At age 10, Maya R. did something that would disturb just about anyone: “Me and my step-brothers, who were ages 8 and 5, ‘flashed’ each other and play-acted sex while fully clothed,” she told Human Rights Watch researcher Nicole Pittman. After copping to the incident in juvenile court, Maya’s punishment was an 18-month sentence in a detention center, mandatory counseling, and a quarter-century of registration as a sex offender. Full Article
A Senseless Policy – Take kids off the sex-offender registries.
- ·August 28, 2015
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Kids experiment. This is a well known fact and has been a reality of human development since time immemorial. This should’ve never even wound up in court. At that age, kids dont even know what sex is, for crying out loud. This perfectly illustrates how out of control and nonsensical sex laws have become.
It’s time to end the madness and do away with the registry completely. Nothing less makes sense!
My god what is wrong with people. Sexual curiosity in children is now being criminalized. Disgusting. It’s insane what happened to parenting now instead of parents correcting behaviors which is a parents JOB we send innocent children to detention centers for perfectly natural behavior. These are the kids that grow up so emotionally screwed up because of the crap they are scared to death of anything of a sexual nature.