It's an important question, especially if you have children. Why? Because sex offenders don’t advertise their home or business location, but wouldn’t you want to know?Finding out if one of your neighbors is a sex offender or being notified if a sex offender moves into your neighborhood can be done with just a few clicks of the mouse by visiting the Washington State Sex Offender Information Center.
The site provides up-to-date information about registered sex offenders in your surrounding neighborhood, and has several educational tools available for your family as well.
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Just a note to readers of this blog... Sex Offenders do not often get caught to even be registered in the first place. Many times they are family members or close acquaintances that put the victim in a very bad, if not dangerous position and end up not reporting the individual – even after multiple assaults.
It is imperative that parents, teachers, coaches, or anyone in a child’s life that has the legal authority to guide them (ages 1 to 18 years old) reinforce the concept of what the difference between good and bad “touching” is and what to do if someone older (and in most cases more powerful) attempts to harm them in some way -- NO MATTER WHOM THE OFFENDER IS (parents are often the source of sexual and physical abuse).
If you are concerned about ruining an offenders life – consider that most sex offenses start out innocent enough – but quickly escalate into more bold and criminal behaviors. You may be saving the offenders life by reporting them immediately to someone that can help them before the problem gets out of control.
Finally, consider the victims that have lived with these awful experiences - and will live with them for the rest of their lives. There is nothing (save many hours of counseling) that will even begin to erase the most minor of events. They themselves on occasion become the offenders.
Teach your children! Don’t put the responsibility on to law enforcement or even government. There are individuals involved with political “stumping” that would attempt to mislead you into believing they could do much better with controlling sex offenders – but the truth is, they can only be “reactors” in this social problem.
Teach your children!
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