New Sex Offender in Grafton

Roger Edmonds lives on Pleasant Street, the police report.

A Pleasant Street resident has been designated a level 3 sex offender by the Sex Offender Registry Board, Grafton Police Chief Normand A. Crepeau Jr. has announced. Roger Lee Edmonds, 59, lives at 189 Pleasant St., Grafton and works at 4 Industrial Rd., Unit 8-10, Milford. He was convicted of two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child younger than 14 on Aug. 24, 2011. He was convicted on three counts of the same charge May 18, 1983. Level 3 sex offenders have a high risk to reoffend, according to the Sex Offender Registry Board, which makes the determination. The community is notified because of the degree of dangerousness the individual poses to the public, according to the Sex Offender Registry Board. Edmonds is not wanted by …

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Chief's Blotter

What You Need to Know About Sex Offenders

The police chief offers information and advice.

I am always receiving requests for information on registered sex offenders in Town so I thought it would be prudent to rerun this particular column. I’ve also included some ideas on talking to children about personal safety provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).  QUESTION: I was recently notified that a sex offender moved close by.  Could you tell me exactly how is a sex offender classified and how can I find out if there are any other sex offenders living in the area.  I have young children and think this information is helpful to parents. ANSWER: A sex offender is any person who resides, works or attends an institution of higher learning in Massachusetts and who has been convicted of a sex offense, or…

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Valerie Parkhurst

7:43 pm on Saturday, March 30, 2013

The REAL RECIDIVISM STUDIES 1) One approach is to extrapolate a true crime rate from victimization surveys and compare that with reported crime, typically finding that roughly 90% of sex crimes go unreported. Some put the estimate even higher.. 2)One of the main problems with recidivism studies is that all studies measure it differently and define it differently," 3)One long-term study of sex …   more ›