So is the mother stating she has wondered off before and fell in a canal? Betting this why Dad has custody.
I don't know. If they took away all the children who were the victims of near-drownings in this state, DCF would be more overloaded than they are now. It can happen SO fast, and there is water everywhere. It's why we'll keep child locks on the doors until they leave for college.
I can't really see the parallel between a 24 year old dating a 17 year old, although I do question the judgement, and actual, malicious sex offenders.
And far be it from me to defend SOs, but while there might be 45 in that area, you really have to prioritize. Many of those SOs are going to be there because they were in the same situation as this father and his GF. A lot of them won't have even looked at a little girl the wrong way. The predator whose link was posted--I think child











is despicable, horrible, grotesque, whathaveyou, but he gets the same predator label whether he filmed the child




or if he forwarded an email with an image. I don't envy LE when you have that many to filter through. You could have a "predator" that once forwarded a video clip to a friend, and an "offender" who molested his 16 year old niece and is looking to escalate.
Like I said, not defending, but it's not cut and dry in terms of labels.
I live in a small, charming, idyllic town in west central Florida, and there are 25 SOs in the two mile radius of my home. It's a pleasant middle-class neighborhood on the Gulf and we average .5 homicides a year. Usually we just get a bunch of gas drive-offs. Yet we have 25 registered in just a tiny segment of a small city. It's so disconcerting. Yet, in some way, I don't worry as much about them as much as I worry about those who aren't registered.
Still, it teaches me to always lock both sets of doors and to keep the sensor monitor on in the boys' nursery.