Sex Offender Work Places Available

by Cal Skinner

Folks have long known that they can find out where released sex offenders live. But, did you know that there is a file of where some of them work? According to the State Police, “local police agencies provide the information and we print it as submitted.”

Here’s a question for you. How much restitution does a person arrested of a sex crime have to make? Should he—and the almost 120 who show up as McHenry County employees are all men—have the right to support himself and not be hassled at work?

Is working at a factory OK? How about an auto dealership? What about driving a limo? Any problem with someone with such a conviction record working for a restaurant? What about a retail establishment? A printing company? How about construction? Landscaping? Garbage collection? A grocery store? A moving company? A carnival? Physical therapy?

I know some of the employers and my guess is that some know the criminal background of the employee in question. They are clearly giving a guy a second chance.

Cross-posted on McHenry County Blog.

Comments

[Donna]

I think it depends on the offense. If it was a 19 year old with a 16 year old, then he deserves a second chance. If it was a 35 year old with a 9 year old, why is he even out of jail? Rapist? Same question.

I do think the system should be set up differently. Pedophiles and Rapists in one category, young adult men, who thought it it was ok to date a 16 year old ( and who may have consented, but her parents pressed charges) in another.

I do check the sex offender list as I have two young girls at home. I know there are some not too far from me. I let a friend know that one lived a few doors from her. It's a scary world we live in, and wackos are everywhere.

As far as your question regarding ok jobs: As I stated earlier, depends on the actual crime. But rapists or pedophiles? Garbage man? sure, Retail? Not if changing clothes are involved. Not toy stores. No store where children would be the main customer. Physical therapist? Do you think someone with sex issues should be involved in a job where they touch people all day?

In a perfect world pedophiles and rapists would never get out of jail. Studies have shown that most are repeat offenders. Why do we let them out to offend again?

[nick]

Ok we tell everyone where a registered sex offender works and so maybe many companies won't want to hire someone because of all the negative publicity. So I have a questions for the fear generating politicians, exactly where do these people to to live and work in peace? We tell these people they have to undergo therapy which actually works but only if they can return to society, then we do everything we can to destroy these people. But then fear generates votes doesn't it?

[TheReallyRightGuy]

This is disgusting harassment against people who have paid their debt to society.

[Donna]

It's disgusting harrassment when a guy has molested/raped a 10 year old, serves 5 years of a 10 year sentence (got good behavior in jail because there were no kiddies to molest in prison) and is now free to molest again?

When the punishment is severe enough for the crime, and they actually do the time and have proven to be rehabilitated, then I'll feel bad for the perverts.

Here are some quick statistics from the U.S Dept. of Justice:

"Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from Prison in 1994 - Presents, for the first time, data on the rearrest, reconviction, and reimprisonment of 9,691 male sex offenders, including 4,295 child molesters, who were tracked for 3 years after their release from prisons in 15 States in 1994.

The 9,691 are two-thirds of all the male sex offenders released from prisons in the United States in 1994. The study represents the largest follow-up ever conducted of convicted sex offenders following discharge from prison and provides the most comprehensive assessment of their behavior after release.

Highlights include the following:

Within 3 years following their release, 5.3% of sex offenders (men who had committed rape or sexual assault) were rearrested for another sex crime.

On average the 9,691 sex offenders served 3 1/2 years of their 8-year sentence.

Compared to non-sex offenders released from State prisons, released sex offenders were 4 times more likely to be rearrested for a sex crime.

The 9,691 released sex offenders included 4,295 men who were in prison for child molesting."

Sounds like a swell bunch of guys. Let's get them jobs at our local Chuck E. Cheese.

[Donna]

Sex offenders seem to be the only group who do not receive the kind of couseling and drug therapy necessary to help them return to society. Instead we arrest, jail and then throw them back to the streets with basically no way to find a decent job. Families may not take them back and the ones who do are then stigmatized because their household becomes a sex offender's household. Try finding a help group if you are a family member of a sex offender. It is impossible - at least in Illinois. And people seem to forget that this is someone who is loved by their family. We may hate what he has done but still love him.