'In that district alone, I slept with perhaps 40 or 50 boys'

Meet the co-founder of ReformSexOffenderLaws.Org...

I got to know one particular kid called Rickey. At that time he was 13 years old. When I was that age I didn't know anything about sex, and it surprised me that someone so young could have had so much experience. It really was him who seduced me. And I really loved him. Then we were together - how long was it? - we were together for four years. He lived with me. His mother knew all about it, I spoke to her and she was completely ok about it. She said, it's better he goes with you than with someone who's not so good. She was quite happy, and everything was fine. And then I also got to know his elder and his younger brothers, and they were all the same. And all of his friends in the neighborhood. In that district alone, I slept with perhaps 40 or 50 boys.

- Tom Reeves AKA Alex Marbury

When Reeves realized in the late 1990's that his efforts in NAMBLA were destine to fail because of the reputation that NAMBLA had acquired, he wrote a petition titled "A Call to Safeguard Our Children and Our Liberties." Nearly ten years later, in 2007 Reeves teamed up with his mate Paul Shannon to create the ReformSexOffenderLaws.Org website, only they both knew that their new project would never go anywhere if Reeves were to use his real name on it; so they agreed that Reeves should use the alias of "Alex Marbury" and the ReformSexOffenderLaws.Org campaign was formed.
Reeves and Shannon laid down the blueprints for their new organization on their website, which read:

The campaign hopes to attract more and more signers to the statement, and to generate discussion groups throughout the United States. Eventually,we hope to generate specific lobbying efforts aimed at reforming sex offender laws in all states and federally. If enough interest is evident, a national conference will be organized on the topic of sex offender law reform. As indicated in the statement posted on this web-site, further information is available by calling Paul Shannon at 617-497-5273 or contacting Alex Marbury at alex@ReformSexOffenderLaws.Org.

The structure was to be essentially the same as how Reeves had established and organized NAMBLA for 20+ years: The organization was to be divided into 50 individual state chapters, each responsible for efforts in their respective states, annually there would be national conference and the monthly Digest would serve as a kind of online equivalent of the NAMBLA bulletin and there would be a prison outreach project to disseminate copies of the Digest to offenders currently imprisoned.

RSOL National Conference Hosted by Missouri Citizens for Reform August, 2011

NAMBLA International Membership Conference Hosted by the Southern California Chapter November, 1986

A common friend: On the left hand side you have Paul Shannon a close personal friend of Tom Reeves with the RSOL and on the right hand side you have David Thorstad, who also happens to be a close friend of Tom Reeves, with NAMBLA.

Until his recent death, Reeves was involved in every possible online facet of the ReformSexOffenderLaws.Org campaign; from collecting donations for the annual conference to writing and producing articles himself. If Paul Shannon was to be the public face of the ReformSexOffenderLaws.Org campaign, Tom Reeves was the to be the online presence of the campaign using the alias Alex Marbury. The fact that we knew what Tom Reeves looked like and knew that Tom Reeves was a NAMBLA kingpin, meant that Reeves had to live out the last years of his life in hiding, hiding his face, hiding his name, knowing that his organization would never survive if his true identity were to be uncovered.

Before his death, Alex Marbury AKA Tom Reeves said:

Truth and reason can never be silenced.

I wonder whether he would still stand by that comment today, when the lie he and Paul Shannon had worked so hard to keep for years, is finally revealed for the world to see.

The NAMBLA Connection

Two months ago it was uncovered that Tom Reeves, a man which had been pivotal in the formation of NAMBLA, was also the founder and wire-puller behind the ReformSexOffenderLaws.Org campaign.

For years we've discussed the ties between the RSOL and NAMBLA; from the involvement of NAMBLA members in the creation of the ReformSexOffenderLaws.Org campaign to NAMBLAs appearance at the supposedly 'secret Coalinga rally' organized by the RSOL (which was never publicly announced anywhere).

Even now when the connection is undeniable, the RSOL still can't muster the integrity to be honest and publicly admit their organization was operated by the original pedophile activist himself.

...This is completely unacceptable to us here at Absolute Zero United, so the RSOL leaves us no option except to 'educate their ignorance:'

Watch in full-screen for optimal clarity:

Fun fact: Did you know that Tom Reeves AKA Alex Marbury was the person who came up with the name 'North American Man/Boy Love Association' (NAMBLA)?

