Should a teenage guy who hooks up with a younger girl be listed along with violent sex offenders? For the sake of argument, assume that the boy and girl are within a few years age difference.

That's why they tell you what they were convicted for and give the code. I prefer Michigan's sex offender website because they also give you a place to look up what the codes mean. People who are convicted of indecent exposure for urinating in a bar parking lot are also listed on those sites forever, and that seems less threatening to me that the situation you pose.

And yeah, I'd want to know if the 17 year old boy that my 15 year old daughter is dating has been convicted of having sex with a minor...

In Michigan, yes. I have a friend from high school who was in his senior year, dating I believe either a freshman or sophmore. Her parents found out they were having sex, got mad, called statutory rape. Now he will forever be on that list, even though he was just having sex with his more than willing girlfriend. (not condoning teenage sex, but this is a case of they were only a few years apart and he did jail time)

A wise man once said that he loved teenage girls because he kept getting older and they stayed the same age.

-Rudey

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I looked up the town that I went to college in. There are a couple of kids I used to baby-sit for and about 4 houses down the street from them lives a registered sex offender. His crime was against a 13-16 year old minor so that kinda freaks me out. There is also a registered sex offender living about a block away from their school.

This is the kind of website that I try not to look out cuz it just freaks me out more than anything. One lives right down the block from me, but I also live in the city so I was kind of expecting that.

There's 47 in the area where my parents live, although none in our immediate vicinity.

There's 815 near my apartment in DC, but the nearest is 5 blocks away. I'm moving to a pretty decent area of the city.

I looked up WIU also, and I just found out that there's a sex offender living in the house that my roommate and I were in my Jr. year.:eek: