Caleb Downs, San Antonio Express-News
See Beaumont Enterprise for pictures of all of these degenerates
The 126 total suspects were all jailed on one or more of the following charges: sexual assault of a child, continuous sexual abuse of a child, indecent contact with a child, indecent exposure to a child, aggravated sexual assault of a child, super aggravated sexual assault of a child or possession of child pornography.
Though many of the suspects included in the list were first arrested or indicted in 2017, some were arrested in 2016 and later indicted by a grand jury in 2017 as their cases progressed through the courts.
A small portion of the suspects have faced similar child sex abuse charges in the past, though Bexar County records indicate the majority are facing child sex abuse charges for the first time.
That lines up with recorded recidivism rates for such crimes, though experts say those numbers may not tell the whole story.
Authorities in the Department of Justice pin the sex crime recidivism rate at about 5 percent, citing a 2003 study that followed more than 9,500 sex offenders released from prison in 15 states in 1994. However, estimates for recidivism rates vary widely, according to a report from the Office of Justice Programs by Roger Przybylski, a criminal and juvenile justice consultant with more than 30 years of experience.
"The surreptitious nature of sex crimes, the fact that few sexual offenses are reported to authorities, and variation in the ways researchers calculate recidivism rates all contribute to the problem," Przybylski writes.
Many of the child sex abuse cases are handled by a group of prosecutors from the Bexar County District Attorney's Child Abuse Unit, who "who fight to seek justice for children who have been abused and neglected," according to the unit's web page.
According to Texas Department of Public Safety records, there are almost 3,600 registered sex offenders living in Bexar County, though the percentage of those offenders who abused children is unknown.
Bexar County has a population of less than 2 million souls. If we assume 250 people could be arrested each year for every 2 million people in the USA, that would mean that 40,000 people in the USA might be eligible to be arrested each year for child sex abuse and child porn charges. I think that's called an epidemic!
Also, 3600 registered sex offenders in Bexar County; if we can extrapolate that to the rest of the USA, and I know how unscientific that is, it computes to more than half a million registered sex offenders.
And those are only the ones we know about. How many children are these degenerates abusing each year. It is surely time the government knew the answers to these questions.
Bexar Co., Texas
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