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Police seek son of vigilante mom
July 29, 2004, CNN | Submitted by orolan
Article Overview
Eleven years after Ellie Nesler pulled a gun from her purse in a courtroom and gunned down the man accused of molesting her boy, police are hunting for her son -- now wanted for murder. William Nesler, 23, severely beat neighbor David Davis, 45, early Sunday, less than an hour after being released from jail for having beaten Davis a month earlier in a fight over tools. His mother, Ellie Nesler, ignited a national debate when she walked into a courtroom in 1993 and shot twice-convicted child molester, Daniel Driver, 35, five times in the head as he faced seven molestation charges, including one related to her young son.
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Sex offender information - for a price
July 28, 2004, KOLD | Submitted by Actavail
Written By Mark Poepsel
Article Overview
An agency not affiliated with the Arizona's Sex Offender Registry has been calling residents in and around Tucson offering sex offender information - for a price. DPS officials say these ominous pre-recorded calls from the self-proclaimed non-profit agency, United States Protection and Care Sociey which charges $19.95 for access to information about registered sex offenders are scaring people all over Arizona.
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Officials explain boy's release
July 27, 2004, BendBulletin.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Kelly Kearsley
Article Overview
A 12-year-old sex offender in Oregon who was in court Friday on new sex offense charges had previously been released to his parents' custody for several reasons. The boys history and juvenile justice system in Oregon are discussed.
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10th anniversary of Megan Kanka's death leaves mom wistful
July 27, 2004, Newsday.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Donna de la Cruz
Article Overview
Maureen Kanka, the mother of Megan Kanka, discusses the work she's doing with the Megan Nicole Kanka Foundation and how she and her family have been affected over the 10 years since Megan Kanka's disappearance. The Kankas efforts lobbying legislators in the 1990s for a law that would notify communities when a convicted sex offender moved into one of their neighborhoods led to Megan's Law in New Jersey.
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Convicted sex offender found working as coach
July 27, 2004, KIROTV.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Police in Washington have arrested a convicted sex offender who was working as a local youth coach and umpire, years after he failed to register following his release from prison. Myron Davis, 34, was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child in California in 1995 and was working with kids who are the same age as his victims, boys ages 10 to 12.
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Convicted sex offender arrested on 46 new counts of child molestation
July 27, 2004, JuneauEmpire.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Tony Carroll
Article Overview
An Alaska man who was convicted of a child-sex charge last year is back in jail on similar charges that could carry hundreds of years in prison. Donald James Chase, 47, was arrested Friday on a warrant charging him with 45 counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor and two additional charges. Chase pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual abuse of a minor in June 2003 in a case in which he originally was charged with a first-degree offense. The complaint alleged that he had sex with a girl in 1995, when she was 12.
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'No means no' offender faces new assault charge
July 27, 2004, CTV.ca | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
55-year-old Steve Ewanchuk, the man whose protracted court battle ignited a public debate that served to popularize the phrase "no means no," has been arrested again for sexual assault. In 1994, after a series of legal proceedings managed to spark a national debate on the issue of sexual consent, Ewanchuk was convicted for groping a 17-year-old woman.
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Cape Coral officer charged with sex crimes commits suicide
July 27, 2004, Miami Herald | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Daniel O'Hara, 35, a police officer in Cape Coral, Florida, charged with raping a 16-year-old former police explorer and having illegal sexual contact with another 16-year-old member of the troop was found dead in his garage of an apparent suicide. O'Hara was charged Friday with custodial sexual battery and three counts of unlawful sexual activity on both girls. His body was found Monday with a single gunshot wound to the head.
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Man admits trying to have sex with 13-year-old
July 26, 2004, Newsday.com | Submitted by steve
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A 42-year-old Daytona Beach, Florida man admitted to a federal judge Monday that he traveled to New Jersey twice in an attempt to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. Dennis P. DelPriore pleaded guilty to traveling in interstate commerce to engage in illicit sex with a minor and possessing images of child pornography on his computer. He told U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson that his relationship with the girl started as online chats, during which he discussed sex and hoped to persuade the girl to engage in sex acts with him when he visited.
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Sex offender email alert
July 26, 2004, WTVG 13 | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Ohio residents now can sign up to receive e-mail to notify them when registered sex offenders move within one mile of their homes. Attorney General Jim Petro started the service today. The program was tested in Mercer, Lucas, Washington and Stark Counties, with about 10,000 people signing up there.
