The DOJ Has Nearly Doubled Its Prosecutions For Child Sex Crimes Photo of Anders Hagstrom Anders Hagstrom

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[The Daily Caller]

Federal investigators nearly doubled the number of investigated sex crimes involving children between 2004 and 2013, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced Thursday.

Child sex crime cases include possession or production of child pornography and child sex trafficking, the BJS reported. Federal investigators took up 1,405 of these cases in 2004, compared to 2,776 cases in 2013. More than 70 percent of the prosecutions each year were for possessing child pornography, followed by those suspected of sex trafficking at 18 percent and those who produced child pornography at 10 percent. (RELATED: UK Reports On Child-On-Child Sex Abuse Are Skyrocketing)

The Department of Justice prosecuted a total of 36,080 child sexual exploitation cases between 2004 and 2013. Nearly 100 percent of the offenders were male; 97 percent were U.S. citizens; 82 percent were white; 79 percent had no prior felony convictions; and 70 percent were unmarried. (RELATED: High Powered Sex Abusers: Too Big To Fail)

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“Only four percent of those who didn’t plead guilty were convicted in trial.”

Does that mean without plea bargain extortion their weak cases would be obvious?

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Conveniently missing is the one stat everyone wants to know: How many were recidivists for a percentage calculation? How many of the recidivists were of which kind, e.g felony and/or misdemeanors? Is it 21% because 79% did not have felony convictions previously? What about misdemeanors? How many had those? How do you want to split this pumpkin pie (seasonally speaking)? This is an incomplete data set published.

You cannot show a recidivism rate without knowing the recidivists obviously and being registered somewhere. By not giving this very important set of facts, the DOJ is going to continue to perpetuate inflated numbers that were miscalculated to begin with or not even calculated when it comes to registry usefulness, etc as we have discussed here repeatedly. How bloody convenient! Where is an actuary student when you need one to do the number crunching or an inside source with the entire data set for crunching afterward by an interested party?

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