talk about in treatment? we can t be in the session along with him, so it s frustrating as can be. you know, he gets frustrated with it because it doesn t seem like he s moving forward. it seems like a lot of pressure for a kid. i think it s really hard. he looks for us, you know, for help, and we re not able to really give it to him. it s hard for you as a parent to know that they re struggling like that. to be deemed rehabilitated, blake needs to pass a series of polygraphs or lie detector tests. but according to blake s attorney, jade rosenfelt, it s a flawed system. why polygraphs? historically, they re used to make sure that an offender is disclosing anything and everything they ve ever done that would be considered sexually deviant. many juveniles have a hard time passing these polygraphs, especially when they re not even really that reliable. they re not admissible in court, but yet they re used in sex offender treatment as sort of
together, it sounds like a stupid impulse. blake didn t have a lot of experience with girls. i think he may have had a crush on her with that awkwardness, i suppose, and didn t know how to go about showing that. adolescence is a confusing time. raging hormones give way to flirting, dating, and sex. but today with smartphones in the hands of 70% of high schoolers, teenage sexuality has gone digital, and a few high-profile cases have dominated the nightly news. colorado teens gone wild. sexting on a scale like we have never seen. students describe pictures that they and almost all of their 1,600 classmates and others saw of naked girls who attend this north jersey school. several junior high girls, ages 13 to 15, sent nude pictures to boys, all of them students at north county middle. countless teens across
so you are a big star wars fan, i see. yeah. do you have a favorite episode? the empire strikes back. but you can t go to the movie theater. no. and what is the fear of you going to movie theaters? just that since it s dark and nobody can see me, that i may, like, decide that i m going to commit an offense against somebody. for blake s protection, we re not going to tell you exactly where he lives. in fact, blake isn t his real name. i win! we ll call his younger brothers michael and cade. his dad will go by duane and his mom, patty. so tell me what blake was like as a kid. he was a very intelligent
we just could not believe it. blake was sentenced to ten years on a juvenile sex offender registry along with nearly 100 other young offenders. in minnesota, the list of lower-level offenders is only accessible to law enforcement. but the protection has its limits. for the next decade until he s 25, blake may be required to share his status on future job and housing applications and with his peers. does the future seem scary to you at all? a little bit, yeah. i have never had a girlfriend. it would be nice to have one, but it s going to be hard. just like i m going to be alone forever. i m scared of that. like, i don t want to end up
like, if i could go back in time, i would stop myself. like, i did something that changed everything. today, blake is on minnesota s juvenile sex offender registry, a status that brings with it a lot of restrictions. no going to movie theaters or malls where children congregate. no leaving the city limits without a probation officer s permission. and not a moment to himself. blake s probation requires his parents to monitor him 24 hours a day with the exception of when he s at school in the presence of teachers. it s your responsibility to keep your eyes on blake? yes, and literally keep my eyes on him. so he has to be with either dwayne or i with the exception of when he s at school.