Creepy 'Game' Gets Sex Offender Busted

[NaturalHigh]

STILLWATER, Oklahoma - Police arrested a 44-year-old man for violating sex offender laws.

Eric Hurd, a registered sex offender, is accused of stalking a college-aged couple during their walk around Boomer Lake. The arrest warrant shows the couple reported the incident on May 10, when Hurd was slowly following them in a blue truck.

"They'd noticed him and at some point made contact with him and in that exchange he told them he'd been following them, playing a game," said Stillwater Police Capt. Kyle Gibbs.

Gibbs said it's unclear what game Hurd believed he was playing in following the couple, but given his lengthy criminal record it was a concern.

http://www.newson6.com/story/29129015/creepy-game-gets-sex-offender-busted-in-stillwater

A convicted rapist and burglar. I hope this creep goes back to prison for a long stretch. In my opinion, very few sex offenders are ever truly rehabilitated.

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Your opinion about sex offender recidivism is not supported by facts.

Figures are all over the place, but they don't support "very few sex offenders are ever truly rehabilitated."

http://www.csom.org/pubs/recidsexof.html

Hanson and Bussiere (1998) reported an overall recidivism rate of 13 percent.
Grumfeld and Noreik (1986) found a 10 percent recidivism rate for rapists.
Gibbens, Soothill, and Way (1978) reported a 4 percent recidivism rate for incest offenders.


Incest offenders ranged between 4 and 10 percent.
Rapists ranged between 7 and 35 percent.
Child molesters with female victims ranged between 10 and 29 percent.
Child molesters with male victims ranged between 13 and 40 percent.
Exhibitionists ranged between 41 and 71 percent.

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/rsorp94pr.cfm

5 PERCENT OF SEX OFFENDERS REARRESTED FOR ANOTHER SEX CRIME WITHIN 3 YEARS OF PRISON RELEASE
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Within 3 years following their 1994 state prison release, 5.3 percent of sex offenders (men who had committed rape or sexual assault) were rearrested for another sex crime, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. If all crimes are included, 43 percent of sex offenders were rearrested for various offenses.

Sex offenders were less likely than non-sex offenders to be rearrested for any offense—43 percent of sex offenders versus 68 percent of non-sex offenders. But sex offenders were about four times more likely than non-sex offenders to be arrested for another sex crime after their discharge from prison—5.3 percent of sex offenders versus 1.3 percent of non-sex offenders.

Sex offenders with the highest rate of rearrest for another sex offense were those who had a history of prior arrests for various crimes. While 3.3 percent of sex offenders with one prior arrest were arrested for another sex crime after their release, that percentage more than doubled (7.4 percent) for those with 16 or more prior arrests for different types of crimes. Of the released sex offenders who allegedly committed another sex crime, 40 percent perpetrated the new offense within a year or less from their prison discharge.

Of the almost 9,700 sex offenders released in 1994, nearly 4,300 were identified as child molesters. An estimated 3.3 percent of the 4,300 released child molesters were rearrested for another sex crime against a child within 3 years. Most of the children they were alleged to have molested after leaving prison were age 13 or younger.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. creepy