Reply #64: True, but. . . [View All]

[MountainLaurel]

It might create a false sense of security. Parents might think "I don't have any sex offenders in a 5-mile radius, so I don't need to teach my child about inappropriate touching," that if something happens they need to not be afraid to tell, or anything else that might educate a child about such dangers.

After all, it's not the sex offenders down the street you should be most worried about, it's the ones down the hall. At last I read, about 90 percent of all molestation cases were by a family member, close friend of the family, or other authority figure the child is familiar with. A SOR wouldn't have done those 1,000 kids in Boston a damn bit of good, because the rapists were never reported to the police.