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Originally Posted by RPatrino
I agree that people can change. Unfortunately pedophiles can't. They can surpress the urges but eventually they will repeat offend. People with records like this do not belong around kids, period.
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73% of convicted sex offenders did not reoffend 20 years after release, according to one study:
http://www.ps-sp.gc.ca/res/cor/sum/cprs200407_1-en.asp
From another study:
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Approximately 4,300 child molesters were released from prisons in 15 States in 1994. An estimated 3.3% of these 4,300 were rearrested for another sex crime against a child within 3 years of release from prison.
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http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm#recidivism
Sex offenders certainly do re-offend, but the facts do not support your statement that they cannot supress their urges.