The following information has been gathered from the Department of Justice. It is based on data taken in the early 1990s. Don’t believe all the crap that sex offender sympathizers try to sell you. The truth can be seen in the statistics. Since some time has passed since this information was organized, we can only wonder if the situation has improved. If one reads the headlines each day, I think that the reality would more likely be that things are worse.

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.

Intimate Victimizers

• About 4 in 10 inmates serving time in jail for intimate violence had a criminal justice status — on probation or parole or under a restraining order — at the time of the violent attack on an intimate.
• About 1 in 4 convicted violent offenders confined in local jails had committed their crime against an intimate; about 7% of State prisoners serving time for violence had an intimate victim.
• About half of all offenders convicted of intimate violence and confined in a local jail or a State prison had been drinking at the time of the offense. Jail inmates who had been drinking prior to the intimate violence consumed an average amount of ethanol equivalent to 10 beers.
• About 8 in 10 inmates serving time in State prison for intimate violence had injured or killed their victim.

Also of interest is the report entitled “Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement: Victim, Incident, and Offender Characteristics.” (Requires Adobe Reader)

This is a pretty comprehensive snapshot of data pertaining to sexual predators of children and their victims.

According to this report:

• Crimes against juvenile victims are the large majority (67%) of sexual assaults handled by law enforcement agencies.
• One of every seven victims was under the age of 6 years old.
• Over a third of all sexual assaults involved a victim who was under the age of 12.

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