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

I've had to give emergency first aid to a seriously injured sex offender who was attacked when his address was targeted. What good does it do for people to have this information?

Doesn't take away from the original offence when someone tries to kill them.

are you drunk op

Your in Scotland op?

And what a damned shame it would be if the "vigilantes" removed this scum of the earth off the face of it eh?!

Midwife, if I was the mother of that child I think I would recognise my situation. You have been unprofessional, you do not need to name names or location.

Your understanding of patient confidentiality and professionalism is somewhat lacking op

Baby, what's the point of that? More people go to jail, more lives ruined.

Oh dear OP. I don't think you have any grasp on what the reality of something like that would be.

And also what about the percentage that are wrongly accused?

The fact you are discussing a RL case involving a minor on an online forum is also seriously questionable considering you were dealing with them in a professional environment. Surely that's a serious breach of confidentiality right there?

Thanks ratbag

I dont mean to sound hysterical. I just feel that having prior knowledge of someone who had commited offences against children would be useful.

I can see that releasing addresses wouldnt be right but I would to be able to check out a bf to see if he was on register for child offences before letting him near my kids.

My hubby agreez with the vast majority here but everyone has an opinion

The SOR makes no distinction between a flasher/child rapist or someone who has deliberately or inadvertently looked at child porn with no intention of ever actually touching a child. It makes no distinction over whether someone has been arrested for having a drunken pee in an alleyway behind a pub and someone who rapes a stranger they met inside the pub.

You are clueless to the facts and you are being ridiculous, inflammatory and hysterical!!!

I know someone who is on the SOR, child rapists etc disgust him. He had a porn addiction and through no deliberate will of his he was sent pictures that turned out to be underage girls. The software was designed to copy these over and over again. He was convicted of possession of and creation of images. He is not an evil scumbag, just someone who got out of his depth. He deals with a public protection officer who keeps a tight watch in him and who wholly believes him to be reformed and not a threat.

You are some idiot vigilante who is dangerously uninformed and unqualified to make any of the statements you are throwing about. Get over yourself

So if he wasn't on the "register" would you let your guard down? I hope not.

YAB totally U.

I agree that the type of people who would relish an app like this are those that like to bring harm to others, not protect victims.

Goodnight.

Can we get an app to help us avoid Daily Mail readers?

deakymom I think the thing there is that someone who comes out of prison will be in the cheap flats at the crap end of town and guess what? That's where we put the single mums too. Really there are no places that are not near children.

I know your name and location op.... Yet you are posting about people you work with/ deliver?

Yuk

Unprofessional.

Not really angry at you.

I just get exasperated by thick twats posting guff.

I should feel more sympathy for the dim really.

Baby get the mob together. I've just heard there's a paediatrician in town.

if your patient or others can identify her then rules have been broken have they not

it is unlikely but you should not use your patients so openly (age, relationship to rapist) to back your argument

YABU. I don't want to know where these people live and I certainly don't want the villagers with pitchforks hanging around my area if one does live close by.

I don't understand why you're not grasping the point everyone is trying to put across to you ...

Terrible idea. You are probably already living near a sex offender. This would open up to vigilantes and errors and just spread fear. Look after your children and they will be fine

I've lived where I live for 14 years. My son has lived here all his life. We don't know all our neighbours. DS is happy, confident and feels secure in his environment.

What possible advantage would be gained by us finding out there were multiple sex offenders living close by? We wouldn't change the way we live or the way we give our DS the freedom an 11 year old needs - we'd just know about it. Id rather not.