To feel we should have the right to know where sex offenders live

[midwifeandmum]

Im watching Louis Theroux program and over in the USA they have an app to search for sex offenders in their area.

Why do the UK not follow their lead!! Very scary especially if you have children

I have a sex offender in my street and didnt find out he had been charged with sex offences for 2 years.

This man lives over 2 hedges from me and walks about the street thinking he owns it. Has a real bad attitude. grrr makes my blood boil

Why would it make a difference? Would you act any different with them, or more careful with your children? You should be taking the best care of your children and teaching them how to look after themselves regardless of if there's a convicted sex offender around the corner.

What the fuck are you talking about OP?

You said

"Ive dealt with a 12 year old girl who gave birth because her convicted sex offender step dad raped her for 4 years.

Tell her mum how much of a wrong idea it is. That they have to live somewhere!"

I'm pretty sure the mum in your example knew where the step dad lived.

The man that abused me didn't have a police record.

You are sounding hysterical and shockingly simplistic.

I think it would be wholeheartedly unreasonable to have a 'paedo' app.

As PP have stated, people are on the SOR for various reasons, most of which have nothing to do with children.

The people you need to watch most are people who are known to you, friends, relatives etc. Your child is statistically far more likely to be sexually assaulted by one of them than a stranger.

A 'nonce' app wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference to the girl you are talking about, she was raped by a family member.

There is too much room for mistakes. There was an elderly gentleman who was beaten unconscious and then set on fire not far from where I used to live, because someone had heard from someone that he was a nonce. He wasn't, he was just a bit odd. I take it that this would be ok with you though?

Lol?

You are lolling?

Twat.

Exposer, or rapist - same thing. There's no distinction made between the two on the sex offenders list, as far as I know.

Joules - I think you can take that response as a "no."

You created this post for discussion but you don't seem to want to discuss or answer any questions related to it?

You are the only one that appears irate, not us.

If you have a professional registration, don't talk about actual children's cases on a public website, maybe?

You really aren't getting the very.simple.fact OP....

For every person on the register, there will be lots more offenders who have not yet been caught.

And plenty of people yet to commit their first offence.

Therefore, the app is absolutely useless.

Only an idiot with half a brain cell would want this

The same type of idiot who beat the crap out of a paediatrician

Oh and the 'lol' - gross.

I can read!

A paedophile?. Your title clearly states sex offender... There's a difference

You sound hysterical and confused and very unprofessional!

Pagwatch- you are very rude.
I said convicted sex offender for something very similar. Surely if her mum could have had prior knowledge of his previous offence, that situation could of been avoided??

I sort of get midwife, just not the hysterical bit.

I was sexually abused mp by my uncle foe ten years, he'd done it to his sister before that but when she told her mum she was told shed be taken into care and not believed. Anyway the reason I reported it (when in my 20's ten years after it had finished) was because I knew he was integrating himself into girls football coaching, babysitting etc and I couldn't live with myself if he did it to someone else. Hopefully by me reporting it someone was spared similar.

I don't agree with vigilantes though, I think relevant people need to know, so childminders/schools etc.

yes your post about a CHILD you where working with as a supposed medical professional is disgraceful

old fella exposing himself

this shows what little understanding you have of sex offenders and what paedophilia is

You don't have a professional registration, do you, OP?

No one knows if that is the case? Some women will still have relationships with convicted sex offenders. But this discussion is not about that.

pagwatch.
I dont see why you are so angry at me.
Did I say I agree with paedophiles??

Exposing oneself to a woman is worthy of a 'lol'?

Are you even aware of the escalation of violence which sex offenders go through?

It's ok for a woman to be raped, but we need to know where 'nonces' are?

You're a midwife? Really?

if you are a registered midwife I am Marie of Romania.
And yes the lols given the topic are pathetic.

So you only want to know where some sex offenders live, the ones who pose a risk to your children? Who decides that? Where do you draw the line? And more importantly how do you behave differently with a known sex offender and an unknown one?

To best of my knowledge, where abuse happens, it is most likely to take place within the family. Even if a convicted paedophile lived across the road it would not change the advice that I gave to my dd.

Linerunner

No names mentioned. No rules broken. Fact