They combine data from the housing market with data from the North Carolina Sex Offender Registry to find that when a sex offender moves into a neighborhood, houses within a one-tenth mile area around the sex offender’s home fall by 4 percent on average (about $5,500), while those further away show no decline in value. “These results suggest that individuals have a significant distaste for living in close proximity to a known sex offender,” the authors conclude.

As I recently posted about a registered sex offender working at Cornell University, it seems pertinent to ask the question, “Does the number of sex offenders on campus have a negative effect on its desireability?”

Vice President for University Communications Thomas W. Bruce made the following statement to the Cornell Chronicle:

These are serious and painful charges, and we must value the privacy of the individuals involved. Cornell University is providing support to the victim, also a Cornell employee, and to others who have been affected by the alleged incident. Cornell has full confidence in the investigation being led by the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office. We are providing our full cooperation.

You can read the release at the Cornell News website.

“Mr. Shorey would appear in a hearing there, and the judge would make a call as to whether or not there is sufficient reason to extradite him,” Wilkinson said.

But she says either way, he’ll be here. And how much will taxpayers have to cough up to bring Shorey back? The DA says she would like to do it more cheaply, but she may have to send two officers on a commercial flight.

Now, we just hope that when he gets back here he won’t be able to get bail and flee Ithaca again. The DA has indicated that she will request that bail be remanded.

On another note, I came across the following today from Abraham Shorey’s wife “Isa Sequoia Bigtree Lake” who also goes by the online alias mamabigtree:

Greetings, my name is Isa, I am a mama of 6 beautiful children, Sunny Lake 10, Shine 8, Wanda 5, Iris 4, Maya 3, and Freya is 6 months old. They are all very amazing children and very much enlightened. We are searching for are family. We would like to find a community that we can become members in and beome part of the team. We as a family can contribute much love and happiness to any community and to the world. We are willing to work and contribute are talents. Me as the mother have taught my children spiritual values that I would like to continue. My children are taught to respect each other and the mother earth, they are also taught to be honest and truthful, they are taught to teach others how they want to be treated. I wish for my kids to be home schooled and shown the ways of the land. I would like it if they didn’t watch t.v. or eat meat. I would very much like it if we could join a community where all are needs are met and we would be living in harmony with all of our neighbors and with the earth. Please contact me if you can feel for me and my children and our future. If you are community looking for members that will add love, respect, and equal contribution please call me at 732-986-4725. Live 2 give true etenal love, eternally ISA

It’s hard to understand the Shorey family from these online snippets, which raise more questions than answers.  If you’re interested in the old family history, check out this post.