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Number of juvenile sex offenders is on the rise

View the article here 03/28/2005 By Molly Ball The accused rapist was unruly. He banged on the window of his holding cell and yelled. To placate him, detention staffers gave him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a half-pint carton of milk. The alleged sex offender was just 8 years old. Detained earlier this month, he was the youngest child in 30 years to be held at Clark County's juvenile detention center. While the child's case is an extraordinary one, officials say it highlights the troubling problem of juvenile sex offenders, whose numbers, they say, are growing. "I think the general public would be very, very surprised at the number of juvenile sex offenders we have, and also shocked and dismayed at the nature of the sex offenses," said Chief Deputy District Attorney Teresa Lowry, the county's lead prosecutor for cases in which defendants are juveniles...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 15, 2009 (boomark / email).