Man Ordered To Wear Sex Offender T-Shirt
“A Delaware judge has ordered a man convicted of repeatedly exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl to wear a T-shirt with the words, ‘I am a registered sex offender.’ Sixty-nine-year-old Russell Teeter was also sentenced yesterday to two months in jail. Teeter has more than ten convictions, dating back to 1976, and has been through treatment for being a compulsive exhibitionist. That led Deputy Attorney General Donald Robert to suggest the T-shirt, and Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden thought it was a good idea. Roberts says maybe the shirt and jail time will teach Teeter ‘to keep his zipper up.’ Teeter will have to provide and wear the shirt when he’s working at his horticulture business outside Newark for 22 months after he gets out of jail.” — CBS3 (US)
Lately courts have imposed a number of these Scarlet Letter punishments on sex offenders. Inevitably they arouse passionate debate pro and con: some feel that this is a violation of basic civil rights, others feel that the perps get what they deserve. In either case, what remains at issue is whether these punishments have the slightest efficacy. When an exhibitionist has to wear a t-shirt, it’s entirely possible that you’ll have seen his private parts before you can finish reading the statement on his chest. Shouldn’t the judge mandate that this guy wear pants?
Meanwhile, following the curious logic whereby things edgy tend to become cool, it’s easy to imagine that t-shirts like this could catch on among young people. Is it really a stretch to imagine college students lining up for t-shirts that say, “I am a registered sex offender?” If Mr. Teeter has any business sense at all, he’ll not only wear the shirt, he’ll trademark it and sell them by the dozens from his store. He can even print up a number of cute variations, like “I [heart] sex offenders” and “I exposed myself and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.”
Sadly, my first thought when I read the quote and before I had read your comments was along those lines – “hah, that’d be a funny t-shirt to wear ironically.”
I would totally wear that shirt.
it would be better if the shirt said “im a sick pedophile who exposes my genitals to ten year old girls by all means feel free to kick the sh*t out of me”
Yeah, I agree with ladacara, perhaps listing the offense might do something, but then you risk t-shirts listing fake offenses on the back like tour dates for a concert t-shirt.
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