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Sex Offender / Sex Crime News - Featured Articles, January, 2004
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Kline says he would change 'Romeo and Juliet' policy
January 31, 2004, Dodge City Daily Globe | Submitted by admin
Written By John Hanna
Article Overview
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline said Friday he does not support the state's "Romeo and Juliet" law providing lesser penalties for underage sex if the partners are close in age and heterosexual.
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New law would electronically monitor sex offenders
January 30, 2004, Lowell Sun Online | Submitted by steve
Written By Jennifer Fenn
Article Overview
Democratic Rep. David Nangle filed legislation yesterday that directs the Massachusetts' probation commissioner to establish a global positioning system to track all individuals classified as Level 3 sex offenders by using a tamper-free ankle bracelet. Twenty-seven states nationwide currently use a similar system, with New Hampshire expected to go online next month, Nangle said.
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Police back cable TV broadcasts of sex offenders
January 30, 2004, Lowell Sun Online | Submitted by steve
Written By Jack Minch
Article Overview
Lowell, Massachusetts police yesterday expressed support for a City Council motion to advertise the names of known sex offenders on local cable TV programming. Until about 18-24 months ago the city's cable TV channel broadcast the pictures and names of sex offenders whom the Sex Offender Registry Board considered most likely to offend again. We featured a related story on January 28, 2004.
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Kansas Rep. wants bumper sticker law for sex offenders
January 30, 2004, TheKansasCityChannel.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Rep. Doug Patterson of introduced new legislation in Kansas on Friday that would require convicted offenders to have a sticker on their automobile identifying them as a sex offender. If offenders elect not to have the sticker, the bill would allow them instead to install a global positioning system, or GPS, device in their car.
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Man jailed two years over huge child porn collection
January 30, 2004, scotsman.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Andrew Black
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A man caught with the largest haul of pornography in Scotland was jailed yesterday. Stephen Perrie, 37, a bricklayer, had more than 403,535 indecent images and 15,934 video clips on his computer. Snared in the international Operation Ore, Perrie admitted to making indecent photographs between 1999 and 2002. Sheriff Norrie Stein told the court that the scale of the images warranted a ten-year jail sentence, but because the offences were committed before the introduction of new legislation Perrie only received a two year jail sentence and one year supervised sentence on his release.
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Immigrant sex offenders face deportation
January 30, 2004, The Press-Enterprise | Submitted by steve
Written By Sharyn Obsatz
Article Overview
Federal authorities have arrested 114 immigrant sex offenders in Riverside and San Bernardino counties since July as part of an effort to get sexual predators off the streets and into deportation proceedings. The program, Operation Predator, has netted 1,700 people nationwide.
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Editorial: Helping out ex-offenders
January 29, 2004, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Submitted by Navigatr1
Article Overview
During President Bush's State of the Union Address on January 20th, the President discussed new funding to help recently released prisoners make a successful transition back into society - to the tune of $300 million over 4 years. But is that enough?
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Nearly 1 in 4 convictions erased in child-sex cases
January 28, 2004, Miami Herald | Submitted by steve
Written By Jason Grotto and Manny Garcia
Article Overview
Despite pleading guilty or no contest, men charged with fondling youngsters, peddling child pornography and impregnating adolescents left Florida's judicial system without a felony conviction and with their civil rights intact.
A Herald review of more than 18,000 child-sex cases between 1992 and 2003 shows that more than 4,400 child sex offenders received the break, called a withhold of adjudication.
Scores who got the deal went on to commit more crimes. Some even had their convictions set aside a second time.
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Screening kept sex offenders from working in D.C. Archdiocese
January 28, 2004, WJLA | Submitted by steve
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New screening methods have kept five convicted sex offenders from working in the Archdiocese of Washington. The archdiocese is the first in the nation to use electronic fingerprinting machines to screen people who work with children.
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Lowell City Council wants to show sex offenders on TV
January 28, 2004, Lowell Sun Online | Submitted by steve
Written By Michael LaFleur
Article Overview
In response to recent incidents involving convicted sex offenders with ties to Lowell, city councilors last night voted 8-0 to begin broadcasting the names and pictures of such individuals on the city's municipal cable channel. Information will only be broadcast about Level 3 sex offenders, deemed by the state Sex Offender Registry Board to the be at a "high risk" of reoffending.
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Single solution eludes system
January 28, 2004, Pioneer Press | Submitted by steve
Written By Rachel E. Stassen-Berger
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Fed up with stories like Dru Sjodin's, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty declared that he'll push the Legislature to reinstate the death penalty and proposed a constitutional amendment on Tuesday which would leave it up to Minnesota voters. The article discusses a number of ways that Minnesota lawmakers will debate for keeping convicted sex offenders from striking again - covering the issues, names of those involved, the cost and the effect on all parties.
