So I did a little research and the numbers are very disturbing.
In my village there are 14 registered sex offenders and 577 people. What are the chances of running into your attacker? Pretty dang high I'd say, given it is only about a mile long, with one post office, two small grocery stores, and limited activities to do. "According to our research of Alaska and other state lists there were 14 registered sex offenders living in Kotlik as of January 22, 2013.The ratio of number of residents in Kotlik to the number of sex offenders is 46 to 1 http://www.city-data.com/so/so-Kotlik-Alaska.html
" And no place, women’s advocates say, is more dangerous than Alaska’s isolated villages, where there are no roads in or out, and where people are further cut off by undependable telephone, electrical and Internet service" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/us/native-americans-struggle-with-high-rate-of-rape.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Of those fourteen, six of them were convicted for a crime against a minor. " Alaska Natives constituted 49 percent of the sex offender group and 46 percent of offenders overall. " For the categories of sex offense, 63 percent of those convicted of sexual abuse of a minor were remanded, 50 percent were rearrested and 36 percent were convicted of another offense—although not necessarily a sexual offense. For offenders convicted of sexual assault, the rates were 79 percent, 63 percent, and 45 percent respectively" http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/25/1-2springsummer2008/g_recidivism.html
ARE THESE CHANCES WE ARE WILLING TO TAKE WITH OUR YOUTH?
WHAT MESSAGE ARE WE SENDING?
As long as we are accepting of these crimes we will continue to make up 49% of the states sex offenders!
I find these numbers to very disturbing,and I say we send a new message, this will not be tolerated any longer! I find this to be rather embarrassing. Is this the image we want to continue to carry? I say no, I say we stand up and make a change. Change the messages that we are sending. Change the way we treat the victims in these cases. Offer our complete support.
they paid their debt to society. leave them alone. let us live in peace
ReplyDeleteYou should be raped. Then maybe you would understand.
Deletekiss my ass anonymouse! i dont live in peace. they should all br brought to there own island and live with each others. leave US alone!
ReplyDeleteHow is this town supposed to change when there leader is a sex offender? look at the sex offender registry and google the mayor! the girl he raped can't even speak for herself because SHE KILLED HERSELF!! he raped my cousin and got the best job in town.
ReplyDeleteonly god knows the truth, he will be the one to judge. no sense crucifying him when u don't even know what happened
ReplyDeleteAnoymous do us all a favor STFU quit throwing god into everything! Was God with this innocent child when she was raped, or when she killed herself NO? Sick of bible thumpers always throwing god into EVERYTHING you feel applies because YOU want it to!!! IF you really followed the book then this man and child should have been killed for that crime or he was supposed pay her family to MARRY her? Who the fck wants to marry someone that raped you?? GTFOH with that shit!
ReplyDeleteHe was found "GUILTY" in a court of law and to turn around and become Mayor just shows how fckd up life is out there change needs to come from within to stop this behavior and to sweep it under the rug or not speak up about it or wait on god to handle it you are just as bad as the person doing it for allowing it to continue to happen!
This blogger is tackling some hard subjects and if more people stood up for what is RIGHT maybe something will change or as you bible thumpers would say god gave man a brain to think for himself obviously some people don't do very well with that and need a little extra help so keep blogging the TRUTH backed up with facts and maybe they can start to think about how to change!!
http://www.ktva.com/news/local/Stopping-Sexual-Assaults-Against-Alaska-Native-Women-119899199.html
ReplyDeleteIt makes me sick that there are people in the village who have the nerve to defend sex offenders and then bring God into the equation as if God is on the offenders side! I fully believe there is a special place in Hell for the sick bastards who bring it upon themselves to become sexual abusers!
ReplyDeleteit's a cycle. a repeated cycle, and unless they get help, it's not going to stop. remember they were young once, maybe it happened to them, i'm not saying its an excuse.....but there has to be some reason why they are the way they are. why they do the things they do. i've been to some trainings on sexual abuse..and i heard this quote before, "even the worst human beings..are still human beings" help them. figure out their story. help them heal. and for the victims, it's a sad thing, and it shouldn't have happened to you or your family. and don't be afraid to speak out.
