A Delaware judge on Friday ordered a man who twice exposed himself to a 10-year-old girl at his workplace to wear a T-shirt with the words: “I am a registered sex offender” in bold letters, a prosecutor said.
Man ordered to wear “sex offender” T-shirt – Yahoo! News
A man with at least ten convictions for exposing himself to children was sentenced to sixty days in jail and, upon his release, has to wear a shirt that clearly states he is a sex offender. The man has to wear the shirt for a little less than two years.
I think this is a very good sentence. The man has convictions that date back to the 1970′s. Obviously what ever his previous punishments were, they did not work well. The shirt by itself doesn’t seem like a huge punishment, it almost sounds like something you would find in Spencer’s or something, which doesn’t say much for our society. The shirt allows the community to deal with the man’s punishment. The article says that the man runs a gardening business with his wife. It is beyond fair that customers know who they are dealing with. Customers should know that if they are bringing their children to this place, they could be placing them in a dangerous situation.
The man was diagonsed as a ‘complusive exhibitionist’. First of all, I don’t think I fully agree with exhibtionism as a disease. I think if you are risking the well-being of the community, especially children, you should be in some kind of treatment. I don’t know what treatment someone with chronic exhibitionism would undergo, something with lots of buttons and zippers I would assume.
I think that all sex-offenders should have a shirt, or a hat or something that warns people they could be in danger. I understand that for some sex offenders, it truly is a disease and they don’t have control of themselves. No matter what the cause, they are still a risk and a danger to the general population.
