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Teen Boys Face Years of Stigma For Minor Infractions
posted by Nightmist on Tuesday October 16, @06:16PM
from the news dept.
News This story in the Detriot Free Press highlights a major flaw in the sexual offenders registry system used all over this country: it can stigmatize men as rapists or pedophiles, even if their actions weren't consistent with those crimes. He was 16, wanting to be one of the guys, playing truth or dare. The dare: touch a girl's breast during a football game at Hazel Park High School last year. He did. As a result, the boy will be branded as a sex criminal until the year 2024.

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Another example of the dangers of gov't intrusion
by Claire4Liberty on Friday October 19, @01:07PM EST (#1)
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It was not right for the boy to just go touching the girl's breast, but this incident was NOT a sex crime. It was a situation where a kid did something stupid without thinking. It should have been handled by the boy's parents, period. If it were my kid, I would have made him apologize to the girl, then subjected him to a stern talking down to and perhaps grounded him. That would have been sufficient. The government had no room involving the police in this at all!
Re:Another example of the dangers of gov't intrusi
by Nightmist (nightmist@mensactivism.org) on Friday October 19, @02:25PM EST (#2)
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Not to mention that the girl really could have handled this herself if she'd wanted to. When I was a stupid kid I once dared a friend of mine to grab a girl's butt. He did. She turned around and walloped him across the chin. The other people surrounding those two burst out in laughter. My friend was so incredibly embarassed that he stayed home for three days playing sick.

I'm not saying that her use of violence against him was the right thing to do (it wasn't), nor am I saying that humiliating another person (whether through grabbing his or her behind or hitting him or her in public) is the right thing to do. I'm just saying that social structures are still in place by which she didn't really need the support of any authority figures to prevent it from happening again.

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