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East Moline man remains a sex offender after bill is defeated

By "eAdvocate"

3-6-2011 Illinois: ___ is a registered sex offender, but it's because when he was 17, his fiancée at the time was 16-years-old and pregnant with their now 7-year-old daughter. __, his wife, and their two young sons were hopeful a new bill introduced to the Illinois House would allow him to shed the sex offender tag. But the House defeated the bill known as the "Romeo and Juliet? bill on Thursday leaving the family in the unknown. "I'm a little nervous both for myself and my family," ____ said. What makes him nervous is House Bill 1628 which prohibits sex offenders from living near child counseling centers. "If they don't make it specific to what a counseling center could be, it could be just about anything they decide and if that bill gets passed, my family will be moving to Missouri to live with [her] parents and I'll possibly be forced to live out of my car...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on March 06, 2011 (boomark / email).