Sex Crimes In America

 A sex crime is any misdemeanor or felony of a sexual nature. It includes everything from forcible rape to grabbing your genitals in public to annoy someone.


Due to various circumstances, innocent people are accused of sex crimes all the time. If you are charged, tried and convicted of even a minor sex crime, your name could be placed on the sex offender registry for years. Even if you feel that the charges against you are easy to fight, you should consider taking them seriously and hire a Sex Crimes Attorney to assist you. In doing so, you will protect your rights.


Although the law is designed to protect sex crime victims, assuming that your best interests will always be kept in mind is naive.


The history of sex crimes in America is one of the pendulum of justice swinging too far in the opposite direction over the past 20 years. A few decades ago, few sex crimes were prosecuted, as the victims – mostly women and children were too fearful to speak out, or, when they did speak out, were not taken seriously by police and prosecutors. This was obviously wrong and unjust to victims of sex crimes. The problem today, is that the legal system has overcorrected itself, so that police and prosecutors are fearful of dismissing any case regardless of how weak the evidence or how unreliable the accuser’s story appears to be based upon the evidence in the case. The result is you have many law-abiding citizens who are arrested and prosecuted for sex crimes.


Many of these allegations come from former family members during divorces, child custody disputes and other times of family stress. Rape cases today many times involve dates gone wrong where the accuser and accused meet on a date or at a party. Overzealous police officers and prosecutors generally handle date rape cases by taking the word of the accuser as gospel and completely discounting the denial of the accused. This is the opposite of past generations where the opposite was true – neither response is just. Thus, in today’s world your defense attorney has to do most of the investigation work to build evidence that proves your innocence despite the fact that the law says any accused person is innocent until proven guilty by facts and evidence.

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