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WA: for juvy sex offenders, never-ending punishment

Always sucks, having to lay this out to a client and client's parent, from the P-I:Juvenile sex offenders marked for life - Records of childhood transgressions, never sealed, limit options for adultsSince 1997, more than 3,500 children in the state -- some as young as 10, though on average about 14 -- have been charged and convicted as felony sex offenders, a mark that remains on their records forever..."Juvenile sex offenses cannot be sealed -- ever -- and that's huge," said Kim Ambrose, a former public defender who now runs the Child and Youth Advocacy Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law. "It messes you up with any public housing or any job that allows you access to children -- teaching, coaching, shoot, even cosmetology. The only thing that's available, basically, is to get a pardon from the governor...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on June 24, 2008 (boomark / email).