When former public defender and director David Feige heard Shawna’s story, "it became immediately clear that she was far from the kind of person we imagine when we think about sexual predators," he writes. "Shawna isn't some serial rapist or violent pedophile, but a young woman who happened to hook up with the wrong guy when she was 19 and he, it turned out, was 14." Fifteen years later, condemned to life on the sex offender registry, she still pays the price for that mistake every day. Her story raises important questions about who gets labeled a sexual predator and the penalties we impose on them.

“Untouchable,” Feige's documentary feature about sex offender laws, won the Best New Documentary Director prize at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.

Learn more: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/09/17/shawna-a-life-on-the-sex-offender-registry