If the public thinks the sweeping A...

If the public thinks the sweeping Adam Walsh Child Protection Bill will harbor children, think again! ["New law makes it a gross offence if sex offender fails to register," stranges story, Aug. 7]. I am a registered sex transgressor -- for dating my wife before she was 18 We are now married with couple children.

I am single of the thousands of consensual, statutory cases onward the registry along with stupid cases like those convicted of public outlook public nudity, 19-year-old guys with 15-year-old girlfriends, solicitation, etc sole an eighth of registered convicts are true rapists or molester-predators.

All the strange bill does is add more years of public humilation, restrictions, misery and hardship for the families of low-risk, misdemeanor stamp cases that the courts at no time deemed a public threat.

Politicians use the sex registry to supporting cushion their "tough on crime" posturing. In the expiration law enforcement is spread way too thin monitoring cases like mine, while sexual predators slip between the cracks.

The Department of Justice states that 90 percent of all of recent origin sex crimes are committed from offenders not on the registry. If you want to defend your child, do what we do: Watch your neighbors, the uncle the stay in the park, the teacher at seminary Don't waste your time looking at the Internet sex registry. Heck, if Elvis Presley was alive, he'd be forward there, too (Priscilla was single 14).

Mark look narrowly Crestwood

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