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Message 128538 (In Reply to Message 128506)

Posted by orolan on Mar 11, 2004 08:31 PM | Also by orolan

Gender: Male, Age Bracket: 40 - 49, State: N/A, Country: United States

I think it would be a pretty far stretch even in california to attempt to relate §290.95 to a marriage. You don't "apply" for a "position" as someone's spouse.

I wonder if someone employed prior to Sept 96 had the obligation to inform their employer once the law was enacted.

I think they did. California has been registering sex offenders since 1947, a fact many don't know. They just couldn't tell the public. And I think it was around 1976 that they began requiring disclosure and background checks when SO's applied for jobs as teachers, etc. But I'd have to dig up a copy of the old statutes to see.

A spouse is clearly a person and a family might be considered a group so I would guess that a registered child molester has a responsibility to tell the neighbor or the wife if he’s going to baby sit the kids.

I can see him having to tell the neighbor if he is babysitting the neighbor's kids. But as for the spouse's kids, he is their de-facto parent. There isn't any job or volunteering about this. It's a duty.

Regarding the probation, I believe it ended (one year) after the wedding but I’m not 100% clear on that. It clearly ended after she moved in with him which was a couple of years before the wedding.

You lost me. Did it end a year after the wedding, which would be about three years after she moved in? Or did it end a year after she moved in, but two years prior to the wedding?

does it help in showing in a civil proceeding that he deceived the probation department and his future wife.

You say civil proceeding. Are we talking a divorce here? Or a lawsuit? The only way to know if he deceived the PO is to ask him or her.

I guess that brings it to the main question. I understand you are looking for knowledge. But it is easier to provide that knowledge if one knows why it is needed. So what happened? Ammunition for a divorce? Did he molest the kids? The neighbor's kids?

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Message 128506
290.95

Posted by HerFriend on Mar 11, 2004 02:38 AM | Also by HerFriend

Gender: Male, Age Bracket: 60 - 69, State: New York, Country: United States

Thanks for the info and I will give you any information that will take the conversation further.

Its disappointing that the law was enacted in Sept 96 because that postdates the marriage by 3 months.  I wonder if someone employed prior to Sept 96 had the obligation to inform their employer once the law was enacted.

Regarding 290.95 being limited to employment, I think the language reads:

“Every person required to register under Section 290, who applies or accepts a position as an employee or volunteer with any person, group, or organization where the registrant would be working directly and in an unaccompanied setting with minor children on more than an incidental and occasional basis or have supervision or disciplinary power over minor children, shall disclose his or her status as a registrant, upon application or acceptance of a position, to that person, group, or organization.”

My guess is that this is a little broader than employment.  A spouse is clearly a person and a family might be considered a group so I would guess that a registered child molester has a responsibility to tell the neighbor or the wife if he’s going to baby sit the kids.

Regarding the probation, I believe it ended (one year) after the wedding but I’m not 100% clear on that.  It clearly ended after she moved in with him which was a couple of years before the wedding.

I think the relevance is not if he can be held accountable to the State of California Probation Department but rather does it help in showing in a civil proceeding that he deceived the probation department and his future wife.   Did he lie to his probation office when a woman with two children moved in with him?

I’m just trying to educate myself and maybe find someone that has knowledge of a similar situation.

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128482, HerFriend, Mar 10, 2004 10:27 PM [Looking for advice]
      128483, steve, Mar 10, 2004 10:45 PM
            128484, HerFriend, Mar 10, 2004 11:12 PM [Thanks and here is some more.]
                  128503, orolan, Mar 11, 2004 01:26 AM
                        128506, HerFriend, Mar 11, 2004 02:38 AM [290.95]
                              128538, orolan, Mar 11, 2004 08:31 PM
                                    128567, Rejected
      128550, dp1, Mar 12, 2004 01:52 AM [HerFriend]
      128669, poetsdreamscape, Mar 14, 2004 10:52 PM [other motives?]

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