The Registry shows two of these sex offenders are sexual predators. In Georgia, a sexual predator is an individual who is determined by the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board to be at risk of perpetrating any future dangerous sexual offense.
The Registry also shows two of these sex offenders are currently incarcerated.
Sex offenders in Georgia remain on the Sexual Offender Registry for life unless removed by a court order or other legal means. Any individual who fails to register when required “shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than 30 years,” according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
If a sex offender moves to another county in the state of Georgia or another state in the US, they are required to register with the Sheriff in their new county or state of residence.
SafeHome.org, a security think tank, found the number of sex offenders in the US increases by roughly 32,000 a year.
| Offender | Status | Crime |
|---|---|---|
| Bennett Craig Thigpen | incarcerated | Aggravated sexual battery |
| Dale Guentzel | not incarcerated | Sexual battery against a child under 16 years of age |
| Edwin Eugene Roberts | not incarcerated | Child molestation |
| Joshua Alexander Fordham | not incarcerated | Statutory rape |
| Michael John Clinton Thompson | not incarcerated | Aggravated child molestation |
| Michael Mahendra Pal | not incarcerated | Lewd or lascivious act on a victim under 14 |
| Patrick Ryan Hawkins | not incarcerated | Criminal sexual contact |
| Ricky Grover Aaron | not incarcerated | Sexual exploitation of a minor 3rd degree |
| Robert Dewayne Vangiller | not incarcerated | Child molestation |
| Stephen Aaron Hamlet | not incarcerated | Statutory rape |
| Thomas Eugene Howard | not incarcerated | Sexual battery against a child under 16 years of age |
| Toleman Botkins | not incarcerated | Aggravated sodomy |
| Trenton Andrew Tackett | incarcerated | Sexual battery against a child under 16 years of age |
| William Steve Kicklighter | not incarcerated | Aggravated child molestation |
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