David Thorstad:

About thirty of us met and formed a group we called (initially) Man/Boy Lovers of North America. A few days later, Tom called me to say he thought a better name would be North American Man/Boy Love Association, mainly because it would result in a pronounceable acronym: NAMBLA.

Tom Reeves: A National Spokesman for Boy Love (and the RSOL)

On December 2, 1978, Tom Reeves of the Boston-Boise Committee convened a meeting called "Man/Boy Love and the Age of Consent." Approximately 150 people attended. At the meeting's conclusion, about thirty men and youths decided to form an organization which they called the North American Man/Boy Love Association, or NAMBLA for short.

Thirty four years later and NAMBLA is arguably still the most well known pro-pedophilia advocacy organization to ever exist; except today NAMBLA's founder is now dead.
Tom Reeves life can best be described in a nutshell as a life long effort to legalize the sexual abuse of children, we've prepared a time-line chronicling Reeves life:

Even before the formation of NAMBLA, Reeves was openly describing himself as a "Boy lover."

21 April 1978:

Reeves, a history professor at Roxbury Community College, says he is the group's only "boy lover"

"I feel It is important to say it is possible to be a man and have a variety of relationships with adolescents, including sex, and still be an ethical, upstanding individual."

After the formation of NAMBLA, Reeves took on a very public role inside of NAMBLA as their national spokesman:

October 13 1982:

A male homosexual organization that supports sexual relations between men and boys held its annual national meeting in Philadelphia last weekend, despite opposition from a local coalition of youth-protection feminists and homosexual groups.

The North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which was founded in Boston in 1978 has a nationwide membership of only 600, was concerned about the opposition because it feared violence, not from these groups, but from anti-homosexuals.

"There is a tripe whammy against (the organization)," Thomas Reeves, a national spokesman for Boy Love, said in a telephone interview last week.

In the mid 90's Reeves was involved in NAMBLA as their strategist and as a contributor to the "NAMBLA Bulletin."

August 23 1994:

Tom Reeves, a leading strategist for the organization and contributor to its newsletter, "NAMBLA Bulletin," explains that a lot of people aren't aware of NAMBLA's mission. "Our purpose is not to get our hands on a bunch of 14-year-old boys," he says "The primary issue is political-to change laws about age of consent."

In the late 90's it was obvious that despite years of campaigning NAMBLA had nothing to show for their efforts. It was time for a new, more-moderate approach: a petition was formed titled "A Call to Safeguard Our Children and Our Liberties". The petition, which would later become known as the "Petition to Reform Sex Offender Laws," was first posted on the pedophile message board, BoyChat:

June 07, 1998:

Participants included women who are incest and sex abuse survivors, NAMBLA members, anti-censorship and civil liberties activists, feminists, gay and lesbian people, health-care workers, church activists, peace and social justice activists, academics, and those who work with prisoners.

SIGNED:
Tom Reeves, social science professor;

That effort went nowhere fast. It appears not many people wanted to advocate for pedophiles calling themselves "NAMBLA members" and "Boylovers". In 2007 a new attempt was made. Using the old "Call to Safeguard Children" except any references to pedophiles were removed and suddenly they found their niche. Suddenly they found lots of people, mostly women who were more than willing to support pedophiles as long as they didn't call themselves "NAMBLA members" and "Boylovers". The sad fact is though that many of them knew. That is the true horror of it. They knew who they were working with.

Now thanks to this idiot, we can include another chapter of Toms life, one which we've suspected for quite some time. You may know him better as "Alex Marbury":

I am very saddened to inform you to our good friend Tom Reeves (aka Alex Marbury) died today in his hospital bed in Baltimore.

February 19, 2012:

Alex Marbury was the very heart and soul of RSOL during its formative years. He loved RSOL and its people and, in turn, was the recipient of much appreciation and affection. Hundreds of those now connected to RSOL were first welcomed into the organization by Alex in his role as email contact and member of the Admin Team.

Not only had the ReformSexOffenderLaws petition been created by pedophiles from NAMBLA, the ReformSexOffenderLaws organization was being run by the same person who had founded NAMBLA and has been one of NAMBLA's key figureheads.

