Articles

Comments for "Sex Offenders in Nursing Homes—No Pros but Tons of Convicts"

COMMENTS
2 Responses to “Sex Offenders in Nursing Homes—No Pros but Tons of Convicts”

1. CarolynKCombley Says:
   

   This is even more appalling than the blog about exhuming dead bodies. You're right. Who would think to look on a website to see if nursing home patients have committed sex crimes? These people don't belong with the regular public. They belond in jail.

2. Joann Lubrano Says:
   

   If a person is unable to care for themselves independently due to disabilities, then they will require the services a skilled facility provides. Do we discriminate against other elderly ex-felons who were once found guilty of robbery, arson, murder, etc? Why then, do we get up in arms the minute the word "sex" is involved?
   What about the 16 y/o that was found guilty, served his time, and forever labeled a sex offender because he had sex with his 15 y/o girlfriend? Does he deserve to continue to be discriminated against even in his infirm, advanced years because he is a "menace to society"? If so, in my opinion you need some therapy to get over your sexual hang-ups. In addition, since that is what I believe it must be true, even if it is not actually the truth, and so I must coerce the rest of you to believe that too. Isn’t that accurate?
   I think it behooves all of us to start to use common sense before we open our mouths, or put pen to the paper, and damn a person without knowing all of the facts. And I do mean all of them. There are many, many people who are being lumped into this category currently today who’s crime was not what most of us would consider dangerous (rapist and murderer of young people, etc).
   Those people have paid their debt to society, sometimes to the extreme, and in the not too distant past, some of the “crimes” they were punished for were not considered criminal acts.
   I would be much more concerned with the presence of an ex-felon whose crime was arson in the setting of a nursing home, than I would be with a “sex offender”, since the arsonist, if he still possessed a tendency towards and fascination with fires, would be more of a present danger.

Leave a Comment