Now, obviously, I cannot speak for your friend.
However, I adopted children from DHS with a mother who at one time only had a history of having sex with a 14 year old when she was 23.
She went on to continue to make poor choices, however, resulting in getting her children removed a second time, and never getting them back.
So, in my opinion, and from "my side" of things, I feel that the registry SHOULD be harsh to make people really think about what they're doing before they do it.
But, that doesn't mean they will...and in the cases, like your friend's...it sounds like a consensual act that was only reported once embarrassed parents found out about it...yeah...the laws, I think, should maybe be lessened...
Then again though, there comes the other side of the fence I walk, when, like I said, my kid's birth mom started out with something that innocent, too...and kept going.
It is VERY tricky...but I DO think Sapulpa is not thinking well for making this park where this concentration of offenders are. At least right now, we KNOW where they are...that's not to say we will once they're uprooted.
If any of that drivel makes sense.