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The rapist next door - CNN. John D. Sutter is a columnist for CNN Opinion and head of CNN's Change the List project. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook or Google+. E- mail him at ctl@cnn. Alaska (CNN)Stand outside Ruth's wooden home here in Alaska and you'll hear only an occasional sound: A plane buzzes overhead, a reminder that the only way in or out of this village at this time of year is by air.

Snowmobile tracks in her driveway, fossilized by the cold, creak and pop under your feet like brittle Styrofoam. And the wind: The constant shhhhh as it rattles the tundra. It sounds almost like a whisper.

Like this land is keeping secrets. Next to Ruth's house is a shack: One room, wood stove, metal roof. Its plywood walls are so leaky that socks and towels are stuffed in the holes. In the shack lives Ruth's husband, Sheldon – love of her life, father to her many adopted children, a few of whom live with her next door.

A clothesline, maybe 3. Ruth met Sheldon decades ago while ice fishing – was introduced by friends. He shared her love for the outdoors, her passion for camping all summer, soaking in 2. Earth up here. She loved him then. And she loves him now, she told me as we sat in her living room, wind chimes clanging outside on the porch. At least she thinks she does.

It's been harder lately - - since she learned what Sheldon was hiding. Ruth told me her world nearly collapsed that day in 2. Alice, one of her adopted daughters. Those unthinkable acts happened in her house, without her knowledge, she said. But, amazingly, Ruth and Alice have opened their hearts again to Sheldon.

The mother and daughter have consented to ongoing contact with him, allowing him to live next door, for a powerful and counterintuitive reason: They never want him to rape again.'We can't answer that..'I spent more than two weeks in America's "Last Frontier" state in December trying to answer two questions: Why is Alaska the national epicenter for rape? And, more importantly, what can be done to change that? Readers prompted this quest when they voted for me to cover rape and violence against women in the United States as part of CNN's Change the List project, which seeks to bring attention and support to bottom- of- the- list places like Alaska. This is the second of five topics readers commissioned as part of the series. The extent of Alaska's problem with violence against women is both horrifying and clear: Alaska's per capita rate of reported rape is the highest in the country, according to 2. FBI crime data. An estimated 8.

Alaska for every 1. That's nearly three times the national average of 2. New Jersey, the state where reported rape is least common. Those comparisons are imperfect, of course. But localized surveys in Alaska paint an even bleaker picture. A majority of women – 5.

Alaska, published in 2. Source: FBI Uniform Crime Report, 2. Source: Alaska Victimization Survey.

Source: Alaska Victimization Survey. There was a time when politicians in Alaska argued rape survivors were simply reporting rape more often in this state than elsewhere. Those arguments, however, have been largely abandoned as the scope of the violence has become clearer. If anything, the taboos surrounding rape here would suggest that the crime is underreported in Alaska, relative to other states.

What's unclear is exactly why the violence is occurring. That's part of the problem," said Andre Rosay, director of the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center, and a national expert on this issue. We can't answer that question. I asked Rosay what researchers had done to try to make sense of it. Had there been efforts to interview rapists? To understand what life experiences may have led them to rape?

Or to try to figure out what might stop perpetrators from raping again? No, he said. Not to his knowledge. But, he offered: Maybe that would help. That conversation and others like it led me to the small community where I met Sheldon – and to the decision to focus on offenders rather than victims. A common refrain from women's rights activists is that "rape won't stop until men stop raping."I couldn't agree more. Victims aren't to blame; rapists are.

That's why I'm sharing the story of a rapist - - and a state - - trying to reform. Watch Online Watch Shimmer Lake Full Movie Online Film. There's no hiding'I met Sheldon, the man who raped and molested his stepdaughter, in a cluttered conference room in the back of a metal building in rural Alaska. To protect the identity of Sheldon's victim, I've changed her name as well as those of her family members, including her rapist. I'm also not revealing the name or characteristics of their community. On the wall in the conference room was a poster of the logo for an innovative sex- offender treatment program that Sheldon is enrolled in: The image shows six people holding hands in a circle around a masked face.

Above the logo is this phrase, translated from the local language: "Sexual abuse ends when we begin to talk."The program surrounds rapists and child molesters who already have served jail time with a network of at least five "safety nets" - - volunteers from the community who try to prevent the offenders from raping or molesting people again. Sheldon is the person at the center. His wife, Ruth, and several others are the safety net. In this region, there are at least 3. The idea is based on two concepts dear to local indigenous culture: community and forgiveness.

In many states, from California to Alabama, sex offenders essentially are banished from their homes after they're released from prison. Offenders are not allowed to live within a certain distance of schools, parks or child- care facilities – pushing them into places where they fly under the radar, unsupervised.

They often end up in homeless shelters, beneath overpasses and in rural environments where it's difficult to find work, support and counseling. The goal here is exactly the opposite, said the clinical director of the local sex- offender treatment program, and who I'll call Robert. Offenders are "right in the center" of a support circle, he said."There's no hiding here."Sheldon entered the room, ready to talk, wearing a plaid shirt and camouflage- pattern pants. He's a friendly seeming guy with the face of a marionette – all eyebrows and cheekbones. Big smile, hard to read.

A man in his 6. 0s, Sheldon moved back to this community in 2. Alaska. His probation officer helped enroll him in the state- funded program, which was new at the time, Robert said. Total Divas Season 2 Episode 4 Dailymotion.

Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Alaska treatment program. Since it began, the treatment program here has served 9.

Robert. It's a tiny sample, so it's difficult to draw broad conclusions, but that's a recidivism rate of about 2%, which is "pretty darn good," to borrow Robert's words. One study of 9,6. Our first conversation began with Sheldon telling me he welcomes the fact that the members of his "safety net"- - his wife, a law- enforcement official, a religious mentor, a tribal elder and others – watch his every move. He also blamed himself alone for the trauma he caused his stepdaughter, who turned him in."I'm taking full responsibility. I'm sick and tired of holding it in here," he told me, later.

I just need to puke it out. Vomit it out."Sheldon confessed to authorities in 2. Looking back is so disturbing for me,"he said. It's frightening."'Anger? Anger'As a young boy, Sheldon learned the ways of traditional indigenous people: speaking the language, which is full of hard "k's" that pop in your throat and twisting "g's" that are nearly impossible for outsiders to pronounce; hunting for blubbery seal; foraging for salmonberries; and hooking fish out of holes cut in the ice. No one calls him it today, but Sheldon's indigenous- language name roughly translates to "a person you can go to for help." It was passed down, as is customary in the culture, in honor of an aunt who died shortly before Sheldon was born.

It would be years before the irony of that name would sting. Demons haunted Sheldon from childhood.

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