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He said on March 15th that when he helped to silence a sex offender's victims, he was "doing what I was required to do. "

Yet Megan's parents had no idea of this. Had they known he was a sex offender, they would have told their daughter to stay away from him.

America's sex-offender laws are the strictest of any rich democracy. Convicted rapists and child-molesters are given long prison sentences.

The young couple later married. But Ms Allison will spend the rest of her life publicly branded as a sex offender.

They believe he may be Chester Arthur Stiles, a registered sex offender and a person of interest in the search for a young girl.

Similarly, if minors send explicit pictures of themselves to others, they could, theoretically at least, end up on a sex offender registry.

I am not a sex offender, but for the purposes of this story (I am the subject of the investigation, after all) I ran my name through anyway.

Garrido, a 58 year-old convicted sex offender, and his wife Nancy, 54, are being held in connection with the kidnapping.

In 1994 Congress ordered all states that had not yet done so to set up sex-offender registries or lose some funding.

Chinese Police, who caught him last May, handed the alleged sex offender over to the Korean government at Incheon International Airport.

As a result, he was convicted of distributing child pornography, and is now a registered sex offender.

An Office of Sex Offender Management will be set up to oversee it all.

In other words, the researchers found no significant increase in sex-offender related crimes against children on or around Halloween.

The very first arrest made under FALCON II, for failure to register as a sex offender, put away Reginald Dozier, who had raped a child.

The mother phoned the police, and the boy was charged with sexual assault and court-ordered into adolescent sex offender treatment.

As in most child sexual assaults, the perpetrator was not a convicted sex offender.

A convicted sex offender, released on parole, submits to a polygraph test.

But the data show no evidence of a surge of child-related sex offender crimes.

Many people assume that anyone listed on a sex-offender registry must be a rapist or a child molester.

In fact its sex-offender laws have grown self-defeatingly harsh (see article). They have been driven by a ratchet effect.

A sex offender given a custodial sentence of 30 months or more is automatically placed for life on the Sex Offenders' Register.

Several other countries have sex-offender registries, but these are typically held by the police and are hard to view.

Publicly accessible sex-offender registries are intended to keep people safe. But there is little evidence that they do.

Convicted rapists and child-molesters are given long prison sentences. When released, they are put on sex-offender registries.

Human Rights Watch urges America to scale back its sex-offender registries.

In Georgia no sex offender may live or work within 1, 000 feet (300 metres) of a school, church, park, skating rink or swimming pool.

Like many states, New Hampshire has a child sex offender registry.

In fact, Smart's case was used as an example of the need to bolster sex offender laws.

"Jane" , the mother of a sex offender in Georgia, says she sent a letter to her senator, Saxby Chambliss, urging such reforms.

A judge has sentenced to convict sex offender John Couey to death in the kidnapping, rape and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford.

But did anything I do really prevent a sex offender from doing it again?

I will register you as a sex offender in all 50 states and Oanada.

Human Rights Watch urges America to scale back its sex-offender