Sexy Sex Offender List Causes Outrage

Analysis by Benjamin Radford


A piece published in The Houston Press titled “The 10 Hottest Women on the Texas Sex Offenders List” has caused a stir. It included photos and descriptions of ten attractive (and not-so-attractive) female sex offenders in the Lone Star State, along with their crimes.

Many readers were outraged, and Change.org, a prominent social activism website, immediately circulated a petition demanding that the newspaper apologize for “the trivialization of the sexual assault of children and the misguided emphasis on the women's physical appearance.”

While the majority of sex offenders are male, women rape and sexually assault children far more often than people realize. Some cases are famous, like that of Mary Kay Letourneau; other times women rape and kill their child victims, as happened with eight-year-old Sandra Cantu, who was sexually assaulted and dumped in a pond by a neighbor, Melissa Huckaby, in March 2009.

Part of the reason that sexual abuse — especially child sexual abuse — is so hard to combat is that the general public has been misinformed by sensationalized “stranger danger” predator panics. Parents spend their time worrying about strangers with candy and people on sex offender registries instead of focusing on the far greater dangers lurking in their own homes, schools and churches.

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'In a follow-up piece titled “The ‘Hot Sex Offenders’ List: An Explanation and Apology,” the author, Richard Connelly, stated: “Last week I spoke to two veteran child-porn prosecutors (who) talked of how child predators don't fit any category — the people they prosecuted included successful lawyers and doctors, as well as unemployed losers. It triggered an idea about how people have a preconceived notion of what dangerous predators ‘always’ look like — slovenly fat guys in T-shirts asking kids if they wanted a ride — and how best to shake that notion up. An item on ‘10 sex offenders who don't look like sex offenders’ might have done the trick, but seemed boring.”

Thus the infamous Top Ten Hottest Female Sex Offender list was born. Connelly wanted to make the point that "normal-looking people, people you could pass any day on the street — or who you might think are ‘hot’ — are capable of monstrous things.”'

personally I think it's a pretty egregious title. how many freaks will read that title -- freaks that perpetuate the stereotyping of women? maybe it sheds light on the "don't fit any category" concept, but it is still kind of screwed up. i would have preferred to see the "boring" title, myself. just my opinion.

the sex offenders list doesn't protect children or save them from molestations. One reason is there is no way to tell which person on the list is a dangerous predator because 1.)everyone who commits any type of sex crime is put on the list, in some states hookers and Johns get on the list, 2.) criminal code violation is used to describe the person on the list crime, about the only clear one is CSC 1st degree, the rest depends on the age of the victim, force, coercion, family member, position of authority, living with victim. Most people can not read criminal code, I have heard people claim a guy who was arrested for 4th degree CSC raped his victim, they were not aware that CSC 4th degree is a misdemeanor.

Remember when the law was made they called it the Meagan law for the little girl that was raped and killed by a serial rapist who was released from prison early due to over crowding, guess what state and guess who was Governor, heres a hint Texas and his name was GW Bush. The convict had a long history of child rapes and had told prison staff that if released he was going to rape again and they still released him. So they came up with the list that at the federal level was going to list the worst of the worst predators then gave states leeway on how to make their list.

I looked around my states list and was rather surprised by how the zip codes of the offenders showed the highest numbers of offenders living in the poorest area's of the city while the richest areas had the fewest offenders, a rate of 20 to 1. To make matters worse many states don't include the status of the offender, parole, probation or in prison, while putting offenders who are in prison on the list making it even harder for people to know who to look for. Then they put a picture up of the offender, remember the public has a hard time IDing strangers, so now innocent people are mistaken as offenders because they look like someone on the list. Tell me again how this list has stopped one child from molestation. All the list has are people who got caught committing a sex crime those that haven't been caught aren't on the list and can very well be living next door or sitting on your sofa drinking your coffee.

Most sexual assaults are still performed by someone the victim knows.

while their mom was in the hospital and a step brother who was 10 years older then them.

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Hottest Women? Really?

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