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Principal pleads not guilty to child porn charges
June 30, 2004, nbc5.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A suspended Chicago charter school principal pleaded not guilty Wednesday to child pornography charges. Joseph Thomas Nurek was arrested March 26 on a criminal complaint alleging he possessed nearly 4,000 images and 1,400 movies depicting child pornography on his computer and other media storage.
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Web surfer's tip leads cops to sex offender
June 30, 2004, Palm Beach Post | Submitted by steve
Written By Pat Beall
Article Overview
Brian Nugent had just fired up a computer at the main Palm Beach County Library (Florida) when he noticed a man in his mid-30s and sporting what appeared to be a law enforcement ankle bracelet, looking at pictures of little boys in their underwear. After calling law enforcement, Michael C. Carroll, 36, of Lake Worth was arrested outside the library. Carroll is twice convicted for lewd and lascivious behavior involving a child under the age of 16 and is listed by Florida as a sexual predator.
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Court bars enforcement of Internet Porn law
June 29, 2004, Reuters | Submitted by ann018
Written By James Vicini
Article Overview
In a 5-4 ruling. the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday barred enforcement of a federal law designed to keep Internet pornography away from minors because it likely violates constitutional free-speech rights. The court majority sent the case back to a federal judge in Philadelphia for a trial to consider changes in technology and law since the 1998 adoption of the Child Online Protection Act. The ruling gave the government another chance to show the law does not impose an unconstitutional burden and is the second time the court has considered the 1998 law, but has failed to issue a definitive ruling on it.
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Ruling widens sex offender list
June 29, 2004, Los Angeles Times | Submitted by ann018
Written By Maura Dolan
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A person convicted of possessing child pornography in his home may be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his or her life, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday. The court overturned a 1983 precedent that had prevented the state from requiring registration for those convicted of engaging in or soliciting lewd or dissolute conduct in a public place. The state Supreme Court had ruled that requiring registration for such a relatively minor offense was cruel and unusual punishment, but Monday's ruling said that being required to register as a sex offender was not punishment at all, considering it instead a regulatory measure designed to assist law enforcement and to protect the public.
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Bay Area teacher behind bars again
June 28, 2004, BayNews9.com | Submitted by dp1
Article Overview
Greco Middle School teacher Debra Lafave turned herself in to investigators in Marion County, Floirda Monday to face more charges surrounding the same teen. The 23-year-old Lafave was first arrested last week, accused of having sexual relations with a 14-year-old boy. She has been charged with 2 additional counts after hearing from the teen's 15-year-old cousin, who reportedly drove the two around the Ocala, Florida area while Lafave and the 14-year-old had intercourse.
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SJC set to hear case on registry
June 28, 2004, Boston Globe | Submitted by steve
Written By Jonathan Saltzman
Article Overview
Fourteen months after Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney vowed to post information about convicted sex offenders on the Internet, the state's highest court will hear arguments tomorrow on whether the plan would violate the rights of criminals. The public defenders feel that the plan to post the identities and photographs of Level 3 sex offenders, considered the most dangerous and most likely to reoffend, would violate fundamental liberty and privacy rights in the state Constitution and could spur vigilantism. The Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board, which classifies convicted sex offenders and would maintain the website, says fears of retribution are overblown and that putting the information online would alert people to dangerous criminals in their midst. The board also denies that disseminating the information would violate anyone's constitutional rights given that the information is currently available at the board itself, local police stations, and other sources.
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Sex offenders to face risk hearings
June 28, 2004, Newsday.com | Submitted by dp1
Written By Zachary R. Dowdy
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As many as 7,200 sex offenders in New York have eluded the scrutiny of Megan's Law will undergo risk-assessment hearings to determine the category in which they will be listed. Due to a 1998 U.S. District Court ruling, sex offenders who were convicted before Megan's Law went into effect on Jan. 21, 1996 have not had their information released. The hearings were put on a fast track after the murder of Faye Cohn, 29, of Schenectady, a mother of seven who checked the sex offender registry to decide whether she should date James Ross, but didn't find him because he wasn't listed.
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Pursuing the libido's dark side
June 28, 2004, Wired News | Submitted by steve
Written By Daniel Terdiman
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Sociolotron is a multiplayer online role-playing game which allows players to indulge in sexual taboos like rape and bondage with consequences like sexually transmitted diseases and even pregnancy. The rape aspect of the game is explored.
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Sex offender torments his victim
June 27, 2004, TVNZ | Submitted by steve
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A convicted sex offender who kept his daughter as a sex slave for 23 years is using the law to wage a private war against his victim. The judge described Ronald van der Plaat's crime against Tanjas Darke as despicable and the jury took just three hours to decide he was guilty on all counts, but from behind bars van der Plaat is continuing the persecution of his daughter, bringing a private prosecution which is being bankrolled by his former wife, Tanjas' mother.
