266 Sex Offenders Live In Woodbridge As Of October 2020

WOODBRIDGE, VA — Fall is a good time to take an inventory of who is living in your neighborhood. Woodbridge has 266 registered sex offenders, down from 272 in 2019, according to the Virginia Sex Offender Registry. Scroll down to see a list of registered sex offenders in the area, sorted by zip code.

Registered sex offenders cannot hand out candy on Halloween if they have restrictions related to probation supervision not allowing contact with children, according to the Virginia Sex Offender Registry. In those cases, they may not turn their porch lights on or open the door to trick-or-treaters.

Among the 266 registered sex offenders in Woodbridge, 170 are listed as Tier III and 13 as incarcerated. Tier III is the most serious level of sex offender. It includes people whose offense is punishable by more than one year imprisonment and is comparable to aggravated sexual abuse or involves kidnapping of a minor, unless committed by a parent or guardian.

Fifty-eight of the registered sex offenders are listed as under probation supervision. Out of the 266 registered sex offenders in Woodbridge, two are women, both of whom were convicted of indecent liberties with a child by a custodian.

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."

Here are the registered sex offenders in the Woodbridge area by ZIP code:

22191

There are 96 registered sex offenders living and working in this zip code.

22192

There are 80 registered sex offenders living and working in this zip code.

22193

There are 82 registered sex offenders living and working in this zip code.

22195
There is one registered sex offender living or working in this zip code.

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