Es war nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis die Idee des
Wiederauflebenlassens des mittelalterlichen Prangers auch in Europa
Fuß fassen würde. Der Vorsprung, den die USA im Rückschritt haben,
beträgt etwa 10-15 Jahre. Hier und da entdecken US-Amerikaner so
langsam, dass bei der Diskussion um sogenannte Sexualstraftäter wohl
etwas schiefgelaufen sein muss: auf einmal finden sich Kinder und
Jugendliche auf dem Pranger wieder, die nur das gemacht haben, was
sie eben seit 6 Millionen Jahren tun: Sex. Die Bürger haben offenbar
übersehen, dass die Kampagnen gegen sogenannte Sexualstraftäter sich
weniger gegen Verletzungen des sexuellen Selbstbestimmungsrechts
wendeten, sondern gegen Sexualität an sich.
Ein paar kommentierte Fälle aus God's Own Country:
"Parents of Young Sex Offenders Say Arizona's Laws Too Strict
...
Elizabeth McDonald's 13-year-old son talked his 7-year-old cousin
into sexual experimentation which led to him fondling her privates.
There was no intercourse. When the girl's mother took her for
counseling, the law required the police to be notified.
'Ten weeks later, we received a letter in the mail from the Maricopa
County Prosecutor's Office that he was going to be prosecuted as an
adult.'
McDonald was unaware how strict Arizona's laws have become regarding
sexual contact with children. She advised her son to cooperate.
'I told him that he had to tell the truth and explain exactly what he
had done and that he had to take responsibility and be honest. That
they would understand. And that he was 14 and that we would do
whatever was necessary. Counseling, individual, family, any kind of
thing that we needed to do to take care of this problem. We did not
realize at the time that he was providing a confession that would
condemn him as an adult sex offender for the rest of his life,' says
McDonald.
Though it was a first offense, and a psychologist identified him as a
low risk to re-offend, Mcdonald's son was charged as an adult child
molester.
The McDonalds were given no real choice. They could accept a plea
bargain that required lifetime probation and registration as a sex
offender, or risk going to trial and facing a 15-year mandatory
minimum prison sentence.
Today at age 19, as part of probation, the young man lives in a
halfway house for drug abusers, sex offenders and other criminals."
"Our son files a detailed schedule every week with probation which he
may not deviate from or risk being immediately taken to jail. He is
under curfew every day and may not even socialize with the residents
where he lives. He is demoralized and devalued as a human being. He
has few, if any prospects, for any real future."
...
At one point, the panel was told there are 100,000 underage Arizona
children who are sexually active and under current law, they could
all be charged with sex crimes."
http://www.620ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=248677
Hintergründe: In den USA werden Gesetze von weiten Teilen der
Bevölkerung nicht kritisch hinterfragt. Das Gesetz wird nicht als
Recht, sondern als Gerechtigkeit betrachtet (daran haben auch die
Erfahrungen aus den Rassendiskriminierungen nichts geändert, da sie
nie aufgearbeitet wurden). Vor diesem Hintergrund gebing die Mutter
den fatalen Fehler, ihren Sohn auszufordern, die Wahrheit zu sagen.
Die Risikoeinschätzung, ob es zu einer Wiederholung der "Tat" kommen
kann, hängt unter anderem davon ab, dass der "Täter" Einsicht in die
Verwerflichkeit der "Tat" hat. Bei Kindern, die Doktorspiele machen,
ist diese Einsicht nicht vorhanden, da sie sich nach ethischen
Maßstäben nicht einer verwerflichen Tat schuldig gemacht haben. Sie
werden so eher als riskant eingestuft bzw. sie können Therapien erst
verlassen, wenn sie sich schuldig bekennen - also gebrochen wurden.
In den USA werden Geschlechtsteile - vor allem in der Erziehung -
übrigens weitgehend mit "privates" oder "private parts" umschrieben.
Weiteres Beispiel:
"A 12-year-old boy, whose experiments on his half brother lacked
sexual intent, must register under Megan's Law.
Some children who play doctor are criminal sex offenders in the eyes
of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
The high court ruled yesterday that a 12-year-old boy who
experimented with a douche bottle on his younger half brother must
register as a sex offender under Megan's Law requirements, even
though there was no overt sexual motivation for the crime.