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Pervert they can't arrest
June 26, 2004, NEWS.com.au | Submitted by steve
Written By Suellen Hinde
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A convicted pedophile known as Mr Bubbles has been busking as a children's entertainer on the Northern Territory's market circuit. David Rupert Mills, a popular performer with children because of his bubble-blowing routine, was convicted in 2001 in South Australia for indecently assaulting a nine-year-old Adelaide girl. Mills is also a wanted man in South Australia because a warrant for his arrest was issued in 2003 after he failed to attend a sexual offenders treatment program. But Norther Territory Police say they are powerless to arrest Mills because South Australian Police have not sought an extradition order.
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Self-described pedophile gets 70 years for assaulting 5-year-old girl
June 26, 2004, Kansas City Star | Submitted by steve
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A man who said he knows he is a pedophile asked for a maximum prison sentence, and a Marion County judge obliged, sentencing the man to 70 years in prison for assaulting a 5-year-old girl in 1991.
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Paedophile facing 30 years in US jail
June 26, 2004, scotsman.com | Submitted by steve
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40-year-old paedophile John Brewer was facing 30 years in jail today after being convicted of flying to the United States to have sex with a six-year-old girl.
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Pennsylvania's effort to block Net child porn called failure
June 26, 2004, First Amendment Center | Submitted by admin
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A Pennsylvania law requiring Internet service providers to stop customers from viewing Web sites containing child pornography has been a failure and should be declared unconstitutional, a lawyer for a civil liberties group told a federal judge.
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Man facing child porn charges found hanged
June 26, 2004, Los Angeles Times | Submitted by steve
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A former at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo University professor facing a child pornography trial next month apparently committed suicide in his home, authorities said. Safwat Moustafa, 63, hanged himself Wednesday and left a suicide note, authorities said. The contents were not disclosed.
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Man accused of child porn worked with kids in IW
June 26, 2004, The Daily Press | Submitted by steve
Written By Patrick Lynch
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A Portsmouth, Virginia school employee facing child pornography charges also taught dance in Windsor and was involved in beauty pageants in Isle of Wight.
Kelly Karl Bowen, 30, was charged this week with nine counts of possessing child pornography and one charge of soliciting sex with a minor on the Internet.
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Ex-prosecutor now toppling porn cases
June 25, 2004, Cleveland Plain Dealer | Submitted by admin
Written By James F. McCarty
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Defense lawyers have discovered a loophole in Ohio's child-pornography law, and a former assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor is helping them use it to clear kiddie-porn defendants of criminal charges. Lawyer Dean Boland, a former prosecutor, has teamed with criminal defense lawyers who are exploiting a provision of Ohio law that says to obtain a conviction, a prosecutor must prove that a digital portrait of suspected child pornography is a picture of a child. To meet that requirement, the image must be authenticated as a child and not an adult digitally enhanced to look like a child - an extremely difficult level of proof for police and prosecutors, Boland says.
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Sex offenders registering at high rate
June 25, 2004, The Journal-Standard | Submitted by steve
Written By Travis Morse
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New Illinois State Police statistics show compliance with Illinois sex offender registration requirements was at 90 percent on June 15, up from 80 percent in 2000. New figures show that out of 15,940 sex offenders required to be registered in the state, only 1,585 have failed to do so.
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State fails to file sex offender reports
June 25, 2004, Pahrump Valley Times | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A review of law enforcement data sharing found that Nevada is the only state not filing information about sex offenders with a nationwide FBI database. Since Congress enacted the National Sex Offender Registry Act in 1998, all states except Nevada have hooked up sex-offender registries to the FBI Criminal Information Center, according to Daryl Riersgard, Criminal History Repository manager for the Nevada Department of Public Safety. Police and employers use the NCIC database for information on criminals.
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Sex offender Cary Verse to move to Merced County
June 25, 2004, The Mercury News | Submitted by steve
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Repeat sex offender Cary Verse will be moving to Merced County in California's latest attempt to find him a permanent home. Verse will be moving into a house in rural Merced County within the next week. Verse had been living in San Jose, where he was arrested last week for failing to re-register as a sex offender before prosecutors decided not to press charges.
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Lawyer challenges level 3 tag
June 25, 2004, Cape Cod Online | Submitted by steve
Written By Jason Kolnos
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Health professionals that treated convicted level 3 sex offender Jarred Martin for three years were never consulted by Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board officials when they were deciding his classification level. Joseph F. Dziobek, president of Fellowship Health Resources said "he has never shown any signs that he was a risk or danger to the community." Martin's attorney, Sandra Bloomenthal, plans on filing suit against the board soon in an effort to get Martin, 22, reclassified.
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89-year-old sex offender walks free from court
June 25, 2004, Ireland Online | Submitted by steve
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An 89-year-old sex offender, one of the oldest to ever come before the courts in Ireland, received a three year suspended sentence today. James Redmond, otherwise known as Brother Eunan, pleaded guilty to 14 counts of sexually assaulting one boy and three counts of sexually assaulting another boy when they were aged from 10 to their mid-teens. The judge handed down a suspended sentence because the crimes Redmond faced sentencing for would have been taken into consideration with a 1999 sentence for similar crimes had they been before the court at the time.
