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Texas Gov Vetoes Sex Offender Registry Reform Bill

By Corey Rayburnyung

Texas Governor (and potential seceder) Rick Perry vetoed a bill which would have given young sex offenders the opportunity to have their names removed from the state sex offender registry. From the El Paso Times:Aaron Jernigan had just started college at age 18 and was planning a career as a music teacher when he met a girl at a party and his whole world changed.Now 25, Jernigan finished a four-year prison sentence instead of a four-year degree.He is trying to get on with his life, but a year out of prison he still cannot find work and has had to move twice because he will forever carry with him the black mark of a registered sex offender."I was pretty much just a regular old kid in high school," he said. "And they kinda threw away the key on me...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).