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How to co-mingle unrelated facts to support a premise.

By "eAdvocate"

11-17-2010 Florida: The following story appeared on CBS News in Florida, you will note that the reporter consulted with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for facts; but do those facts support the premise, sex offenders target middle school children? First the relevant part of the story: New Stranger Danger: Sex offenders target middle school-aged children JUPITER, Fla.-- It's something many kids have to do, walk to and from school. But it's a passage of childhood filled with peril. "It's very real, your child's life is in danger," says a man who just wants to be identified as Frank. He's a convicted sexual offender arrested and convicted for exposing himself to two middle-school aged girls in Boca Raton. From experience, he knows children are in "More danger when they reach puberty, the predators know that...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on November 17, 2010 (boomark / email).