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NY - DNA clears wrongly accused of sex crimes

View the article here And I am willing to bet, that 100% of them took a plea bargain! 01/28/2009 NEW YORK - A New York group that uses DNA testing to free innocent people from prison says 90 percent of those cleared since 1989 were convicted of heinous sex crimes. But the Innocence Project adds that even though DNA frees the wrongly accused from prison the former inmates still suffer social and emotional problems as a result of their incarceration, USA Today reported Wednesday. Experts in the field say the burden of re-integration into society is heavier for wrongly convicted sex offenders. "The shame of it goes deeper than any other shame," says Sim Platek, a New Jersey social worker. "Very rarely do you see people fully recover from this immediately...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 30, 2009 (boomark / email).