jerk laws when he says,
”Most people who know anything about this are frustrated. It is just not helpful — the laws as they are now,” said Randy Lopp, treatment subcommittee chairman of the Oklahoma Sex Offender Management Team.
”I think if the general public understood the research, they would be willing to back the legislators to change the laws to make more sense and to protect children, because the laws as they are written are not protecting children,” he said. “They are doing more harm than good.”
I have spoken with Randy Lopp and it would benefit society to listen to him. He bases his knowledge on scientific fact and empirical date, not political expediency.
We are heading down the road of creating laws based on myth, lies and hysteria. And in my opinion laws based on emotion make for bad law because emotion lacks intelligence. And the cost for these ineffective “political” laws are costing the tax payer hundreds of millions of dollars tax payers money. You can also visit my web site at cfcoklahoma.com
The facts speak for themselves. The vast majority of sex offenses are committed in the home. “Incest – A Family Tragedy,” is a must see documentary . Winner of 12 prestigious awards. Education and prevention is the real key here, not residency laws that do more harm than good.
Incest makes up 90% of all sex crimes and the recidivist rate for incest related abuse is between 1 and 2 percent. Very very low when compared to other crimes and treatment does work.
The real threat is not from a registered offender but is in your home. Parents, relatives and people known to the family. 90 plus percent of all new sex crimes are committed by individuals NOT on the registry. The recidivist rate across the board is in the single digits. The individuals more likely to re-offend are those who did not know their victims and those who had committed sexual violence as well as pedophiles. Incest is not pedophilia, there is a huge difference and until responsible journalism takes place and politicians quit their grandstanding and deal with FACTS. Children will be harmed by the very laws that profess to protect them.
LikeLike
Who commits most sex crimes? Well, 95% of all new sex crimes are committed by those NOT on the registry. Family members and those known to the family commit 98% of all sex crimes. So much for stranger danger.
2nd question. Who is MORE LIKELY to committ a sex crime upon release from prison? Sex Offenders or NON-sex offenders?
For the answer, go here. http://www.cfcoklahoma and see the article, “Revisiting Department of Justice Recidivism Statistics and More Shocking Truths.”
LikeLike