Serial rapist ex-NFL player Darren Sharper registers as sex offender in Virginia

Convicted serial rapist and former National Football League champion Darren Sharper has registered as a sex offender in his home state of Virginia, after being transferred from federal prison to a halfway house there, according to official records. With a projected 2028 release date nearing, the US Bureau of Prisons (BoP) recently confirmed that the 50-year-old Sharper had been moved on 27 May from a federal correctional institution near Elkton, Ohio, to either home confinement or a facility colloquially known as a halfway house overseen by the agency’s residential re-entry management office in Baltimore. But that office’s jurisdiction encompasses the region including Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia , and the BoP stopped short of saying in what community Sharper had been placed. After he pleaded guilty in 2015 and 2016 to a series of druggings and rapes of women across four states, it was mandatory for Sharper to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison. Records that Virginia state police are legally required to maintain and make publicly available show Sharper registered as a sex offender there on 1 June. Those records in the process listed his primary address as a halfway house in the community of Newport News, about 70 miles (113km) south-east from his home town of Richmond, Virginia. They also had an updated picture of Sharper, who has been all but out of the public light since his pleading guilty. He had dreadlocks and a short beard in the image. …