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Sex offender, father ordered to face trial
June 24, 2004, San Diego Union Tribune | Submitted by steve
Written By Ray Huard
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A convicted sex offender and his 70-year-old father must stand trial on charges of conspiring to kidnap and molest a Cuyamaca Elementary School (El Cajon, California) third-grader in May, a Superior Court judge ruled yesterday. This is related to events discussed in an earlier article - Registered sex offender, father plead innocent to El Cajon kidnap charge
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Sex-offender bill gets through Senate panel
June 23, 2004, The Desert Sun | Submitted by steve
Written By Jake Henshaw
Article Overview
The California campaign to identify sex offenders on the Internet advanced further Tuesday than any similar bill in the past six years. The Senate Public Safety Committee approved Nicole Parra's Assembly Bill 488, a bill that would require the state to post on a state web site the names and other identifying data now publicly available under Megan’s Law, plus the home addresses of the worst offenders.
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Test case set for Megan's law
June 23, 2004, The Honolulu Advertiser | Submitted by steve
Written By David Waite
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A Hawaii man found guilty this month of sexually assaulting two girls will serve as a test case for efforts to revive a sex offender registry that would let the public see who has been convicted of a sex offense, where they live in Hawai'i and other information about them.
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Angry residents: Sex offender must go
June 23, 2004, Cape Cod Chronicle | Submitted by steve
Written By Alan Pollock
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Despite assurances from clinicians and housing officials that registered sex offender Jarred Martin is not a threat to the community, neighbors vociferously said they want him removed from a Depot Road group home in Harwich, Massachusetts.
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Wayne sex offender charged with stalking
June 22, 2004, Finger Lakes Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Howie Mansfield
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William B. Collier Jr., 43, a convicted Level III sex offender was arrested Thursday and charged with stalking a 14-year-old girl who was walking home from Lyons Junior-Senior High School in Lyons, New York. Collier was previously convicted of third-degree rape in Monroe County, where he abducted and raped a 16-year-old girl at knifepoint in 1995. Under a loophole in Megan’s Law, he is not listed on the state sex offender registry. Collier is the second person arrested in Wayne County who is not listed on the state sex offender registry because of the loophole - the first was Henry Durham, 35, who was indicted by a Wayne County grand jury May 4 on first-degree criminal sexual act charges after allegedly abusing a 4-year-old girl.
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Verse didn't fail to update address, prosecutors decide
June 22, 2004, Contra Costa Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Guy Ashley
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Santa Clara prosecutors declined Monday to file criminal charges against repeat sex offender Cary Verse, who was arrested last week for allegedly failing to provide police with an updated residential address. Prosecutors decided against filing charges when they were informed that representatives of the company supervising Verse in his conditional release program called police at Verse's request on April 19 to inform them that his room number at the motel had changed. Assistant District Attorney Karyn Sinunu said the call met the requirements of the registration law for which Verse was arrested.
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Police process to spot potential sex offenders was flawed, inquiry concludes
June 22, 2004, CBC News | Submitted by steve
Written By Kevin Ward
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A British inquiry into the chilling murders of two young girls by school caretaker Ian Huntley two years ago concluded Tuesday that other potential sex offenders might have slipped through a police vetting process intended to protect children.
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Number of unregistered sex offenders drops
June 22, 2004, Daily Press | Submitted by steve
Written By Mike Cruz
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The number of unregistered sex offenders in San Bernardino County, California has dropped from 44 percent to about 9 percent over the past year and a half, sheriff's officials said. Now Detective Blane Chambers is working on a new plan to drive that number down to 5 percent by the end of the year.
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Sex offender Schneeberger ordered deported
June 21, 2004, CTV.ca | Submitted by steve
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John Schneeberger, a former Saskatchewan doctor convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting two female patients, has been ordered deported from Canada. Schneeberger employed unusual methods to deflect attention from him during the investigation of two sexual assaults and made headlines again in 2001 when the mother of his two children, Lisa Dillman, fought to keep the children from being forced to visit their father in jail.
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Number of youth sex offenders in Iowa increasing
June 21, 2004, KTVO TV3 | Submitted by admin
Written By Carlos Correa
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Court officials in Iowa are noticing that the number of juveniles prosecuted for sexual abuse and assault charges, have increased in the past couple of years. State statistics show that 170 juvenile sexual assault charges were filed back in 2003. On the Iowa Sex Offenders Registry, 5,898 individuals were listed as of June 1, 2004, including 60 under the age of 18.
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Sex offenders could be released without treatment
June 21, 2004, TheHometownChannel.com | Submitted by Navigatr1
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The head of Arkansas' Sex Offender Screening program said Sunday that only 40 percent of estimated sex offenders are being screened because of staffing shortages.
