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Psst, hey buddy, I'm a homeless sex offender can you help me out?
While I believe we can all agree that living next door to a convicted (or even an unconvicted) sex offender is not a desirable state of affairs, some studies are now showing that ever tightening restrictions about where they are allowed to live and even work, could drive some to re-offend by creating more mental and financial pressures on them.
Besides the obvious intent of protecting our children from these vermin the economic motive also creeps in. A study in Mecklenburg County NC (Charlotte) showed that the mere presence of a convicted sex offender in a neighborhood lowered property values anywhere from $4,500 to $5,500 per home and the presence of sex offenders just in Mecklenburg County has shrunk property values up to 58 million dollars!
On the other side of the coin, some sex offenders that have been convicted, served their sentences, and now, years later, and having committed no repeat offenses since, complain that having to continually wear their "sex offender" tag amounts to an unlawful and unfair extension of their sentences.
No less an authority than Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is surprisingly not ""wildly enthusiastic" about laws that restrict where sex offenders can live."
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