Today the ReformSexOffenderLaws best kept secret has been made public in all it's deceitful glory. Obviously some members of the RSOL were already well aware of this ugly fact, but despite their knowledge of Reeves' history, continued to mislead others with claims that they weren't associated with pedophile activists:

RSOL does not condone sexual activity between adults and children in any way, nor does it condone any sexual activities that break laws in any state. RSOL is not affiliated with, nor do we support or condone, NAMBLA, Boychat, Girlchat, or any group with similar positions on age of consent or related behaviors.

It isn't that the RSOL is affiliated with NAMBLA, the RSOL IS NAMBLA. It is a side-branch. It is a NAMBLA project. It is succeeding at what NAMBLA itself always failed to do: get people who weren't pedophiles to advocate on behalf of pedophiles.

The RSOL was founded by the very same person who founded NAMBLA. He never renounced NAMBLA and remained involved with both organizations until his death.

Read more about The New Nambla at Evil-Unveiled.com

The Truth About Reform Sex Offender Laws

We've talked about it a lot in the past few months - the relationship between the Reform Sex Offender Laws Campaign and groups such as NAMBLA which are openly pro-pedophile in their message.

Reading through the list of goals on the Reform Sex Offender Laws petition, something strikes you as off when you find comments like...

"6. Support broad sex education for children, and empower them to make their own decisions and stand up for their rights."

I guess it never occurs to some of the signatories on the petition to ask: "What does 'sex education for children and empowering them to stand up for their rights and make their own decisions' have to do with reforming sex offender laws?" and for others, it's probably goals like this which are the prime reason they're signing their name to it.

To help give people a better background on the Reform Sex Offender Laws Campaign, we've prepared this video:

The Truth About Reform Sex Offender Laws

"They help catch dangerous pedophiles even before the police do"

Another story on Evil-Unveiled and how they operate:

I-Team: Exposing Pedophiles, Website Goes Where FBI Can't

"We wanted to unveil the evil that's on the Internet"

Last month we posted about the suicidal, child pornography collecting pedophile: Boimatt AKA Kevin Morrissey, after his dramatic arrest. Today he's in the media again and so is Evil-Unveiled, for all the good work they do profiling dangerous people like Morrissey:


I-TEAM: Web Watchers Monitor Pedophiles Online

A grassroots effort across the country is tracking down dangerous pedophiles and tipping off police. The group contributed to the recent arrest of an Iowa man.

Veronica searches for people who are not necessarily convicted sex offenders, but who are attracted to children.

"The problem with pedophile websites that we monitor is that they don't think there's anything wrong with sexually pursuing a child," she said. "They encourage each other. They embolden each other."

In the case of Kevin Morrissey, according to court records, the Oakland, Iowa native was wanted for possessing several thousand images and videos of child pornography in Kitsap County, Wash.

"He's one of the most networked pedophile activists out there," said Veronica.

In the case against Jonathan Johnson, the online team tracked him even before his arrest and conviction in 2008. Veronica said they were on his trail for about nine months, even before police knew about him. An Omaha police detective told the NewsWatch 7 I-Team through an email, that Johnson wouldn't have been investigated had the Web watchers not put him on their radar.

Johnson, who confessed to his crimes, talked with NewsWatch 7 in 2008.

"I let things happen that shouldn't have happened," said Johnson at the Douglas County Corrections Center shortly after his arrest.

The I-Team again talked to Johnson this week in prison, in Tecumseh. He endorsed the people of evil-unveiled.com who helped lock him up.

"The foundation behind what they do is clear to me. They're trying to stop people from hurting other people," Johnson said.

Click here to read more.

I Can Feel Your Anger

"I can feel your anger. I am defenseless. Take your weapon. Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete."

Return of the Jedi

Sex offender defenders have never understood why their language is so offensive to victims of sex crimes, and shocking to those who have not previously been exposed to them. It isn't shocking to victims however - they have heard it all before - usually from the time they were first victimized.

We might wonder why they continue down this self-destructive path when they know - they've been told - how offensive they are. But there's really no need to wonder, we know what the problem is. At their deepest core they blame victims. They hate victims. That's it. Plain and simple. Despite their denials they are just a bunch of demented blame-gamers incapable of seeing past their own predicament and intent on finding someone else to blame for it.

