17 Sex Offenders In Homewood-Flossmoor: 2020 Safety Map

HOMEWOOD-FLOSSMOOR, IL — Fall is a good time to take an inventory of who is living in your neighborhood. Homewood has 14 registered sex offenders living in the village and Flossmoor has three, as listed on the Illinois Sex Offender Registry. This is five more offenders living in the area than last year.

Twelve registered sex offenders have known addresses in Homewood and three Flossmoor, including two who are considered to be non-compliant with sex registry laws, according to state police. Two offenders have an unknown addresses: Timothy Scott, convicted of aggravated criminal sexual assault, and Ralph Gilmore, convicted of criminal sexual assault/force, according to registry.

Here is where sex offenders are registered as living in Homewood-Flossmoor. Pins on the map represent addresses of offenders convicted of sex crimes. Roll your cursor over the pins, and you will see more information pop up, including the registered sex offender's name, address and convictions.

In Illinois, registered sex offenders are prohibited from passing out candy on Halloween. They may not appear in a Halloween costume or other child-centered holiday character, such as Santa or the Easter Bunny, in public. Registered sex offenders, however, may wear a Halloween costume in their home, according to the Illinois Sex Offender Registry.

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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