Much ado about nothing. They were arrested Saturday, it is now Monday. If they will be charged, it will happen today. The Prosecutor's office doesn't staff 24/7. This is a complete non story.

Absolutely right. A "non-story". The paper must have been desperate for headlines.

If they were released to go home, could it be that someone posted bail (if there was any)? Or COULD it be that they shouldn't have been detained in the first place?

I don't know about anyone else in this country, but I'm bored to tears with this reporting. Surely there is something more important, more pertinent going on in the world than former offenders who gravely offended by leaving their home on Halloween.

Do you know that you can search your fingers off using Google or any other search engine, and you won't come up with a story regarding a child that's been abducted BY A SEX OFFENDER, on Halloween or during Trick or Treat?

Absolutely 100% dead on, WhoisJohnGalt, "much ado about nothing".

Absolutely ridiculous law.
First of all, children should not be out at night ALONE. Second, if porch lights are out, we were always taught as children that those people aren't celebrating Halloween.
I can see having a sign out saying no candy. The part of that law that I believe is ridiculous is to make these people prisoners of their own home for the night. What is next - locking them all up for the night in the civic arena? The continued addition of more laws needs to stop! There are no rules, regulations, lists for those who have been charged with selling drugs, assault, murder, alcohol, etc. Why isn't this information out there on these people too? These things could be bad for children to be exposed to as well. Think about it - there could be a neighbor who has been charged in the past for drugs...and then a drive by shooting intended for them...and the innocent child outside playing is killed. We have all seen it before, so why can't we as citizens be protected for all aspects of illegal behavior?

Here, here. Retarded law enforced by spineless followers who can't think for themselves.

Well I dont feel sorry for them.

No one is saying to feel sorry for them, SuzyQ. Thank you though for highlighting a major problem with lazy-Americans:

Just because it doesn't involve you (for now), you can't be bothered to get involved. And don't be so foolish as to insinuate that these redundant, retarded laws exist only in sex offender situations. It surely does not.

No one asked for your sympathy and sympathy isn't a requirement to see the truth in any given situation. An understanding of facts, on the other hand, are.

And apparently you nor most others can't be bothered to even discuss them citing, "I don't feel sorry for them."

Jeez freakin' louise...

sex offenders are the worst scourge of society and their very action of seeking out the weak in society, our children make these laws necessary. Just like the one noted in the story that said he had moved and failed to notify the proper authorities. When your child is molested by one of these freaks, then we will see how much it bores you. Why must you assume NO ONE is interested? I don't allow any trick or treating however, many do and children should be safe. Good thing I don't make the laws, because the sentence for child molesting in my world would include public castration. May each one of them rot in hell.

Hey just because you seem to have it in for me LOD does not mean you can decide whether I am valid in my feelings on the subject.

How do you know it does not involve me??????? HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?????

You don't!

teeter59 - agree 110% with you. Especially that last sentence.

Trick or treating at a sex offenders house runs the risk of the enticing the offender to re-offend. It might not be that night, but it might get them to thinking. In a week or two..

As a parent, I would prefer not going to a sex offender house unknowingly. If they are that deviant to begin with, there is no telling what they might do. I wouldnt want my kid eating candy from there. Probably precisely the reason we only trick or treat from known friends and family, but many other kids trick or treat just whoever.

Anf FYI-Parents don't always accompany their kids. I would, but others dont. They let older kids go in a group on their own. Or send a little one with an older sibling.

Besides its the law, they dont want to have to do it, don't offend.

craftymom - I think you would feel differently if you knew someone who was a victim. I suspect you know someone who is an offender.

As for locking them up at Civic arena... I am all for locking them up and keeping them behind bars in the first place.

Why are you attacking SuzyQ? She only said one thing, I dont feel sorry for them. Can you not recognize that was an opinion? Do you not realize that yours is also an opinion and everyone has the right to make theirs. I am stating mine now, why is it that there are like 4 posts readily jumping to the defense of the rights of these people. Oh I am so sorry that the pervert that molested a child had to stay in on Halloween as a prisoner in their own home. If the law worked correctly they would instead have had to spend the night in their cell. RAPE, MURDER and other victim crimes are differet than other crimes. As a society we are sick to death of being victimized. Rape a child - life in prison now there is a concept. Boo hoo for the child molester we are violating his rights. What about the child? What about their rights? What is wrong with people to so readily jump to their defense. The laws are so unfair. Give me a friggin break the law is NOT strong enough on that or many other points. God forbid it happen to your family. See how ineffective the law really is.

