Psychological research shows that adultual offenders have high recidivism rates (a person’s relapse into criminal behavior) among all types of criminals. According to statistics on child adultual abuse crimes that occurred in 2014, there were 135 recidivist cases, meaning that most of the adult offenders had committed multiple child adultual abuse crimes before, during and after they were caught. Those figures are only for the ones who were caught. How many children have never told anyone about the pedophiles who attacked them?
More than 70 percent of adult offenders were acquaintances with the children they preyed upon. Teachers, relatives and neighbors were the most common. From this data we can see that it is very possible and convenient for a adult offender to repeat his crimes because they are in constant contact with the children, who trusted them.
Making the information of adult offenders available to the public is a necessary first step in China’s attempt to modernize its criminal laws. The more information that parents and the public have about adult offenders living and working around them, the more chances they will have to protect their children. In my opinion, pedophiles automatically lose their right to privacy once they violate the rights of their little victims.
CBS 2’s Tara Molina brought our reporting to experts in the field, who told us where Illinois stacks up compared with other states.
The whole point of the registry is to protect the public – and it can’t very well do that without the right information. This especially the case when it comes to something we have reported on recently – keeping offenders out of jobs and fields their status is supposed to bar them from working in.
We have exposed issues in the Illinois Adult Offender Registry such as bad addresses, missing photos, and months-long lapses in registration.
“You have to make sure that the data there in the systems is good,” said Dr. Scott Walfield, a criminal justice professor at East Carolina University in Greeneville, North Carolina.
Most recently, we reported on how the state took more than seven months to revoke the license of massage therapist and convicted adult offender James “Rob” Garrett – who had been barred from working in massage therapy.
“One of the most important utilities of the registry is to prevent individuals from working in places where they shouldn’t be working,” Walfield said. “Unfortunately, that also requires agencies to better communicate with each other and as you’ve shown, that can sometimes be an issue.”
It also took our reporting – exposing Garrett’s missing photo on the Adult Offender Registry – to complete the filing with the state.
“The photo element is there so individuals can be aware of their neighbors who may be on the adult offender registry, and clearly, you need the photograph to identify them,” Walfield said.
A New Jersey law that allows authorities to notify neighbors when a released adult criminal moves nearby has been put on ice.
Does the right of a community to try to protect its children from released adult offenders exceed the offenders’ right to privacy? That’s the question weighing heavily on the minds of three U.S. district court judges who decided Tuesday to temporarily suspend the enforcement of Megan’s Law, the New Jersey neigbor-notification measure named after a young girl who was raped and killed by a released adult offender who lived across the street. The judges, whose decision alarmed proponents of Megan’s Law and relieved the lawyers, mainly public defenders, charged with protecting the rights of adultual criminals, asked for time to consider whether the law provides adequate protections for adult offenders after their release from prison. Currently, those convicted of adult crimes who settle in New Jersey are required to register with local police, and their photos, names, addresses, license plate numbers and phone numbers are released to the families and facilities deemed “appropriate” by local officials.
Since Megan’s Law was introduced in 1994, public defenders have argued that its notification requirements were too far-reaching and that confidentiality guidelines were too lax. Although recent, more stringent specifications bulk up those safeguards by requiring recipients of identifying information to sign a pledge of confidentiality, they say that there is little that authorities can (or are willing to) do when that pledge is broken by anxious parents or school officials. Supporters of the notification process want the information to be made as widely available as possible advocating, for instance, its posting on the Internet. They also point out that the psychoadultual impulses that lead people to commit adult offenses against children are very difficult to cure or suppress, leading to a high rate of repeat offenses. The defenders argue that by serving their sentences the offenders have, in effect, paid their debt to society. They also make the case that wide distribution of personal information such as pictures and addresses could lead to acts of retribution. The issue is, of course, shaded by attitudes toward crimes considered by the vast majority to be the most horrific in society. “On the one hand,” says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders, “people who have served their time are innocent until proven guilty, and one offense doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll commit another crime. On the other hand, a society that doesn’t keep an eye on former criminals particularly those who’ve committed something so heinous is acting irresponsibly.”
