Sex Offender Maggie Jones Analysis

The sex offender topic has always been a really huge problem throughout the years to the point that it has gotten worst. The main problem is that young kids are getting affected by it as to engaging in sexual behavior with younger kids and committing sexual acts they should not be doing. It is a very difficult topic to talk about they are just kids that have probably gotten abused or seen sexual behavior that they should have not seen in person and now are doing it to others. The article, “How can you distinguish a budding pedophile from a kid with real boundaries problems” by Maggie Jones talks about young children engaging in sexual behavior with other kids who are younger than them. The article also discusses that once children engage in

that type of behavior it makes it difficult for them growing up because they are registered as a sex offender. When this type of behavior is recognized it makes it difficult for the abusers especially if they are young such as 13, 14 or older because they are still going to school and because of Megan’s Law anyone can search online as to sex offenders being in different locations.

The article does not only talk about young sex offenders but how they can help such as going to therapy and them being involved in a program for a certain amount of weeks and see how much progress they have made. This is something that is very difficult to talk about either for the abusers or the victims because majority of the time the abusers also got abused by someone else and that pain resulted in anger and felt like they needed to hurt others. However, that type of behavior is still not acceptable because a person should not hurt others but instead get help like other people do and better themselves and know that although someone hurt them they can still push through it. I think one of the biggest points the article talked about is that once a person is registered as a sex offender it makes it really difficult for them to be accepted again in society. The problem is that it really does not happen because people no longer look a person the same and no matter how much help the abuser gets he or she will always be

judge. This leads the abuser to continue to hurt other people because he or she has decided to do good but they will never be recognized for it in society. In my opinion, I do agree with this because the sad case is true that once you are registered as a sex offender no matter what you do to show all the good you have done people will not trust you. I am not saying it is fair for people to view a person like that with so much judgment but unfortunately, it is a serious offense the person has committed and it is difficult for people to change their perspective on that. Nobody wants a person who has hurt others especially children around their families and that is completely understandable. I still do believe that people can change, bad enough they are carrying the burden of hurting someone else for the rest of their lives and no one wants to be reminded of that. The article brought up a very interesting point that young children that commit sexual acts, were convicted of it, and went got help should be kept track on for at least ten years. I think this is a good idea because it shows how are you are growing as a good to becoming an adult. It gives them the time to redeem themselves and show how they can really contribute to society as long as they have done good.