26 Registered Sex Offenders Live In Ellington/Somers In Oct. 2020

ELLINGTON/SOMERS, CT — Fall is a good time to take an inventory of who is living in your neighborhood. Ellington has 17 registered sex offenders and Somers has nine, according to the Connecticut Sex Offender Registry.

The Connecticut Department of Emergency Services & Public Protection maintains the registry and updates information regularly, but information can change quickly. Information is often provided by offenders themselves as required by law. This is a useful tool to help you be aware of who's living in your neighborhood.

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.

Here are the registered offenders living in Ellington:

• STEDMAN BASKERVILLE - 51 MEADOWBROOK RD. UNIT 102
• SEAN CALLAHAN - 306 SOMERS RD.
• JEFFREY CONNOR - 8 JOBS HILL RD. (non-compliant)
• RICHARD CORLETTE - 18 LYONS ST.
• WILLIAM ENES - 144 WINDERMERE AVE.
• DANIEL FARRAR - 84 HOFFMAN RD.
• BRADLEY FOSTER - 24 WEST RD. UNIT 30
• MICHAEL FRANCO - 1 ABBOTT RD. UNIT 125
• ADAM FRIEDMAN - 84 CRANE RD.
• JOSEPH FUSCO - 17 STEEPLE VIEW DR.
• ANDREW HILL - 51 MEADOW BROOK RD. UNIT 115
• ALEX HRUBY - 98 MOUNTAIN ST.
• JESUS NEGRON - 75 MOUNTAIN ST.
• JOSE PINA - 21 STAFFORD RD.
• THOMAS SCHALL - 21 EGYPT RD.
• ROBERT THERIAULT - 17 TOMOKA AVE. UNIT 1
• BURTON WHEELER JR. - 21 HILLSIDE DR.

Registered offenders living in Somers are:

• JAY AUGUSTE - 712 STAFFORD RD.
• CHRISTOPHER BERCHEM - 25 MCCULLOCH DR.
• BENJAMIN COLEMAN - 28 HARNESS DR.
• JASON FLINT - 45 MAIN ST.
• MATHEW GAGNON - 17 SUNSET DR.
• CHRISTOPHER GARRETT - 536 MAIN ST.
• CHARLES GAUDET - 203 SOUTH RD. UNIT 1
• BRYAN HIGGINS - 16 DEER RUN (non-compliant)
• WILLIAM WILSON - 129 SPRINGFIELD RD.

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