“When he was a young boy, he was sexually abused. At age 16, his parents learned, he’d molested a young girl himself. He was criminally charged and convicted, and because of that, got treatment. But his name was never part of a public registry. Had that happened, his mother said, the boy might have forgone treatment and headed down a much darker path of abuse. ‘This is something that just happens. If you are raised up in that culture, you will act out (sexually),’ said the mother, a 52-year-old Williamson County woman. Her name and her son’s name are being withheld because The Tennessean does not identify victims of sex crimes. This year, state legislators will be asked to add juveniles convicted of sex crimes to Tennessee’s public sex offender registries.” [editor’s note: And the result will be even more people whose lives are forever ruined by the nanny-state; “sex crime” knows no distinction betweeen forced abuse of a child … and mutual consent between “minors” - SAT] (01/11/09)