Registered Sex Offenders List In Riverview: 2020 Safety Map

BLOOMINGDALE — RIVERVIEW, FL — Fall is a good time to take an inventory of who is living in your neighborhood. Bloomingdale-Riverview area has 121 registered sex offenders within a 5-mile radius of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Bloomingdale Substation, 3622 Erindale Drive, Valrico.

According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, addresses of registered sexual predators, transient offenders, transient predators and multiple offenders are also included on the neighborhood sex offenders map.

Parents can check their neighborhood to see a list of possible close dangers by visiting the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Sexual Offenders and Predators website. Its searchable database contains the names, offenses and last known addresses of the state's registered sexual offenders and predators.

After a full address is typed into the "Neighborhood Search" field, you can choose for the search to extend 1 to 5 miles from the given address, and registered sex offenders living in this area will show up in results.

Two viewing options of the results are available. If you click on one of the house images displayed in the map, a sexual offender's name, mugshot and address pops up. Option 2 is a list that shows names, photos, address, current status, etc.

A sexual offender remains on the registry generally for life unless removed by order of a court or other legal means.

Law enforcement officials and researchers caution that the registries play a limited role in preventing child sexual abuse and stress that most perpetrators are known to the child.

The U.S. Department of Justice, which oversees the National Sex Offender Public Website, estimates that only about 10 percent of perpetrators of child sexual abuse are strangers to the child.

The Justice Department estimates 60 percent of perpetrators are known to the child but are not family members but rather family friends, babysitters, child care providers and others, and 30 percent of child victims are abused by family members. Nearly a quarter of the abusers are under the age of 18, the department estimates.

If you would like to be informed when a registered sexual offender moves to your neighborhood, sign up for alerts at Florida Offender Alert System.

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