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Registered child sex offenders in Australia will be stuck in a giant penal colony (known as Australia) under a proposed law:
Australia's estimated 20,000 registered child sex offenders would lose their passports under a new law that government officials say is aimed at preventing convicted pedophiles from victimizing children overseas. Officials call the proposal a "world first" in the fight against child sex tourism.
"This new legislation represents the toughest crackdown on child sex tourism by any government, anywhere," Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said, adding that Australia is "determined to prevent the sexual exploitation of vulnerable young children overseas."
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(Score: 3, Informative) by KiloByte on Thursday June 01 2017, @11:32AM (5 children)
Not sure if it applies to Australia too, but all it takes to be a registered sex offender is to urinate in the woods a hundred meters from where a child was.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday June 01 2017, @01:27PM (4 children)
U.S. states vary with this stuff, but that's actually not even close to the most irrational scenarios created by sex offender laws in the U.S. You have states where two underage teens of the same age who have consensual sex with each other both have to register as sex offenders. You have states where two 17 year olds who send nude photos of each other to each other over phones can be found guilty of possessing child porn and therefore have to register. You have states where an underage teen who takes of photo of himself/herself needs to register for creating child porn.
Many states have tried to mitigate some of this by passing "exception" laws (like so-called "Romeo and Juliet" provisions) that exempt some underage kids from becoming sex offenders for doing stuff with other kids, as well as new sexting laws that try to differentiate between texting among minors vs. child pornography. (The latter is really an uphill battle, given that any adult who came into possession of such photos, even inadvertently, could end up in prison.) But they often don't cover all such cases of typical teenage behavior.
Anyhow, I don't know exactly what Australia's standards are, but some of the reporting on the present story suggests there may be similar vagueness to Australia in some cases. The passport issue seems like it should apply a bit differently for a late teen convicted of having sex with an underage girlfriend/boyfriend vs. someone who was actually convicted of sex trafficking.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday June 01 2017, @02:39PM (2 children)
It'd be really interesting if tens of thousands of kids tried protesting these stupid laws by intentionally breaking them and then turning themselves in, all at once. The court system would crumble under the strain.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @07:12PM (1 child)
Hahaha. I doubt it.
#1 They're kids, fuck them in the ass so they learn a lesson
#2 They're millennials, so they just deserve to be fucked in the ass
#3 They're protesters and protesters are malcontents and troublemakers who deserve to be fucked in the ass
#4 Since they deserve to be fucked in the ass, fuck them all in the ass. 3 second "trials" for all of them
#5 They are now fucked in the ass for life
#6 ???
#7 Profit for the assfuckers! They are now just fucked and since they're now pedophile sex offenders they deserve to be fucked in the ass every day for the rest of their lives
I hope humanity wipes itself off the face of this planet in nuclear fire.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:28PM
You're missing the point. Yeah, I'm sure the conservatives would love to fuck over these kids, the problem is that if an enormous number of these kids coordinated their efforts and all broke the laws publicly and turned themselves in, the police and judicial systems simply wouldn't be able to cope. How is some municipal jail going to house tens of thousands of kids all at once when their capacity isn't anywhere near that (and they're already full of other offenders anyway), and how is the court going to prosecute all these people? Something will break under the strain. If enough kids joined in, there wouldn't be a workforce for many industries, and the economy would collapse.
(Score: 3, Informative) by sjames on Thursday June 01 2017, @08:23PM
They go beyond that. People have been registered for urinating on a dumpster too close to a school, even though it was after midnight and so there was a reasonable expectation that there were no kids in the school.