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Sex offenders to be tracked for life
May 31, 2004, The Australian | Submitted by steve
Written By Tanya Giles
Article Overview
Victoria, Australia's worst sex offenders will be tracked by police for the rest of their lives under new laws. The register will apply to all sex offenders who are sentenced to jail, are in a correctional centre or are on parole from that time. The new laws would also ban registered sex attackers from working with children.
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Police say registered sex offender accused of statutory rape
May 31, 2004, TheKansasCityChannel.com | Submitted by steve
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29-year-old Roy D. Howard has been charged with two counts of statutory rape after being accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl. Police say Howard is a registered sex offender, but he does not appear on MIssouri's online list of offenders and his family says he's only been convicted of child abuse.
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Child porn nets man 135 years, thanks to TV
May 30, 2004, Cleveland Plain Dealer | Submitted by steve
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A Cincinnati, Ohio man, Daniel Ostenkamp, who was arrested for making a child porn tape after investigators traced a television news program playing in the background was sentenced to 135 years in prison. He was charged with sexually molesting a boy over three years and pleaded guilty April 27. The trail started with U.S. Customs stopping an illegal immigrant from Austria and finding photos and videos of Ostenkamp having sex with a 12-year-old boy on the man's computer.
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Man facing indecent exposure and child porn charges fired as police officer
May 30, 2004, Kentucky.com | Submitted by steve
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Police in Elizabethtown, Kentucky have fired an officer who faces indecent exposure and child pornography charges. Brian Leasor was suspended from the Elizabethtown Police Department after he was charged for allegedly exposing himself to children on a school bus and he was later arrested after police found child pornography on his personal computer.
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Alleged panty thief possibly linked to Wilberger case
May 30, 2004, KOIN.com | Submitted by admin
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Police re-arrested "person of interest" Sung Koo Kim in the presumed kidnapping of Brigham Young student Brooke Wilberger Saturday on more burglary charges. Kim was arrested for burglary at George Fox University by Newberg Police May 13 on a search warrant that found more than 1,000 items including large quantities of women's underwear and is charged with an April burglary at Oregon State University's Sacket Hall, which is very near the site where Wilberger was last seen.
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Training on Internet pedophiles leads to trooper's arrest
May 29, 2004, WJLA | Submitted by steve
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A Virginia state trooper faces charges after allegedly using the Internet to try to arrange a meeting with a 13-year-old girl in Stafford County. Travis W. Sorrells, 28, was charged with four counts of taking indecent liberties with minors and using computers to facilitate offenses involving children. According to police and prosecutors, the girl Sorrells arranged to meet at a fast-food restaurant was actually a Stafford detective participating in a state police training class on Internet chat rooms.
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Priest charged with child porn
May 29, 2004, The Morning Call | Submitted by steve
Written By Steve Wartenberg
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The Rev. Matthew Kornacki, 57, is charged with one count of possessing digital images of child pornography on his computer while he lived at the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in July.
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Sex offender charged with attacking another child
May 29, 2004, nbc4columbus.com | Submitted by steve
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Convicted sex offender, Kenneth Dixon, is in the Franklin County Jail (Ohio) after a grand jury indicted him on rape, kidnapping and gross sexual imposition charges. He allegedly followed a 5-year-old boy into a restroom on West Broad Street and sexually assaulted him in a stall.
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Police focus on five people in probe of missing Y. student
May 29, 2004, The Salt Lake Tribune | Submitted by admin
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Investigators are zeroing in on five people in the disappearance of Brigham Young University student Brooke Wilberger, all of whom have what authorities described as a "history" with women who match the description of the missing 19-year-old. Corvallis Police Lt. Ron Noble said none of the five can be considered formal suspects and he did not say whether any of the five were registered sex offenders.
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Wife: "I Didn't Have A Clue"
May 28, 2004, madison.com | Submitted by LostTime
Written By Stan Milam
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Leanna Perry, wife of Wisconsin mall rape suspect James Perry, explains how her husband of eight years could be a child pornographer and be accused of multiple incidents of sexual assault without her knowledge.
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Missing woman: Sex offenders interviewed
May 28, 2004, KOIN.com | Submitted by admin
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Police are interviewing sex offenders in two Oregon counties in the disappearance of Brooke Wilberger. The 19-year-old student vanished Monday morning from a Corvallis apartment complex, leaving behind few clues.
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Record sex-crime report
May 28, 2004, NEWS.com.au | Submitted by steve
Written By Craig Clarke
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The number of sexual assault reports in South Australia last year was the highest since records began in 1993, Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show. There were 1,850 rapes and sexual assault reports to police last year, up 18% since records began 11 years ago. Meanwhile, murder plunged to a decade low last year while robberies were at a six-year low.