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Dutroux life sentence urged, 30 years for wife, Le Soir says
June 21, 2004, Bloomberg.com | Submitted by steve
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The prosecutor in the trial of Marc Dutroux, whose 1996 arrest caused a national uproar in Belgium, said Dutroux should be jailed for life and that his ex-wife, Michelle Martin, should get a sentence of between 30 and 35 years.
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Ontario gives child porn investigators $1M
June 21, 2004, CTV.ca | Submitted by admin
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The Ontario provincial police unit that combats child pornography will get a $1 million funding boost to be used to hire five new detectives for Project P, a special unit of the Ontario Provincial Police, and to update computers and other equipment used to track down producers and distributors of child porn.
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Pedophile priest stays out of reach
June 21, 2004, The Age | Submitted by steve
Written By Barney Zwartz
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A Catholic priest and convicted pedophile left Australia after being charged but before his case came to court, a Victoria Police spokeswoman said yesterday. The priest's order, the Salesians of Del Bosco, yesterday denied moving Father Klep, who moved to Samoa, to put him out of reach of Australian police.
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A bad solution but maybe the best
June 20, 2004, North County Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Andrew Kleske
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An editorial about San Diego County Sheriff's Department's online posting of detailed information on local high-risk sex offenders.
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Sex with minors: major offense
June 20, 2004, Richmond Times-Dispatch | Submitted by steve
Written By Tammie Smith
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The Virginia Department of Health is launching a media campaign that reminds men that having sex with girls younger than 18 is a crime. That message and the warning "Don't Go There" are going up on billboards around Richmond and will be printed on napkins and drink coasters that will be distributed to restaurants, bars and retail places in the Richmond area in upcoming weeks. The "Don't Go There" campaign has also started in Roanoke and in the Northern Virginia cities of Arlington, Falls Church and Alexandria and a test run was done in the Hampton Roads area last summer.
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Staffing woes, big caseloads hurt system
June 20, 2004, Richmond Times-Dispatch | Submitted by steve
Written By Frank Green
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By 2002, nearly one in three prison admissions across the country were the result of probation or parole rules violations, according to U.S. Justice Department figures. Issues related to cost, caseloads and benefits are touched on.
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Prison terms to be reviewed
June 20, 2004, Richmond Times-Dispatch | Submitted by steve
Written By Frank Green
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On July 1, Virginia will break new ground in an effort to reduce a prison problem vexing much of the nation when it will implement voluntary sentencing guidelines for judges aimed at ending the disparity in the way technical violators are punished across the state. Later, possibly in 2005, risk assessment will be used to predict which technical offenders are most likely to commit new crimes and need to be imprisoned, and which do not.
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Paedophile taskforce arrests ex-ministers
June 20, 2004, The Age | Submitted by steve
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Two former Anglican ministers and a former Salvation Army officer are among nine people arrested over several days for child sex offences by a South Australian police taskforce. Those arrested also include a former junior surf lifesaving coach and two former leaders of the Church of England Boys Society.
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Martin ripped on child porn bill
June 20, 2004, Washington Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Barry Brown
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In an effort to widen his narrow lead in the polls and end nearly 11 years of Liberal Party rule, the leader of Canada's new Conservative Party has attacked incumbent Prime Minister Paul Martin as lenient on child pornography.
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Sex offender arrested running ride for kids
June 19, 2004, Rockford Register Star | Submitted by steve
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A Freeport, Illinois man was arrested for approaching, contacting, residing or communicating with a child by a known sex offender. While working at the Stagecoach Festival Days, he was operting a ride which was designed specifically for very small children.
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Pedophile guilty in child rape spree
June 18, 2004, Miami Herald | Submitted by steve
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A jury in Belgium found convicted pedophile Marc Dutroux guilty Thursday of a series of abductions, rapes and murders of girls that took place in 1995-96. The jury convicted Dutroux of abducting, imprisoning and raping six girls and of murdering two of the girls. He was paroled after serving a prison sentence for raping young girls in the 1980s.
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Molester's accused killer says he warned corrections officials not to put them together
June 18, 2004, WVEC | Submitted by steve
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The inmate accused of killing one of Virginia's most notorious child molesters when they were forced to share a cell said he warned a corrections official not to put them together, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Friday. Dewey Keith Venable, 24, told the newspaper that the officer he warned responded by telling him he would be put into isolation unless he agreed to share a cell with Richard Alvin Ausley.
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Assembly kills Battin’s sex offender bill
June 18, 2004, The Desert Sun | Submitted by steve
Written By Jake Henshaw
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There’s a new proposal in the California Capitol to identify sex offenders on the Internet, but it’s still unclear whether lawmakers will take this step in 2004. The uncertainty over this latest proposal also is stalling a bid to make public disclosure of data about convicted offenders a permanent law. Megan's Law in California is currently set to expire January 1, 2007.
