12 Sex Offenders Live In Newtown As Of October 2020

NEWTOWN, CT — Fall is a good time to take an inventory of who is living in your neighborhood. Newtown has 12 registered sex offenders living in town, according to the Connecticut Sex Offender Registry.

The registry includes two people who are considered to be non-compliant with sex registry laws, according to state police.

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.
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Here is where sex offenders are registered as living in Newtown according to the sex offender registry:

• MICHAEL DEMBEK 40 LITTLE BROOK LN
• DONALD HAMMALIAN JR 26 WASHBROOK RD
• JACK HANNA JR 3 MOUNTAIN MANOR ROAD
• DANIEL KRULEWITCH 223 SUGAR ST
• MATTHEW MADDEN 58 BUTTERFIELD RD
• COLVYN MCKENNA 16B LITTLE BROOK LN
• EARL COWES 2 RUSSETT RD
• RICHARD CROUCH 138 UNDERHILL RD APT 9
• ERIC GIBBONS 6 BRIDGE END FARM LN
• SATISH GURJAR 2 THOMAS CIR Non-Compliant
• STEVEN TENNEY 4 CHESTNUT HILL RD
• JAMES YOUNG 42 MOHAWK TRL