Youth sex offenders must report for 25 years
Juveniles convicted of serious sex crimes in federal court can be required to register as sex offenders for at least 25 years, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
A registration law passed by Congress in 2006 that removed sex offenders aged 14 and over from the confidentiality protections of federal juvenile justice law did not violate the youths' constitutional rights, said the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
The ruling upheld registration requirements for three Montana youths who committed forcible sex crimes between ages 14 and 17 on Indian reservations, subjecting them to federal prosecution.
After their release, they must report their whereabouts to state and local or tribal authorities every three months for 25 years, or for life if they commit further offenses. Their names are entered on a government database that is available to the public.
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Something more effective? Imprisoning them for 25+ years.
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It's ever so useful when people come out of prison having spent two thirds of their life there, with no appreciable skill set and the constant albatross of a sex-crime conviction, into an environment on reservations where EVERYONE is already struggling to make ends meet at the best of times. That's a sure-fire path to rehabilitation and becoming a useful member of society right there. 
