A fine legal argument that might well have served a criminal defendant proved useless to a man who was found guilty of abusing his granddaughter during a trip to North Carolina and incurred lifetime listing as a sex offender. Whether Virginia can prosecute an act of sexual abuse allegedly committed in another state might be a good question, but this man doesn’t have any right to raise that question because it’s the DSS doing the prosecuting, and so there has been no criminal prosecution and no criminal conviction and such jurisdictional questions don’t matter. Administrative proceedings which levy their punishments under the Child Abuse and Neglect Act are statutorily not criminal, and the placement of the appellant’s name in the sex offender registry is nothing he can complain about. It’s an administrative remedy intended not to punish him, but to protect children. Having said all that, the Court of Appeals goes on to evaluate some of the evidence and say that it was, on the whole, supportive of the conviction. C.G. v. Virginia DSS, unpublished, 23 VLW 354 (8/5/08).