Re:Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl f...
by hsbauauvhabzb on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @03:12AM
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So ~1m people are registered sex offenders? As in, 1m people who were arrested and found guilty of sex offences?
That’s insane.
Re:Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl f...
by phire on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @06:10AM
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It's more like 800,000
But I used number of adults, not total population. Because most children aren't registered sex offenders, or buying expensive furniture.
Re:Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl f...
by infecto on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:26AM
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Just look up how many folks local to your area are on the list. It’s quite shocking.
Re:Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl f...
by nkrisc on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:32AM
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> But it's a mistake to even assume the couch was bought by the same house as the offender.
It’s not a mistake, it’s a convenient assumption to make until it’s proven otherwise, especially when you have basically no other information to go on.
I have no doubt these investigators are intelligent enough to have considered that possibility.
With 40,000 couch sales, there would be roughly 120 sex offenders would have bought that couch. You can see what I mean about the registries being bloated.
Doesn't really narrow things down until you add the brick factory, but then they already had it down to 40 houses.
But it's a mistake to even assume the couch was bought by the same house as the offender. The offender could just be visiting, or the couch could have been moved to a different house since purchase (sold second hand, or the owner moved). And you are assuming the offender had been caught before, or was even on the sex offender registry for abusing children.