The ruling overturned a lower court decision last year that said the
boy - identified in court papers only as T.T. - would not be forced
to register with police for life or have his home address and details
of the offense publicized because there was no sexual intent to his
crime.
...
According to court records, neither child directly touched any part
of the other's body and nothing similar had ever occurred before.
When asked why he did it, T.T. responded, "I don't know," court
records show.
T.T. was sentenced to 72 days in a youth facility and three years of
probation. He was 13 when he registered as a sex offender."
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/15673463.htm?
Weiter:
"'Sex offender' label makes no distinction"
For many men, registry has lasting and devastating effects
Local news reports termed him 'armed and dangerous.' Law enforcement
officials dubbed him a repeat sexual predator on the prowl.
Now, Angel De Jesus Hernandez, 19, faces up to 20 years in prison and
a lifetime on Texas' sex offender registry for having consensual sex
with his 15-year-old girlfriend.
Mr. Hernandez is the first to tell you he's no saint. He's got a
hefty juvenile record. He cursed and spit at police when they forced
him – wearing nothing but boxer shorts – from his girlfriend's bed.
And he went back to her, even after a judge warned him to stay away.
'But I'm not a sex offender,' he said from the Ellis County Jail this
summer, his scrawny frame, soft voice and patchy facial hair
underscoring his apparent naivete.
'We loved each other.'
Mr. Hernandez and hundreds of young men like him are casualties of
Texas' zero-tolerance sex offender registration laws. Despite
low-level sex offenses, they're cataloged as perverts, as monsters,
by a system that paints most sex criminals with the same broad brush.
An 11-year-old who fondles a 10-year-old classmate could be forced to
register as a sex offender for a decade. An 18-year-old who's more
than three years older than his girlfriend could spend a lifetime on
the registry for having consensual sex with her.
And once they're on the list, these young sex offenders are virtually
boxed out of society – unable to find jobs and housing, and trapped
in a vicious cycle of evictions, registration violations and more
jail time."
Hiontergrund: jugendliche sogenannte Sexualstraftäter erhalten
vielfältige Gerichtsauflagen. U.a. müssen sie sich von Kindern
fernhalten (auch wenn die deklartierten Opfer keine waren). Das
heißt, dass sie aus dem Elternhaus ausziehen müssen, wenn sie
Geschwister haben. Weihnachten in der Familie? Ja, aber nur, wenn die
Geschwister oder der sogenannte Täter nicht teilnehmen.
Oder:
"Summer Press Tour, Day 16: An Explosive Interview
PASADENA, Calif., July 25 People who molest children should have
chips embedded in the rectum that would explode if they violate their
parole, "America's Most Wanted" star John Walsh told a photographer
for Fox and father of two at Summer TV Press Tour 2006 as a couple
dozen speechless TV critics looked on.
Bet all those other critics who'd bailed out early felt pretty silly
missing what turned out to be the highlight of the now 16-day-old
tour.
A minute or so later Walsh said he'd been kidding, though he had a
"not really" look in his eyes. He said it was the second time he'd
used the joke and no one laughed last time either."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/25/AR200
6072501590.html
Hintergrund: John Walsh stand einer rechten Gruppierung vor, die
dafür sorgte, dass Kinder und Jugendliche, die Sex miteinander haben,
auf den Internet-Pranger gesetzt werden.
Auch unbegangene Sexualstraftaten dienen wie der Terrorismus als
Argument für Einschränkung der Bürgerrechte:
"Va. Students to Be Checked for Sex Offense
In Virginia, new law requires prospective students to be checked for
sex offenses
A new law requiring Virginia's colleges to hand over prospective
students' personal information to police for cross-checking against
sex offender lists is coming under fire from privacy advocates and
education leaders.
Under the law, which takes effect July 1, public and private college
officials must send state police the names, Social Security numbers
and birth dates of all students accepted to their schools.