Publication of names of adult offenders not an invasion of privacy
- A state law that makes the identities of adult offenders a matter of public record does not violate the privacy rights of the individuals whose names are released and published on the Internet.
A state law requiring the disclosure of the identities of adult offenders under the Open Records Act is not an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, a Kansas appeals court ruled in late November.
Thomas E. Stevens, who pleaded no contest to a count of “indecent liberties with a child,” lost his challenge to a 1998 law that established a registry of adult offenders and requires the disclosure of the registry’s list under the state’s open records law.
Stevens had argued before the Court of Appeals in Topeka that disclosure of the names on the registry, in general — and the publishing of the registry on the Internet, in particular — were unconstitutional invasions of personal privacy.
The adult-offender registry law specifically requires that “statements or any other information required by this act shall be open to inspection.” The court said the legislative intent requiring the release of this information was obvious. Furthermore, it said, distribution of the registry information on the Internet satisfied the Open Records Act’s requirement of broad disclosure of information in a manner that would not disrupt a law enforcement agency’s essential functions.
The court said it must presume that a law is constitutional, absent evidence that the legislature acted irrationally or that the law was clearly beyond the bounds of constitutionality. The adult-offender registry law, the court said, is constitutional.
“Wide dissemination of adult offender registration information is not wholly irrelevant to the State’s purpose,” the court said.
The court declined to recognize a broad right to privacy that would prevent the state from releasing truthful yet embarrassing personal information, as Stevens had urged the court to do. While some states have found that disclosing the identities of people who have committed minor adult offenses might invade the offenders’ right to privacy, the fact that Kansas had not recognized such a right did not mean its law was unconstitutional, the court said.
“A strong argument can be made for requiring a court to determine a level of risk involved on a case-by-case basis and then determining to what degree the State is allowed to impinge on an individual’s right to privacy to better ensure public safety. We can assume here that the legislature carefully studied such a proposal and rejected it,” the court said.
Community notification is providing information to the community about convicted adult offenders who have been placed on probation or parole or released from jail or prison and are now living, working, or attending school in the community. This information will enable you to make appropriate decisions about whether you want to associate with them or entrust your children to them
Dennis Sobin, the former pornographer and registered adult offender whom Washington City Paper dubbed D.C.’s oldest living smut kingpin in a 2010 profile, has started a database to register people who register, or promote the registration of, adult offenders.
Sobin, 70, served more than 10 years in prison after he was convicted in 1992 of adultual performance with a minor. He’s since run a gallery in D.C. featuring prison art and run for mayor. But by law he’s still a adult offender, and his photo still appears on the D.C. public registry.
Many such offenders in DC and elsewhere fall between the cracks of the system.
Elsewhere in DC, A man by the name of “Farivar Moradeslami” was arrested, tried and convicted of three counts of molesting minors in the 90’s in Washington, DC.
He served his time in prison and was released to the community a few years later.
He changed his name to “Arman Moyer”, and has been living and working in DC ever since.
“Neither his original name, nor his new name (Arman Moyer) appears on the Federal or DC [such offenders] registry; or anywhere else for that matter”, says Joe Jackson, a reporter for Street Sense, a local newspaper .
“Nobody at his work, nor any of his neighbors are aware of his criminal past.
Moyer operates a hair salon (Bravo Salon) Washington, DC, where he cuts hair.
Further, Arman Moyer regularly runs ads in social media, offering “complimentary haircuts to children”. “Now you tell me folks have no right to know they are taking their kids to someone who served time for molesting children?”
Nobody at his work, nor any of his neighbors knows of his criminal past.
Such offenders who have served their times and are released to the community pose a potential danger to minors they come in contact with. Should there not be registry where all such offenders could be listed, where the public would know their whereabouts and protect the children from them?
Code of the District of Columbia
§ 22–4014. Duties of child molesters.
