| False | Sex offenders have a high rate of recidivism!
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False | At any given time, there are 50,000 predators prowling for children on the Internet.
| Factoid | estimates that there are more than 200,000 Web sites selling child pornography
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True | 96.5% of new sex offenses are committed by someone who has never committed a sex offense before!
| Misleading | Sex offenders are four times more likely than non-sex offenders to be arrested for another related crime after their discharge from prison.
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True | 94.7% of released sex offenders ARE NOT 4-times more likely to be arrested for another related crime after their discharge from prison.
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True | Predators Online: "96.1% have never before had been convicted of a sex crime."
Dateline Series 2006: To Catch a Predator"
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Misleading | Youth Online: "Approximately one in five received a sexual solicitation or approach over the Internet in the last year (2000)"
| Misleading | Youth Online: "A recent study found that one in five children online is approached by a sexual predator, ..."
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True | Youth Online: One in thirty-three received an aggressive sexual solicitation, a solicitor who asked to meet them somewhere; called them on the telephone; sent them regular mail, money, or gifts (2000).
| True | Youth Online: One in four had an unwanted exposure to pictures of naked people or people having sex in the last year (2000).
| True | Youth Online: One in seventeen was threatened or harassed (2000).
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