Proponents say the law will help protect students from sex offenders
and state police are confident the personal information will be
secure. But critics are raising concerns about privacy rights and
risks that the data could be misused or stolen."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/22/ap/national/mainD8ID61LO0.s
html
Und noch eine Liste von vielen Fällen:
http://www.saveourson.com/cgi-bin/stories.cgi
Wiederauflebenlassens des mittelalterlichen Prangers auch in Europa
Fuß fassen würde. Der Vorsprung, den die USA im Rückschritt haben,
beträgt etwa 10-15 Jahre. Hier und da entdecken US-Amerikaner so
langsam, dass bei der Diskussion um sogenannte Sexualstraftäter wohl
etwas schiefgelaufen sein muss: auf einmal finden sich Kinder und
Jugendliche auf dem Pranger wieder, die nur das gemacht haben, was
sie eben seit 6 Millionen Jahren tun: Sex. Die Bürger haben offenbar
übersehen, dass die Kampagnen gegen sogenannte Sexualstraftäter sich
weniger gegen Verletzungen des sexuellen Selbstbestimmungsrechts
wendeten, sondern gegen Sexualität an sich.
Ein paar kommentierte Fälle aus God's Own Country:
"Parents of Young Sex Offenders Say Arizona's Laws Too Strict
...
Elizabeth McDonald's 13-year-old son talked his 7-year-old cousin
into sexual experimentation which led to him fondling her privates.
There was no intercourse. When the girl's mother took her for
counseling, the law required the police to be notified.
'Ten weeks later, we received a letter in the mail from the Maricopa
County Prosecutor's Office that he was going to be prosecuted as an
adult.'
McDonald was unaware how strict Arizona's laws have become regarding
sexual contact with children. She advised her son to cooperate.
'I told him that he had to tell the truth and explain exactly what he
had done and that he had to take responsibility and be honest. That
they would understand. And that he was 14 and that we would do
whatever was necessary. Counseling, individual, family, any kind of
thing that we needed to do to take care of this problem. We did not
realize at the time that he was providing a confession that would
condemn him as an adult sex offender for the rest of his life,' says
McDonald.
Though it was a first offense, and a psychologist identified him as a
low risk to re-offend, Mcdonald's son was charged as an adult child
molester.
The McDonalds were given no real choice. They could accept a plea
bargain that required lifetime probation and registration as a sex
offender, or risk going to trial and facing a 15-year mandatory
minimum prison sentence.
Today at age 19, as part of probation, the young man lives in a
halfway house for drug abusers, sex offenders and other criminals."
"Our son files a detailed schedule every week with probation which he
may not deviate from or risk being immediately taken to jail. He is
under curfew every day and may not even socialize with the residents
where he lives. He is demoralized and devalued as a human being. He
has few, if any prospects, for any real future."
...
At one point, the panel was told there are 100,000 underage Arizona
children who are sexually active and under current law, they could
all be charged with sex crimes."
http://www.620ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=248677
Hintergründe: In den USA werden Gesetze von weiten Teilen der
Bevölkerung nicht kritisch hinterfragt. Das Gesetz wird nicht als
Recht, sondern als Gerechtigkeit betrachtet (daran haben auch die
Erfahrungen aus den Rassendiskriminierungen nichts geändert, da sie
nie aufgearbeitet wurden). Vor diesem Hintergrund gebing die Mutter
den fatalen Fehler, ihren Sohn auszufordern, die Wahrheit zu sagen.
Die Risikoeinschätzung, ob es zu einer Wiederholung der "Tat" kommen
kann, hängt unter anderem davon ab, dass der "Täter" Einsicht in die
Verwerflichkeit der "Tat" hat. Bei Kindern, die Doktorspiele machen,
ist diese Einsicht nicht vorhanden, da sie sich nach ethischen
Maßstäben nicht einer verwerflichen Tat schuldig gemacht haben. Sie
werden so eher als riskant eingestuft bzw. sie können Therapien erst
verlassen, wenn sie sich schuldig bekennen - also gebrochen wurden.
In den USA werden Geschlechtsteile - vor allem in der Erziehung -
übrigens weitgehend mit "privates" oder "private parts" umschrieben.
Weiteres Beispiel:
"A 12-year-old boy, whose experiments on his half brother lacked
sexual intent, must register under Megan's Law.
Some children who play doctor are criminal sex offenders in the eyes
of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
The high court ruled yesterday that a 12-year-old boy who
experimented with a douche bottle on his younger half brother must
register as a sex offender under Megan's Law requirements, even
though there was no overt sexual motivation for the crime.
