School Says Sex Offender Mother Can't Participate on Trips
For almost nine years, Alashia Green has tried to put the conviction that makes her a sexual offender, behind her.
But Tuesday, a lewd or lascivious battery charge from Bay County, reared its ugly head again.
She says the school her four-year-old son attends, told her she couldn't bring him to, or pick him up from school.
"I'm not here to harm their kids," Green said. "I have a child of my own so I'm with them on the sexual offender thing. I'm not against that. But you should be able to listen to people's stories of how they became a sex offender."
When Green was 18-years-old she was convicted for having sex with her then 16-year-old boyfriend.
Green says she's paid her debt to society behind bars and she wants to do the things any other mother would be able to do for their children.
"I'm a mother now. People need to look at me differently than how they're looking at me and that's not right," said Green.
Tuesday the Murat Hills Head Start center gave Green a letter saying "Head Start will not allow anyone who is a registered offender to volunteer or participate in center activities."
Dorothy Iman-Johnson is the Executive Director of the Community Action Agency, which is over the Head Start Program, and said Green isn't banned from transporting her child to and from school.
Iman-Johnson says the problem arose when Green requested to go on a field trip with her son's class.
"We have to follow the same laws that any other child care facility has to follow that if someone is on the registered sex offender list for the state, we can't put other parents' children in jeopardy by allowing them to be here," said Iman-Johnson.
The school says Green can still drop off little Nathaniel and pick him up but Green, contends they told her a different story.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says at the state level, there aren't any stipulations keeping Green from being able to go on field trips or participate in activities.
FDLE says those restrictions were imposed by the center. ..Source.. by Deneige Broom
2 comments:
Here is another example of what I have stated over and over again. Sex Offender Registration Laws affect not only the Offender, but their families as well. Think about this child. His mother will never be able to go on any school outings with him, or attend school plays, or ...unless special consideration is granted, attend his kindergarden, eighth grade, or high school graduations. Is that fair to this child? How about all the other children of sex offenders who face the same thing? Did the drafters of these laws ever consider what would happen to these children when they put forth these laws? I don't think so.
Sex Offender Registries don't just ostracise the offender, but his/her entire family as well. Given an average extended family of just ten people, the 750,000 registered Sex Offenders in this nation represent 7.5 million people affected by these laws. That's better then 1% of the entire population. Something has to be done, and soon. Before any more children suffer like the child in this article will.
This proves Sex Offender Laws and the Registry don't protect children. The innocent children of sex offenders deserve to be protected from Predator Politicians and Stupid School Administrators who make these laws.
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