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UH coed sentenced to prison for child porn
May 27, 2004, TheHawaiiChannel.com | Submitted by steve
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A female University of Hawaii student who traded child porn for music on the Internet must spend at least two years in federal prison, a judge ruled Thursday. Lani Hansen faced a much longer sentence, but a judge decided she should not be treated like a sexual predator. Hansen said someone else put some child porn on her computer, but after she learned it was in demand on the Kazaa file-sharing network, she traded it for music. To keep her illicit collection fresh for online collectors, Hansen added more child porn files until she had about 120 pictures and videos
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Child porn raid yields arrests
May 27, 2004, Herald Sun | Submitted by steve
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Police across northern Europe today pored over hundreds of thousands of films and photos seized in the region's largest ever child pornography raid, in which about 350 suspects were arrested and then released pending prosecution, police said.
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How did registered sex offender land volunteer job coaching kids?
May 27, 2004, abc13.com | Submitted by steve
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Lamar Williams, 24, is a convicted and registered sex offender on probation for exposing himself to a child. ABC 13 Eyewitness News found him working as volunteer for the YMCA, coaching a youth baseball team, even though court documents say he's not allowed within 1,000 feet of any place children gather.
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Sex offender returned to St. Johns to face kidnapping, rape charges
May 26, 2004, News4Jax.com | Submitted by steve
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A man accused of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl in Palm Valley, Florida in 1996 was returned to St. Johns County to face the charges. Joseph Carrocci, 46, was arrested in California in March and fought extradition. Carrocci is a registered sexual offender in California. He was sentenced to 21 years in prison in 1994 for sexual assault on minor, but was released on parole in 1995 and moved to Ohio. He was allowed to vacation in Florida in September 1996 - during the time of the Palm Valley abduction and assault. The following month, he was observed stalking teens in Ohio and was returned to prison in California.
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Does a registered sex offender go to school with your child?
May 26, 2004, abc13.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Jessica Willey
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According to Harris County, Texas juvenile probation records, there are 124 juvenile sex offenders attending Houston-area schools. Unlike their adult counterparts, their information generally does not appear on the Texas sex offender web site and they are not banned from school campuses. Though district superintendents are notified about student sex offenders, each district has its own policy on whether to pass on the information to those who deal with these students daily. A breakdown of youth on probation for sexual assault is provided per school district and per school.
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Napolitano gets bill to add sex offender notices
May 25, 2004, Tuscon Citizen | Submitted by admin
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The House on Tuesday approved a Senate-passed bill to expand Arizona's community notification program for sex offenders by adding thousands more people who were convicted before June 1, 1996. SB1291 was approved 51-4, sending it to Governor Janet Napolitano. The bill is a response to a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said it does not violate an offender's protections against after-the-fact laws to apply the registration requirement to people convicted before a state law took effect. Approximately 6,000 registered sex offenders in Arizona are currently not on the state's sex offender web site because their convictions were prior to 1996.
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Sex offender who worked at hospital charged with rape
May 25, 2004, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by steve
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King County, Washington prosecutors filed rape and indecent liberties charges Tuesday against a Level 3 sex offender accused of fondling a female patient while working at Virginia Mason Medical Center. Raymond Lee Kupfer, 28, was working as patient transporter at the hospital when he allegedly fondled a 48-year-old woman by reaching underneath her hospital gown. After the womain reported the incident to the nursing staff, hospital officials determined Kupfer was a sex offender with nine felony convictions on his record.
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B.C. to adopt Amber Alert system
May 25, 2004, The Province | Submitted by steve
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British Columbia will become the latest province in Canada to adopt an Amber Alert program following an official announcement by Premier Gordon Campbell. The adoption of the program, which is designed to alert the public immediately whenever a child goes missing, is timed to coincide with national Missing Children's Day.
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Jacksonville circus clown arrested for child pornography
May 24, 2004, First Coast News | Submitted by steve
Written By Jamie Muro
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The sting called Operation Falcon has resulted in charges against 23-year-old Thomas Allen Riccio, who has been charged with ten counts of third degree sexual exploitation of a minor related to accusations that he downloaded child pornography. According to Sgt. Thompson of the Fayetteville Police Department. "the pictures we observed in that were very, very young females, five and six years old that were engaged in sexual activity with older adults." Riccio is a circus clown for Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus.
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Drive seeks tighter sex-offender law
May 23, 2004, Seattle Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Beth Kaiman
Article Overview
Skykomish, Washington resident Tracy Oetting is leading an initiative drive for a one-strike law she and volunteers are trying to get on the Nov. 2 statewide ballot calls for mandatory life sentences for those convicted once of certain sex crimes, including first- and second-degree rape, child rape, first-degree child molestation and kidnapping. The initiative is Initiative 861.
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Young teen sex law change opposed
May 23, 2004, Stuff | Submitted by steve
Written By Leanne Bell and Sue Allen
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The New Zealand Government has received opposition from other political parties over a proposal to soften the law on sex for children aged between 12 and 16. Some are opposed to wording that creates a defense for people to have sex with 12 to 16 year-olds if they took steps to find out the child's age.