The ruling overturned a lower court decision last year that said the
boy - identified in court papers only as T.T. - would not be forced
to register with police for life or have his home address and details
of the offense publicized because there was no sexual intent to his
crime.
...
According to court records, neither child directly touched any part
of the other's body and nothing similar had ever occurred before.
When asked why he did it, T.T. responded, "I don't know," court
records show.
T.T. was sentenced to 72 days in a youth facility and three years of
probation. He was 13 when he registered as a sex offender."
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/15673463.htm?
Weiter:
"'Sex offender' label makes no distinction"
For many men, registry has lasting and devastating effects
Local news reports termed him 'armed and dangerous.' Law enforcement
officials dubbed him a repeat sexual predator on the prowl.
Now, Angel De Jesus Hernandez, 19, faces up to 20 years in prison and
a lifetime on Texas' sex offender registry for having consensual sex
with his 15-year-old girlfriend.
Mr. Hernandez is the first to tell you he's no saint. He's got a
hefty juvenile record. He cursed and spit at police when they forced
him – wearing nothing but boxer shorts – from his girlfriend's bed.
And he went back to her, even after a judge warned him to stay away.
'But I'm not a sex offender,' he said from the Ellis County Jail this
summer, his scrawny frame, soft voice and patchy facial hair
underscoring his apparent naivete.
'We loved each other.'
Mr. Hernandez and hundreds of young men like him are casualties of
Texas' zero-tolerance sex offender registration laws. Despite
low-level sex offenses, they're cataloged as perverts, as monsters,
by a system that paints most sex criminals with the same broad brush.
An 11-year-old who fondles a 10-year-old classmate could be forced to
register as a sex offender for a decade. An 18-year-old who's more
than three years older than his girlfriend could spend a lifetime on
the registry for having consensual sex with her.
And once they're on the list, these young sex offenders are virtually
boxed out of society – unable to find jobs and housing, and trapped
in a vicious cycle of evictions, registration violations and more
jail time."
Hiontergrund: jugendliche sogenannte Sexualstraftäter erhalten
vielfältige Gerichtsauflagen. U.a. müssen sie sich von Kindern
fernhalten (auch wenn die deklartierten Opfer keine waren). Das
heißt, dass sie aus dem Elternhaus ausziehen müssen, wenn sie
Geschwister haben. Weihnachten in der Familie? Ja, aber nur, wenn die
Geschwister oder der sogenannte Täter nicht teilnehmen.
Oder:
"Summer Press Tour, Day 16: An Explosive Interview
PASADENA, Calif., July 25 People who molest children should have
chips embedded in the rectum that would explode if they violate their
parole, "America's Most Wanted" star John Walsh told a photographer
for Fox and father of two at Summer TV Press Tour 2006 as a couple
dozen speechless TV critics looked on.
Bet all those other critics who'd bailed out early felt pretty silly
missing what turned out to be the highlight of the now 16-day-old
tour.
A minute or so later Walsh said he'd been kidding, though he had a
"not really" look in his eyes. He said it was the second time he'd
used the joke and no one laughed last time either."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/25/AR200
6072501590.html
Hintergrund: John Walsh stand einer rechten Gruppierung vor, die
dafür sorgte, dass Kinder und Jugendliche, die Sex miteinander haben,
auf den Internet-Pranger gesetzt werden.
Auch unbegangene Sexualstraftaten dienen wie der Terrorismus als
Argument für Einschränkung der Bürgerrechte:
"Va. Students to Be Checked for Sex Offense
In Virginia, new law requires prospective students to be checked for
sex offenses
A new law requiring Virginia's colleges to hand over prospective
students' personal information to police for cross-checking against
sex offender lists is coming under fire from privacy advocates and
education leaders.
Under the law, which takes effect July 1, public and private college
officials must send state police the names, Social Security numbers
and birth dates of all students accepted to their schools.
Proponents say the law will help protect students from sex offenders
and state police are confident the personal information will be
secure. But critics are raising concerns about privacy rights and
risks that the data could be misused or stolen."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/22/ap/national/mainD8ID61LO0.s
html
Und noch eine Liste von vielen Fällen:
http://www.saveourson.com/cgi-bin/stories.cgi