Exactly teeter, I gave my opinion.

Its not like the offender shows their victim any sympathy or mercy.

The victim has to endure the ramifications and be affected by the offender's crime for the rest of their lives...so why should anyone care if they cant pass out candy or leave their home for one night of the year?

Again, I don't feel sorry for them.

I think it is a great law and these people who broke it the other night unless they were at work or at the hospital sick should remain in jail and be given the sentence they originally given and be made serve it.People who are sex offenders and the ones who commit these crimes against children I would have to agree with teeter59 on public castration.What about the one who did not tell them they had moved and found they had moved to close to a school?We put people in prision for less and keep them there so why are these child molesters running free within our community.I can garentee one thing it never better happen to my child or there would be a public castration.
SuzyQ you are right on with you opinions on this issue.And teeter59 all of you comments as well are right on.These people disqust me.

My feeling is these people KNOW the law. They are TOLD what they must to do comply, and yet, they BREAK CURFEW!! Personally, I agree they should be locked up until they go to court. LOD talks about "lazy Americans".....to me, lazy Americans are those who castigate the law, and attempt to excuse the lawbreaker, rather than enforce the law.

Nope....the law against these deviants doesn't concern me....I don't have any perverts in my circle of family or friends. I don't know anyone who was ordered to stay inside Saturday evening. I can't, for the life of me, see what on EARTH that has to do with the argument. These people broke the rules, and I don't plan to lose any sleep worrying about them being charged with the violation.

You rock, SuzyQ!!!

Tell the parents of the little girl that was abducted and murdered and thrown in a dumpster like so much garbage..how unfair sex offender laws are. And she was merely walking home from school in daylight...not going to someone's house at night.

I wish that sex offenders were all really truly sex offenders. THe problem with this law and our sweeping paranoia is that quite a few good people are getting caught up in this BS. When you were in High school did you ever date a kid younger than yourself? Have you ever taken a leak outside? Streaked at a football game? Mooned from a moving vehicle? Makes you a sex offender that just wasn't caught... for life. The law sucks because it is too broad and is cruel and unusual punishment.

membery,
If you look on the register it tells what people have done.And it is easy for people to see that the people you are talking about and those are not the ones who worry me.The ones who worry me are the ones who have committed these crimes against children and should be locked up and the darn key thrown away.

membery, I agree that the law is way too broad and sweeping. There are those who have been caught peeing outside (gross, but sometimes necessary, mind you), mooning, streaking, etc. While those things might be sophomoric, they certainly should NOT be considered a crime...especially one as far-reaching and devastating as "sexual predator". I feel that some of the things I've mentioned should be much less serious. I'd also agree, though, with mm1967 that anyone who commits an act against a child, especially sexual acts, should be locked away.

Put the sex offenders that pushed their luck on halloween night in jail and throw away the key just because we want to exercise our luck to.

its the difference between child molester and sex offender. Its remembering that not everyone who appears on the list is a child molester. What I don't understand is why a parent would risk their childs safety by letting them trick or treat alone or even an unsupervised group of kids. Are they crazy? We live 30 minutes from an international airport. At the blink of an eye your child could be gone forever.

So doesn't anyone else agree with what I had said in my first post -
"There are no rules, regulations, lists for those who have been charged with selling drugs, assault, murder, alcohol, etc. Why isn't this information out there on these people too? These things could be bad for children to be exposed to as well. Think about it - there could be a neighbor who has been charged in the past for drugs...and then a drive by shooting intended for them...and the innocent child outside playing is killed. We have all seen it before, so why can't we as citizens be protected for all aspects of illegal behavior?"

I know why no one is agreeing with me for this point...because there are probably friends and family who have been arrested for drugs, alcohol, assault, abuse etc. We SHOULD be able to search our address, and see who all of these people are...not just the sex offenders in this town.

Every state has different rulings....MO goes back 16 years prior to the date the law came into affect in 1995. Why 16 years? not 5, not 10....and not back to 1900 to include every walking person ever charged with any sexual crime? Now that would be fair...but my guess is that there are some political figures, or other important people who would then end up on this list! Now that wouldn't be fair would it?

Well said suzyQ!! Not sure why LibertyOrDeath took offense to the opinions of others and began spewing illiterate rhetoric just shy of vomit....unless he/she was mandated to stay home Halloween night and not participate in handing out candy??? Boooooooooo, I'm scared LOD or is it LSD? Take a pill & chill Liberty...the government backed aliens are done probing.