PORT CHARLOTTE -- A registered sex offender accused earlier this month of performing a sex act on a 13-year-old boy was charged Tuesday with molesting another child.

Gilbert George James, 37, of the 600 block of Springlake Boulevard, was arrested Dec. 6. He was accused of luring a group of boys away from the BP Station on Easy Street on Dec. 4 and persuading a 13-year-old to let him perform a sex act on him in exchange for a Sony PlayStation Portable game, according to a sheriff's arrest report.

On Monday, a 12-year-old boy told authorities that James had approached him in late November near the same BP station and touched him inappropriately, another arrest report stated. Like the first boy who came forward, the 12-year-old said James persuaded him to sell him his underwear.

The accused was designated a sex offender when he was convicted of having criminal sexual contact with a minor in New Jersey, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Web site.

The second boy who came forward said that James walked up to him two days in a row and asked him and a friend for their boxer shorts, according to the report. He told the children he knew a woman who would buy their boxer shorts for $200, according to the report.

The second day, the boy went into the bushes and removed his boxers, the report states. After placing the underwear in his back pocket, James told the boy he would pay him $10 to urinate off a nearby bridge.

James watched him urinate, approached him, picked him up and pretended he was going to throw the boy off the bridge, according to the report. When James picked the boy up, the report states, he touched him inappropriately.

Studies recorded by the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics have studied sex offender recidivism. An estimated 3.3 percent of 4,300 released child molesters were rearrested within three years for another sex crime against a child. Sex offenders were four times more likely to be arrested for a sex crime than non-sex offenders discharged from prisons, the statistics state. Of 9,691 male sex offenders released from prison in 1994, 5.3 percent of them were rearrested for another sex crime within three years, according to the BJS Web site.

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