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Sex charges just part of problem at girls center, some say
May 22, 2004, Louisville Courier Journal | Submitted by Navigatr1
Written By Deborah Yetter
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One summer night last year, Steve Wells, superintendent of the state's only center for female juvenile offenders, encountered youth worker Guy Nantell alone in the hallway of the administration building with a resident. Several months after that encounter, the girl, 17, reported that Nantell had taken her to a basement of the administration building and had sex with her. Her claims triggered a state investigation that found he had engaged in sexual activity with her and 12 other girls at the Morehead Youth Development Center at various times last year. Nantell was fired in December and Wells was forced to resign Wednesday after Lt. Gov. Steve Pence ordered an investigation of all conditions at Morehead.
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Canuck held in kid sex bid
May 21, 2004, Winnipeg Sun | Submitted by steve
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A Canadian businessman charged with attempting to arrange sex with a four-year-old will remain in U.S. custody until his trial. William John Krygsman, 33, was arrested Saturday after he drove from his hometown in Ontario to Atlanta, Georgia, where he allegedly believed he was going to have sex with a four-year-old, according to an FBI news release. Police allege Krygsman was in contact over the Internet with someone he thought was the girl's mother. The person was an FBI agent, who had been communicating with Krygsman for three weeks.
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Woman made up pedophile claims
May 21, 2004, Winnipeg Sun | Submitted by steve
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A woman's admission she lied in accusing 13 people of pedophilia, causing some to be imprisoned for up to three years, has riveted France and shaken the country's legal system. One committed suicide while behind bars and others lost custody of their children. Myriam Delay, stunned a courtroom this week by saying she lied in accusing the 13. The case involved allegations of rape, torture and bestiality involving group rapes of children in a housing project between 1995 and 2000.
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High school student was registered sex offender
May 21, 2004, AccessNorthGA.com | Submitted by steve
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School officials in Columbia County, Georgia are reviewing policies on students with criminal records after the arrest of a student who is a registered sex offender. Harlem High School junior Christopher Allen Hall, 20, a special education student, was arrested Wednesday on child molestation charges stemming from a March indicent at the school involving a 15-year-old female student. Hall was placed on the state sex offender list in 2002 after being convicted of child molestation and criminal attempt to commit rape. According to court documents, he was given probation and ordered to complete high school and receive outpatient counseling.
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Father beats accused child molester with tire iron
May 21, 2004, WLTX-TV | Submitted by admin
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18-year-old George Pierson of Greenville, South Carolina, is behind bars in Newberry County charged with Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor First Degree after he allegedly committed a sexual assault on a 5-year-old girl. When officers arrived at the scene, the 5-year-old's father was striking Pierson with a tire iron. Newberry Sheriff Lee Foster says no charges will be filed against the father.
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Convicted pedophile conducting choir; bishops displeased
May 20, 2004, CBC Ottawa | Submitted by steve
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The Anglican bishop for the Ontario Diocese is writing the bishop in Ottawa to voice disapproval that a convicted pedophile from Kingston is performing and conducting at an Ottawa church. John Gallienne, a choirmaster at Kingston's St. George's Cathedral for 15 years, pleaded guilty in 1990 to 20 sex crimes against 13 young boys. The church Gallienne now attends in Ottawa is known for helping sexual offenders reintegrate into society. He is allegedly conducting an adult choir with no young people and no children.
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Registered sex offender, father plead innocent to El Cajon kidnap charge
May 20, 2004, San Diego Union Tribune | Submitted by steve
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A registered sex offender and his father, accused of trying to take a 9-year-old girl from her El Cajon, California, elementary school, pleaded innocent today to attempted kidnapping and conspiracy charges. Staff at Cuyamaca Elementary School told authorities the younger male tried to pick up a girl Tuesday afternoon, claiming to be a friend of her parents. When staffers refused, citing policy, the suspect fled in car driven by the elder male. When the child's mother was contacted, it was determined that not only had she not given such permission to the suspect, but recognized him as a past neighbor and a registered sex offender.
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Child-porn probe used first live Internet wiretap
May 20, 2004, The Sacramento Bee | Submitted by steve
Written By Sam Stanton and Denny Walsh
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For more than three weeks, every web site, e-mail, image and chat room conversation Jason Heath Morgan viewed or took part in was scrutinized, as the 26-year-old Morgan unwittingly became the first person in the United States to have his Internet usage monitored live by federal agents probing child pornography under a new law. The PROTECT Act - officially Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today - gave authorities the right to tap into a suspect's computer to catch child abusers, including Internet pornographers. Based on wiretap information, Morgan was charged with child pornography related charges and multiple sex crimes against children. Agents are tracking 1,700 e-mail and chat-room users Morgan allegedly was in contact with as part of a massive child-pornography ring.
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$6m secret of child porn hoarder
May 20, 2004, The New Zealand Herald | Submitted by steve
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A New Zealand businessman convicted of internet child sex abuse charges has lost a fight to keep his identity secret to protect his right to a $6 million inheritance. Malcolm Brian Lerner, 51, was named yesterday seven months after being convicted in the Auckland District Court on 21 charges of possessing and trading computer images of young boys in sexual poses and girls being sexually abused by adult men.
