JAMES CHAPMAN
Parents will be given the right to ask if paedophiles live nearby - but face prosecution if they pass the information on, the Home Secretary has said.
Jacqui Smith unveiled plans to allow mothers and fathers to request checks on babysitters, new partners and anyone else given unsupervised access to their children.
But to avoid criticisms that the move will lead to vigilante attacks on sex offenders, her aides revealed that anyone passing the information on could be charged with incitement to violence.
A Home Office source said: "If people disclose information in a public way which resulted in a public order offence, then they could be prosecuted."
The plans will be seen as a watered-down version of the proposed "Sarah's Law" - named after murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne - which would have made sex offenders' whereabouts public knowledge.
Sarah Payne, 8, was murdered in 2000 by Roy Whiting, previously convicted for indecent assault of a girl
Sara Payne, the mother of the eight-year-old killed by Roy Whiting in 2000, has led the campaign for such a law, but it has been rejected by successive Home Secretaries.
The Government has studied how Megan's Law - the equivalent-piece of legislation in the U.S., - is working.
In some states sex offenders are forced to display a warning notice in their windows.
However, there are concerns that such a system could actually put children at risk by driving paedophiles underground.
Miss Smith yesterday unveiled a version of the law which will be tested in Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Cleveland and Warwickshire......Article conts (-)
Parents will be given the right to ask if paedophiles live nearby - but face prosecution if they pass the information on, the Home Secretary has said.
Jacqui Smith unveiled plans to allow mothers and fathers to request checks on babysitters, new partners and anyone else given unsupervised access to their children.
But to avoid criticisms that the move will lead to vigilante attacks on sex offenders, her aides revealed that anyone passing the information on could be charged with incitement to violence.
A Home Office source said: "If people disclose information in a public way which resulted in a public order offence, then they could be prosecuted."
The plans will be seen as a watered-down version of the proposed "Sarah's Law" - named after murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne - which would have made sex offenders' whereabouts public knowledge.
Sarah Payne, 8, was murdered in 2000 by Roy Whiting, previously convicted for indecent assault of a girl
Sara Payne, the mother of the eight-year-old killed by Roy Whiting in 2000, has led the campaign for such a law, but it has been rejected by successive Home Secretaries.
The Government has studied how Megan's Law - the equivalent-piece of legislation in the U.S., - is working.
In some states sex offenders are forced to display a warning notice in their windows.
However, there are concerns that such a system could actually put children at risk by driving paedophiles underground.
Miss Smith yesterday unveiled a version of the law which will be tested in Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Cleveland and Warwickshire......Article conts (-)
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