When these blame-gamers are accused their response is always that they've been taken out of context or they say they didn't mean it the way we took it. But the truth is that they did mean it and they just didn't like being called out for it. The truth is that they are so accustomed to hearing this type of language which has become the norm for their groups that they don't even notice when one of them does it.

Take for example Debby Gwaltney AKA Lynn Gilmore, the new CEO of Sosen

"My hubby and I don't feel any animosity towards the victim"

Animosity towards the victim? How generous of her! And yet she does blame her using typical sex offender defender rhetoric.

"I figured, well, it's a low-level crime, after all, the girl was known in the community as being a sexually active teenage girl."

and

"I was told she had something of a reputation."

Despite Debby's claims that the only reason her husband's risk level was raised was because he committed his offense outside the home, the truth is that there were multiple reasons including that he refused treatment, admitted being sexually attracted to teenagers and blamed his 14 year old victim. "She was promiscuous", he said.

Debby claims to have been molested as a child and that her mother did the very best thing she could have done which was to put Debby in therapy and keep the abuser away from her. Does Debby know that her abuser didn't turn his attentions on someone else? Really?

Over two-thirds of offenders who reported committing incest also report they assaulted victims outside the family (English et al, 2000)

Debby says she feels re-victimized when someone says she was a victim of child sexual abuse. The only person I've seen talking about Debby's abuse is Debby. However, if the mere mention of what happened to her is such a trigger for her I wonder if she can even imagine the trigger for victims when they hear people like Debby - who aren't speaking on behalf of victims but on behalf of those who created victims - blame victims, minimize crimes and suggest that victims be treated like perpetrators?

"If offenders are made to undergo a lengthy process of assessments, evaluations and questioning, why aren't the victims?"

What exactly would you be doing a "lengthy evaluation" on victims for? To try to prove they aren't really victims? I do believe they get enough of that already. It is one thing to offer resources to victims to help them deal with their trauma, but Debby wants to treat them as criminals. She says victims should be forced to testify, apparently oblivious to the fact that they do if a case goes to trial. But most prosecutors will grant a plea bargain not only to save money but to prevent further trauma to the victim. Debby feels re-victimized when someone says she was a victim of child sexual abuse, and yet she has no clue regarding the difficulty of reliving an experience not only in front of the person who offended against you but also a room full of strangers - something many victims just don't have the strength to do.

"when you label someone a victim, then THAT is the thing that is victimizing them all over again"

Debby would have the offender walk free unless the system was willing to re-victimize the victim and she says all this in an article about re-victimizing victims! I think I don't believe Debby was a victim at all.

Debby Gwaltney goes on (this person who says doesn't feel like a victim) to report what victims want and what they would choose should they be given a choice.

"Counseling for both the abuser and the abused is truthfully all that is really necessary in most cases"

and

"If law enforcement considered the feelings of the victim there wouldn't be so much fear to report the abuse"

Some victims may not report because they are afraid of what may happen to their family but to apply that generally is an overly simplistic and short-sighted view. The truth is much more complex. Here is one explanation

"Sex offenders typically seek to make the victim feel as though he or she caused the offender to act inappropriately, and convince the child that they are the guilty party. As a result, children often have great difficulty sorting out who is responsible for the abuse and frequently blame themselves for what happened. In the end, fears of retribution and abandonment, and feelings of complicity, embarrassment, guilt, and shame all conspire to silence children and inhibit their disclosures of abuse" (Pipe & Goodman, 1991; Sauzier, 1989).

Not content with merely blaming victims or arrogantly stating what victims want and do not want, Debby Gwaltney also believes she knows how they should recover. Debby, like all defenders of child rapists believe that recovery is merely a choice.

"Just because someone was a victim once does not mean that they have to spend the rest of their lives as a victim"

Debby Gwaltney - Sosen CEO

"I choose to be a survivor, not a professional victim."

Linda Pehrson - former Sosen CEO

"I am not no snot-nosed, teary-eyed victim"

Mary Duval - former Sosen CEO

"Parents are passing their warped views on to their children. Children are taught that anything inappropriate that happens to them is the fault of someone else. "

Shirley Lowery - former Sosen CEO

"permanent victim-mode"

Derek Logue - convicted child molester

"there IS help out there, they don't have to stay this way"

Kevin Meier - convicted child molester

"Recovery is something that depends solely on the victim's desire to become a survivor"

Shana Rowan - Sosen

"It's a choice. to get on with life. One of the problems with having a victim mentality is that we tend to blame every thing that goes on in life to our being sexually abused."