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Convicted sex offender escapes from prison
July 26, 2004, KSL TV | Submitted by steve
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Duchesne County, Arizona authorities are warning everyone a convicted sex offender and armed robber is on the loose. Prison officials say Eric Damon Hauber escaped from prison yesterday morning during a power failure that left security monitors down.
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Judge scolds teen girls for nude photos
July 23, 2004, Roanoke Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Lidnsey Nair
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Two 16-year-old girls who attend Northside High School in Roanoke, Virginia were charged with production and dissemination of child pornography after taking nude pictures of themselves after Christmas 2003 and emailing them to their boyfriends. The boyfriends apparently emailed the pictures to others and the photos eventually spread to schools throughout the Roanoke Valley and to multiple web sites. Judge Philip Trompeter will dismiss charges if the girls stay out of trouble for a year.
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St. Paul sex offender charged in kidnap, rape
July 22, 2004, Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by admin
Written By Heron Marquez
Article Overview
A 36-year-old man, Henry Moore Jr., recently registered as a sex offender, has been charged with kidnapping a woman as she was leaving a St. Paul, Minnesota bar over the weekend and raping her. The woman grabbed Moore's wallet after the alleged rape, ran to a nearby house and had the homeowner call police.
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Sex offender who tried to volunteer at school gets 38 year sentence
July 22, 2004, abc13.com | Submitted by steve
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In Texas, convicted sex offender Frankie Uptagraft tried to volunteer at three local schools and plead guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child, resulting in a 38 year prison sentence. Uptagraft admitted to sexually assaulting three children dating back to the mid-1990s, but wasn't prosecuted for those assaults until he tried to volunteer at three Fort Bend County elementary schools.
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New TN sex offender law begins August 1st
July 22, 2004, WREG | Submitted by steve
Written By Roswell Encina
Article Overview
A new law in Tenneessee which goes into effect August 1st will require convicted sex offenders to register every time they move, get a new job, enroll in school and move out of state. They will need to register any changes within 48 hours with local police, failure to register will be a felony (it's currently a misdemeanor) and violent offenders will need to register 4 times per year.
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Crackdown on sex offender registry starts soon
July 22, 2004, WKRN | Submitted by steve
Written By Melissa Penry
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Beginning August 1st, a new law in Tennessee increases the crime for failure to register as a sex offender from a misdemeanor to a felony and increases the frequency with which violent offenders must register to four times per year.
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Perspective publishes sex and violent offender registry
July 21, 2004, Kokomo Perspective | Submitted by steve
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For the second consecutive year, the Kokomo Perspective in Kokomo, Indiana is publishing the Sex and Violent Offender Registry for Howard County. A law passed in Indiana last year required that the photos, addresses, physical description and place of employment for each of these offenders be made public. The Perspective has chosen to duplicate this information in its pages this week, but will not include employment information.
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Sex offender Schneeberger deported
July 21, 2004, CTV.ca | Submitted by steve
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John Schneeberger, a former Saskatchewan doctor convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting two women, has been deported from Canada, a border official said Wednesday.
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Chief urged to name sex offender
July 21, 2004, icWales | Submitted by steve
Written By Gareth Morgan
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The nation of Wales' most outspoken chief constable was last night urged to "name and shame" a potentially homicidal sex offender, after he warned he was powerless to stop him being freed from jail. Richard Brunstrom, head of North Wales Police, said that nothing could be done to prevent the man from being released since he is not considered mentally ill, despite a warning from psychiatrists that he could abduct and kill a woman.
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Granholm signs bill to exempt teens from sex offender list
July 21, 2004, Detroit Free Press | Submitted by dp1
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Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm signed a bill Wednesday which will allow non-violent teenage sex offenders to petition the courts to keep their names off the Michigan Sex Offender Registry.
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Former library aide sentenced for sex with students
July 20, 2004, ABC7Chicago.com | Submitted by brennus
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Laurie Augustine. a former Glenbard East High School library aide, has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison after she pled guilty to an improper sexual relationship with three male students. Augustine had illicit sex with 16 and 17 year old students at Glenbard East.
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Sex offender will strike again - prison staff
July 20, 2004, Stuff | Submitted by steve
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Serial sex offender Mosese Taloa will be released from the Auckland Prison in New Zealand today, "bursting to get out and carry on" with sex attacks, say worried prison officers.
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Paedophile suffered fatal beating
July 19, 2004, BBC News | Submitted by steve
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A convicted sex offender in Redcar, Great Britain was beaten to death and strangled because he "deserved it", a court has been told.
