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Originally Posted by jambutty
Once again the Jeremy Vine show comes up with a debate that no doubt will rage for a long, long while.
In a nutshell the topic is, “Parents will be able to ask if someone close to their family is a sex offender under new pilot schemes in England.”
You can read the rest of the report at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7612315.stm
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And your views are?
Surely it's something a parent aught to be able to protect against?
Maybe if this person is checked out it could save a lot of heartache in the future?
Anyone with nothing to hide will surely not object because it helps prove them to be a little more trustworthy? Though just because they aren't on a register only means some people haven't been caught yet.
However if someone is on the register and genuinely is a 'reformed' character that comes clean about their past might just mean what they say, 'I am reformed', hiding potential dangers no matter how unlikely they may be to resulting in abuse is surely not a recommended way of bringing children up?
I would love a society where we could all trust each other with all of our children and probably in a large number of cases this is true, unfortunately the innocent need protecting against the strange minority.
Anyone against such checks is surely leaving themselves open to mistrust?