Rod Wagner - convicted child molester

"those of us who've been victims have the POWER to choose just HOW and in what WAY it's going to affect us. We are doing no one, child or adult victim of sexual abuse, any favors when we pity them TOO much."

Jackie Sparling - wife of sexual predator

And yet, a recent report that studied victims over a period of 23 years made the same conclusion that everyone already knew. (Except those who want to minimize sexual crimes of course) That the effects of child sexual abuse can last a lifetime - and not because the person chooses that result.

The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Southern California and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and tracked a group of girls who had been sexually abused ranging in age from 6 to 16 at the start of the study for the next 23 years. They found that compared to a control group of girls who had not been sexually abused these girls had altered brain chemicals among other things.

As children, they had higher levels of cortisol, the so-called "stress hormone," which is released in high levels during the body’s "fight or flight" response. But by about age 15, testing showed that cortisol levels were below normal, compared to the control group. Lower levels of cortisol have been linked to a decrease in the body’s ability to deal with stress, as well as problems with depression and obesity. Lower levels of the hormone have also been linked to post-traumatic stress disorder.

“The cortisol levels (of some study participants) wound up looking like Vietnam vets,” says study co-author Dr. Frank Putnam, professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. “That tells us they are in a chronic state of stress, and never feel safe.”

During the last assessment, when study participants were in their 20s, their cortisol levels remained lower than the control group, on average. “That tells us their stress response system is burned out,” says Putman, which could explain why some are doing so poorly in life.”

The long-term effects of the abuse “were absolutely profound,” says lead author and child psychologist Penelope Trickett, USC professor of Social Work.

The researchers hope that study data are used to develop more comprehensive treatment programs. “What is clear here is that abuse is not something that’s a one-time fix,” says Trickett.

Many victims have lifetime effects, some don't. Implying that having long term effects is somehow a failure on the victims part is downright repulsive. And as we can see from this study the effects have an actual physiological basis. Baby raper defenders claim that victims CHOOSE to stay "victims" How DARE they? How DARE Sosen and their Nambla affiliate RSOL?

They don't want victims to have a voice in the justice system. They want them to be invisible, unseen and unheard. Silent. To sex offenders and their apologists the effects victims suffer are nonexistent or the fault of the victim. They attack victims maliciously, they demean and mock them, they spew venomous hatred and anger towards them and then blame them for their own bad behavior. They repeatedly show their ugliness in all it's vile glory - and wonder why people despise them so. They behave like animals, it is no wonder people believe them to be - along with their skanky wives and mothers who exhibit the same thinking errors and revolting treatment of victims.

Do not expect a new and improved Sosen. This new CEO is just as bad as all the others. Just like Shirley Lowery, Linda Pehrson and Mary Duval - Debby Gwaltney is a blame gamer. She also tells lies.

But we'll get to that later.

"People forget that the impact of abuse does not stop when the abuse stops."

Cathy Kezelman - Adults Surviving Child Abuse

Boimatt Stabs Himself in Hospital Parking Lot

Who could forget BoyMoment moderator and CJAT administrator, Boimatt AKA Kevin Morrissey? See the details below:




Chase Suspect Stabs Self In Hospital Parking Lot

FREMONT, Neb. -- A law enforcement pursuit which started in Washington County ended in a hospital parking lot Thursday afternoon.

The subject of the chase, Kevin T. Morrissey, 55, was wanted on an outstanding warrant for possession of obscene material out of Washington State, the Nebraska State Patrol said.

Morrissey was stopped on suspicion of speeding in Blair around 1:30 p.m. Thursday. After a check of Morrissey's license information, the trooper approached the vehicle again, but Morrissey took off, authorities said.

During the subsequent chase, spike strips were used to deflate the tires on Morrissey's car. He eventually struck a semitrailer before crashing into a car in the parking lot of the Fremont Area Medical Center in Dodge County.

Authorities said Morrissey then started cutting his neck and stabbed his leg as officers approached. His injuries are not believed to be life threatening.

Washington and Dodge County authorities, as well as the Nebraska State Patrol, were involved in the pursuit.

