![]() Must comply with a complex array of legal requirements that apply to all sexĭetention or prison, youth sex offenders are subject to registration laws Throughout the United States, people who commit sex offenses asĬhildren (also referred to in this report as “youth sex offenders”) Removed from the registry in Michigan in 2011, but remains on the registry inįlorida, and his life continues to be defined by an offense he committed at age Jacob continues to fight for custody and visitation butĬannot afford a lawyer because he has been unable to find a job. The judge denied him custody of his daughter, citing Florida’s KeepingĬhildren Safe Act and the fact that Jacob had a criminal felony conviction forįailure to register. That case learned of Jacob’s felony conviction for failure to register, In 2009 for not having electricity in the house. Under investigation by Florida’s Department of Children’s Services Register a new address after a period of homelessness and was arrested andĬonvicted of the felony of failure to register.ĭescribe Jacob as a doting parent to his daughter, Jacob’s wife came Was too close to a school and he had to move. Restrictions that required him to check-in with police on a daily basis and During this time, Jacob tried to followįlorida’s sex offender laws, but continually ran afoul of residency ![]() A year later, he and his wife divorced, and Jacob wasĪwarded joint custody of his daughter. Jacob worked for his father’s company for a fewĪnd had a daughter. Jacob left Michigan to start a new life in Florida and reconnect with hisįather living there. “The campus police followed me everywhere.” Jacob attended a local university in Big Rapids, Michigan, butĮnded up dropping out. Him expelled and he had to “fight to walk across the stage” at That changed when he turned 18 during his senior year in high school, and his Juvenile court jurisdiction, Jacob was placed on a non-public registry. According to Jacob, theĬouple helped him to “deal with the trauma” of growing up on the When Jacob was 14-and still unable to return home-heīecame the foster child of a pastor and his wife. As a result, he was placed inĪ juvenile home. Not live in the same house as his little sister. Jacob’s parents were separated, his father lived in Florida, and Jacob could Registry and prevented by residency restriction laws from living near other One count of criminal sexual conduct, Jacob was placed on Michigan’s sex offender was 11 years old and living in Michigan when he was tried in juvenile courtįor touching, without penetrating, his sister’s genitals. ![]()
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