{"id":1868,"date":"2019-11-18T08:41:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2021-04-02T12:21:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T17:21:06","slug":"nj-com-female-juvenile-sex-offender-abused-as-a-child-challenges-law-putting-her-on-megans-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2019\/11\/18\/nj-com-female-juvenile-sex-offender-abused-as-a-child-challenges-law-putting-her-on-megans-list\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ.com &#8212; Female juvenile sex offender, abused as a child, challenges law putting her on Megan\u2019s List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"introduction-wrapper\">\n<p>By Joe Atmonavege | November 17, 2019<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s Public Defender\u2019s office is hoping to join a federal lawsuit that is seeking to eliminate Megan\u2019s Law registration for all juvenile sex offenders in New Jersey, a move the attorneys hope will strengthen their case to end the requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the office filed an additional complaint against Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and a motion to intervene in the case of a 23-year-old who filed a lawsuit earlier this year alleging the Constitutional rights of juvenile sex offenders are being violated in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Both lawsuits argue that there was a rush to judgment when laws were passed creating sex offender registries that included juvenile sex offenders. Extensive research has shown that recidivism rates for juvenile sexual offenders are extremely low and putting them on a registry may actually have little effect on public safety while causing severe psychological harm to the juveniles themselves, according to the lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdding another plaintiff to this litigation just shows it is a wide reaching problem,\u201d said Jesse DeBrosse, an attorney in the Public Defender\u2019s special hearings unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read at <a href=\"\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2019\/11\/female-juvenile-sex-offender-abused-as-a-child-challenges-law-putting-her-on-megans-list.html\u201d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\">NJ.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Atmonavege | November 17, 2019 The state\u2019s Public Defender\u2019s office is hoping to join a federal lawsuit that is seeking to eliminate Megan\u2019s Law registration for all juvenile sex offenders in New Jersey, a move the attorneys hope will strengthen their case to end the requirement. Last week, the office filed an additional &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2019\/11\/18\/nj-com-female-juvenile-sex-offender-abused-as-a-child-challenges-law-putting-her-on-megans-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">NJ.com &#8212; Female juvenile sex offender, abused as a child, challenges law putting her on Megan\u2019s List<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-notes","7":"category-sorn-news","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}