As of mid-afternoon, a section of the parking lot at the Fremont Area Medical Center remained roped off with police tape.

And what a surprise that he was wanted for possession of obscene material, when he was saying things like this on BoyMoment and CJAT:

do you think they [boys] know they are sexy and do you think they are just flaunting with what they have, or are they 'trolling'?"

So does having CP, viewing, or enjoying it make you a bad person? How? Does it make the producer of it bad? How?

I have never found images with xif info on them, so I would have to guess they were all film.... the colorizaton seems to be film too..

Nice to see justice find another person well deserving of it. By the sounds of things he's eager to avoid prison time, so who knows who or what he may be prepared to give up to try and save his own skin?

I'm going to say this real slow

Dr. Bill Glaser a forensic psychiatrist in the area of sex offenders said:

If we had some sort of plague or epidemic which affected one in four girls, one in eight boys, there would be a national outcry about it and we would be setting up national coordinated efforts to deal with the problem as we have with modern day epidemics such as HIV.

There are some who say that we are becoming unnecessarily panicky about child sexual abuse. The evidence is that we have not panicked enough.

We first wrote about Benjamin Radford here after he appeared on a podcast with a sex offender and a sex offender defender to commiserate about sex offender laws and what he refers to as a "predator panic".

I tried to clarify some of his errors, but that's a lot of information for such a small space and I suppose I failed to enlighten him. Still, I was rather disappointed recently on another podcast when I gave him the opportunity to explain his position and he once again did not want to be "confused with the facts". Only this time it was worse. In the intervening years he has forgotten his material and he confused the sex offender registry with community notification laws then argued against them both using residency restriction arguments. My head was spinning as Radford - puffed up and full of himself with delusions of superior intelligence and thinking skills - wove a web of lies, myths, half-truths and utter nonsense.

"People say there's no cure and that's simply not true"

Benjamin Radford said.

There's a cure? Even the most rabid pedophile apologists like Fred Berlin don't make that claim. Benjamin Radford must know something that experts who study sex offenders don't know because Benjamin Radford said the facts were there. He said they were clear. He said they were crystal clear. In fact, he said it at least 5 times in less than 5 minutes. I don't know if he was just trying to convince himself or not but he's surely convinced me. Now I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that he's a lying cockroach. Most importantly, he's intellectually dishonest.

Benjamin Radford has made his faulty conclusions based upon the DOJ recidivism report which showed a small percentage of recidivism after a three year period. At first I thought I would explain to Benjamin Radford why the DOJ report doesn't prove anything. I thought I might ask him why he believes it's proof when 80% of sex crimes go unreported. I thought I might ask him why he believes it's proof when almost 30% of those men in that report were ALREADY repeat offenders - sometimes multiple times. I thought I might ask him why he believed it was proof when almost half the men couldn't have committed another sex crime anyway considering that they were back in prison for another crime or a parole violation before the three year mark. I thought of asking him these things which he clearly failed to consider but he wouldn't be able to answer. He couldn't answer because he lied. He was intellectually dishonest. He read a report - not a study - and failed to question what the data actually meant.

Benjamin Radford says that to analyze information in his "investigations"

"critical thinking, critical reading and comprehension are essential"

He claimed to "thoroughly research" his topic. He claimed to "investigate" the issue. He claimed to analyze the information he found. But Benjamin Radford didn't actually analyze anything. He read it, didn't comprehend it, didn't question it and stopped looking. Why? Because it was what he wanted to hear. That is intellectual dishonesty.

Benjamin Radford has referred to the DOJ report on recidivism and a faulty Megan's Law report each time he has spoken of this issue. But that's it, that's all he got from his "investigation". If he had "thoroughly researched" and analyzed and comprehended he would know the report he references didn't even study the topic it claimed to have studied. He would know that it was rejected for inclusion in a meta analysis for its inferior methodology. He would know that the report he references said that sexual recidivism was lower in the time frame they studied but they didn't think it could be due to Megan's Law which may be effective but cost too much, they said they didn't know why recidivism was lower they just didn't think it was Megan's Law. So while Benjamin Radford claims "Megan's Law doesn't work" and that it is "crystal clear" - based on that study - he's either lying or ignorant. In either case - to attempt to persuade people on a topic such as this - or indeed any topic - while either lying or being ignorant is intellectual dishonesty.

