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400 Sexual Offenders Registered Last Year

By "eAdvocate"

1-19-2011 West Virginia: State Police released Monday that nearly 400 people were added to the sex offender registry last year. This is up from when statistics were first recorded in 1993. The number of sex offenders in the state has doubled from 1,468 to a little more than 3,200 this year. Sex offenders must register once a year, during the month of their birth, with state police, for as long as a judge sentences them too. This sentencing all depends on the type of crime. "Anytime anybody has any harmful or offensive contact with somebody with a sexual motivation they could wind up on the sex offender list regardless if there's any intrusion or any penetration or anything like that," explains Harrison County Prosecuting Attorney Joe Shaffer...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).