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Registered sex offender charged with sex crime
June 18, 2004, Grand Forks Herald | Submitted by admin
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Registered sex offender Leroy Wheeler, 42, is accused of having sexual contact with a female younger than 15 and faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. He was required to register as a sex offender because he has a Florida conviction for lewd acts.
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Cary Verse arrested for failing to re-register as sex offender
June 18, 2004, The Mercury News | Submitted by steve
Written By Elise Banducci
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The San Jose, California police announced that sexual predator Cary Verse was arrested late Thursday night at his South San Jose residence for failing to re-register as a sex offender, a felony violation. Verse was freed in February under a controversial conditional release program at Atascadero State Hospital and was quickly ousted by public outcry from Mill Valley and Oakland before settling in San Jose in March.
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'Dark secret' of Holly's killer
June 18, 2004, Toronto Star | Submitted by brennus
Written By Nick Pron and Dale Anne Freed
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Michael Joseph Briere, who was obsessed by his fantasy of sex with a child, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the rape and murder of 10-year-old Holly Jones. Yesterday he described in chilling detail the events of May 12, 2003, the day he grabbed Holly off of the street.
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Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness
June 18, 2004, British Medical Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By Jeanne Lenzer
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A sweeping mental health initiative will be unveiled by President George W Bush in July. The plan promises to integrate mentally ill patients fully into the community by providing "services in the community, rather than institutions," according to a March 2004 progress report entitled New Freedom Initiative.
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Sex offenders listed on Internet
June 17, 2004, North County Times | Submitted by steve
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Profiles of six registered sex offenders in San Diego County considered high-risk to reoffend were posted Thursday on the Internet for general access under a new regional use of Megan's Law. Authorities said information about 25 more high-risk offenders in other cities in the county, as well as any others who settle in the region, also will be listed within about eight weeks.
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Sex offender may not live in Valparaiso
June 17, 2004, Northwest Indiana News | Submitted by steve
Written By Ken Kosky
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A Valparaiso man, Harold Norman Miller, convicted multiple times of committing sex crimes probably will not move back to the city. Instead, he's planning on living with a friend near Bloomington. Miller was convicted of crimes against women in 1971, 1973, 1979 and 1989, but earlier told The Times he isn't the threat authorities make him out to be.
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Sex offender panel offers proposal
June 17, 2004, In-Forum | Submitted by steve
Written By Dave Forster
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A North Dakota state task force created to scrutinize sex offender laws will ask legislators to keep predators in prison longer – possibly with the state's first mandatory life sentence – and watch them more closely after their release.
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Convicted sex offender held on assault charges
June 16, 2004, MaineToday.com | Submitted by steve
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Ronald Leno, a convicted sex offender accused of attacking a man with a steel pipe remained in jail Wednesday as investigators pieced together events that led to his arrest.
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San Francisco unveils sex offender web site
June 16, 2004, abc7news.com | Submitted by steve
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The City and County of San Francisco Police Department now publishes the names, ages, physical descriptions, zip codes, offenses and photos of registered sex offenders in San Francisco who are classified as high-risk. According to San Francisco police Inspector James Zerga, high-risk offenders have multiple arrests for sex crimes, at least one of them violent. As of June 1, there were 26 high-risk sex offenders living in San Francisco out of a total of 981 registered sex offenders registered as living in the county.
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Web photo of city sex offender yields arrest
June 15, 2004, South of Boston | Submitted by steve
Written By Maureen Boyle
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The city of Brockton's (Massachusetts) refusal to drop the names and photos of sex offenders from the Police Department Web site is credited with the capture of a convicted child rapist. John M. Provost, 43, wanted by police for failing to re-register as a sex offender and for failing to appear in court, was arrested last weekend after a citizen spotted his photo on the Police Department's Web site listing Level 3 sex offenders living or working in the city.
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Sheriff investigators' nudity, sex contact dooms prostitution cases
June 15, 2004, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by LostTime
Written By David J. Cieslak and Emily Bittner
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About 60 people arrested last year in a prostitution sting in Arizona will not be criminally charged because Maricopa County sheriff's deputies used tactics including nudity and sexual contact in their undercover operations, county prosecutors announced Tuesday.
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Rising cases of child sex offenders pose challenge to prosecutors
June 14, 2004, Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by DoTheCrimeDoTheTime
Written By Shana Gruskin
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An apparent increase in sexual assaults among grade-schoolers has left prosecutors, therapists and juvenile justice experts throughout South Florida grappling with what to do when children too young to comprehend the court system go beyond schoolyard curiosity.
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The problem with probation
June 13, 2004, St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Curtis Krueger, Richard Raeke and Dong-Phuong Nguyen
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Hundreds of violent offenders in Florida are still on probation even after repeatedly breaking the rules, a St. Petersburg Times analysis shows. Included is a Tampa sex offender who violated 10 rules of his probation after serving time in prison for fondling a 7-year-old. He was never sent back to prison and is a fugitive.
