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According to a new analysis by RAINN of Justice Department data, only three out of every 100rapists will ever spend even a single day in prison.  The other 97 will walk free, facing noconsequences for the violent felony they have committed.  While the percentage of rapesreported to police has risen in recent years, a majority, 54%, still are not reported.  Basedon older data, RAINN had previously estimated that about 6% of rapists ultimately go to prison fortheir crime.

Robert Howard is accused of killing 12-year-old Naomi Jones in Pensacola. Howard, a convictedrapist, was a registered sex offender in Escambia County, Alabama, but investigators say he wasstaying at the apartment complex in Florida where Naomi lived. In this Reality Check, Local 15’sAndrea Ramey uncovers a loophole that allows sex offenders to travel freely and finds out howinvestigators keep track of them all.

It’s a hot muggy Thursday morning in June, and these volunteers are checking out this shack inIrvington to make sure the 53 year old sex offender who molested

Every person confined in this facility has served time for sexual offenses. But, when theirprison sentences were up, they weren’t set free. Instead, they went before a review board and ajudge. If these violent sexual predators were deemed too dangerous to return to society, they werecommitted to McNeil Island indefinitely.
It’s not voluntary, not by any means, Kelly says. Our primary purpose is public safety.We don’t want any more victims.

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Message from Executive Director Laura A. Ahearn: Parents for Megan’s Law and the CrimeVictims Center provides advocacy, counseling and other valuable support services to child and adultvictims of sexual assault and to all victims of violent crime.  Please visit our website atwww.parentsformeganslaw.org for news, information and resources in your community.

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Newsday.com/Robert E. Kessler 5/15/15 Jay Kroll, a 58 year old Massapequa man who served six years in state prison for sodomizingan 11 year old, was indicted on charges of videotaping “sexually explicit conduct” witha 13 year old.  Kroll, a registered sex offender, pleaded guilty to child exploitation chargesand will face a mandatory sentence of life plus 10 years in prison.  The current case arose in2013 after agents of Homeland Security Investigations searching the Internet came across what theybelieved was Kroll accessing child pornography, the prosecutors said. In searching Kroll’s home,they

news12 7/30/15 There is a new push to change a law that currently allows a sex offender to legally livenext door to a child’s school.  County restrictions that kept registered offenders away fromschools and playgrounds were tossed out by the State Court of Appeals in February.  There iscurrently a bill to restore the power to counties restricting where sex offenders live.  Thereis also a new call to expand a predator’s time on the sex registry from 20 years to 30 years. (New York)

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rnrnrnaol.comrn 7/15/15rn Lloyd Lee Michael Welch, Jr., a 58 year old imprisoned sex offender, has been charged withrnfirst-degree murder in the disappearance of two sisters from a suburban Maryland mall inrn1975.  Twelve year old Sheila Lyon and 10 year old Katherine Lyon walked from their house tornthe Wheaton Plaza Mall in March 1975.  They never came home and no bodies were found. rnAfter decades of investigating leads and periodically identifying suspects, officials say they nowrnknow that Welch was responsible.  He is a child sex offender serving a lengthy prison term inrnDelaware.