Sex Offender Halloween Hype

Is sexual predation of trick or treaters on Halloween a real problem or pure hype?

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News & Politics

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• sex
• offenders
• Halloween

[cdavidhess]

Actually, I have been able to find one case of a trick-or-treater who was sexually victimized. It was the Halloween Murder of 1973 by Gerald Turner in Fond du Lac, WI.

His victim, although only 9 years old, was trick-or-treating alone, and went to the home of a stranger; and Turner had no prior record and thus would not have been subjected to the Halloween restrictions being applied to those on parole.

[ApparitionZ]

OK, one tragic case way back in '73, and was it from a registered sex offender? Thousands of others who had nothing to do with that one tragedy do not deserve ostracizing. Factual data shows that most sex offenders do not re-offend, especially those whose crimes were non-violent (i.e. teens who had consensual sex with other teens). They are hardly "predators".

[Dreambro1]

yeah, I know, ,2 percent too much,,,and one day,, we will stop vandalism,,burglary, theft. hurricanes, tornadoes,, lieing , bank robbery!,, HEY , I GOT AN IDEA,, LETS LOCK EVERYBODY UP< THEN WE WONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING ;-) Or put them on a Registry or sumthin! Then lets put Mother Nature on a Registry, then she cant perform her Natural Disasters !! Boy, i got all the solutions today ;-) And. lets put on Ugly chicks on Looks offender registers,,say no to Ugly women!!!!!

[2pacthugzta]

the media loves to scare people because it hikes up their ratings, it's time for people to think for themselves again, most sex offenders do not re-offend and you can be listed on a registry for the smallest offenses, including public urination

[playboy6800]

I think that Micheal Moore should do a documentary about this issue and title his documentary sex offender hype and hysteria. Then people will become alot more educated about how sex offenders have low re-offending rates

[FANCYNANCYSGOSPEL]

@ApparitionZ I lived in Fond du lac and was 7 years old when Lisa French was murdered just 4 blocks from my house. the entire town including my family went looking for her.when her body was found on a FARM STUFFED IN A TRASH BAG,you could hear the whole town crying when we were told she was dead. my mom stopped letting us walk to school alone.Things were never the same after that.

[Dreambro1]

ISNT THAT THE GUY FROM WRONGE TURN @ :42 SEC?

[SomniSpell]

not all sex offenders give a crap about your kids.....just silly to think all sex offenders are trying to bribe your kids with candy

[vio2112]

How could he say that? He's simply telling the TRUTH. There's not one single documented case of a sex offender harming a kid on Halloween. Not one! Kids are a 100 times more likely to be run over and killed by a drunk driver on Halloween. How about them apples? Yet where's the registry for drunk drivers? We just give them a slap on the wrist and hand them their drivers licenses back. Stop believing the lies Nancy Disgrace and scumbag politicians tell you.

[sociopathpsych]

yeah. i mean a dude that pees at a party isn't an offender.

[TheEsdrrrrrrr]

dude I think that's stupid. What if you were arrested for having sex with a girl who pleaded rape afterwards; than found guilty of being thus making you a sex offender. So i don't understand why they couldn't celebrate Halloween. I can see child molesters but come on.

[duck420IE]

how could this priest even say that

[gmyers43004]

Do away with Holloween