The truth is, of course, that the answer is not crystal clear. Consensus has not been reached and the only conclusion most experts can agree upon is the fact the registry and community notification has been around for a relatively short period - not long enough to determine its effectiveness. He has written about this, spoken about this, written letters to lawmakers and journalists informing them that they have "inaccurate information". "It's a MYTH!", he says. He's tried to influence people with information he knows nothing about, information he failed to properly research, failed to analyze and failed to comprehend. For a self-hailed "critical thinker" I'm almost embarrassed for him.

I could explain to him that the registry is not important because it tells you where a sex offender "gets his mail" but because it tells you who he is. The vast majority of sexually abused children know their offender in some way. This includes parents, siblings, grandparents, uncles, neighbors, coaches, family friends, etc. The registry doesn't give parents a false sense of security when they should be looking at Uncle Joe and the soccer coach. No, it empowers the parents to know not to let Uncle Joe around the kids, or not to let Susie sleep over at Mary's house. It keeps known risks from coaching soccer or luring kids in the neighborhood to their home. It helps young single mothers know not to become involved with that terribly nice guy at church who just happens to be a child molester of 5 year old girls when she has a five year old girl. It brings them out of the shadows and adds one more tool to try to help keep our children safe.

This study offers evidence that suggests broad community notification has a deterrent effect on sex offense recidivism, thus providing support for rational choice theory as a framework within which to explain, predict, and control sexual offending.

Why does broad community notification appear to have a deterrent effect on sexual recidivism? Sexual offending and, more narrowly, sexual recidivism frequently involve offenders who know their victims. To a large extent, then, sexual reoffending is about social relationships. Existing research reveals that when sex offender recidivists victimize someone they know, it is often a collateral contact victim whom they met through a friend, acquaintance, or loved one.

Examples include an offender who victimizes his girlfriends son or daughter, an offender who molests the daughter of a friend or acquaintance, or an offender who baby-sits the children of an acquaintance or co-worker. In all of these examples, the offender is able to gain access to the victim by first establishing a relationship with the victims parent, guardian, or family member.

Sex offenders often operate under a veil of secrecy, which enables them to obtain access, either directly or indirectly, to unwitting victims. By lifting this veil, community notification may severely limit their opportunities to form the types of relationships that facilitate sexual offending.

Radford didn't read that report. There are a lot of reports he didn't read. He only read the ones that appeared to prove the position he set out to prove. So why does he care anyway? Radford said that the "sex offender panic" was important to him because

"if you don't understand a social problem you can't fix it"

But he didn't try to understand the problem, he merely tried to prove there wasn't a problem at all and that none of our tools were helpful to combat it.......if there were a problem. He was intellectually dishonest.

I believe Benjamin Radford ran out of mythical monsters to disprove and decided to try and disprove real ones. He was ill equipped to do so and fundamentally misguided. Not only is this a complex issue beyond his mediocre "critical thinking" skills which he didn't even attempt to apply but only skimmed the surface and declared it was "crystal clear". He had already made up his mind. He's not a skeptic. Not really. A skeptic would have delved deeper, a skeptic would have eventually realized that the answer is not in that DOJ report. The answer is not so simple as all that.

Benjamin Radford is only "skeptical" about certain things. Things that will get him attention mostly. He doesn't believe in God, ghosts, psychics or Big foot. He doesn't believe in monsters who damage our children's hearts and their souls. I suppose he doesn't believe they even have one.

I issue a challenge to Benjamin Radford to actually do some real research in earnest on this topic otherwise he should apologize for being intellectually dishonest and retract the uninformed statements he's made. This is not Bigfoot. This is very real. You see, unlike Big Foot there are living, breathing witnesses to the monsters that do exist in this world. Benjamin Radford has become a victim-denier.

Personally I don't think he has the ability or the integrity to do either, so my expectations are low. I believe Benjamin Radford should stick with what he knows best: taste-testing gourmet monster dung

"On average most sex offenders are never caught again for a new sex offense, after five years, between 10 and 15 percent of sex offenders are detected, often convicted, of committing a new sex offense. If you follow them for ten years the rates go up somewhat, if you follow them as long as we’ve been able to follow them, which is about 20 years, the rates go up to somewhere between 30 to 40 percent of the total sample will eventually be caught for a new sex offense."

