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Our goal is to create a state wide campaign of public awareness and discussions. Resulting in positive changes regarding sex crimes against children and laws that are unique to Washington.
Imagine our state from corner to corner discussing potential solutions to the constant stories of young shattered lives. We are making this request of all of the major print publications in Washington with the optimistic desire to include all citizens in this conversation prior to this years’ elections. 
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The typical child sex offender molests an average of 117 children. The re-arrest rate for convicted child molesters is 52%. There are approximately 600,000 registered sex offenders in the US alone. The chance that your child will become a victim of a sex offender is 1 in 3 for girls & 1 in 6 for boys. Every 2 1/2 minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted.
Seattle Times Articles ... The DOC said other Level III sex offenders were also among those released, but a spokesman said he didn't have further details... Eighty-three convicted criminals — including high-risk sex offenders and violent felons — have been released from two King County jails because they exceeded the total that the state Department of Corrections was allowed to place there... Last year, the agency ordered 3,144 conditional releases. None of the offenders was released because of jail overcrowding, DOC spokesman Jeff Weathersby said...
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 “I do not blame the criminal justice system for anything…but the system does not work and I can tell them why. It doesn’t really matter why the crimes happened. I should be punished to the full extent of the law, as should all sex offenders and murderers.”
“I must be executed before I have an opportunity to escape or kill someone within the prison. If I do escape, I promise you I will kill and rape and enjoy every minute of it,” -Westley Allen Dodd Dodd’s story is a cautionary tale for communities, law enforcement, and families. Although he killed three children, he plotted to murder and torture many more. (He claimed to have committed 250 crimes against children.) 
“I’m glad they caught me, because I’d do it again.” -Gary Arthur Bishop
The courts convicted Bishop on five counts of capital murder, five counts of aggravated kidnapping, and one count of sexually abusing a minor. |
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