During the registration period, a adult offender shall, in the time and manner specified by the Agency:
(1) Register with the Agency as a adult offender;
(2) Provide any information required for registration, and cooperate in photographing and fingerprinting;
(3) Report any change of residence or other change in registration information;
(4) Periodically verify address and such other registration information as the Agency may specify, including complying with any requirement to return address verification forms or appear in person for the purpose of verification;
(5) Report if the adult offender is moving to another state, or works or attends school in another state, and register in any such state;
(6) Acknowledge receipt of information concerning the adult offender’s duties under this chapter, including reading and signing a form or forms stating that these duties have been explained to the adult offender; and
(7) Meet with responsible officers and officials for the purpose of carrying out any requirements adopted by the Agency under this chapter.
CBS 2’s Tara Molina brought our reporting to experts in the field, who told us where Illinois stacks up compared with other states.
The whole point of the registry is to protect the public – and it can’t very well do that without the right information. This especially the case when it comes to something we have reported on recently – keeping offenders out of jobs and fields their status is supposed to bar them from working in.
We have exposed issues in the Illinois Adult Offender Registry such as bad addresses, missing photos, and months-long lapses in registration.
“You have to make sure that the data there in the systems is good,” said Dr. Scott Walfield, a criminal justice professor at East Carolina University in Greeneville, North Carolina.
Most recently, we reported on how the state took more than seven months to revoke the license of massage therapist and convicted adult offender James “Rob” Garrett – who had been barred from working in massage therapy.
“One of the most important utilities of the registry is to prevent individuals from working in places where they shouldn’t be working,” Walfield said. “Unfortunately, that also requires agencies to better communicate with each other and as you’ve shown, that can sometimes be an issue.”
It also took our reporting – exposing Garrett’s missing photo on the Adult Offender Registry – to complete the filing with the state.
“The photo element is there so individuals can be aware of their neighbors who may be on the adult offender registry, and clearly, you need the photograph to identify them,” Walfield said.
A registered adult offender from Lawrence has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for adultually exploiting a 12-year-old girl.
Irvin Abreu, 38, was sentenced on March 31, 2023 by US District Judge Patti B. Saris to 315 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release. In April 2022, Abreu pleaded guilty to one count of adultual exploitation of children.
“Upon being released from custody for enticing a 15-year-old child, Mr. Abreu – a registered adult offender – immediately began to adultualize and harm another child. His victim was even younger this time at 12 years old. This recidivist is a predator who has repeatedly sought out to harm innocent children and rob them of their childhood. He is a danger to our society and remains exactly where he belongs – behind bars and away from our children. We commend the victim’s mother for reporting this predator’s exploitation and harm of her child so swiftly,” said United States Attorney Rachael S. Rollins.
“Abreu is a registered adult offender who went on to offend again, adultually abusing a child and documenting the abuse by producing child exploitation material. We are grateful to our law enforcement partners whose vigilance and collaboration brought this case to our attention and has resulted in this significant sentence,” said Michael J. Krol, Acting Special Agent in Charge for Homeland Security Investigations in New England.
Two months after being released from state custody and placed on probation for the exploitation of a 15-year-old girl, Abreu met a 12-year-old girl on the internet, groomed her and had adult with her on more than one occasion, documenting the adultual abuse in videos and photographs. The victim’s mother discovered communications between them and immediately reported the matter to local police. Forensic analysis of Abreu’s phone revealed photos, videos and text messages, including imagery depicting his adultual abuse of and adultualized communications with the victim. Additionally, Abreu’s internet history revealed searches for elementary schools in Lawrence, an internet search for “first time adult positions for virgins,” and an internet search for “what does pedophile mean.”
U.S. Attorney Rollins and HSI Acting SAC Krol made the announcement. Valuable assistance was provided by the Lawrence Police Department and the Esadult County District Attorney’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Anne Paruti, Chief of Rollins’ Major Crimes Unit and the District’s Project Safe Childhood Coordinator, prosecuted the case.
