How many victims?

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The other day Larry King was interviewing Dr. Phil and several other people about the Garrido case. And Dr Phil Said "The question on everybody's mind is Philip Garrido involved in some of the other disappearances that we've been talking about tonight. Dan Simon, you've been in Antioch. You've been all over this. Experts that follow these things with pedophiles and sexual offenders tell us that the average sexual offender can have anywhere 100 to 400 victims throughout their lifetime. So the fact that Philip Garrido has been tied to one that we know of and a violent rape before leaves an awful lot of concern that there are other victims out there. What does law enforcement think about this?" Dan Simon was a guest from law enforcement also on the show. Now I have heard others makes similar claims. That one reason we have to be so tough on Sex Offenders is they have so many victims. I haven't come across any studies that have supported this claim. Does anyone reading this know of a study that does support this claim of a high number of victims?
Let's take a minute and look at the numbers. There are over 650,000 registered former offenders. I've heard numbers putting the registry numbers at over 700,000. But for now lets just use the 650,000, figure, if each person on the registry each had 100 victims that would mean there are 65,000,000 victims of sexual abuse. And at 400 each that numbers come out to 260,000,000. Say the words two hundred and sixty MILLION potentional victims of sexual abuse! As of July 2006 the population of the United States is 304,059,724. If the numbers being quoted by the media and politicians are true then almost every person in the United States has been molested by someone already on the registry. And what about the new cases being reported? Over 86% of cases reported are new offenders, people not already on the sex offender registry. Lets look at another fact that is often touted out when you hear these 'experts' talking. Sexual abuse is very under reported. If so how do the numbers add up? On the ARC radio show, with Ron Book as the guest, one caller countered those very myths by saying "If at the rate the media is claiming, children are being victimized. We would be knee high deep in this country, in the bodies of dead & abused children."

Ron Book Show Rescheduled

Notice to any wanting to call in or listen to the interview that was supposed to air on ARC tonight with Ron Book. He has asked to move the interview to Thursday night. So the show will be on ARC Thursday, July 2nd at 8:30pm. Please join us to hear him excuse himself for being part of making RSFOs homeless in Miami. Hope to see a lot of us there.
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ARC Announces anImportant Radio Show, Please listen

For those that don't know there is an internet Radio show called ARC ( America's Reality Check). They have a variety of guests ranging from authors, mother's of teen RFSOs, Lawyers, Professors etc. Well next Tuesday June 30th they have a special guest. Ron Book will be on live to speak and answer questions. If you are not familiar with who Ron Book is, he is the lawyer/lobbyist who has campaigned for the 2500 ft residency restrictions that have forced many RFSOs to have to live under a bridge in Miami. The other irony to this stituation is that he is also the head of Miami's Homeless Trust. Questions can be send to the e-mail below. Please be respectful when calling in. How he is treated will reflect on the whole RFSO community. But it should be interesting to hear him defend himself and these laws. Tune in Tuesday. For more information on Ron Book Click this LINK.

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Time: 06/30/2009 08:30 PM EDT
Episode Notes: Join us on TUESDAY NIGHT special show at 8:30pm est. Where are guest will be Ron Book who is a Miami attorney and lobbyist from Florida. In 2004, in one of Mr. Books proudest moments, he was awarded the Alvah Chapman Humanitarian of the Year Award for his 12 years of service to the homeless in Miami-Dade County. We at this time are excepting emails from all with questions that we will ask on the show that night. Please keep the questions decent/proper and please have respect to the guest as we hear his side of the issue. Email your questions to AMERICANSREALITYCHECK@GMAIL.COM

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