FL- Victims applaud Florida child sex laws but want one addition

By Barbara Dorris
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
March 11, 2014

http://www.snapnetwork.org/fl_victims_applaud_florida_child_sex_laws_but_want_one_addition

We're glad Florida lawmakers are toughening the state's child safety laws. We hope they will include a measure to create a new statewide database of adults who have been found guilty in civil trials of child sex crimes.

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The existing registry - for those criminally convicted - is good. But because many predators are shrewd and many police and prosecutors are overworked and under-funded, many child sex offenders are never criminally charged or convicted.

Some of them ARE found guilty, however, in civil trials. Legislators would make it easier for citizens and employers to know who these offenders are too.