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Have you considered getting the SHPO discharged by applying to the court, if it was such a long time ago etc etc,
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Have you considered getting the SHPO discharged by applying to the court, if it was such a long time ago etc etc,
An old school chum of mine had a relationship with a girl a few school years below him. Some years later they got married, had kids and he’s now a grandfather. Should we now have his crime, reinvestigated and for him to be put on the sex offenders register, for the rest of his natural.I think everyone deserves a fair crack at the whip, but to be honest, I think you’re going to struggle. I’m not hear to judge you, but the very nature of the offence you’ve committed will put most people off, myself included. If you’d been in a drunken fight 15 years ago and had a conviction for ABH / GBH and not been in trouble since, then I think most people could forgive that, I know I would as can relate to it.
Probably because every one of us has at some point punched or seriously considered punching someone.....a crime involving children especially this type of crime is not something most people can relate to and don’t even want to think about...I don’t know the details and I don’t want to....And rightly or wrongly people do not want to be associated with it...on a personal level I wouldn’t employ a drunk driver eitherAn old school chum of mine had a relationship with a girl a few school years below him. Some years later they got married, had kids and he’s now a grandfather. Should we now have his crime, reinvestigated and for him to be put on the sex offenders register, for the rest of his natural.
Don’t get me wrong, totally against the sexual exploitation of anyone including young children, but in this instance, as far as we can be informed of a forum, it’s on the lower end of the scale.
I don’t see why we can accept someone who has committed serious assaults in the past has reformed, whereas in this case we cannot.
An old school chum of mine had a relationship with a girl a few school years below him. Some years later they got married, had kids and he’s now a grandfather. Should we now have his crime, reinvestigated and for him to be put on the sex offenders register, for the rest of his natural.
Don’t get me wrong, totally against the sexual exploitation of anyone including young children, but in this instance, as far as we can be informed of a forum, it’s on the lower end of the scale.
I don’t see why we can accept someone who has committed serious assaults in the past has reformed, whereas in this case we cannot.
Probably because every one of us has at some point punched or seriously considered punching someone.....a crime involving children especially this type of crime is not something most people can relate to and don’t even want to think about...I don’t know the details and I don’t want to....And rightly or wrongly people do not want to be associated with it...on a personal level I wouldn’t employ a drunk driver either
There's a distinct difference between marrying your childhood sweetheart years ago when attitudes were different, and doing something that warrants getting a SHPO by today's standards.
After having done jury service in December and sat on a sex case where someone was up for breaching one, i know that SHPO's aren't dished out for minor offences; they're given to people that are seen as an ongoing threat / danger to the community, which is why they issue them. I.E. serious and prevalent offenders that can't be trusted to go about their day to day business without being a nuisance to the public.
It's also no secret that looking at stuff you shouldn't be looking at on the internet, or speaking with underage girls on the internet, will get you into a serious amount of trouble; and rightly so. At 18, you're an adult, you know the difference between right & wrong!!!!
Now compare doing something like that on multiple occasions willingly, to punching someone once while intoxicated while on a night out; and i know which person i'm willing to forgive and give a job to.
People can agree or disagree, but those are my standards and i'll stick by them thanks.
As to giving preference to someone (a job) whose just punched another whilst intoxicated is debatable. Might ask my son, who was punched in the face, and broke his jaw in two places. He suffers problems and pain, from the rusting of plates put into his jaw, to fix them. His crime was he didn’t have a cigarette to offer his assailant.
So I can’t agree with that analogy.
I think the OP is missing a key issue here too in that the potential employee has to take an unprecedented risk to their own business and career, we have all seen those videos on youtube where a stupid act like a driving offense caught on dashcam by an employee can lose them their job and in some cases do irreversible damage to the company, it can takes yrs to decades to build up a company reputation and it can be sunk in a matter of minutes through a careless act. This isn't about the likelihood of reoffending here, this is one of those crimes that if it does get out could ruin a company simply by association.
The information the company has about the OP will need to be disclosed a number of times and will not only affect the type of work like domestic, industrial or commercial but also working with other trades, effectively if the company or any other company they work along side has say apprentices, work experience etc on site who can be as young as 14 and 15 then they may be required to put special measures in place like permanent supervision etc, even if measures could be implemented it is the court of public opinion that is the biggest risk to the company and the longer the OP is employed and the more times that this is disclosed the higher the likelihood of it been leaked out causing possible irreparable damage to the company.
It maybe the case the OP will never reoffend, it maybe the case the OP has served their time for the crime but the nature of the crime means it will not only weigh heavily on their shoulders for life but also puts a heavy burden on any potential employer especially ones where the job see's them interacting with the public on a regular basis regardless of the age.
My advice is if you want this type of career or similar is to look for employment where you effectively work in one identified environment like been the 'inhouse' electrician for say a factory etc, these types of jobs will not require your details to be submitted to anyone else other than your employee when you apply for the job and limitations and measures could be agreed beforehand between you both and as long as you abide by them then no one else needs to be the wiser giving you better prospects and job security.
I have deliberately kept away from my own views here and tried to give constructive advice, it is not for me as part of the forum to play judge and jury for a crime in your past which you have served your punishment on but I must in part reflect on the difficulties you may face and the risks that employers will be taking in employing you, hopefully I gave you direction that may see you get a career you want but as you are well aware, your options are limited so you have a much harder mountain to climb than most.
I would think that I have to do it for self employed work yes.
I would still very much like to get into the trade but I wouldn't like to go through college and apprenticeships and go through several years of training and become qualified just to find out no one will hire me despite it.
Did you know that the "age of consent" varies from country to country ? Even in Europe, it can be as low as 14. Until a few years ago it was 13 in Spain !They don't have to be young children either, The OP's already said it was for teenage girls. 13, 14, & 15 year old girls are all children and should be protected from that sort of abuse.
I'd be inclined to agree that 'customers' wouldn't be the same thing legally as 'employers'. I'd also suggest getting a legal opinion on whether you'd be required to disclose your history to customers if you became self employed.They would not be your employers, they would be your customers. I would try that question with a lawyer familiar with your situation, not an electricians forum.
Personally fair play to you for coming on here and asking. Good luck and keep your nose (and other parts of your body) clean!
I'd be inclined to agree that 'customers' wouldn't be the same thing legally as 'employers'. I'd also suggest getting a legal opinion on whether you'd be required to disclose your history to customers if you became self employed.
Did you know that the "age of consent" varies from country to country ? Even in Europe, it can be as low as 14. Until a few years ago it was 13 in Spain !
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