Gender_Violence

Gender Violence Arthur John Shawcross was born to Corporal Arthur Roy and Bessie Shawcross two months early on June 6, 1945 in Maine. Bessie took her son Arthur back to her sister-in-laws in Watertown, New York until her husband finished his military service. The family settled in Watertown along with many relatives, and the area where they lived was renamed Shawcross Corner due to the number of relatives that had settled there. He was a troubled youth due to claims of sexual abuse by family members. In 1968 he entered into the army and was sent to Vietnam, and his troubles escalated to new levels. Upon returning from Vietnam to Watertown he became more and more agitated and his troubles would soon catch up with him. In 1988 he was released from prison after serving fifteen years for the sadistic murders of two children in Watertown. Out on parole he was sent to Rochester to live after residents in two other communities objected to his presence. His troubles continued further with the killing of 11 women in the Rochester area between 1988 and 1990, before being arrested and sentenced to 250 years in prison. He plead not guilty by reason of insanity sexual, women, children, violence, think, rape, among, victims, victim, sex, pedophiles, one, offenders, assault, wrong, vietnam, two, raped, child, watertown, per, pedophile, media, legal, due, between, being, been, battered, about, years, way, upon, type, time, sodomized