Sex offenders register provides limited protection for children / EurekAlert, 11 June 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/uol-sor061108.php
"Researchers say that while police are using their resources to combat Internet sex offences - which are much easier to secure convictions for - the majority of men alleged to have directly sexually abused a child are still avoiding prosecution. Currently only one in 10 men alleged to have committed a sex offence with a child is on the Sex Offenders Register. This, says Professor Kevin Browne, is leaving vulnerable children open to unmonitored paedophile predators."