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   by conflagrate 10y ago

   That would be true if we knew who the offenders were. Part of the reason predators target children is because children do not tend to report and the details get fuzzy with time. I've talked to a lot of people doing counseling who said
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   by conflagrate 10y ago

   The sex crime rate has been dropping faster than the general crime rate since the 1990s when the registry was implemented.
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   by conflagrate 10y ago

   It's not impossible to know because people report they were molested long after the fact. There are a lot of estimates to the number of people molested as children (some say 1in 5), and the NYT article linked in another thread suggests