Dr. R. Karl Hansen

Why are Johns Hopkins and Fred Berlin trying to save face?

On August the 17th, B4U-Act staged a symposium on the topic: "Pedophilia, Minor-Attracted Persons, and the DSM: Issues and Controversies", with the "featured speaker" being Fred Berlin of Johns Hopkins’ Sexual Behavior Consultation Unit.

The symposium yielded widespread condemnation from around the world. The criticism was so intense that Johns Hopkins' went into damage control, publishing the following statement on their website; in an attempt to distance themselves from Berlins involvement and to glue back together what's left of his waning reputation:

"Statement regarding Johns Hopkins faculty member’s participation in Aug. 17 B4U-ACT conference

There has been significant misinformation circulating about Fred Berlin, M.D., Ph.D., director of Johns Hopkins’ Sexual Behavior Consultation Unit, and his recent participation at a conference in Baltimore.

As an international expert in sexual disorders, Dr. Berlin speaks routinely at conferences in his role as an individual and as an expert in these matters. In this role, Dr. Berlin speaks for himself, and not as a representative of Johns Hopkins. Dr. Berlin is unequivocally opposed to any sexual actions between adults and children. In no way does he advocate pedophilia, but rather he believes in getting appropriate help for people attracted to minors in order to prevent them from acting on their impulses. He argues that a distinction should and must be made between individuals with pedophilia who act on their attractions and those who are attracted to minors but refrain from acting on their predilections.

Dr. Berlin believes much of the information reported about the conference has been significantly distorted. Statements made by others in attendance should not be construed as representing the views of Dr. Berlin or Johns Hopkins. He was very clear in his remarks to all who were in attendance how important it is to make every possible effort to prevent the sexual abuse of children."

"B4U-Act:" the name suggests the organizations intention is to prevent pedophiles from sexually molesting children. However Michael Melsheimer, one of the groups founders, had this to say on BoyChat about B4U-Act's actual intentions:

"Be assured you will find no current reference to prevention of offending. You can take that to the bank."

Among the company of fellow pedophiles, B4U-Acts goals are nakedly stated by Melsheimer:

"I think that you are right. We do have to go slow and not take on a radical agenda. We could all learn well by what happened to NAMBLA.

As it relates to building bridges, you are right again. There is nothing more important for our community to do. It is the only way we are ever going to be able to get any possible acceptance in the larger community for who we are as human being and what we feel is right for children"

"We have to be very careful at first as to what we say and do, so we can say do and say more down the road. We need to build bridges and coalitions. This means that we might have to cool it for the moment. Please note that I said for the moment."

More can be read about B4U-Act and their public agenda versus their private agenda, here. Some people might be surprised to discover that Melsheimer also happens to be friends with Fred Berlin:

"I have known Fred Berlin for more than 20 years. Do you know that he spoke against the reporting law in the state legislature of Maryland when it was first proposed in the late 80's? This was not a popular thing to do. I was with him when he did this.

Berlin says a lot of things publicly, so do people like ourselves. We never say everything."

Before we go any further, I would like to go back a step and look at John Money, a junk scientist and a man that Fred Berlin regarded as one of his most important mentors. In 1991, Money conducted an interview with the Dutch pro-pedophilia magazine "Paidika," below are some of the views he expressed during that interview:

"Imagine if you were a young boy with a paedophile lover. You would have to keep it secret for sure. It would be extremely difficult to integrate it into your total life without its being out in the open, especially with your family."

"I would say though that if I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who's intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way."

"I prefer not to use the words abuse and molestation, certainly not to use them loosely to mean anything having to do with sex, which is the way they are used nowadays."

"I also decided regarding paedophilia that I would never report anybody, so I simply would not even try to treat a paedophile, because the very fact that they come and ask for treatment makes them reportable."

..bizarre, but if this someone who Berlin regards so highly, it perhaps explains his current disposition. And as Berlin continues his campaign for the pedophiles, clouds of suspicion and doubt begin to form over just how much truth there is to statements like this: "Dr. Berlin is unequivocally opposed to any sexual actions between adults and children."

B4U-Act is funded by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners. If you'd like to express your concerns to them, they can be contacted here.