8 Sex Offenders Registered In Highland Park, Highwood: 2022 Safety Map

HIGHLAND PARK, IL — There are eight sex offenders registered as Highland Park residents and two as residents of Highwood, the same number as at this point last year, according to the Illinois Sex Offender Registry.

As of October 2022, five are listed as non-compliant with the requirements of sex offender registration. One offender associated with a Highland Park address is listed as being out of the state and another has served four years of a 13-year sentence in the Illinois Department of Corrections, according to the registry.

The non-compliant sex offenders associated with Highland Park and Highwood addresses are:

Armando Basilio-Mancilla, 45, of Highland Park, who was convicted in Lake County of the aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a 12-year-old when he was 28;
Juan M. Cuarenta, 39, of Highwood, who was convicted in Lake County of the aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a 14-year-old when he was 32;
Omar Ramirez-Hernandez, 28, of Highland Park, who was convicted in Lake County of the criminal sexual abuse of a 13-year-old when he was 17;
Jose Raul Martinez, 37, of Highland Park, who was convicted in Cook County of the aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a 16-year-old when he was 23;
Jesse Taboada, 48, of Highwood, who was convicted in Lake County of the attempted criminal sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping of a 21-year-old when he was 35;

The registry is maintained by Illinois State Police, which directed questions about non-compliant offenders to local police agencies.

The below map indicates the registered addresses of sex offenders in Highland Park and Highwood. Pins on the map represent addresses of offenders convicted of sex crimes. When selected, they will display information about the registered offender at that address.

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In Illinois, registered sex offenders are prohibited from passing out candy on Halloween. They may not appear in a Halloween costume or other child-centered holiday characters, such as Santa or the Easter Bunny, in public. Registered sex offenders, however, may wear a Halloween costume in their home, according to the Illinois Sex Offender Registry.

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.

The Association for the Treatment of Sex Abusers, a nonprofit organization for clinicians, researchers, educators, law enforcement and court officials involved in sexual abuse cases, cautions that children do not face a heightened risk during the Halloween season: "There is no change in the rate of sexual crimes by non-family members during Halloween. That was true both before and after communities enacted laws to restrict the activities of registrants during Halloween. The crimes that do increase around Halloween are vandalism and property destruction, as well as theft, assault, and burglary."

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