The Sex Abuse Frenzy: When will it end?

Some of the key findings of the research conducted for the SOL Research website (external links) are:

• Juvenile sex offenders. An estimated 19,000 people are on US sex offender registries for behavior when they were children or adolescents — some younger than eleven years old — many of them for innocently “playing doctor” or for normal, consensual, teenage love affairs. See Criminalizing Child’s Play.

• Innocuous “offenses.” Sex offenders include people whose only crime was breastfeeding their baby or urinating behind a dumpster. See Look Who’s a Sex Offender Now!

• Growing underclass. As of 2007, one out of every 220 adult men in the United States was a registered sex offender. See Counting and Over-Counting Sex Offenders.

• Sex worse than violence. The federal sentence for photographing a 17-year-old boy with an erection is about twice as severe as for attempting to kill him — and about four times as severe as for beating him up so badly that he accidentally dies. See Throwing Away the Key.

This page courtesy of solresearch.org.