Misleading Story, “Teen girl abducted by registered sex offender in Texas”
Daily, we scan headlines for news relating to “sex offender issues”, both good and bad, so we can keep our members apprised of anything that might impact them.
We were alarmed to see a headline out of Texas, saying a girl had been abducted by a registrant. Naturally that’s every parent’s worst nightmare, but it’s our worst nightmare too, because it will follow by a series of “you see…” legislation.
The title was completely misleading though… The 14-year-old was abducted by her father.
You’d think the various news outlets reporting this would mention that, as abductions by non-custodial parents, which also concerning, are dramatically different than someone snatching a kid off the street.
If anyone has some time they might want to let some of these news outlets to focus on what will get the kid back, instead of scaring the public:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/03/29/texas-teen-abducted-lexus-gray-mxp-vpx.hln
Supposed abduction by whether custodial or non custodial parent is a definite problem, especially when it relates to a registered citizen. This most definitely makes us as a whole look bad. The reasons behind the aledged abduction is unknown to us atm, but as we see it feeds fire to the flame that is ever against us.
Maybe that guy can sue for defamation of character. Of course if he is on the sex offender registry, good luck having any rights.
Just think of the real issues in today’s world, nobody gonna care about SO’s. Be the times of when had life easy, time on hands to point fingers. Been a good ride
Just putting spin on the story to fit the popular narrative of the boogeyman sex offender and the urban myth aka fake fact, that stranger danger is more than a cutesy easy to remember line of bullshit but also a big fat lie!
NO ONE reads the entire story – they only read the headline!
Father abducts own daughter just doesn’t have the same impact that “SEX OFFENDER ABDUCTS TEEN GIRL” HAS!
TRUTH BE DAMNED!
FACTS…WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING FACTS
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Also, it puts the Father AND the Daughter at greater risks. Vigilantes come out of the wood work and could tackle , attack and even kill the guy. The daughter rushes over to help her Dad and one of them pushes her out of the way and she trips and falls into the path of a car and dies. They see what has happened and take off.
If the headine told the truth that a Father took his own Daughter that maybe he did not have custody of, many would actually root for the guy to have time with his own kid. In the very plausible senerio above, a family loses both a Husband and a child all caused by a fake, dramatic headline made to induce fear and newsworthyness. Dare I say the news has ruined many lives over the years.
Found safe.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2021/03/29/amber-alert-east-texas-girl-who-authorities-say-was-abducted-by-sex-offender-father-may-be-in-dallas-area/
One of the reasons the news and police do not like to release that it is a parental abduction is, because the mass majority of people are not going to turn in a Dad or Mother who takes their own kid. So they make it appear a stranger danger incident and everyone snitches on them.
Well you can’t blame the media (tongue in cheek). The old media mantra of “if it bleeds, it leads” has morphed into “if it sizzles it sells.” And nothing sizzles like a good sex offender abduction story.
I watch for such stories and I’d bet that parental abduction by non-registered parents of either gender is far and away the most common scenario.
Veritas.
ED C
What makes me mad is this. There is a difference between a sex offender and a predator. I am not judging just saying in order to be labled a predator, there has to be some more serious charges or multiple incidents.
Having said that, I have seen some guys caught in an online police sting (Some with no previous arrrests) and the news headline reads “10 sexual predators caught trying to meet children on the internet”. They haven’t even had their day in court for meeting an undercover cop, and yet the news gets to give them their sentences and monikers in advance live on tv?
This “Freedom of the press” clause in the constitution has ruined man a life. I think it goes too far. A loved one is laying there dying from a car wreck and the news team zoom in and say “We can’t show you the “Body” (Your loved one is now just a body not a human) because it is too graphic”. “We are going to talk to some of the witnesses and see what juicy details we can gather”.
I’m so sick of this crap I’ve been on the registry more years than I have not and not a threat to girls 4 years younger than me anymore I’m fixing to retire and I guess spend my mornings how to avoid being noticed and humiliated while traveling. Raised my kids they are moved out never gonna get over the harm this title has caused me and my family. Times were so much simpler 23 years ago I can’t believe this shits shit happening it’s so depressing pulling up the statutes trying to make sense of them we’re moving I’m going to move until I find somewhere I can be free and out run the hell that I am in here.