After disturbing allegations against Wakefield day-care provider John Burbine, who was charged last month with 100 counts of raping and abusing young children, Massachusetts lawmakers proposed legislation Wednesday meant to improve the state’s ability to protect the public from convicted sex offenders.
Senator Katherine Clark, a Melrose Democrat, said she filed the multipronged bill to improve a regulatory system that apparently failed to protect children from Burbine, a Level 1 sex offender who had several run-ins with state agencies before the most recent charges emerged.
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The one thing missing from the article is that some kid streaking or going to the bathroom in public could now be brabnded for the rest of his life for something done in college, or when he turned 18 and had sex with "underage" girlfriend. These things happen and now they'll be considered the same as Burbine?
How about starting with simply charging offenders with the aPropriate crime in the first place? Burbine should not have been level 1.