Elissa Alvarez is paying a high price after she was filmed having sex on a crowded public beach.
She told INSIDE EDITION: “I am a sex offender right now.” The 21-year-old and her bodybuilder boyfriend, Jose Caballero, are now on the national sex offender registry. Full Article
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Wow USA says it took the registry to keep him on the straight and narrow. Hmm sounds like he should’ve did some prison time I bet that would’ve been enough to keep him straight. The only way the registry could protect anyone or be useful at all is if it only applied to habitual repeat rapist or habitual actual child predators/rapist but wait those type of people rarely see the light of day out of prison. So there’s no way to justify a registry and USA saying its helped keep him offense free is an outrageous claim. It makes me second guess my view of the registry because obviously people such as yourself should be on such a registry or be sent to the pen so as to make you think twice about reoffending. God I sure hope your the exception to the rule and are a very small percentage of registrants. Get some help.
Prior to incarceration, and hoping it could help me to avoid it, I checked into Del Amo Hospital in Torrance. A 45-day lock-up in a specialized program for sex addiction/ sex offending. To me, this beach scandal seems like a sex-addiction problem.
Coincidentally, one acronym taught at Del Amo to aid in sexual recovery was the word “BEACH”.
B – Boundaries, have them.
E – Empathy, feel for self and others. Be aware of reenacting past traumas.
A – Accountability, listen to people around you who know you.
C – Community, be in a group that lends support and strengthening.
H – Humility, embrace that we all fall short.
I believe everybody is entitled to their opinion, especially since we all grew up with different beliefs and norms. The guy was a felon maybe, but that should not make him prone to harsher penalties for the same actions if he has paid his debt. That is what is wrong, to judge people based on their past. It is easy these days to become a felon, and for those who don’t think so, please read “three felonies a day”. In some countries, sex on the beach would not be considered a serious crime, here it is. Who is to say, though, which country is right and which is wrong? Some people are more open minded (the Hippy times come to mind), and some are prude. Who is right and who is wrong? That is only in the eye of the beholder. Some people may like the color red best, my favorite color is blue. Which one is the better color? Neither. Same goes for everything else. Poor judgement is practiced every day by all of us, but the punishment needs to fit the crime, always. Do we really want to be remembered as the country who incarcerates the most people? Does this mean we live in the most horrible country? For some it will surely appear this way. Just my opinion.
I grew up in a foreign country where exposure to sexual imagery – on TV, print, movies, etc – was much more relaxed and prevalent. I dare say as a child I have witnessed all kinds of things that would have convinced the good people in the US of A that I must be forever damaged.
That said, I was walking home from school one day. There was a crowd of people in the middle of the street. I was small – maybe 10 – and using my elbows I was at the front in no time. In the middle of the crowd was a homeless guy familiar to the area, sprawled on the asphalt, the contents of his bag strewn about, some blood on his head. I was shellshocked and ran home.
Turns out he was back walking the neighborhood a few weeks later, but as far as I was concerned I had just seen a dead man, a murder victim.
That image haunts me to this day. If this had happened here, no one would have given a rat’s behind. But seeing two people get it on is beyond harmful. Just sayin…
Timmr said “Odd how family and children come into this dialogue. Seeing that I had inadvertently and thoughtlessly through my offense made my wife and children suffer was enough to keep me off the path to re-offense. Their pain is my imprisonment. Having a family and seeing what this registry system has heaped onto those who are trying to recover and reconnect more secure and truly loving emotional connections, one wonders how a registrant can wish the public registry shaming machine and all its associated restrictions on anyone ”
In the end, Timmr, I agree, no one should be forced by anyone to register for anything, like the Nazi’s forced registrants, Jews, Gypsies, Communists, Homosexuals, political opposition, etc to do, before in many cases just killing their victims. William, although I can understand his apparent motivations, tempted us to advocate for a registry of unconstitutional politician law violators like Hueso acting as an agent of Chris Kelly, should consider this can lead to a slippery slope rationalization of a registry for anyone. As tempting as it is to support a registry for Hueso for his wrong way DUI ( Hueso hypothetically could be on 2 registries ), it still violates Hueso’s human rights. It looks like once we accept any rationalization for any registry, the slippery slope cannot be stopped, as evidenced by USA’s supposed advocacy for a non-public registry for himself and others like him where he would register for 5 years and then be done with it. I assume USA meant no add ons to the registry, which add unforseen draconian dimensions. If USA’s hypothetical registry was the implementation that prevailed, registrants probably would be able to re-integrate back into society better than what we have now and public safety would benefit accordingly. But, I also think USA may have taken that silly position just to take the opposite position of whoever he was arguing with. But I will note, NPS, if I recall correctly, was the only one here to predict the failure of SB 448, while at the same time working to defeat it. That is putting yourself and reputation out there, because NPS is a real person with insight. Unlike Miranda who predicted we better get our spreadsheets (and as would follow,store money) ready for the onslaught of Chris Kelly released terror coming our way. Miranda was wrong, but so likely to be wrong so much, that once he was wrong, we get no apology, no explanation, as if its just regular business of the day to be wrong and no need to ever elaborate.