Stepdaughter About To Have Baby, Dad's A Registered Sex Offender
My stepdaughter is about to have a baby. The dad is a registered sex offender. They are currently living together. His offense was 10 years ago with a 15 year old girl. He was quite a bit older. We live in Missouri. Is there anything that we can do to protect this baby when she's born. Or do you think we should worry?
Re: Stepdaughter About To Have Baby/Registered Sex Offender Dad
Your stepdaughter is an adult and she is aware of his status as a sex offender? I'm not sure there is anything you can do except be there to support the child and her mother if anything goes wrong.
I am assuming this was a statutory rape case and it was 10 years ago....
Believe it or not, there are some people who learn from their lessons in life and change their behaviors and--- as parents sometimes we worry before worry is needed.
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I don't think it's worrying when worry isn't needed. It's a proven statistic that, more often than not, sex offenders RE-OFFEND. I am dealing with a child custody case with a registered sex offender (my ex husband who also resides in MO), and I'm here to tell you you do NOT have an easy road ahead of you... Good luck though... And I completely understand your fear. I am TERRIFIED that my children are going to be hurt when they're made to visit their father.
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I don't think it's worrying when worry isn't needed. It's a proven statistic that, more often than not, sex offenders RE-OFFEND. I am dealing with a child custody case with a registered sex offender (my ex husband who also resides in MO), and I'm here to tell you you do NOT have an easy road ahead of you... Good luck though... And I completely understand your fear. I am TERRIFIED that my children are going to be hurt when they're made to visit their father.
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It's a proven statistic that, more often than not, sex offenders RE-OFFEND
cite your source please.
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Well, I'LL cite some ...
Regarding this report by the US DOJ, OJP:
http://www.csom.org/pubs/recidsexof.html
The following conclusion was reached:
Although there have been many noteworthy research studies on sex offender recidivism in the last 15 to 20 years, there remains much to be learned about the factors associated with the likelihood of reoffense. Ongoing dialogue between researchers and practitioners supervising and treating sex offenders is essential to identifying research needs, gathering information about offenders and the events leading up to offenses, and ensuring that research activity can be translated into strategies to more effectively manage sex offenders in the community. Ultimately, research on sex offender recidivism must be designed and applied to practice with the goals of preventing further victimization and creating safer communities.
Practitioners must continue to look to the most up-to-date research studies on sex offender recidivism to inform their intervention strategies with individual offenders. Researchers can minimize ambiguity in study results by clearly defining measures of recidivism, comparing distinct categories of sex offenders, considering reoffense rates for both sex crimes and all other offenses, and utilizing consistent follow-up periods (preferably five years of follow-up or more). In order to reduce underestimations of the risk of recidivism, they also must strive to gather information about offenders’ criminal histories from multiple sources, beyond official criminal justice data. In comparing results of various studies, practitioners should not lose sight of how these issues impact research outcomes.
Researchers must also continue to accumulate evidence about the relationship of static and dynamic factors to recidivism—such data can assist practitioners in making more accurate assessments of the likelihood of reoffending. In particular, researchers must strive to identify dynamic characteristics associated with sex offending behavior that can serve as the focus for intervention. This information can be utilized to categorize the level of risk posed by offenders, and help determine whether a particular offender is appropriate for treatment and specialized supervision. However, in order to make objective and empirically based decisions about the type of treatment and conditions of supervision that would best control the offender and protect the public, more rigorous research is needed to study the effects of various treatment approaches and community supervision on recidivism.
And a well-studied survey beginning in 1994:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm#recidivism
The bottom line that depending on how you define the subject, sex offenders can have the highest recidivism rate - clearly, they are the most liklely to commit another sex crime, but they may not be the most likely to commit ANY offense.
- Carl