Underage rapists are rarely made to register as sex offenders but a proposal aimed at stopping judges from releasing juveniles from the perv list seems doomed to fail, a state senator said yesterday. ``I don't think it's going to see light of day, frankly, because of pressure from special interests,'' said state Sen. Scott Brown (R-Wrentham). ``(Opponents) don't want to take the discretion away from the judges.'' Brown's bill would make registering with the Sex Offender Registry Board a requirement for juveniles convicted of sex crimes and close a provision that allows judges to block underage molesters from classification. Massachusetts has only about two dozen juvenile perverts on the sex offender rolls while other states, such as Illinois, have more than 1,000.
Posted by Editor at September 23, 2005 02:15 PM