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Canada protects pedophile identities. Why can't we have a public registry like the states have?

Invisible · 26-30, M
The US protects pedophiles, too, it's just mostly politicians and wealthy businessmen.
Cinnamon · 31-35, F
Because we aren't into ruining people's lives by stigmatizing them forever and basically declaring them fair game for vigilantes. Canada puts all kinds of restrictions on convicted pedophiles but doesn't expose them to mob retaliation. And just imagine if you or someone you knew got onto one of those registries by mistake. Which does happen. 🇨🇦
I get email alerts from the registry when an offender moves into my area. I am in US. They should not protect identities so I agree.
SW-User
I think they should, but it does little to stop it, unfortunately, still they should not be protected.
toddr13 · 46-50, M
The identity may not be protected in the US, but one has to actively look for the information and sign up for alerts, if available in your area. Many people do not continually check, just to make sure that there are no persons of concern in the area, especially given the recidivism rate among pedophiles is very high.
I am not from Canada and I am not saying they shouldn't do it but I guess we shouldn't always put the blame on the system and the goverment. We should realize that the government tries to do what they can to address all these issues but some things are just more pressing than the others. Resources are scarce so they should prioritize.. just my thought
Cinnamon · 31-35, F
Wow you are reasonable enough to be Canadian ;)
@starsslave: lol I play simcity.. it sucks to be a mayor of a city with limited resources.. ;)
Cinnamon · 31-35, F
@icecoldzt: 😊
Unfortunately, it wouldn't be enough :(
Picklebobble · 56-60, M
Would you feel safer, really ?
Especially when you consider most paedophiles are folk known to you or your child ?
I mean, that's how they get close to youngsters anyway.
It's one of those horrible questions isn't it ?
SW-User
Thats worrying.. So a pedo can live right by a school and they get away with it? To bad your prime minister is useless. Thats definitely something that should be changed ☹
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
I wish you could have that too. When I was working at a retail store I recognized 4 pedophiles from their photos posted on the sex offender registries. One of them was seemingly hiding behind a display of merchandise while a mother was scanning her groceries and he was smiling and staring at her children...
Ask your leader
AlmightyLoad · 26-30
We should But The government is to busy with the trans shit right now
MikefromEP · 51-55, M
@WaterSpirit: Australia has a Non Gender clause now. A guy went through with his sexual change and then stopped taking estrogen and fought the courts for a non gender classification. Don't remember his/her name off hand
Cinnamon · 31-35, F
"Trans shit"? EXCUSE me?
AlmightyLoad · 26-30
@starsslave: Im fine with trans just the bill was loosely worded and had quite a few holes in it.
fazer1k · 56-60, M
It's a difficult balance between allowing the public to know about a any risks nearby and protecting paedophiles from becoming victims of vigilantism.
Serenitree · F
They wouldn't need protection if they didn't violate people's children.

I feel that if it is a sex offender registry, the actual offence should be listed, because urinating in an alley is considered a sex offence. But if it's a pedophile registry, they can just take their chances that the child's family may wish them dead or worse.

Rape of anyone or any living being, should also be, if you don't want to suffer for destroying someone, then don't do the crime.

Dec. 3/16
1:48 pm
SW-User
Why make it public?
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@MikefromEP: I kept my eye out at the store where I was working. It wasn't uncommon for young children to wander off and try to get out of the store while their mothers were in line getting their items checked out, sometimes even happened at night and I always worried about having a Code Adam and someone snatching a little child in a parking lot before they could locate them.
MikefromEP · 51-55, M
@cherokeepatti: Wifey went to the dentist that was in a mall right across from a school. Saw a guy in a shirt that had Winnie the Poo characters on it not paying attention to it. She came out an hour later and the guy was still sitting there looking at the school. She confronted him and he basically ran to the major bus exchange and got on a random bus. She reported it to the school. God Bless her :)
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Good for her. When my daughter was in elementary school there was a guy hanging around a very large overgrown lot (more like a couple blocks wide near an elementary school (not my daughter's school)...he had a Frisbee in his hand and told a boy his dog had wandered off into the grass and he couldn't find him....the boy volunteered to help him look for his dog. He got the boy to walk into the center park of the overgrown lot where he assaulted him sexually and stabbed him including in the eye and castrated the boy and left him for dead in a shallow water drainage creek. A search party was formed about an hour later for the entire neighborhood and a couple hours later one of the searchers heard a sound that sounded like a baby kitten...that poor little boy was still alive...they took him to the hospital and had to do surgery, never found the person despite the boy's description and police sketches. That same day a copy of a porn magazine had come out on the shelves of convenience stores nearby with a story of an attack almost identical to the boy's attack.

 
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