ReplyDeleteI love the article. Great work and I totally agree. But I think sexual assault offenders should get the death sentence. Also... the only part I didnt like was the Anonymous Reader telling people to leave us alone. referring to sex offenders. People would leave u alone if u wouldve left people alone. feel me?!? Do to others what ud want done to u.
ReplyDeleteIt's harder for me to comment on this topic because it is more foreign to me. I grew up in the city, and I have never been sexually abused. I know as a mother, if someone hurt my child like that, I would have a hard time not killing that person if they continued to live by me, seriously. I cant imagine living in the village and having been sexually abused, or having had a close loved one sexually abused and knowing the person who did it is close by and free. I think it would feel extremely threatening. This might sound drasitc to other but to me it seems very reasonable.. that sexual abusers get kicked out of the village they abused in. I know that there are family members (married into the family) that have abused other family members so I personally never let them be a part of my life, but I feel so perplexed how other family members can act like that person hasn't done anything wrong and treat them like family!! I don't understand, it is so strange. People that sexually abuse a child should have very harsh punishments, equal to murderers. I think the person that said they served their time so they should be left alone might have sexually assaulted someone before, this is the only reasonable explantion for someone to think like this in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteWhy keep putting Kotlik on the map? Rape is everywhere! As it goes, the female didn't kill herself, she was stabbed.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, the death sentence is quite out there, but my mind keeps telling me that is what should be the sentence for a sex offender. Look at it this way; thus trauma fucks with the victims mind, body & soul for the rest of their lives! Perhaps the victim never got counselled, it counselled enough. In most village cases, I'm sure they opted out of counselling to keep quiet. Hide the pain. That's not the way to go. These offenders kill the innocence & joy from their victims. They murder them. The victim is driven to difficult means, killing them slowing. If the victim has children, these kids are later being torn from their innocence witnessing the destruction of the parent that was raped or molested in the past. It's nit only the victims that has to suffer, but it's their families as well! The innocent children/teens that weren't even present. That's two birds with a stone. A very hot stone.
Not a victim myself, but I surely see these views as if it were me.
I am not speaking for these offenders so don't get all on edge; people that have done "wrong" in their past, maybe have come to terms to turn their life around. Of course they can't fix their past-who the hell can?! There are former prisoned (not just sex offenders) that have changed their lives around for the better. Change can happen & I have seen it happen. Speaking for those that had a gritty past that seen the light for the better (not specifically this current subject).
Good for you bringing this out. I would want to neuter anyone that did that to a family member if the law ignored it.
ReplyDeleteSex offenders need to be transported to their own island. In our village there is one person that's been sexually abusing her own daughter
ReplyDeleteits public info. those guys put kotlik on the map
ReplyDeleteAmen to that.
DeleteFacts are facts the problem also seems to be people in the village just turn the other cheek even though they know its wrong! It has to be something to do with the culture or something cause it's just incomprehensible to think that people would allow it to happen!
ReplyDeleteIt isn't just one village but it is all around us. If you live in a big town or city, check out the sex offender list. There is many non-native people on that list. Trust me...I have checked it out in my neighborhood and I live in Anchorage.
ReplyDeleteAlaska Natives constituted 49 percent of the sex offender group. this is from an actal study of tthe whole state http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/25/1-2springsummer2008/g_recidivism.html
ReplyDeletethat is almost half!!!!!!!!
Why target one city when the while world is affected. Yes, you have to start some where, but don't have to bring out the negative of a community you may have issues with.
ReplyDeleteyou must live there.
ReplyDeletethat's like saying someone got shot in texas today, but so what it happens in the whole world. smdh
ReplyDeleteYou must be from there.