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Victim blamed herself, not her father
June 13, 2004, The Salt Lake Tribune | Submitted by steve
Written By Elizabeth Neff
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The story of Barbara Feaster, a 31 year old female who was molested by her father as a child. Barbara initially blamed herself, convinced herself she had only been dreaming and was ordered by her mother to leave her home when her father was released from jail.
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Mother decries sex abuse by son
June 13, 2004, The Salt Lake Tribune | Submitted by steve
Written By Elizabeth Neff
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A spotlight on juveniles who are child sex offenders. A teen who sexually abused younger relatives is profiled.
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Battle over names on Web continues
June 13, 2004, The Desert Sun | Submitted by steve
Written By Lois Gormley
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For the past decade, legislators and others have struggled to get the names and addresses of California registered sex offenders available on the Internet. Assembly Bill 448 support and opposition is discussed.
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Chris Goddard: Stop protecting the molesters
June 13, 2004, The Australian | Submitted by steve
Written By Chris Goddard
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Chris Goddard, interim director of the National Research Centre for the Prevention of Child Abuse at Monash University in Australia, discusses sexual abuse scandals in churches and schools.
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Our hell in sex cellar
June 12, 2004, mirror.co.uk | Submitted by steve
Written By Jenny Johnston and Will Stewart
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Two Russian girls, Lena Simakhina and Katya Martynova, tell of their abduction and sex slavery by Viktor Mokhov after 3 and a half years of captivity. Mokhov's motivation was to get his victims pregnant.
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Woman could get life in child sex case
June 12, 2004, The Times-Picayune | Submitted by steve
Written By Gwen Filosa
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About two weeks ago, a New Orleans man accused of molesting a 10-year-old girl cut a deal with prosecutors that let him off the hook with probation and a place on Louisiana's sex offender registry. Now that the victim is willing to testify, his female co-defendant will be charged with aggravated rape, a charge which carries an automatic life sentence upon conviction.
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Balancing children's safety and sex offenders' rights
June 12, 2004, Boston Globe | Submitted by steve
Written By Kathleen Burge
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About Athol, Massachusetts registered sex offender Harold J. Fay, sex offender proximity laws, and registration information access.
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Groups want criminal checks on repairmen
June 12, 2004, The Daytona Beach News-Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By Andrew Lyons
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Sue Weaver didn't expect a twice-convicted sex offender to walk through her front door after calling for an air conditioning repairman from a well-known company. The repairman cleaned Weaver's air ducts in February 2001, then returned six months later to rape and kill the Orange County woman. The story is similar to another case unfolding in West Volusia County.
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Sex offender headed back to prison because he couldn't find work
June 12, 2004, kare11.com | Submitted by steve
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A high-risk sex offender who was unable to find a job or housing in Crookston, Minnesota is heading back to prison. He was given two months to find housing and a job so when he failed to do so Corrections Department officials found him in violation of his probation and ordered his return to prison.
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How to form an informed opinion
June 11, 2004, American Daily | Submitted by steve
Written By Wendy McElroy
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An opinion piece which tries to answer the question "How do you distinguish a credible accusation from a false one?"
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Ex-swim coach is sentenced
June 11, 2004, Sonoma Index-Tribune | Submitted by steve
Written By Joshua Coman
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A former Sonoma Valley, California swim coach was sentenced to one year in county jail on Tuesday for molesting a girl on his swim team. Daniel Scott Mendenhall, 37, of Santa Rosa, will serve a year in jail and three years on probation. He was also given a suspended sentence of two years and eight months in state prison for committing lewd and lascivious acts on a minor and will be required to register as a sex offender and seek counseling upon his release.
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Registered sex offender arrested on fondling charge
June 11, 2004, Herald and News | Submitted by steve
Written By Brook Reinhard
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Registered sex offender Phillip Elton Bedard, 41, was accused of first-degree sexual abuse and harassment on a charge of fondling a mentally retarded man. Bedard is a registered predatory sex offender whose probation for previous crimes ended in 1996.
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Sex offender seeks custody of granddaughter, 2
June 11, 2004, Click2Houston.com | Submitted by steve
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John Hunkler is seeking custody of his 2 year old granddaughter in Conroe, Texas. CPS said Hunkler was not a suitable guardian for the girl because he pleaded guilty to having sex with his 15-year-old daughter. Hunker was sentenced to 10 years probation for the crime.
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Registered sex offender charged with molesting children
June 10, 2004, Newsday.com | Submitted by steve
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A registered sex offender who state police say lured children with food and gifts has been charged with molesting five children in central New York. Investigators said Robert Carrigan, 32, sexually assaulted five boys and girls in Albion, 30 miles north of Syracuse, allegedly gaining the trust of children under 13 by taking them out to eat and buying them clothes, supplying them with cigarettes and alcohol, then molesting them.
