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Report details lives ruined for children put on sex-offender registries

By Susan Ferriss

Human Rights Watch investigates how minors, even for innocuous offenses, can end up on sex-offender registries for life.

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"… charged as an adult, and as of 2012 was facing registration for life.” Sex offender laws, the report says, “that trigger registration requirements for child …"