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ORIGINAL: Worldtravelerxo

My degrees are in psychology and it is proven sex offenders are not able to be rehabilitated.

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ORIGINAL: metamorfosis

I would absolutely freak out.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
There is a lot of that going around out there.

There are also a lot of death/violent assault threats against the guy in the comments of the local online media outlets.

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

My question to you is this: is the state legislative body doing anything to change this?
Making it possible for those sentenced for repeat violent sexual offenses to be able to be sentenced to life without parole
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

So here is the scenario. You are going along about your life, and a judge hundreds of miles away issues an order that a serial rapist is going to move in next door.


�Most Prolific and Violent Rapist� to Be Released to L.A. County The story at the link has a fairly good history on the guy. He's not nice.


I'm curious what people would do if this was the house or apartment next door to them.

Move? Turn your house into a fortress? Adopt several big dogs? Just casually trust the wisdom of the doctors who say he's all better now? Bring a gun into the home? Take him a casserole, and welcome him to the neighborhood?

There is another thing the article doesn't mention. Policing for the area is two deputies on day shift. Response time to the area for a code 3 call runs 15-20 minutes (if they have someone to send). Calling 911 will get you somebody to take a report when it is over.

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ORIGINAL: tj444

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic


My suggestion has been that he be housed in a trailer on the grounds of a state facility. That was done previously in California, with a serial killer who had to be released. It worked out.

If you house him on the grounds of a state facility.....what's the point of "releasing" him from prison to begin with? That's not releasing him at all.

This is an issue that irritates me because this happens because people have a terminal case of NIMBY. And to top it off, they don't want criminals released, but at the same time, they don't want to pay any taxes to pay for the prison system to be able to keep all these people locked up. You can't have it both ways folks.

sure there is a difference, he may be housed on the facility grounds (spending his nights there) but free to go anywhere for work or when he feels like it, unlike those that are locked up 24/7..

as far as nimby goes, have you looked at who lives in your area? how many designated sex offenders live there? You cant get away from them, they are everywhere!.. even the safest community I know of (in SoCal) is gated & guarded 24/7, has 10,000 resident and there are 3 registered sex offenders living there in that community...

One thing I do find curious tho, why did the judge not release him into his own community/county instead of dumping the guy in another county all together? I am guessing he didnt want to face the wrath his community/county would lay on him..

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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

This is pretty fascinating stuff. I was searching for something about 6 months ago, then as all things internet, 9 searches later and I was on these sites: Idaho sex offenders.

Do what I did; look at a dozen or so of their stories (particularly the women)....it'll freak you out!

Violent sex offenders: http://www.isp.idaho.gov/sor_id/SOR?form=6&typ=vsp&page=1&sz=1365

Non compliant sex offenders (not sure what that means): http://www.isp.idaho.gov/sor_id/SOR?form=6&typ=noncomp&page=1&sz=1365

Quarterly non compliant sex offenders (whatever the last guys did....these guys do it every 3 months I'd imagine): http://www.isp.idaho.gov/sor_id/SOR?form=6&typ=qtrnc&page=1&sz=1365

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ORIGINAL: tj444

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eta- when I look at the crime in an area I like looking at the maps of incidents & sex offenders living there.. its a lot easier for me to visualize how many and where they are located.. so I like sites like- http://www.familywatchdog.us/ or https://www.crimereports.com/

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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

This is pretty fascinating stuff. I was searching for something about 6 months ago, then as all things internet, 9 searches later and I was on these sites: Idaho sex offenders.

Do what I did; look at a dozen or so of their stories (particularly the women)....it'll freak you out!

Violent sex offenders: http://www.isp.idaho.gov/sor_id/SOR?form=6&typ=vsp&page=1&sz=1365

Non compliant sex offenders (not sure what that means): http://www.isp.idaho.gov/sor_id/SOR?form=6&typ=noncomp&page=1&sz=1365

Quarterly non compliant sex offenders (whatever the last guys did....these guys do it every 3 months I'd imagine): http://www.isp.idaho.gov/sor_id/SOR?form=6&typ=qtrnc&page=1&sz=1365

When I lived in WA state, I rented a room in a house on a small acreage and there was a registered sex offender living "next door", but I never saw him or had any problems.. Like I said, they are everywhere, even in "good" areas.. What are you supposed to do? live in fear? I won't do that, I refuse to do that.. but stranger rapes are fairly rare, its the people you know and interact with that you need to be careful with.. Considering the number of women that stats say have been or will be raped in their lifetime, you are looking at a huge number of victims.. but a victim is what a rapist is looking for, and he will tend to look for the easy ones, young girls/boys, children, teenagers.. the young who still trust adults & have been told by parents to respect and not question.. by the time you are mid-20s you tend to have learned not to trust & be an easy victim cuz its either happened to you or almost happened to you.. Its pretty hard for a female to live her entire life without having been sexually assaulted (raped or not), groped, touched inappropriately in some way.. when that happens, you look at men differently..

from your list.. I don't know what "non-compliant" means exactly, from looking at some of the records, many of the actual offences are not usually recent, 1997... 1989.. 2002... 2006.. non-compliance might just mean that they didn't register like they are supposed to, not that they are out raping again.. If I am understanding/reading the records correctly? and it sounds like the ones I looked at were one time offenders? or does Idaho only list the first offence and not any subsequent offences?

eta- when I look at the crime in an area I like looking at the maps of incidents & sex offenders living there.. its a lot easier for me to visualize how many and where they are located.. so I like sites like- http://www.familywatchdog.us/ or https://www.crimereports.com/

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So? What would you suggest the wonderful correctional system of Los Angeles do with the guy. Ship him off to another county, another state?

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So? What would you suggest the wonderful correctional system of Los Angeles do with the guy. Ship him off to another county, another state?

Ice bergs are good places to let them relocate to.

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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

I'm not sure.

What I found interesting was...how many were from any place other than Idaho....kinda like West Virginia....lots of places to hide.

Equally, lots of places to "fit in".

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I like that.

Loose ones.

Floating ones.

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ORIGINAL: VeryMercurial

My first thought is, MANY of us have no idea what the "backgrounds" are of our neighbors/or those who happen to frequent/wander around/walk thru/and or "hang out" in our communities.

There is a homeless shelter about a mile from where I live, and I am sure those that use it, "walk around" my neighborhood, or might even sleep sometimes in a wooded area.

I think many of us would be surprised to learn the backgrounds of many people that live or happen to be in fairly close proximity to us.

To answer the OP, I am not sure WHAT I would do.
I already have an alarm system, I might consider getting a gun/and or moving.
Can't really say what I "would do".

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ORIGINAL: Zonie63
Reading this story and some of the posts in this thread where people have said there are sex offenders scattered about their areas, it occurred to me that they could put all of these released offenders in the same area or neighborhood. To borrow a line from The Great Escape, they could "put all the rotten eggs in one basket, and watch that basket very closely."