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Paedophiles face credit card blacklist
June 09, 2004, The Register | Submitted by steve
Written By John Leyden
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Paedophiles who use credit cards to pay for access to child abuse sites risk having their credit cards withdrawn. National Crime Squad Assistant Chief Constable Jim Gamble said UK police were working with banks and credit reference agencies on procedures to blacklist offenders.
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Justice comes knocking on sex offender's door
June 08, 2004, IOL | Submitted by steve
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A "sexual pervert" who preyed on schoolgirls in 2001 was convicted on 29 charges in the Pretoria High Court (South Africa) on Tuesday. Portuguese citizen Joao de Canha, 36, was found guilty on 11 charges of kidnapping, 10 of rape, two of assault, two of attempted rape, one of indecent assault, one of robbery with aggravating circumstances and two charges relating to illegal firearm and ammunition possession. udge Hekkie Daniels ruled that De Canha had raped or attempted to rape 10 girls between the ages of nine and 17, and had kidnapped or assaulted several other victims. He was acquitted on 19 further charges because of a lack of evidence, unsatisfactory evidence or duplication of charges.
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Sentence for having sex with minor upheld
June 08, 2004, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Submitted by steve
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Christopher Pflieger, a man with no criminal record was properly given a long probation after a 4 1/2-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a teenage boy he met on the Internet, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. Pflieger contended that the judge abused his sentencing discretion in the consecutive probation because Pflieger was a first-time offender, Pflieger believed the boy was an adult and Pflieger believed his risk of committing a similar crime was low.
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Facility tour came after man's placement
June 08, 2004, Pioneer Press | Submitted by steve
Written By David Hanners
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Minnesota state prison officials sent a convicted sex offender to live at a Minneapolis nursing home eight months before they actually visited it themselves to determine whether it could handle released convicts, the Department of Corrections said Monday.
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Sex offender sweep
June 08, 2004, WILX | Submitted by steve
Written By Lori Dougovito
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Michigan State Police are cracking down on sex offenders who fail to update their addresses. Fifty arrests were made in two weeks during the annual operation taking place in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties.
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Wythe not told of sex offender
June 05, 2004, Richmond Times-Dispatch | Submitted by admin
Written By Paige Akin
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George Wythe High School in Richmond, Virginia was one of only a handful of city schools not signed up to receive lists of sex offenders from the state's registry. If it had been signed up, school officials would have known that Edward Lee Hopkins, 18 and charged with sodomizing another student in a classroom at Wythe, was a registered violent sex offender.
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Porn download causes school flap
June 04, 2004, Norwich Bulletin | Submitted by steve
Written By Jenny Bone Miller
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State police have confiscated two computer hard drives from the Griswold Middle School in Rocky Hill, Connectictut after the parent of a 12-year-old student found a picture of a man's erect penis in her daughter's back pack. The girl printed the black and white picture out on the printer in the middle school library after a man she had been instant messaging on the school computers sent it to her, along with his home phone number. According to the seventh-grade girl who printed the picture, she and many of her friends have been using instant messaging at school to have sexually explicit chats with strangers since January.
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Circuit judge can order juvenile to register as sex offender
June 04, 2004, St. Paul / Minneapolis Pioneer Planet | Submitted by steve
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Circuit judges have the authority to order juveniles to register as sex offenders, the Wisconsin state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The decision requires a Brown County Circuit judge to reconsider whether to lift the registration requirement for a 13-year-old boy found delinquent for committing first-degree sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl.
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Convicted sex offender charged with having child porn
June 04, 2004, Daily Southtown | Submitted by steve
Written By Jonathan Lipman
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Martin Pazdzuira, a convicted sex offender in Cook County, Illinois who loaned his computer to a coworker was charged Thursday with possession of child pornography after more than 100 illegal images were found on the computer, authorities said. Analysts with the FBI found pornographic images that involved children between the ages of 4 months and 14 years. Pazdzuira was convicted in 1995 of sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl and was sentenced to 3 years probation.
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Why sex offender was free to strike again
June 04, 2004, This is Nottingham | Submitted by steve
Written By James Kay
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A paedophile who drugged and raped a vulnerable teenager has been jailed for seven years. Despite previous convictions for sex attacks, John William Pearson was not on the Sex Offenders' Register because his offences pre-dated its creation. Up until a month ago, a loophole in the Sex Offenders Act 1997 meant paedophiles with convictions abroad could come here without having to join the Sex Offenders' Register. The new Sex Offences Act 2003, which went into effect on May 1 means the police can now force those offenders to sign the register, but it still doesn't apply to offenders who committed their crimes before the Sex Offenders' Act 1997 was introduced.
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Sex offender for a neighbor?
June 03, 2004, WAFF | Submitted by steve
Written By Garrett Sheehan
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To her dismay, Alabama resident Holly Elkins found out William A. Anderson, convicted of 1st degree rape, was living in her Hazel Green neighborhood, right where kids play. "They ride their bicycles up and down the streets, they run up and down the streets, some of them are 11 or 12, they're really friendly." WAFF checked with the Sheriff's department, but there's nothing they can do since the law only says sex offenders cannot live within 2000 feet of a school or daycare.
