On a November morning in 2013, Erica Hammel learned over the phone that her 1-year-old son Wyatt was near death — hospitalized with a skull fracture and brain damage after being violently shaken by a woman trusted to care for him.
Hammel would later learn the woman had twice been convicted of child abuse — a revelation that led the Michigan mother to fight for a state-wide child abuser registry, which, if passed, would be the first of its kind in the nation. Full Article
That’s great, the more registries the better! It has all the same problems of the SO registry, but the more registries we have the less relevant each one will be.
No need. If you can’t be a full time mom when children are young than don’t have any.
Problem solved.
It’s time to hold parents accountable for protecting and nurturing their innocent and vulnerable babies. Not the state.
It seems a lot more babies are abused and beaten to death by mom’s new live in boyfriend nowadays.
An abusers registry? Why didn’t she do a check on her references? Here we go again! Another lazy bum that thinks the state is supposed to exercise common sense for her! These idiots need to learn to use their brains. Had this dummy used a little common sense her son would not have been harmed. It looks to me like her son was harmed because of her decision to hire this babysitter without checking her out.
What’s missed by the whole “If we had known, we would have done a better job parenting” argument is this: the conviction is already a public record. What a registry does is makes an obligation on someone to comply and update whatever information the state demands and to then abide by whatever restrictions that the state adds on after that. Therefore, to keep the record accurate, you can never travel etc, and the more dots end up in neighborhoods, the more insecute/fearful people become…I think Yoda has a quote about what this leads to. But as far as policy goes, there is apparently no end to what this means