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Calls warn neighbors about sex offender
May 20, 2004, Northwest Indiana News | Submitted by steve
Written By Ken Kosky
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The Valparaiso Police Department in Valparaiso, Indiana, on Wednesday notified hundreds of people in a one-quarter mile radius that 43-year-old convicted child molester Michael Nava had moved into an apartment in the area. This is the first time the Valparaiso Police Department has utilized its new telephone notification program, although it plans to use it anytime a registered sex offender moves into a neighborhood. Valparaiso police say they're the first in the state to do mass telephone warnings about sex offenders.
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Convicted pedophile priest marries in prison
May 19, 2004, kare11.com | Submitted by admin
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Former priest and convicted pedophile James Porter has married a former nun. Porter is being held at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for sexual offenders while he awaits a trial on the state's bid to keep him locked up indefinitely as a sexually dangerous person. He completed his prison sentence in January. Porter was convicted in 1993 of molesting 28 children.
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Rapist Patrick Ghilotti released to Vacaville
May 19, 2004, TheKSBWChannel.com | Submitted by admin
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Serial rapist Patrick Ghilotti arrived in Vacaville Wednesday morning after being released from Atascadero State Hospital in San Luis Obispo. Ghilotti, 48, registered as a sexually violent predator at the Vacaville Police Department before going to his wife's residence. Prior to his arrival, police passed out fliers to alert residents to the presence of a convicted sex offender in their neighborhood in compliance with Megan's Law. City leaders held a news conference Wednesday and vowed to continue to fight to rid their city of a man they say they don't want. Ghilotti is the third sexually violent predator released from the state's mandatory treatment program at Atascadero State Hospital since the program began in 1997.
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Sex offender web site overloaded
May 19, 2004, STLtoday.com | Submitted by steve
Written By David A. Lieb
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The MIssouri State Highway Patrol launched a new web site Tuesday which lists the names and addresses of Missouri's registered sex offenders. The onslaught of visitors has made the web site inaccessible and sluggish for many visitors. Though state law effective last year directed the Highway Patrol to post the sex offender registry on the Internet, funding for the project wasn't included in the current state budget. Yet the patrol decided not to wait and used existing equipment, expecting that it could be improved pending funding in the pending budget which includes $624,154 for staff, hardware and software for the project.
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Federal Way police investigating alleged student assault
May 19, 2004, KOMO TV | Submitted by Navigatr1
Written By Liz Rocca
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The Federal Way Police Department (Washington state) is investigating a third-grader's allegation that she was forced to perform a sex act on a classmate in a school library. According to her family, the girl says the boy suddenly grabbed her by the hair, punched her in the face and forced her to perform oral sex on him. The family says the boy then threatened her and told her not to tell.
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'Sting' by vigilante group results in firefighter's arrest
May 19, 2004, USA Today | Submitted by steve
Written By Tom Hays
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A Brooklyn, New York, firefighter was arrested on federal sex charges Tuesday following an unofficial sting by vigilantes targeting men who cruise the Internet for underage girls. An indictment alleges Ryan Hogan, 24, used a firehouse computer to try to entice a woman posing as a 14-year-old girl to have sex with him, and to send her an obscene image of himself. The "girl" was a member of a group called Perverted Justice, a group that sends volunteers into Internet chat rooms to pose as young teens.
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No deal for judge in child porn case
May 18, 2004, Belfast Telegraph | Submitted by steve
Written By Gene McKenna
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The Ireland Cabinet is to decide whether to take the unprecedented step of initiating an impeachment process against a judge. Judge Brian Curtin was acquitted on charges related to child pornography because a search warrant was served late. In an entirely separate incident, the judge is waiting to hear whether charge will be initiated against him after he was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving in Tralee within the past fortnight.
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Authorities seek to commit sex offender once tied to Huisentruit case
May 18, 2004, Pioneer Press | Submitted by admin
Written By Steve Karnowski
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Prosecutors in Minnesota moved Tuesday to indefinitely commit a sex offender who has been questioned by authorities in the disappearance of television anchor Jodi Huisentruit. The convicted sex offender, Thomas Gary Corscadden, has a record which includes several rapes and attempted rapes, incest and a 25-year history of voyeurism and exhibitionism. According to the Attorney General's office, he has also admitted raping women at gunpoint in Vietnam while he was in the Army in the 1970s.
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I-ticked
May 18, 2004, Oregon Live | Submitted by admin
Written By Joseph Rose
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In February, FOX 12 News' I-Team lured pedophiles to a vacant neighborhood house with chat room promises of sex with a 13-year-old girl. When men showed up, they got a camera in the face and an uncomfortable grilling from a reporter. The station's assistant news director says the "Perverted Justice" segment was classic undercover journalism and "an important public service." But a single mom of three girls living next door to the house wasn't impressed. The unnamed woman is suing KPTV and its parent company, Iowa-based Meredith Corp., for $70,000, claiming "the reality TV sting" invaded her privacy and endangered her family.
