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How many of these sex offenders bought this couch and live close to this brick factory in homes built in that time period?

• phire 8mo ago
  About 0.3% of the adult population is on registries in the US. With 40,000 couch sales, there would be roughly 120 sex offenders would have bought that couch. You can see what I mean about the registries being bloated. Doesn't really narrow things down until you add the brick factory, but then they already had it down to 40 houses. But it's a mistake to even assume the couch was bought by the same house as the offender. The offender could just be visiting, or the couch could have been moved to a different house since purchase (sold second hand, or the owner moved). And you are assuming the offender had been caught before, or was even on the sex offender registry for abusing children.
  • hsbauauvhabzb 8mo ago
    So ~1m people are registered sex offenders? As in, 1m people who were arrested and found guilty of sex offences? That’s insane.
    • phire 8mo ago
      It's more like 800,000 But I used number of adults, not total population. Because most children aren't registered sex offenders, or buying expensive furniture.
    • infecto 8mo ago
      Just look up how many folks local to your area are on the list. It’s quite shocking.
  • nkrisc 8mo ago
    > But it's a mistake to even assume the couch was bought by the same house as the offender. It’s not a mistake, it’s a convenient assumption to make until it’s proven otherwise, especially when you have basically no other information to go on. I have no doubt these investigators are intelligent enough to have considered that possibility.
• roysting 8mo ago
  I think what is confusing is likely that the investigators/detectives were probably trying to make sure that the girl was actually in the house where the sex offender was registered or technically living, and not maybe kept somewhere else. A lot of detective work is building the case, but also confirming what you believe is actually true and you need the evidence to also request the warrant on factual grounds. They could have busted in the door of that house and found that there was no such brick to be found anywhere and the girl was sold off to someone else or something like that. It’s really rather sick and deranged though that this kind of dynamic of women with children associating with sex offenders is not exactly rare. Frankly, I hope the mother was also charged.
  • rectang 8mo ago
    > Frankly, I hope the mother was also charged. Would you want her charged if she didn't even know? There is nothing in the article suggesting that the mother conspired with her boyfriend, or that she even knew he was a sex offender. I can imagine a scenario where the mother blames herself for not knowing and is utterly destroyed by misplaced guilt. Who knows what actually happened? The article wasn't about that.
    • 88379937 8mo ago
      > Would you want her charged if she didn't even know? Yes? There are laws against child endangerment for a reason, and giving someone unrestricted accsss to your child without performing a basic background check very much falls into that territory.
      • thaumasiotes 8mo ago
        > There are laws against child endangerment for a reason What do you think the reason is? The deterrence value is zero.
      • alwa 8mo ago
        I dunno. The skeeziest people I know would show up squeaky clean on paper, and several of the ones I trust the most have some kind of shit in their past, at least on paper.
• expedition32 8mo ago
  There was an infamous case in the Netherlands were two children were horrifically attacked in a park and it turned out that TWO pedos were at that location at the time. They got the wrong one. Serendipity and all that.
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