Letter: Sex Offender Laws Ignore Future Victims

Shana Rowan responds to a letter to the editor recently by Suzanne Arena.

To the editor, Hopefully you have seen some of the comments that were posted beneath the letter to the editor entitled "Sex Offender Awareness Needs to Improve" by Suzanne Arena. I am one of the commenters and felt compelled to write a letter  in the hopes that it will be published and receive the same consideration and attention that Ms. Arena brought to the issue. Ms. Arena is right about one thing: awareness is important. Sexual assault of children and adults is absolutely something that not just Cranston, but the entire country needs to manage better. It's clear by the steady yearly increase of registered sex offenders - nearing 750,000 at the end of 2011 - that despite constant, stricter sex crime legislation, sex crimes continue at …

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