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Sex offenders moving to Minnesota avoid public scrutiny
January 27, 2004, Minnesota Public Radio News | Submitted by steve
Written By Dan Gunderson
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Thanks to a loophole in Minnesota's sex offender notification law, public notification isn't done for sex offenders who move from another state to Minnesota. Community notification is done for convicted offenders who are assigned a level three risk level after their cases are reviewed, but offenders from out of state do not have their cases reviewed and are simply assigned a non-level classification.
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Assembly OKs online sex offender listing
January 27, 2004, Los Angeles Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Nancy Vogel
Article Overview
The names and home addresses of about 83,000 California sex offenders classified as "high-risk" and "serious." would be available on the Internet under a bill passed Monday after a year of debate. Under California's Megan's Law, residents must currently visit a local police or sheriff's station or call a toll phone number to access the sex offender registry, but addresses are not shared, only zip codes. The bill, AB 488 by Assemblywoman Nicole Parra (D-Hanford) passed 72-2. The bill must still be considered by the more liberal Senate within the next few months.
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Vigil held for convicted sex offender fatally shot in Yonkers
January 26, 2004, News 12 Westchester | Submitted by Navigatr1
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Vigilantism against a convicted sex offender? According to police, investigators are looking into claims that Richard Tunley accosted a young child and that his actions may have contributed to his death.
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Man sentenced for marrying his 15-year-old cousin
January 26, 2004, CNN | Submitted by steve
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Utah polygamist Jeremy Ortell Kingston was sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to incest. Kingston married his then 15 year old cousin (who is also his aunt) as his fourth wife in 1995. If he completes three years of probation the charge will be reduced to a misdemeanor.
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Plan to spread out sex offenders faces uphill fight
January 26, 2004, Tribnet.com | Submitted by Navigatr1
Written By Jason Hagey
Article Overview
Tacoma, Washington City Councilman Tom Stenger is promoting an innovative and controversial proposal aimed at spreading out the city's population of sex offenders - and forcing some to move out of Tacoma altogether. One hundred and fifty-nine registered sex offenders live within a half-mile of his neighborhood. Some experts, though sympathetic to his motives, doubt that Stenger has really considered all of the ramifications of his plan and predict there's little chance it could really be enacted.
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Jim Zbinovec: Profile of a sex offender
January 26, 2004, Zanesville Times Recorder | Submitted by steve
Written By Sue Sowards
Article Overview
This is a profile of convicted sex offender Jim Zbinovec. His victim was a 16-year-old girl, disabled by cerebral palsy. The article provides insight into contributing factors that led to the crime, the effect of treatment and a look at Licking County sex offender groups and the purpose and effectiveness of treatment.
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Sex offender accused of assaulting, videotaping stepchildren
January 23, 2004, The Daily Press | Submitted by steve
Written By Chris Kahn
Article Overview
A convicted sex offender living in Virginia has been charged with assaulting his three stepsons and videotaping the acts after the mother discovered the videotapes. He married the mother of the three boys after a 1997 conviction for indecent assault and battery of another child and he registered as a sex offender in Virginia after moving there in May. The article doesn't mention what the mother knew of his past.
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Tougher Megan's Law sought
January 23, 2004, Contra Costa Times | Submitted by lj
Written By Sean Webby
Article Overview
Assemblywoman Nicole Parra, a Democrat from Bakersfield, expects to propose a bill in California as soon as next week that would post detailed information on the Internet about the state's 1,800 high-risk sex offenders (out of a total of about 100,000 registered sex offenders). Currently, California is one of only a handful of states which does not make information about convicted sex offenders available online.
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State Senator proposes changes to sex offender website
January 22, 2004, WTVO | Submitted by steve
Written By Lisa Whitlow
Article Overview
State Senator Dave Syverson is proposing adding more information to the Illinois Sex Offenders Database website - including listing what crimes the offenders committed. That's right - this information isn't currently listed. Syverson acknowledges that this shortcoming makes it difficult to know whether someone is guilty of having sex with an underaged boyfriend/girlfriend or of raping a very young child.
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Tougher laws for sex offenders on the way
January 22, 2004, WKRN | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
2,329 of 6,476 convicted sex offenders who are required by law to register in Tennessee are unaccounted for. State prosectors and police are asking lawmakers to make changes - including making failing to register a Class E felony. It's currently a misdeameanor.
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Sex offenders' movements could be tracked on Web
January 09, 2004, Pioneer Press | Submitted by steve
Written By Rachel E. Stassen-Berger
Article Overview
Gov. Tim Pawlenty envisions a Minnesota in which all citizens could log on to the Internet and instantly track the exact movements — block by block — of some of the state's most dangerous sexual predators.
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Sex crime registry may go to Web
January 09, 2004, Bennington Banner | Submitted by steve
Written By Ian Romboletti
Article Overview
Democratic Senator Dick Sears of Bennington introduced a bill in the state Legislature which could put the names and faces of the state's most dangerous sex offenders on the Internet. Currently, the public is only privy to sex offender information through the registry if they can prove the offender in question could directly affect them. Vermont is one of only six states - including California, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, South Dakota, and Nevada - that doesn't provide a sex offender registry via the Internet.
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