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Murder case has sex offender law under review
June 03, 2004, WSTM-TV | Submitted by steve
Written By Dave Pieklik
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Alleged serial killer Nicholas Wiley, a Level 3 sex offender lived on Onondaga Street in Syracuse, New York, but a flyer sent out by the Syracuse City School District had him living at another address. That's because the list sent out was provided by police, but under law convicted sex offenders only have to confirm their address every 90 days. In any case, neither police or the school district is required by law to send out notification. In light of Wiley's arrest, lawmakers are also discussing further action, which Onondaga County district attorney Bill Fitzpatrick supports. "He did comply with the "Megan's Law." He did register as a sex offender. This is why New York statute needs a civil commitment statute," said Fitzpatrick. This is related to events discussed in an earlier article - Police looking into possible serial killer case
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Police looking into possible serial killer case
June 03, 2004, WSTM-TV | Submitted by steve
Written By Dave Pieklik
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Syracuse police have arrested a 41-year old convicted sex offender and charged him with the murder of two women at the same apartment in Syracuse. But what they don't know yet is if those are the only victims in the ongoing investigation. The page containing this article actually contains 3 articles about the victims and suspect.
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Police: Standoff suspect is convicted sex offender
June 02, 2004, TheLouisvilleChannel.com | Submitted by steve
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A man arrested after a standoff with local police is a convicted sex offender, investigators said. According to detectives, Alex Thornton Jr., 32, entered a home in Louisville, Kentucky and tried to rape a woman while her two children were hiding downstairs, police said. Detectives said Thornton beat the woman so badly that he shattered her face, breaking eight of her bones. According to police, Thornton is a convicted sex offender, once convicted of attempted rape, who is required to register with state police for the next 10 years.
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Police delay enforcement of state's sex offender law pending outcome of case
June 02, 2004, KAIT | Submitted by steve
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A federal judge has barred enforcement of an Arkansas law designed to keep sex offenders from living too close to schools or day-care centers until a legal challenge is resolved. Three men sued the Little Rock and Pine Bluff police departments and the state Department of Correction last month claiming the proximity law violates their civil rights.
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Law expands sex-offender notification
June 02, 2004, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by steve
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Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano signed a bill into law to expand Arizona's community notification program for sex offenders by adding thousands more people who were convicted before June 1, 1996. According to a legislative staff memo, about 8,000 registered sex offenders live in Arizona and about 6,000 of those are not on the state sex offender web site because they were convicted before the notification law's 1996 enactment.
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Oklahoma sex offender law not clear on old crime
June 02, 2004, The Daily Ardmoreite | Submitted by admin
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Oklahoma police vary in how they plan to enforce a recent law prohibiting registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools. Some cities are planning on applying the law to those convicted of a sexual offense before Nov. 1 -- when the law took effect, while others are not. Records reviewed by the Tulsa World show that about a third of the nearly 700 registered sex offenders in Tulsa County live within 2,000 feet of a school.
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No supervision for sex offenders being sent back to Britain
June 02, 2004, Independent.co.uk | Submitted by DoTheCrimeDoTheTime
Written By Jason Bennetto
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Dozens of convicted paedophiles have been deported to Britain and moved into the community without monitoring, a Scotland Yard inquiry suggests. An investigation at Heathrow found about one unsupervised sex offender was returning to this country via the airport every three weeks. Detective Chief Inspector Matthew Sarti, head of the Metropolitan Police paedophile squad said "a world-wide register of sex offenders is crucial to monitor and manage all paedophiles" and "Once you are a paedophile you are always a paedophile. It does not change."
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Local plastic surgeon starts sex-offender probation
June 01, 2004, WFTV.com | Submitted by steve
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A Winter Park, Florida plastic surgeon will start serving his three-year sentence of sex-offender probation Tuesday after admitting to the sexual battery of a 19-year-old man who was passed-out drunk. Dr. Thomas Hunter is ordered to have no contact with the 19-year-old victim, but there's a potential problem - Hunter only met the teenager once and says he doesn't know what the teenager looks like.
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Money for offender program unused
June 01, 2004, St. Cloud Times | Submitted by steve
Written By David Unze
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As the Minnesota Sex Offender Program was reaching its 200-bed capacity in late fall 2003, the Department of Human Services hastily opened 36 new beds in a building it had hoped to upgrade before accepting the state's most dangerous sex offenders. That wouldn't have been necessary had the department spent the more than $7 million appropriated by the 2000 Legislature to create new beds for civilly committed sex offenders. Attorney General Mike Hatch believes that the Department of Human Services and the Department of Corrections either planned to refer fewer people into the sex offender program or to find a way to release some of the offenders.
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