An actual sex offender or just someone caught up in some politician's moral panic?
At least "murderer" hasn't been hi-jacked. Yet.
At least "murderer" hasn't been hi-jacked. Yet.
My uninformed impression however is that while many people may unjustly get the "sex offender" label (for example, somebody who got caught pissing in an alley behind a bar), the people who receive a "sex offender" label and jail time skew towards the "did something that actually has a victim" crowd.
To give you an idea of what can also satisfy this group of facts, they could also have been urinating in public, which in many places earns the offender a place on the sex offender list for life, then resist arrest with a conviction for assault on a police officer due to a lack of funds of a lawyer. So, y'know, it's good to keep one's moral panic gauge calibrated according to the current state of the law.