Sex Offender Ordered to Alert Date’s Parents

A teenage sex offender was ordered by a New Jersey appeals court Tuesday to warn the parents of any person he dates of his sex conviction until he turns 18-years-old.

Tuesday’s ruling upheld a previous verdict. The panel found that the teenager’s strange restriction did not infringe on the state’s Juvenile Code or evade Megan’s Law, a sex offender registration and notification database named for 7-year-old Megan Kanka who was raped and murdered more than a decade ago by a two time convicted sex offender.

The teenage defendant had pleaded guilty in 2004 to sexually molesting his 6-year-old half-sister when he was 14.

The terms of his probation require the boy to alert the parents of any person he dates of his sex conviction until he reaches adulthood.

However, the teenager’s defense attorneys plan on appealing the case. They question how the boy’s probation officers could enforce the rules, since the term “dating” has not been defined.

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