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Target 12 Child Watch: Sex Offender Loophole
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Feb 26, 2008 10:39 AM EST

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(WPRI) -- A sexual predator is just days from getting out of prison and he'll never have to register as a sex offender.
He falls into the crack of a legal loophole. Because of the way the law is written in Rhode Island, certain sex criminals will never have to register with police when they're released from the Adult Correctional Institution.

Target 12 Investigator Tim White has been tracking these sex offenders for more than a year. He has the details on this latest release.
In just 5 days (March 1, 2008), a man who sexually assaulted three young girls, will walk away from the ACI a free man.

Wherever he ends up calling home the police won't be able to tell you anything about this sex offender. So we will.
His name is Dino Dalessio. Convicted on multiple counts of sexual assault and child molestation you would think when he gets out of prison this weekend, he'll have to register as a sex offender. Think again.

Alan Goulart, Chief of the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office Criminal Division says, "it is troubling, what's troubling is law enforcement doesn't have a tool that will allow them to know where a sex offender is."

His crimes are disturbing. Dalessio was sentenced for 5 counts of sexual assault and 2 counts child molestation. Prosecutors say he raped three girls known to him, several times from 1984 to 1989. The youngest victim was only 10 years old when Dalessio was finally arrested by the Providence police.

But despite this record, wherever he goes, he won't even have to register with that town's police department.

Goulart says, "They need to be better managed right now."
Alan Goulart with the Attorney General's Office sits on a legislative commission designed to fix this problem.

Under state law anyone who was convicted of a sex crime before 1992, does not have to register as a sex offender. The courts ruled the law is not retroactive.
Goulart says, "There will be some legislation that will be enacted which will look at all those problems including the retroactive application of the statute."

The question now is, where will Dalessio live when he gets out? That is unclear. But Target 12 Child Watch combed through public records and we can tell you where he's called home in the past. He's lived in Johnston near the Providence line, and most recently in Warwick, not far from the airport.

In an ironic twist Dalessio was convicted of his sex crimes in June of 1991. Had the trial wrapped up just six months later, when the sex offender registry went on the books, it would have been a different story.

This is not the first sexual predator we've told you about who falls into this legal loophole, and it won't be the last.
We'll keep track of these offenders, and let you know when they get out.
For more information you can read Rhode Island's laws regarding sex offender registration and community notification

You can also check the names and faces on the Rhode Island's Sex Offender website Massachusetts residents can find information on their sex offender registration laws here and search for registered offenders here

{Yes and don't forget to check here http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm#recidivism and here http://www.2nd-chance.info/ and here http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.com/ The "hoople heads" in our society are perfectly willing to depend on "for profit news businesses" to keep their children safe.

It is so much easier to tune in and watch "SHOCK TV" rather than to take 1 hour and educate yourself to the real dangers child of sexual abuse. Is this station so desperate for ratings they have to "create" the news?

I am certainly not trying to say that the so called "sex offender" registry's in general are not flawed. Despite the media's relentless struggle to gain ratings with sex offender hype the truth is coming out more and more. http://www.fjc.gov/public/pdf.nsf/lookup/SNOBull3.pdf/$file/SNOBull3.pdf

Shock TV is more and more going the way of the horse and buggy as the freedom of the internet reveals the truth for those that CHOOSE to seek it out.

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