- should not place one on a permanent sex offenders' registry. Period.

Basically that school official was pushing for it hard.

The kids family does not place blame on the Principle or other actors.

And they haven't named the one school official who was up in arms about this and wanted it prosecuted and who basically bullied this kid into the noose.

The ensuing lawsuit will be instructive.

A sign of decline in a society.

They're kids, for crissakes! They're growing up, they're learning. They are going to make mistakes!!

This country is being ruined by a bunch of unbalanced power hungry assholes.

My heart goes out to this boy & his family.

His critics a should get a life.

for making stupid respectable.

Something odd about this.

His classmates thought he was a hero. I cant believe a judge would actually ruin a kids life for streaking. Was the threat of the sex offender registry really enough to make him that desperate? Or was the streaking a product of other issues?

Certainly tragic regardless.

The article reads as if being put on the register is automatic for a conviction of indecent exposure. Given the definition of that, I'd think a judge would have to find him guilty. It would, I think, be up to the prosecutor, or the school officials, to decide if prosecution was in the public interest. And in some places, especially if the prosecutor thinks he might have a future political career, they might think 'always prosecute'.

The streaking may have been because he, correctly, thought many of his peers would think it made him a 'legend'.

...I certainly can "believe a judge would actually ruin a kids life for streaking". There's way too much "zero tolerance" insanity in this country, with an extra dose of hysteria (which comes in a liberal flavor too, by the way, easily found on DU) on any issue involving sex.

SEX!

PUNISH THE DEVIANTS!