Before Antoine Dodson was on Oprah and had a song on iTunes, he was just a man who worried about his sister. One night, Antoine woke up to the sound of his sister screaming for help. Upon further investigation, he discovered that a rapist had broken into his apartment ("Antoine Dodson warns a criminal"). Unfortunately, Antoine Dodson's story is not entirely uncommon in the United States. Every two minutes in the United States, someone is sexually assaulted (“Rape Abuse and Incest National Network”). In 2006, there were more than 260,000 victims of sexual crimes, and this figure is only increasing (“Statistical Table” 97). In 1990, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported that seventy-five percent of women and thirty-three percent of men will be victims of some sort of hate crime in their lifetime (Violence Against Women 222). The U.S. Department of Justice's sex offender registry includes the names and residences of nearly 550,000 sex offenders. There is a good chance that you have come into contact with one of them (Liautaud). Not only are there thousands of reported victims, but sixty percent of rapes are not even reported to the police and fifteen out of sixteen rapists will never spend a day in prison ("Rape Abuse and Incest National Network") . Rape often occurs in the form of bruises and cuts from the perpetrator as well as through sexually transmitted diseases. However, mental damage is normally greater. Victims often blame themselves for what happened (“James R. Snell Jr.”). On average, a sex offender spends between five and eleven years in prison. Upon release from prison, a sex offender is more than ten times more likely to commit another sex crime than someone who has committed another...... middle of paper ......cal Association( APA). Internet. November 8, 2011.Jones, Maggie. “How do you tell a budding pedophile from a child with real boundary issues?” » New York Times. July 22, 2007. the web. October 26, 2011. Goodnough, Abby and Monica Davey. “Efforts to track down sex offenders draw resistance.” New York Times February 8, 2009. Web. November 8, 2011. Liautaud, Marian V. “Sex offenders on the bench. » Christianity today. (2010): Mas Ultra-School Edition. EBSCO. Internet. October 19, 2011. “Property Crimes.” James R. Snell Jr., Scorpion Design, November 28, 2010. Web. November 13, 2011. “Treatment of Sex Offenders in Prison.” Washington State Department of Corrections website. Internet. November 13, 2011. “Statistics.” National Network on Rape, Abuse and Incest. Internet. November 13, 2011. United States. Statistics table. BJS, 2006. The web. November 8, 2011. Violence against women. San Diego, California. Greenhaven Press, Inc. 1994. Print.