Just recently in the news, I heard about a family renting the upstairs of their townhouse to a man. The family said he was a really nice person that took care of the area around the house, paid his rent on time, was friendly with the neighbors, and so on. What they didn’t know, was that he was taking underage girls up into house room and doing sexual activities with them… including the landlords daughter.
The world today has some sick people that live in it. Which is why everyone has to take more caution around the people they live around and be with. Why did this family not do a background check on this man? Well, according to the police, even if the family did, the man didn’t register himself in the Indiana State Sex and Violent Offender List website. He has done this many times before.
Indiana state law requires anyone living in the state of Indiana that is a sex or violent offender, to register themselves with the local police department within 72 hours when he/she moves into a new location that is considered their primary residence.
Some facts about sex offenders:
- 45% of sexual victims are under 12 years of age
- 75% of victims know their attacker
- 50% of sex offenders re-offend
- More than half of rape/sexual assault incidents happen within a mile of the victim’s home.
- Sex offenders cross socio-economic boundaries, living in both the richest and poorest of neighborhoods.
To check if there are sex or violent offenders around your area in Indiana, you can visit the government site HERE, or you may visit the national site HERE. Both of these sites allow you to enter an address in, and it will show you a map of the registered offenders within 3 miles of that location. I know I was surprised by a few people registered within a block of my location. There are a lot of families with young kids that live in my neighborhood, so that made me a bit uneasy.
Check these sites out for yourself… you might be surprised at what you see too…
-The Other Point of Vew