Registries: not for the uneducated

[qwyneth]

Today one of my coworkers sent out an email being passed around about Family Watchdog, the US sexual offender registry. The email discussed how shocking it is seeing all those colored boxes, and how everyone should tell their friends and neighbors about it

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[gina227]

Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that CPS are a bunch of morons. She ran away and called them and they interviewed him and he said he was just tickling her and of course, the rest of them stuck up for him. CPS never opened a case. Needless to say, she got her ass kicked for "spreading lies". She then ran off and got pregnant at 15 so that she would be able to marry her boyfriend without parental consent.(Mom didn't want to give up the welfare check she was getting for her or the free babysitting for the 4 younger kids.) So now she's 23, with two kids, and a half-ass husband. At least she has the common sense not to deny everything and doesn't leave her kids with the molester.

Rob has three sisters, only the middle one keeps her daughter away from him. The other two are fucked in the head. The older one completely denies everything and drowns herself in drugs. She doesn't actually have her kids anymore so that's not an issue. The younger one insists that he wouldn't do that to her kids because he knows she would kill him. She's totally delusional that she has some sort of control over this guy. Her kids are the ones that I most worry about, her daughter adores the creep and her son is developmentally delayed. CPS has been called to their house (ahem, anonymously, if you catch my drift) numerous times and they never open a case, and then my ex-SIL gets paranoid and secretive and tries to avoid everyone, which I feel puts the kids in even more danger because she's keeping them away from anyone they might talk to about things. It's a whole big clusterfuck.

Also, coincidentally, if I had ANY faith in CPS, I conpletely lost it last night when this story broke on the 11 o'clock news: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/03/police_file_new.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed7

Un-Fucking-Believable.