Officials sieze sex offenders baby
Marrakech II
23-10-2005, 07:02
This is an interesting story in the fact that the mother is being punished for something that the father did. I have mixed reaction to this article. One hand I say good for them they should have done it. On the other hand I see it as a violation of the mothers and childs civil rights. Will be interesting how this works out. What do you all think?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/22/sexoffender.custody.ap/index.html
PS: I know I mispelled seize. To late to change after I realised it.
The Chinese Republics
23-10-2005, 07:13
Felt sorry for the mother and the baby. Why can't the mother divorce that convicted sex offender?
The article says he committed his crime ("Rape and sodomy") two decades ago...
Maybe he has rehabilitated? I don't know.
Amestria
23-10-2005, 07:24
The issue is not that they are taking the child away from the mother. They are taking the child away from the family, due to the possibility of the father having access to the child. As long as the mother remains married to the father the family as a legal unit remains unfit.
Lacadaemon
23-10-2005, 07:27
It's really hard to say whether this is the right or wrong thing to do without knowing more about the original conviction. From the bare facts presented however, suprisingly I find myself siding with the ACLU.
Katganistan
23-10-2005, 07:56
...and if they did NOT take the baby, and this man who was convicted of rape and sodomy did harm him, people would be screaming, "Why didn't they protect that child?"
Lacadaemon
23-10-2005, 08:15
...and if they did NOT take the baby, and this man who was convicted of rape and sodomy did harm him, people would be screaming, "Why didn't they protect that child?"
That's true. But by the usual "logic" of america, that makes you a child molester.
Though I am fairly sure that you aren't. ;)
"I thought I was living in America," he said.
Is that supposed to mean something?
Grainne Ni Malley
23-10-2005, 10:06
"I thought I was living in America," he said.
Is that supposed to mean something?
I guess it's supposed to mean that America is where sex offenders have the freedom to be a-holes. Quite sad really.
LazyHippies
23-10-2005, 10:54
I guess it's supposed to mean that America is where sex offenders have the freedom to be a-holes. Quite sad really.
You call overcoming your past, having a clean record for 20 years, getting married and starting a family being an a-hole?
Amestria
23-10-2005, 11:21
The merits of the governments actions will in the end be decided by the courts (thats what they are there for after all).
Chicken pi
23-10-2005, 11:35
This is an interesting story in the fact that the mother is being punished for something that the father did. I have mixed reaction to this article. One hand I say good for them they should have done it. On the other hand I see it as a violation of the mothers and childs civil rights. Will be interesting how this works out. What do you all think?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/22/sexoffender.custody.ap/index.html
It doesn't seem quite right to me. I'd like to know how long his prison sentence was, it could well be that he only got out of prison relatively recently. That might explain why they're concerned about the child's safety with him.
LazyHippies
23-10-2005, 11:45
It doesn't seem quite right to me. I'd like to know how long his prison sentence was, it could well be that he only got out of prison relatively recently. That might explain why they're concerned about the child's safety with him.
He was sentenced to 10 years for something he did back in 1983 involving teenagers. So, he has been out for at least 12 years.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/11/unborn.custody.ap/