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by 88379937 129 days ago
> Would you want her charged if she didn't even know?

Yes? There are laws against child endangerment for a reason, and giving someone unrestricted accsss to your child without performing a basic background check very much falls into that territory.

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I dunno. The skeeziest people I know would show up squeaky clean on paper, and several of the ones I trust the most have some kind of shit in their past, at least on paper.
> There are laws against child endangerment for a reason

What do you think the reason is? The deterrence value is zero.