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Some Government facts for you

1.The stark reality is that the overwhelming number of acts of child sexual abuse are committed by a family member or someone known to the child. Some 75 per cent of abused children do not tell anyone about this abuse at the time of their being abused. They often wait until they are teenagers or young adults before reporting the crimes committed. Therefore, the majority of current sex offenders are not identified for their crimes.


2.Prison authorities state that only 11 per cent of offenders respond to treatment. Of the 5,000 men in prison for sex offences, only 786 completed the programme last year. Roy Whiting, who was responsible for abducting, assaulting and murdering Sarah Payne, refused to undergo any such treatment.

Re-offending rates are disturbingly high among sex offenders—it is up to 43 per cent. If the therapy programme is not more extensively applied, and offenders get no help in changing their behaviour, by not offering treatment to adult offenders, we release them to commit further offences.

3.It is sadly a fact that almost one-third of all paedophiles fail to fully comply with their licensing agreements, or disappear. This figure will probably increase if the public is allowed access to information on where they live. The most likely increase will be among predatory paedophiles, who will disappear if they fear identification.

The agencies engaged in the multi-agency public protection arrangements outline the problems of predatory paedophiles who disappear from surveillance. Not only do they no longer know where they are living, they are unable to monitor potential opportunities for them to re-offend—such as whether they are living near a school, or have formed a relationship with a mother of young children.