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NY - Rethinking Adam?s Law

View the article here 02/11/2009 By Jami Floyd, In Session anchor NEW YORK ? The fear that sexual predators are hiding under every rock and around every corner has led to a nationwide effort to hunt them down and keep track of them ? in most cases for life. Put aside for the moment the fact that most children are abused by a family member and that in child abductions and murders fewer than one percent of the perpetrators are strangers. The more immediate concern is this: Our national obsession with sexual predators is actually getting in the way of effective law enforcement. Good intentions have been clouded by bad information perpetuated by those who would gain the most ? not the victims, but television talk show hosts hungry for ratings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).