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NY - Sex offenders: looking at the numbers

View the article here 02/09/2009 By Noreen O'Donnell - Journal News columnist "No Easy Answers," is the title of a Human Rights Watch report on sex-offender laws in the United States and here's one question. How well do residency restrictions protect children? One statistic from the report jumped out at me: 87 percent of people who were arrested for sex crimes had not previously been convicted of such an offense, according to a 1997 study. No residency restriction would have hindered their ability to abuse children. It couldn't. They hadn't been caught yet. Here's another statistic - one that is even more uncomfortable to consider. Just 14 percent of all sexual assault cases involved strangers, according to the the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics...continue to full post

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