2019 Toms River Sex Offender Map

TOMS RIVER, NJ — Fall is a good time to take an inventory of who is living in your neighborhood. The Toms River and Seaside Heights area has 103 registered sex offenders listed on the New Jersey State Police Sex Offender Registry.

In Toms River, there are 78 listed in the registry; one is currently incarcerated and one address could not be mapped. In Seaside Heights, the registry lists 25 offenders. Of those, two are currently incarcerated. New Jersey's registry lists only Tier II and Tier III offenders, considered at risk of committing another offense. There are two Tier III offenders listed in Toms River and three in Seaside Heights (one is incarcerated).

Pins on the map represent addresses of offenders convicted of sex crimes. Roll your cursor over the pins, and you will see more information pop up, including the registered sex offender's name, address, convictions, and details on the offense where they are available. Or, click on the link to view a larger map.

The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General (OAG) website says that its sex offender registry is made available on the internet "to enable you to take appropriate precautions to protect yourself and those in your care from possible harm."

The New Jersey State Parole Board in 2015 barred registered sex offenders from passing out candy on Halloween and instituted a curfew. In 2017, that curfew was from 3 p.m. on Oct. 31 to 6 a.m. on Nov. 1, according to News12 New Jersey. Information on a 2019 curfew was not yet available.

Law enforcement officials and researchers caution that the registries can play only 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; instead they are family friends, babysitters, child care providers and others. About 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.

Map information via New Jersey State Police Sex Offender Internet Registry

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