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The West Australia Council of Civil liberties says a website that outlines the details of convicted child sex offenders will mark family members of offenders for life. Lobby group Movement Against Kindred Offenders (MAKO) has set up the site, which lists 455 offenders' basic details, including the type of victim targeted. MAKO has established a system of notifying communities through flyers if a convicted offender moves into the area. The group's president, Kylie Newman, believes the group has the support of the entire community. But Civil Liberties Council president Peter Weygers says the website is cruel and unfair. He fears it will incite violence against offenders and their families. "It will create more victims and create more crimes than it will stop," Mr Weygers said. "After all most child sex offences are committed by other family members and friends, who've not yet ever offended in the past or been convicted." The father of convicted sex offender Steven Ray Hough says his family has already been destroyed through attempts at retaliation, without his son even being named on a website. Rod Hough says his family lives in constant fear and has had to move four times. "It's not my son who's going to be ... targeted," he said. "My other son could end up on the floor or my daughter, what's to say that somebody might turn around and kill them." ABC Online (10-8-2003) |
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