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Richmond teacher is arrested
May 18, 2004, Richmond Times-Dispatch | Submitted by steve
Written By Jason Wermers
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Richmond police arrested a city high school teacher yesterday and charged him with two counts of indecent liberties with a minor while maintaining a custodial or supervisory relationship.
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Moving of school bus stops debated
May 18, 2004, TCPalm | Submitted by steve
Written By Marc Freeman
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With 14,000 public school bus stops across Palm Beach County, Florida, chances are some of them are near a convicted sex offender's home.
District officials told School Board members Monday they are concerned about having to relocate some of those stops, due to a new state law designed to put more distance between sexual predators and children.
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Brothers in DNA case are identical twins, mother says
May 18, 2004, Michigan Live | Submitted by steve
Written By Ken Koller
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DNA from semen left at the scene of a 1999 rape of a Kendall College of Art and Design student in Grand Rapids, Michigan, matches the DNA of Jerome Cooper, who is in prison for an unrelated home invasion. In an odd twist, police are searching for his twin brother Tyrone Cooper to conduct a DNA test and confirm whether he and his brother are identical. hey hoped the brothers were fraternal, with different DNA, so they could immediately charge Jerome Cooper. Both brothers are convicted sex offenders.
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Twins charged with abusing children
May 18, 2004, KOBTV.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Reed Upton
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Albuquerque twins Angelo Silva and Fred Silva are jailed facing charges of molesting three children over several years and police believe there may be more victims. Fred, a registered sex offender for a rape conviction, and Angelo, are facing 178 counts of sex crimes against two brothers and a sister, aged seven to 16.
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'Perfect psychopath' blames parents
May 17, 2004, The Australian | Submitted by steve
Written By Matthew Campbell
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The evidence against him may be overwhelming but Marc Dutroux, the alleged child killer and the most hated man in Belgium, is blaming his parents for the way they brought him up.
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Street kids porn victims
May 15, 2004, Toronto Star | Submitted by steve
Written By Betsy Powell
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Street kids are being bribed with offers of housing and food and forced to participate in sex acts in front of a camera by members of an organized group that calls itself "the company," according to Toronto police.
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Police officer enters plea in child porn case
May 15, 2004, The Post-Crescent | Submitted by steve
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Adam James Brown, a 31-year-old California police officer with the Riverside Police Department accused of coming to Wisconsin to have sexual contact with children has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of sexually assaulting children. A criminal complaint filed in Dodge County Circuit Court accuses him of having sexual contact with five boys, who were 8 to 13 years old.
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Is Net porn the key?
May 15, 2004, Sunday Mail | Submitted by steve
Written By David English
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Easy and unrestricted access to violent pornography on the Internet may be linked to the rise in attempted child abductions, behavioral scientists say. The warning follows revelations by The Sunday Mail that more than 20 predators have abducted or attempted to abduct children in Queensland in the past eight months. New Australian research has shown a rising incidence of aggressive sexual behavior linked to exposure to violent porn on the Internet. Studies by the independent Australia Institute and the Canberra Hospital Child Risk Unit warn that Net porn could be breeding a new generation of sexual predators.
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10 days of probation is penalty for man who had sex with girl, 12
May 15, 2004, Miami Herald | Submitted by lj
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A 22-year-old man who pleaded guilty to having sex with a 12-year-old received a penalty much lighter than usual -- 10 days of sex-offender probation -- angering the girl's mother.
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Pike man with lengthy sex crime record has some questioning state laws
May 14, 2004, SunHerald.com | Submitted by steve
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The case of a McComb man whose criminal past includes half a dozen indecent exposure and obscenity charges, and a new charge of sexually assaulting a 76-year-old woman has some officials questioning the strength of Mississippi laws. While the current charges could net him 30 years of prison time, the lenient penalties he received in the past has at least one police officer and a district attorney asking if state laws against indecent exposure are strong enough.
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Former Cascade school chief pleads guilty to child porn
May 14, 2004, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by steve
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Patrick Mark Lyons, the former superintendent of the Cascade School District in Leavenworth, has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Lyons faces a maximum 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced July 28. He was charged on March 31 with possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography, but the U.S. Attorney's Office will seek dismissal of the distribution charge.
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Marcus Vick sentenced to 30 days
May 14, 2004, heraldtribune.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Chris Kahn
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Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick was cleared of charges he had sex with a 15-year-old girl, but he was convicted of serving alcohol to a minor. The charges stemmed from a late-night party January 27th at the Vick's apartment. One of the girls said they were given shots of vodka and asked to strip and kiss. She said all three girls undressed and gave the players lap dances. One of the girls testified Vick had sex with her 15-year-old friend.
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Dads, don't let your girls be interns: DA
May 14, 2004, New York Post | Submitted by DoTheCrimeDoTheTime
Written By FREDRIC U. DICKER
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The Albany County district attorney - reacting to the intern sex scandal at the state Capitol - issued an extraordinary warning yesterday about the program. "Any father who would let his daughter be an intern in the state Legislature should have his head examined," Albany DA Paul Clyne told The Post.
