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- Title
Raised By a Predator: Sex Offender Parents and an Effort To Keep Them Out of the Child's Home.
- Authors
Prysner, Rachel
- Abstract
Registered sex offenders are obligated to comply with rules put forth by their state's registry. While there are stringent guidelines regarding the offender's interaction with the public, a sex offender's ability to obtain custody of their child is less rigid. Statutes differ on the level of scrutiny referencing their right to parent, which leaves an opening for offenders to abuse their child. This Note proposes the adoption of a model statute in which registered Tier III sex offender parents who were convicted for a crime involving a minor are precluded from gaining physical or legal custody of their child. Key Points for the Family Court Community:57,329 cases of childhood sexual abuse allegations are confirmed per year by Child Protective Services.Of those reported, 20% of the perpetrators were fathers.Children who experience sexual abuse are more likely to develop eating disorders, drug addiction, post‐traumatic stress disorder, and depression.Sex offenders are required to submit their information to a registry that is accessible to the public following the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, but individual states still have the ability to enact their own registration requirements.States are permitted to draft their own custodial rights statutes, some of which allow parents who are registered sex offenders unsupervised access to their child.
- Subjects
CHILD sexual abuse; CUSTODY of children; PARENT-child legal relationship; ABUSIVE parents; CHILD abuse laws; SEX offenders; DEPRESSION in children; POST-traumatic stress disorder in children
- Publication
Family Court Review, 2020, Vol 58, Issue 3, p847
- ISSN
1531-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/fcre.12515