06/08/2012
A bill that recently passed both legislative houses in Illinois will prohibit convicted child sex offenders from participating in holiday activities involving children, if signed by the Governor. While this bill is very specific, it adds further requirements for registered sex offenders in Illinois, and puts additional limits on how they must live following a criminal conviction.
Illinois Sex Offender Bill
The recent bill, SB3579 (PDF), was introduced in February of this year and sponsored by Senator Kirk Dillard. If signed, it will amend the Illinois Criminal Code by making it a Class 4 felony for child sex offenders to participate in holiday events that involve children under 18-years-old. Limitations on activities include giving out candy on Halloween, dressing up as Santa Claus on or around Christmas and wearing an Easter Bunny costume on or before Easter Sunday. Exemptions from the law would include some statutory rape convictions and sex offenders who are parents or guardians of minors, as long as no other children are present in the home.In addition to having to register with their local law enforcement agency and being added to the state's Sex Offender Database for a period of 10 years, child sex offenders in Illinois are also subject to residence and work restrictions. It is generally a violation of law for those convicted of child sex offenses to live with other sex offenders, live within 500 feet of a school, park or daycare center or work with children or in youth-related programs. Child sex offenders are also banned from visiting parks, being present on school grounds and using social networking websites during certain periods following a conviction.
Debate Continues
As legislatures in Illinois and across the nation continue to pass bills to further restrict and monitor convicted child sex offenders, critics wonder whether these types of laws actually help to protect children. A majority of sex crimes where children are the victims are committed by a family member or someone they know, so residential and work limitations do not always prevent these types of offenses. In addition, opponents of laws that seek to isolate child sex offenders say this can actually cause more problems and crimes than they solve or prevent.Legal Help
People convicted of child sex offenses are already subject to a host of legal restrictions, and the list continues to grow with each newly enacted child sex offender law. Once someone is convicted and required to register as a sex offender in Illinois, the public embarrassment and other consequences will lasts for a minimum of 10 years. In the meantime, the bill to limit child sex offenders from participating in holiday events may soon become law, and another bill that would extend the registration requirement to 15 years is currently pending. These possible upcoming changes make it important for people charged with or convicted of sexual crimes to consult with an experienced criminal law attorney about their case.
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ReplyDeleteWell at least it is named correctly. It is the ILL BILL
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I would bet someone this diseased would never be allowed to leave a hospital. How in the hell do these laws ever get out of committee?
Good Lord, why don't ''they'' just make sex offenders out of everyone.
Frankly, the sick- o-feds that draft these Orwellian laws, need the hammer thrown at them with a note:
""We are sick and tired of your lame attempts to plunder, penalize and dehumanize us. Go to hates. We will not be subject to your social controls any longer."" Signed.
It is past and beyond any rational period of time that these low brow
draconian attempts to control people come to a screaming H A L T !!!!!!
An alternative direction needs to be under taken.
This recent gain is a straight form of child abuse in and of itself.
Stealing away a child's youth is B/S. This is wrong.
The only persons who should be more demonized than the politicians and their ilk for generating these heinous laws are the passive sheeple who go along with these pathological life restricting strangle holds.
From my view point, I believe sex offenders, adult or child (and what in the Lords name, had to occur in this young child's life to be a ''criminal, in the first place) all represent a more serious problem.
That is, the covering up of the real issues is symptomatic of persons or systems in serious denial.
Our countries unwillingness to accept that in most, not all, sex offenders are an out birth of our reactions to ourselves. Whether brutal crimes or very poor judgments. If not the crimes themselves most assuredly how poorly we address the grossly failed attempt in applying the solutions.
There is a lot of poor personal choice decisions that enter in and not all crimes can be put on the shoulders of society. But we sure have a strange way of dealing with the management of these poor decisions. Both socially and legally.
Take a look forward, what kind of a generation are we preparing for, when we incarcerate CHILDREN???????
I think we all need to grow up and take some responsibility for ourselves and the benefit of others.
Question is, will we do this in time to benefit the next generation?
I certainly hope so. Because our current format is going to leave a very bad legacy.
Best Regards
F.A. Leonetti
They have went way out of line when charging kids as a sex offender when these kids are dating and parents even know it. Or even if no sex is involved thats a joke to. What the hell is this country coming to. We as us citizens know this is wrong and the laws they want to make up sicking me. My son never had sex but is a sex offender now. Never been in trouble in his life. Thanks to the cops scaring him to death he signed a statement saying he touch her boobs oh my god if this was true on the bus why does this girl call him for a ride. My sons has to spend 180 days in jail fines up the ass and the one who should be in jail is the girl who lied on him. But know shes running the streets and im sure she will find her another victim to lie on. Only in the good old usa. I hope some one looks over all these cases and helps these kids out. This shit is wrong!!!!!!!!
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