Would you want to know if one of these people lived on your street *content warning - SO*

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Was careful with the title so as not to cause any unwanted distress.

I watched Stacey Dooley’s documentary where she went to Florida and they literally signpost “The occupant of (address) is a convicted sex offender” at the edge of the neighbourhood. They also have an online database where you can put someone’s name in and see if they have convictions of that nature. It’ll tell you what they’ve done and when.

I know there are a few illegal websites in the UK which do the same, but nothing published by the police or government, as in the US.

Would you like to see something like this available?

Would you want to know if a convicted sex offender or paedophile lived on your street?

*knowingly

No, in addition to the risk of vigilantes and people with the same names being targeted, it also lulls people into a false sense of security. People thinking they know who all the sex offenders are means that they might become too trusting to those that haven’t been convicted but there are absolutely loads of sex offenders out there who have never been convicted. It’s better to just be vigilant.

Yes I would want to know, for the purpose of avoiding them.

And it's not either have that knowledge or take other steps to avoid abuse - the two things go together. When I was a child we were specifically told certain men to avoid. It brought home to me that the risks we had been taught about were real, and that predators can be genial and normal looking men in jumpers who live in normal houses with their wives and families.

Another reason I would want to know. I could then avoid them and their businesses & services.

Hmmmmmm….bit odd that the OP has disappeared 🤔

Hope you don't ever let your kid go in sleepovers in the future then @StarDolphins

Also, your friends who you deem 'safe'....what about the partner? Partners mates? Older kids gf/bf/friends? Uncles?

It's the ones living amongst you unseen and not convicted that is more of a worry.... and you would never know

Because nobody is frothing for s.o blood maybe?

OP does it literally say "23 Madeup Lane"? It can't do. There's be constant stuff going on.

No I think Sarah's Law strikes a better balance so you can enquire about an individual person if you meet the criteria and have a valid reason to know.

We don't need mob justice, I can still remember the News of the World campaign and a paediatrician getting her house vandalised.

And when they are using the income from those businesses and services to raise their children? Or, would you prefer them to have no job or income (so no supervision, no place to be, lots of time on their hands?) Or to claim benefits instead?

Do you think all sex offenders are single, lonely men that are strangers to you? They have mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, wives, husbands, brothers and sisters. All of whom are innocent and many suffer greatly for the crimes of their family member.

Oh I thought it was wrong

this gives like a 1/4 mile radius or something

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2018/04/stacey-dooley-investigates

Could be. Or maybe they were getting their kid to sleep and don’t spend every waking moment on mumsnet 🤫

I think it could actually be dangerous because people would get complacent about people not on the list. And predators would use the “well if I was bad I’d be on the risk” as a way of shutting down and concern or wordy.

*worry

That’s a really good point.

How do.you know that one of your neighbours isn't a sex offender though ?
either convicted or unconvicted?

No I wouldn't want to know.
I actually found out something about a neighbour a few doors down that I don't know particularly well but wave hello to. I wish I didn't know. I found out through our Children's services computer system while recording info about a family. I can't tell a soul outside my immediate team but the guy seems outwardly nice.

But there will be many that have never have been caught and convicted that doesn't make them.any less of an offender and they are not going to.go around shouting about it.

It is a big concern, she’s only 6 so currently YouTube kids only but as she gets older I will educate her as best I can about online safety/strangers etc - I would like to ban it all & have her have my childhood but I know this isn’t possible - She needs to adapt to the world as it is now. It’s a big concern for me, especially with her being a girl.

That is a separate issue to the question of would I like to know if a SO lived on my street and yes I would.

No they don't bother me

Not always great in the USA either. A Sex offender can be:

• a male who stalks a woman walking home, grabs her, beats and rapes her in an alley or
• a 17-year-old boy who has consentual sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend in her bedroom while they are "studying". Here parents press charges. This is statutory rape and his name will be on the list forever. He will never be able to enlist in the armed forces, obtain a passport, work in an educational setting with minors (camp counselor or softplay), or train as an ambulance driver or medical assistant.

Ooh You should have brought your hard hat op. You can't slag perverts or paedophiles off on here. One even said they're not bothered by them
." They have to live somewhere" apparently,. Yeah preferably in a 10 by 10 cell.

Some that get done and put on the sex offends register is sometimes the fault of the girl. Not all of them are wrong'uns.

I suppose that's not far off my idea 🤣

@Awwlookatmybabyspider yeah after they have left custody...but you froth away that will help won't it