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Sex offender accused of molesting boy in pool
May 14, 2004, St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by steve
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A 47-year-old man in New Port Richey, Florida, registered as a sex offender because of a sexual assault in New Jersey, was arrested Wednesday after being accused of molesting a boy younger than 12 years old. Thomas Aloysius Elwell was accused of putting his hands inside the boy's bathing suit while in a swimming pool last week and of telling the boy he wanted to touch his genitals and rub lotion and oil on him.
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Bill would eliminate sex offender loopholes
May 14, 2004, MetroWest Daily News | Submitted by steve
Written By Michael Kunzelman
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Sex offenders in Massachusetts would face lifetime parole and would be held behind bars until the state evaluates how dangerous they are if the state adopts legislation filed yesterday by a MetroWest lawmaker. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Peter Koutoujian, also would require all convicted sex offenders to register with the state for the rest of their lives.
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Sex offender paper
May 13, 2004, First Coast News | Submitted by steve
Written By Cathleen O'Toole
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75-year-old volunteer Clyde Mills, whose son was murdered more than three years ago, publishes and distributes a newspaper called The Victims Advocate which puts known predators in print every year. This year, with Mills help the newspaper will come out before summer vacation.
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Govt stands by child sex offender program
May 13, 2004, ABC Online | Submitted by steve
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The Western Australian Government is standing by a taxpayer-funded agency that offers conditional confidentiality to child sex offenders. SafeCare offers certain child sex offenders conditional confidentiality if they admit their crime, move out of the home and attend a two-year rehabilitation program run by the agency. This is related to events discussed in an earlier article - Don't do that, Daddy
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Rodriguez pleads innocent in Dru Sjodin's death
May 13, 2004, The Mercury News | Submitted by admin
Written By Stephen J. Lee
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Facing what may become the first federal death penalty case in North Dakota, Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. pleaded innocent Wednesday in U.S. District Court here to kidnapping Dru Sjodin in a manner leading to her death. The federal charge has a maximum penalty of death, if U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft approves it. Otherwise, the penalty is life in prison, said U.S. attorney Drew Wrigley, top federal prosecutor for North Dakota.
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Sex-offender tracking system in Senate budget
May 13, 2004, Lowell Sun Online | Submitted by steve
Written By Julie Mehegan
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The effort in Massachusetts to require dangerous sex offenders to wear ankle bracelets once they are released from prison and submit to satellite tracking of their whereabouts got a boost yesterday when a Senate panel voted to support the initiative, which was offered by two Lowell lawmakers. The GPS ankle bracelet would be a condition of parole or probation for Level 3 registered sex offenders, considered the most dangerous and the most likely to reoffend.
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Sen. Burchett moves serial sex offender bill through Finance
May 12, 2004, Chattanoogan.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Jesse Hughes
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Senator Tim Burchett moved SB 2473/HB 3186, the Serial Sex Offender Bill, through the Tennessee Senate Finance Committee Tuesday. The Serial Sex Offender Bill would allow evidence of a defendant's prior conviction of a sex offense when the victim was less than 13 if the defendant is currently being tried for a sex crime in which the victim is less than 13, subject to Rule 403 of Tennessee Rules of Evidence.
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Pedophile hangs himself in cell
May 12, 2004, The Sydney Morning Herald | Submitted by steve
Written By Matthew Moore
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A former Australian diplomat jailed for child sex offences in Bali hanged himself soon after telling his lawyer: "There's no justice for me." Shortly before his body was found, William Stuart Brown had complained to his lawyer that he had been unjustly treated by a court that sentenced him to 13 years' jail for sexually abusing two children, aged 13 and 15.
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Don't do that, Daddy
May 12, 2004, The Australian | Submitted by steve
Written By Victoria Laurie
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Safecare, a West Australian program with a unique way of tackling child sex abuse within families, has the entire family - abuser, abused child and other family members - attend. It's a highly controversial approach; although half the abusers who are Safecare clients are known to the authorities or have gone to jail, another half are not. They have come to Safecare voluntarily, disclosed their abuse and received the promise of conditional confidentiality. If they immediately move out of home, undertake never to be alone with any child and attend Safecare's two-year program, their crime will not be reported to the authorities.
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Liberals on defensive over sex offender registry
May 12, 2004, Toronto Star | Submitted by steve
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Attorney General Michael Bryant defended today the Ontario government's refusal to fund a $700,000 local sex offender tracking program announced last year in the wake of the brutal slaying of 10-year-old Holly Jones. Bryant stated that the program announced last June by the former Conservative government wouldn't be as effective as a national registry, which is what Ontario's Liberal government is trying to establish with its federal counterpart.
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UMass officials warn students against streaking
May 12, 2004, The Massachusetts Daily Collegian | Submitted by sbc7
Written By Matt Casey
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University of Massachusetts officials are aiming to stop a tradition that dates to the 1970s - Streak Night. Streak night traditionally happens the first Friday after classes end. Dean of Students Jo-Anne Vanin distributed a letter to Northeast living area residents April 29, informing them that the UMass police department and administration will punish any student found streaking in the quad, and the offender may be registered by the state of Massachusetts as a sex offender. At the 2002 event, an inebriated female student performed a sexual act on an inebriated male student, prompting police to break up the event.
