Second Elkhart family fights to get son off sex offender registry

7-8-15 Indiana:

ELKHART - Older teenagers - considered sexual predators - for having sex with teens who are underage. Is it justice? Or as some parents argue, sex crime laws gone too far?
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Darian Yoder was 19 years old when he found a girl claiming to be 17 on a Facebook dating app called "Hot Or Not." After chatting online for a couple weeks, she asked him to come over late one night. They had sex.

Nine months later, state troopers arrested Yoder for sexual misconduct. A judge telling him that girl was only 13-years-old.

Heeding advice from his probation officer, Darian Yoder agreed to talk to us, but asked us not to show his face. He says he knows he made a mistake, but he's not a sexual predator.

"I know I'm not a sex offender," said Yoder. "Had I known her age, I never would have even talked to her."

Teenager’s Jailing Brings a Call to Fix Sex Offender Registries

Note how the sentencing judge totally misconstrues the relationship; there isn't an ounce of proof the fellow was TROLLING for sex! To accept the judges reasoning would require convicting anyone who meets an under 18 yr old on any dating or other Internet site; so much for teenage dating sites.

7-6-15 Michigan:

ELKHART, Ind. — Until one day in December, Zachery Anderson was a typical 19-year-old in a small Midwestern city.

He studied computer science at the local community college. He lived with his parents and two younger brothers in a sun-filled home on the St. Joseph River, where framed family photos hang from the walls and a pontoon boat is docked outside.

And he dated in the way that so many American teenagers do today: digitally and semi-anonymously, through apps where prospects emerge with the swipe of a finger and meetings are arranged after the exchanges of photos and texts.

In December, Mr. Anderson met a girl through Hot or Not, a dating app, and after some online flirting, he drove to pick her up at her house in Michigan, just miles over the state line. They had sex in a playground in Niles City, the police report said.

'Old-fashioned scarlet letter': Elkhart 19-year-old fights sex offender status after encounter with Michigan teen

This is a case of "Victim Entrapment" likened to police entrapment. Seems a lawsuit -or several by anyone else so entrapped- suing the website that permitted her to lie and open account, and the girl who lied (or her parents), would eventually curtail this esp. if enough families are held accountable for the actions of their children.

6-7-15 Michigan:

ELKHART — As Zach Anderson sits in the Berrien County Jail in St. Joseph, Mich., his parents worry.

And plead.

And fight.

The young man from Elkhart, 19, pleaded guilty in Berrien County, Mich., Trial Court in March to a misdemeanor count of criminal sexual conduct for having sex — consensual sex — on Dec. 19, 2014, with a Niles, Mich., teen. She said she was 17, and met him in person after a whirlwind courtship in cyberspace that started with a meeting via the social app Hot or Not.

It turns out she was only 14, though, two years under the age of consent in Michigan. And now, Anderson finds himself sitting out a 90-day jail sentence, with another five years probation and, of particular concern to his parents, 25 years on Michigan’s sex offender registry. Worse yet, Les and Amanda Anderson, who run a small Elkhart media and printing company, fear their son could face a lifetime on Indiana’s sex offender registry on returning to the Elkhart area after his jail sentence is up.

“Here’s the thing: This mistake should not haunt him the rest of his life,” Les Anderson says from the family home in east Elkhart. That’s where his son — a 2014 Concord High School grad and Ivy Tech Community College student until his jailing — lived before Judge Dennis Wiley handed down the sentence on April 27.