The law established a Special Sex Offender Disposition Alternative (SSODA) for juvenile sex offenders which allows the court to suspend a criminal sentence and require the offender to receive outpatient treatment. The legislature appropriated funds to assist in paying for the juvenile's treatment. 

  Some of the factors associated with whether the offender receives SSODA are: 

• No history of prior sex offense

• Treatment can be provided withminimal risk to the community

• Youth can be treated while living in his own home or an alternative community placement and certified treatment providers are available.

• Attitude of youth toward offcense

1. 1. There are no socio-economic factors that distinguish the sexual assaulter fromt he general population.
2. 2. A large majority of offenders are known to and often related to the victim.
3. 3. Most victims are between the ages of four and five or ten and thirteen.
4. 4. There are different types of sexual offending behavior, including exposure, fondling, genital contact, and intercourse.
5. 5. Deviant sexual interest patterns generallly develop betweent he ages of twelve and fifteen.
6. 6. Sexually aggressive adolescents usually commit their first sexual assault between the ages of thirteena nd fifteen.
7. 7. Sexually aggressive adolescents are responsible for at least 50% of all sexual assaults, especially assault against young children.
8. 8. Adolescents commit 5,000 - 16,000 sexual assaults per 100,000 in the population.
9. 9. Adolescent males between the ages of thirteen and eighteen commit 21% of the forcible rapes in the United States.
10. 10. Adolescents do cooperate in treatment, even though they minimize their behavior.

11. Adolescents are more amenable to change than adult offenders.