Marietta 2019 Halloween Sex Offender Safety Info

MARIETTA, GA — Before kids go out trick or treating on Halloween, fall is a good time to take an inventory of who is living in your neighborhood. There are 185 registered sex offenders living or working in Marietta, according to the Georgia Sex Offender Registry.

Of the offenders, 12 are considered sexually dangerous predators.

To search for sex offenders on streets your kids are trick or treating on, visit the Georgia Sex Offender Registry and search by street, city, distance from an address and more.

There are three levels of sex offenders, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. They are:

• Level I:
  • the sexual offender is a low sex offense risk and low recidivism risk for future sexual offenses.
• Level II:
  • the sexual offender is an intermediate sex offense risk and intermediate recidivism risk for future sexual offenses and includes all sexual offenders who do not meet the criteria for classification either as a sexually dangerous predator or for Level I risk assessment.
• Sexually dangerous predator:
  • was designated as a sexually violent predator between July 1, 1996, and June 30, 2006 or is determined by the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board to be at risk of perpetrating any future dangerous sexual offense.

The offenders are not wanted by police, and it's illegal to use the following information to commit a crime or engage in any discrimination or harassment against an offender.

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Law enforcement officials and researchers caution that the registries can play only 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.