MySpace and 90,000 Sex offenders...

[Guest]

.... Oh my...

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[xssve]

It's probably more like 15K trying to register like five or six times.

 

[xssve]

Either way, it's a lot.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

.... Oh my...

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And that's not even daydreaming about how many unregistered sex offenders are signed up. Both MySpace and Facebook are happy hunting grounds for pederasts and child abusers. Any parent who lets their kid onto the internet without supervision must have been lobotomized.

 

[3113]

It's probably more like 15K trying to register like five or six times.

True. And let's keep in mind that "sex offender" has an unfortunately broad definition. As we've discussed here before, a boy who, on the eve of his 18th birthday has consensual sex with his 16 year old girlfriend can get listed as a "sex offender" by her outraged parents--that's a bit different from a 45 year old pedophile pretending to be 14 in hopes of meeting up with a 12 year old.

We hear the word sex offender and immediately think pedophile, but the truth is that there are a number of things that can get someone listed as a sex offender that don't have anything to do with molesting children...and some of them saddle a person with the label for an unfairly long time.

Which isn't to say that we shouldn't be alarmed. Even if we cull out those unfairly labeled sex offenders or those labeled such for minor offenses rather than something like molestation, and even if we assume that it is about 15K trying to register multiple times, I'm sure that still leaves the site with a very scary number of sexual predators--and even one on the site is too many, yes? 90K, however, makes me suspicious. As if those presenting the number don't trust me to be afraid or worried enough for kids on MySpace if it's any lower.

 

[jomar]

Facebook is the new MySpace.

 

[tickledkitty]

These are registered sex offenders. What about all the unregistered pervs in the world? I think they are fighting a losing battle.

 

[xssve]

Sex offenders

* On a given day in 1994 there were approximately 234,000 offenders convicted of rape or sexual assault under the care, custody, or control of corrections agencies; nearly 60% of these sex offenders are under conditional supervision in the community.
* The median age of the victims of imprisoned sexual assaulters was less than 13 years old; the median age of rape victims was about 22 years.
* An estimated 24% of those serving time for rape and 19% of those serving time for sexual assault had been on probation or parole at the time of the offense for which they were in State prison in 1991.
* Of the 9,691 male sex offenders released from prisons in 15 States in 1994, 5.3% were rearrested for a new sex crime within 3 years of release.
* Of released sex offenders who allegedly committed another sex crime, 40% perpetrated the new offense within a year or less from their prison discharge.


Child victimizers

* Approximately 4,300 child molesters were released from prisons in 15 States in 1994. An estimated 3.3% of these 4,300 were rearrested for another sex crime against a child within 3 years of release from prison.
* Among child molesters released from prison in 1994, 60% had been in prison for molesting a child 13 years old or younger.
* Offenders who had victimized a child were on average 5 years older than the violent offenders who had committed their crimes against adults. Nearly 25% of child victimizers were age 40 or older, but about 10% of the inmates with adult victims fell in that age range.

Criminal Offenders Statistics

Well, I suppose, it could be like every sex offender in the country, but there aren't even that many convicted sex offenders - as far I can tell, there are only about 250K, give or take - I'm having a hard time finding total number of offenders in the database however.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Facebook's real name culture allows anyone who wants to run down another individual within 20 minutes. If you don't believe that, I'll find the video our local sheriff's office uses to try and teach internet safety to the kiddies. MySpace isn't any better, even with what passes for anonymity. All it takes is a kid who is just a tad resentful and passive-aggressive to fall into the trap and some pederast can have a field day.

 

[xssve]

That number has to be low, Michigan alone has 43K +. Might take a while, some registries do screen out persons convicted of statutory offences.

 

[xssve]

Here's the totals, by state: http://www.nationalsexoffenderlist.org/

 

[3113]

Criminal Offenders Statistics

I stand corrected. I suppose that those 90K could all be molesters and rapists.

 

[xssve]

I'm not sure where they get their nimbers, but this site claims: "There are over 491,720 registered sex offenders in the United States".

http://registeredoffenderslist.org/blog/sex-offenders/child-molestation-statistics/

So maybe 90K isn't out of line.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Any parent who lets their kid onto the internet without supervision must have been lobotomized.

When the older ones were living with us, I wouldn't let them on MySpace. At all. I blocked the site. It's still blocked, actually, on the "family" computer. I have one, but only for "business and networking" purposes. And I refuse to even consider Facebook, considering the privacy issues they had.

But my ex, the idiot, decided I was too rigid and MySpace was fine, let the kids get accounts. I finally got a personal one just to keep an eye on them. Not that it does any good - I have no doubt they have "private" accounts they don't tell us about.

It's a great big Pandora's box as far as I'm concerned.