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House endorses sex offender registry
May 11, 2004, The Providence Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By David Gram
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The Vermont House Tuesday passed a bill that would put pictures of some sex offenders on the Internet and give employers access to criminal records of prospective employees. The House version of the bill narrows somewhat the range of sex offenders who would be subject to having their names, pictures and criminal histories posted online.
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Sex offender registry online
May 11, 2004, Reno Gazette-Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By Alison Bath
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Starting today, the names, photos and crimes (but not the addresses) of hundreds of registered sex offenders living in Nevada is available online. The Nevada Department of Public Safety sponsored Web site, www.nvsexoffenders.gov, includes all 44 of the state’s high-risk registered sex offenders and information on select offenders who pose a moderate risk to the public. Until now, residents who wanted to know if a registered sex offender was living in their neighborhood had to call the registry and pay $8 per request. The $40,000 cost of the site was funded by a $25,000 contribution by the Nevada Children’s Advocacy Alliance and $15,000 in federal grants.
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Fifth "most wanted" sex offender arrested
May 10, 2004, nbc5.com | Submitted by steve
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The fifth person on the Cook County sheriff's list of most wanted among unregistered sex offenders was arrested Monday. Leigh Dampier, 35, who was placed on the list Friday because he had not registered as a sex offender since 2002 turned himself in to authorities after a tip by a gas station worker led authorities to contact a friend and family of Dampier.
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Daycare run by sex offender quickly shuts its doors
May 10, 2004, KRQE | Submitted by steve
Written By Ryan Wallace
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Today, parents arriving to drop off their children at the American Child Development Daycare Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, found the doors locked and the building empty. Several days earlier, it was revealed that the daycare's president, 48 year-old Steve Jones, was a convicted sex offender. Jones has two separate sex crime convictions, neither of which involved children. He is currently wanted by Albuquerque Police for not complying with the city’s sex offender registration law. The Children Youth and Family Department says they did not force the daycare center to close. This is related to events discussed in an earlier article - Detectives: Convicted sex offender runs day-care center
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Mike Tyson registers as sex offender in Phoenix
May 08, 2004, San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by dp1
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Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has registered as a sex offender in Arizona. Tyson, convicted in 1992 of raping a beauty pageant contestant, has been living in the state for several months.
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Goldschmidt confesses '70s affair with girl, 14
May 07, 2004, Oregon Live | Submitted by Navigatr1
Written By Harry Esteve and Gail Kinsey Hill
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Former Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt admitted that he had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl nearly 3 decades ago when he was 35 and mayor of Portland. He said he is resigning all his public and private positions to "rebuild my life." According to Oregon laws in effect in 1975, sexual intercourse with a girl under age 16 constituted third-degree rape, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison., but the statute of limitations at that time was three years from the commission of the crime.
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N.Y. prisons suspend sex offender program
May 07, 2004, theithacajournal.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Marc Humbert
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According to New York Corrections Commissioner Glenn Goord, a treatment program for sex offenders held in New York's state prisons has been suspended in the wake of a federal court ruling. The prison chief said that in the treatment program's place, a mandatory intensive counseling program would be used with sex offenders. At issue in the court case was a requirement that inmates take responsibility for their actions and discuss other sexual misconduct, even if they hadn't been charged with it. Failure to participate in the program leads to a loss of "good time" credit that can reduce an inmate's prison stay.
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Registered sex offender held in assault on woman, 20
May 07, 2004, TCPalm | Submitted by steve
Written By Will Greenlee
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A 36-year-old registered sex offender was held Thursday in the St. Lucie County jail after allegedly committing sexual battery on a 20-year-old woman. The victim told a deputy that Mark Hadden asked her whether she wanted free personal training sessions with him at a health club, then took her to a home in Fort Pierce that he identified as his father's residence instead of taking her to the health club. Hadden allegedly gave the victim a cup of orange juice, after which she reported feeling dizzy and waking up naked with Hadden allegedly performing sex acts.
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Parents stunned sex offender owned day care
May 07, 2004, The New Mexico Channel | Submitted by steve
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The state of New Mexico is launching an investigation into an Albuquerqe daycare center owned by a convicted sex offender. While the state investigates, Children Youth and Families Department has banned the sex offender, Eddie Jones, from visiting the daycare center.
This is related to events discussed in an earlier article - Detectives: Convicted sex offender runs day-care center
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Detectives: Convicted sex offender runs day-care center
May 07, 2004, The New Mexico Channel | Submitted by dp1
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It has been reported that Eddie Jones, owner of the American Child Development Center, a daycare center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a convicted sex offender.