ReplyDeletelike everyone says, shhhh, don't talk about it. just let it happen, whata dam shame
ReplyDeleteI do not have a problem with Kotlik, I have a problem with issues such as this. I am not "targeting" Kotlik either, I am sharing the statistics for the place that I am from. This is public information. Anyone has access to it. I was curious what the statistics were from where I grew up, researched it, and said what I thought. Thank you for reading
ReplyDeleteI believe that there is an old way of dealing with this problem that could be added to the new way. Once someone is convicted of a sex crime and they have done whatever jail time they have been sentenced to they should be banished and the word should go out why they were banished.
ReplyDeleteSo let me ask a question: A sex offender is the worst of the worst, eh? Than what of the man who put a gun to my head and had a gun to my g/f's head and robbed us when I got back from school? Took my g/f's b-day gift too a brand new Nintendo 3DS. Probably pawned it too.
ReplyDeleteSo for at least two months I wouldn't sleep (it happened at our own apartment), I couldn't eat right. I would sit on the couch staring at our front door with a knife and cleaver in my hands waiting to see if anyone would be dumb enough to try to come through my door.
So should that guy be put to death? Is this what we're doing now? Killing everyone who does anything like this? The worst thing is I didn't even get a good look at the gun, so what if it was some punk kid with a damn good looking B.B. Gun that looked so damned real? Should he still be put to death? 'Cuz I want him dead, I want his blood, is this the right response people?
the above must be ritten by a raper!
ReplyDeleteTo the guy who was robbed at gun point- Basically you were raped of your feeling of comfort and safety. Not a fun feeling is it? Now you can kind of fix that by upping your security measures but the feeling will still be in your head.
DeleteNow imagine if that happened more than once, more than twice. Then imagine that you have to see the person everyday and if you spoke up not only does his family go against you but also your family, then that has a domino effect through town. Now imagine that you are told that you are lying about the situation, that you never really had a gun to your face and how it is ridiculous that you are worried about the the brand new 3DS and your gf's gift.
Now before you get totally worked up please understand that I am not saying that your experience was not a shitty one to go through, but when one is molested and or raped it not only affects their lives but the lives of everyone they are near.
Most victims become drug addicts or alcoholics, they have shitty relationships and most of their relationships are physically violent. The children of the victims are also affected.
My brother-in-law molested me when I was a child. He also hurt some of my sisters and when his wife, my sister, found out about this she said that we are lying. She refuses to accept the fact that her husband is an asshole for what he did to us. His actions, and her supporting him, is a common thing. I know this happens all around the world but when you live in a small community you relive it everyday.
So if you were to ask me if a rapist/sexual offender should be put to death my reply would be no. Instead they should be tortured. A nice long slow torture to help them remember why they are where they are. If ANYONE ever touched my daughter I would make this happen.
Sex offenders, rapists, sexual abusers, in my opinion should all be castrated. That is unrealistic I know, but as a victim myself, my abuse caused many confusing years and pain and finally as an adult I sought deep inner healing.
ReplyDeletePeople like you make me sick i was in my 20s and picked a girl in a bar. She was not even 18 and should not have been in the bar in the first place. So how would i have known. Now I'm labeled for life because someone was not checking id's at the door. Should i be killed or castrated. P.s. 7 years latter this girl and her husband are good friends of mine and she feels horrible about the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteBy the way did you know in most states if a cop see you pissing on a tree in your own back yard you will be charge as a sex offender an have to register for 15 years. Taking an innocent picture of your own kids in the bath tub is a sex offense. This shit all started with dumb asses like you keep giving the government more power. If you don't like freedom move. Tell that mayor im proud he overcame is problems to become an active part of society
ReplyDeleteDon't hate everyone just cause dady touched you.
ReplyDeleteAs an adult, you and YOU ALONE are responsible for who you take to your bed! I love how people are quick to pass the guilt on to someone else, how in the world is it teh securites fault that you fucked a child? Seven years later and you still have not accepted responsibility for having sex with a kid? yeah its her fault and the security fault. ok
ReplyDeleteI think you missed the point. I pled guilty. but I hardly think it's worth me being persecuted for the rest of my life. and security was definitely part of the fault. they have a responsibility to protect people that come to the establishment. especially since people go there to get drunk. and their judgment is impaired. I think you just really want to hate somebody
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