Don’t know what gift to get for that special person in your life this Christmas? How about adding them to the sex offender registration in Ohio? It’s easy!

A recently enacted law allows county prosecutors, the state attorney general, or, as a last resort, alleged victims to ask judges to civilly declare someone to be a sex offender even when there has been no criminal verdict or successful lawsuit.

The rules spell out how the untried process would work. It would largely treat a person placed on the civil registry the same way a convicted sex offender is treated under Ohio’s so-called Megan’s Law.

Emphasis mine.

Please tell me that I am not the only person enraged and/or sickened by this possibility. Just point at a person and add them to the sex offender registry? It’s laughable to think it would be THAT easy, but it should be equally laughable to think this level of legislation has been passed at all. And it has! So now little miss Judy who hates big tough Brody for dissing her at the prom and running off with that no-good tramp Debra can ruin his life forever by claming he touched her inappropriately, and–without the need of those pesky TRIALS that are always getting in the way of TRUE justice–have the young man added to the sex offender registry. For the love of god, please tell me it won’t be THAT easy.

And you know where this is headed, don’t you? Yeah. I thought you did.