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Sex offender arrested after handing out baby-sitting fliers
May 06, 2004, CNN | Submitted by orolan
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Kenneth Lee Hall, a registered sex offender in Montana was arrested for allegedly soliciting babysitting jobs through fliers and classified advertisements. A merchant became suspicious after reading a flier Hall dropped off at his business, offering to provide overnight babysitting for children ages 2 to 4. The merchant found Hall's photograph and criminal history on a sex offender website and called 911.
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Man pleads guilty to murder, having sex with corpse
May 04, 2004, TheSanDiegoChannel.com | Submitted by steve
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In a surprise move, Jonathan Lee Stephens pleaded guilty to beating a 16-year-old girl to death with a eucalyptus tree log and having sex with the corpse. Stephens, 20, will be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
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Restrictions, supervision vary widely for convicted offenders
May 04, 2004, South Bend Tribune | Submitted by steve
Written By Patrick M. O'Connell
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Describes the role of Tamra Eddy, a senior parole agent in South Bend, Indiana and others like her in Indiana. The article also explores the parole process, limitations on parole and probation, how probation, parole and supervision are determined on a case by case basis, and complications and limitations of the system.
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Rapist's arrogance, DNA led to conviction, 420-year sentence
May 04, 2004, WAVE 3 | Submitted by steve
Written By Eric Flack
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Lisa Burns was raped in her home on October 1, 1994. In 2001, Lt. Richardson found similarities between Lisa's case and two other unsolved rapes in the mid 90s. He says there was one name on all three suspect list, John Boston, but there wasn't enough evidence to arrest him. In March 2002, Boston got cocky and decided to send police a letter, taunting them, saying he would never be caught. Enclosed were pictures of Boston at the U.S.-Canadian boarder, buying a warm coat and smugly posing next to a Detroit police car. Using DNA from the envelope police got a positive match, he was arrested and is currently serving a 420 years prison sentence. Unfortunately, Boston has continued to torment Lisa and her family from behind bars, having called Lisa's parents from the Jefferson County jail, reading off her social security number and that of her husband's and telling her parents that he has their names as well.
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Treat all arsonists like sex offenders
May 04, 2004, icNorthWales | Submitted by steve
Written By Eryl Crump
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An arson victim in Wales is calling for a register to monitor the movements of offenders. The victim, Jen Rowlands, claims thehe list, similar to those for sex offenders, could prevent future attacks.
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Mich. lawmakers seek sex registry change
May 04, 2004, Michigan Live | Submitted by steve
Written By Mike Householder
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Michigan lawmakers are mulling a proposal to remove the names of some teenagers from the state's sex offender registry following criticism that it sometimes stigmatizes young people whose only crime is having consensual sex with someone close in age, but too young in the eyes of the law. As of April 1, 6% of the 34,225 registered sex offenders in Michigan were juveniles.
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Day-care center under investigation
May 04, 2004, Newsday.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Keiko Morris
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Westbury day-care center in Westbury, New York, is under state investigation for employing a sex offender convicted of engaging in deviant intercourse with a 7-year-old boy. A 51-year-old Westbury man who worked as a handyman in the home-based day care, Play Play Play, was arrested in 1998 and served a year in the Nassau County jail. The man lives next door to the day care.
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High-risk sex offender living in Wilton; neighbors not told
May 04, 2004, The Saratogian | Submitted by steve
Written By Christine Margiotta
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After discovering that a Level 3 convicted sex offender recently moved into Pyramid Pines Estates in Wilton, New York, one park resident with two children in the Saratoga Springs school district wants to know why no one notified her. There is confusion at local agencies about whose jurisdiction Pyramid Pines is in.
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Georgia Supreme Court overturns aggravated child molestation conviction of Marcus Dixon
May 03, 2004, PR Newswire | Submitted by orolan
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The Georgia Supreme Court has reversed
Marcus Dixon's conviction for aggravated child molestation in connection with a sexual encounter with a classmate. In a 4-3 decision, the Supreme Court said that the Georgia General Assembly intended to punish Dixon's conduct as misdemeanor statutory rape rather than felony aggravated child molestation. The trial court judge will
re-sentence on the misdemeanor charge.
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Female sex offender to live with 190 men
May 02, 2004, Winston-Salem Journal | Submitted by steve
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For the past six years, convicted child rapist Laura Faye McCollum has been incarcerated in Washington state's women's prison, but she is scheduled to move to the new Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island to live among 190 other dangerous sex offenders - all male. McCollum, one of only three female sex offenders nationwide considered dangerous enough to be civilly committed, is worried about attending therapy sessions with the men. Many experts say that treating offenders of both genders together could be harmful.
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Convicted sex offender has fled the country
May 01, 2004, Philadelphia Inquirer | Submitted by steve
Written By Larry Fish
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A sex offender awaiting sentencing in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has fled the country and has been located in his native country of Sudan. A judge had denied a prosecutor's request to revoke bail for Eltigani Mukhtar. Montgomery County officials said yesterday they hoped to force the return of Mukhtar, but admitted it could be difficult since the United States has no extradition treaty with Sudan. He was found guilty of a Christmas Day, 2001, sexual assault on a retarded man living in a group home in Upper Moreland Township.
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