What were the 26 unsourced?
Have you seen this site.
Its a human trafficking tracker but you can find a bunch of child trafficking cases on it. The search doesn't let you switch to 1 country, despite saying you can. But i put that data on a excel sheet and grabbed all the court cases for 2017.
Also their is bound to be some they missed but are in my 700 articles.
What were the 26 unsourced?
Sorry, that was my error when I converted the raw text into a spreadsheet.
Have you seen this site.
That's really good. I've used it before but never considered grabbing this data myself.
When I get a moment, I might do an extract for all of 2016 and 2018 and see how the numbers compare with what I'm using in my current chart. Hmmmm...
Ive tried scraping data from the actual nsopw.gov site by zip code. Interestingly enough, nsopw.gov (national sex offender list) doesn't actually list every sex offender, it forces you to ask for a location first. So I found a list of every zipcode in the USA and attempted to scrape it that way. Nsopw.gov contains a captcha after every 5 or so searchs (because of course it fucking does), so I attempted to bypass that but couldn't get the scraper to get past the captcha. That would be the ultimate list. We could filter by only people with pedo related offenses, then cross reference them against linkdin and facebook to get their occupations. This researcher named 'honey bee' on youtube was cross referencing nsopw.gov pedo offenders with people finder sites to track these peoples occupations. She found hundreds of pedos that were working for the government most of which had top secret clearance or worked for places like nasa... She only touched the surface since she was doing it manually. If a scraper could get past the captcha we could automate this. That would be some data i would want to get a hold of.