Registered Sex Offender Essay

I am an awful human being. I am a disgrace to my family. My friends are embarrassed of me. I am gross. I am judged, and will be until I am deemed ‘safe’ by my supervisors. People are afraid of me. I am not welcome anywhere. I am disgusting. I don’t deserve to be treated as a normal person, but as a leper. I should be ashamed of myself, or at least that is what I’m told. I am a registered sex offender. A registered sex offender is defined as (Question 1) “a person, male or female, who has been convicted of a crime involving a sexual act where the federal, state or local laws require them to be placed on the Sexual Offender Registry after they have served their criminal sentences or when they have been released on parole.” (Sex Crime Criminal

(Diaz, 2013.) My second task was finding a new place to live. I resided very close to a school; this made being in my own home a violation of my probation. I was forced to move. (Fuchs, 2013.) Thirdly, I was fired from my well-paying part time job. I had to clean out my locker space at work and turn in any and all uniforms I owned. Consequently, I was forced to drop my fraternity because I had no job, and no money to pay my dues. Although this was slightly less embarrassing than being removed from the chapter because of my charges, it did hurt to see those who were once brothers treat me as if I was some kind of pedophile. These things haunt me every single day, but they aren’t the only things. When I wake up in the morning, I am always reminded of the ‘mistake’ I was told I had made. (Question 3) I was suspended from my university and now attend a small, much less prestigious community college. Currently, I work in a grocery store warehouse doing manual labor for long hours. The only reason I have this job is because there is no possibility of contact with children in the distribution center or warehouse. This job puts an insane amount of stress on my body, but quitting isn’t an option. On the way to my minimum wage job or to school, I have to take routes around public places that

(Question 6) One does not think about how hard it is to check the box beside the question “Have you ever been convicted of a crime?” or the even harder task of writing “sexual harassment of a child” in the space labeled “If so, explain:” I’ve had to deal with questioning about my case since the day it was reported. Questions asked by lawyers and judges such as “Was it consensual?”, “Were you aware of the victim’s age?” and “Were you aware of the consent laws in Texas?” The worst questions, however, come from the ones that I am judged by. “How could you do such a thing?”, “Why?” and “How do you sleep at night?” These questions, even though my actions had no evil motives, ring in my head every