Sex Offenders In Dundalk: 2020 Safety Map

Baltimore MD

16 October, 2020

12:05 PM

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DUNDALK, MD — Dundalk has 132 registered sex offenders living in town, according to the Maryland Sex Offender Registry. To view a full list of the accused residents, their convictions and their addresses, head to this link. This is a map of addresses listed in Maryland's Registered Sex Offenders Database. Some accused people fall out of compliance and do not report their most recent addresses, as is required by law.That said, this map does not necessarily list where people convicted of sex offenses live, and it does not accuse any of the people living at these addresses of being sex offenders. This is merely a map of addresses listed in the state's database. Maryland Sex Offenders Law divides convicted sex offenders in the state into three tiers. Tier I offenders register for 15 years and must verify their registration every six months. Tier II offenders register for 25 years and must confirm their registration every six months. Tier III offenders register for life and verify their registration every three months. Law enforcement officials and researchers caution that the registries play a limited role in preventing child sexual abuse and stress that most perpetrators are known to the child. The U.S. Department of Justice, which oversees the National Sex Offender Public Website, estimates that only about 10 percent of perpetrators of child sexual abuse are strangers to the child. The Justice Department estimates 60 percent of perpetrators are known to the child but are not family members but rather family friends, babysitters, child care providers and others, and 30 percent of child victims are abused by family members. Nearly a quarter of the abusers are under the age of 18, the department estimates. The Association for the Treatment of Sex Abusers, a nonprofit organization for clinicians, researchers, educators, law enforcement and court officials involved in sexual abuse cases, cautions that children do not face a heightened risk during the Halloween season: "There is no change in the rate of sexual crimes by non-family members during Halloween. That was true both before and after communities enacted laws to restrict the activities of registrants during Halloween. The crimes that do increase around Halloween are vandalism and property destruction, as well as theft, assault and burglary." See more: The Halloween Tragedy of Lisa FrenchNARSOL Objects To Local Mapping Of Registered Sex OffendersWhy Patch Publishes Sex Offender Registry Maps