February 2011:
This is the second of my trilogy of reports examining deaths related to the effects of sex laws and incidents of sexual circumstances over the past ten years. The sex laws that are purposed to prevent future sex abuses (i.e., no more victims), but as this report shows, they have a down side effect, other victims. This report is about the "Other Deaths," deaths lawmakers seemingly ignore, past a fleeting headline! This report covers 98 cases 133 deaths; none of them are former sex offenders.
These are the "Hidden Victims" whose deaths are somehow related to a sex crime, an sexual accusation or simple beliefs of a crime or who the person may be, or a former offender. The victims here are the innocent victims that no government report recognizes as being tied to sex abuse policies; innocent folks who died. The most recent "Other Deaths" tragedy resulted in the deaths of three police officers in Florida and a fetal death!
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS:
- 25% of the 133 other deaths were children;
- 22% of the 98 cases had multiple deaths;
- 47% of the cases originated in 6 states (Arizona, California, Texas, Michigan, Florida and Washington);
- 83% of the cases occurred from 2006 on, which happens to be when the Adam Walsh Act was enacted;
- 2 cases involved murders of children of former sex offenders, and 5 cases involved deaths of law enforcement officers;
- Guns were used in 51 of the 98 cases;
- Underlying suicides accounted for 28% of all other deaths cases;
- Children in close proximity to persons newly accused of a sex crime people who have no history of a prior sex crime, but who committed suicide, were MOST likely to be killed by the person accused. However, when a former sex offender committed suicide, children were LEAST likely to be killed by them. i.e., 15 to 3.
For the remainder of this paper and statistics: by eAdvocate
