All the more reason to charge only people with sex offense crimes who actually deserve them.  A 19 year old with a 17 year old shouldn't get you there, for example.  Nor should slapping someone's butt in a bar, or texting a picture of yourself to your boy/girl-friend.  SO status should be reserved for the worst of the worst, and only with a conviction based on solid evidence.

I imagine this social worker took into consideration that way too many people are on the SO registry who shouldn't be there, or for an offense that didn't apply to the situation, and so attempted to use common sense in placing this child with his father.  Now, she's in deep doo.