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Town gets reprieve over sex offender
July 19, 2004, TVNZ | Submitted by steve
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The New Zealand Corrections Department says convicted sex offender Lloyd McIntosh, who was expected to be released into a small Canterbury community, will instead be given separate accommodation on prison property. McIntosh was intially jailed 11 years ago for raping a two-year-old girl then last year he was jailed again for assaulting a woman.
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Camp leader a sex offender
July 18, 2004, The Honolulu Advertiser | Submitted by steve
Written By Christie Wilson
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Hawaii state rules that permit some youth camps to operate without regulation allowed a convicted sex offender to run a summer camp on Maui for several years. Aloha Adventure Camps, which leased the Girl Scout Council of Hawai'i's Camp Pi'iholo in Makawao, was closed July 7 because of insurance problems. The Advertiser has learned that Aloha Adventure owner and director Raymond L. Thomas, who used the name Llew Lazarus in connection with the camp, has three convictions in California for sex crimes involving children.
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Paedophile's reign of terror ends with prison
July 17, 2004, Sheffield Today | Submitted by steve
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For 26 years sex beast Neil Finlay of Norton, Great Britain, stalked shopping malls and schools to satisfy a perverted lust for young children. He has been sentenced to 6 years in jail for carrying out an act of gross indecency on an eight-year-old girl.
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State court upholds sex-offender registry
July 17, 2004, Omaha World-Herald | Submitted by steve
Written By Leslie Reed
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Nebraska's law requiring public notice when a high-risk sex offender moves into a neighborhood was upheld Friday by the Nebraska Supreme Court. Judge John Gerrard, writing for a unanimous court, said that although it is humiliating for the sex offender, notification serves a fundamental public purpose.
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Knoxville police investigating complaints against sex offender
July 16, 2004, WATE | Submitted by steve
Written By Catharyn Campbell
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Knoxville, Tennessee police say they're investigating reports of a man who's a previously convicted sex offender making inappropriate contact with young boys. Officers say 43-year-old Albert Blevins is a suspect. According to a woman who spoke with 6 News, a man lured her nine-year-old son and his friends into a car, gave them rides, gave him candy, gave him money, gave him fireworks and rubbed his leg, inner thigh and stomach, but never touched his private parts.
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EU to consider easing exchange of sex offender records
July 16, 2004, scotsman.com | Submitted by steve
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The EU is to consider urgent new measures to give member countries access to each other’s criminal records of paedophiles and other sex offenders, officials said today.
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Brown files sex offender legislation
July 15, 2004, Boston Globe | Submitted by steve
Written By Lisa Kocian
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Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown has filed new legislation seeking to oust two sex offenders from a Norfolk neighborhood. Brown's bill, the Joanne and Alyssa Act, would bar any Level 2 or Level 3 offender whose crime involved a child from living or working within 1,000 feet of a school or child care facility. It would also prohibit a Level 2 or Level 3 offender in state-owned or state-funded housing from living within a mile and a half of a school, child care facility, or residence of a minor and would limit where sex offenders can live in relation to victims and victims' families.
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School board votes to ban registered sex offenders from attending school
July 14, 2004, Macon Telegraph | Submitted by steve
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Columbia County, Georgia school officials tentatively agreed to ban registered sex offenders from the school system. The policy is a reaction to 20-year-old former Harlem High School student Christopher Allen Hall, who was already a registered sex offender when he molested a 15-year-old classmate at the school.
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School board votes to ban registered sex offenders from attending school
July 14, 2004, Macon Telegraph | Submitted by steve
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Columbia County, Georgia school officials tentatively agreed to ban registered sex offenders from the school system. The policy is a reaction to 20-year-old former Harlem High School student Christopher Allen Hall, who was already a registered sex offender when he molested a 15-year-old classmate at the school.
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Sex offender returns to prison for thinking about child
July 14, 2004, TheIowaChannel.com | Submitted by steve
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Harold Williams, the only person released from an Iowa treatment program for sexual predators who have finished their prison terms, has returned to prison after admitting he wanted to expose himself to a child.
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Sex offender posed as model boss
July 14, 2004, BBC News | Submitted by steve
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Charles Monaghan, 38, of Kings Drive, Preston, Lancashire, promised modelling work to young girls he met in internet chatrooms before sexually assaulting them has been jailed for three years. Monaghan posed as the head of the fictional T & M Models agency. He assaulted four girls, aged 13 to 15, in hotel rooms and at his house, admitting to 11 counts of indecency with a child, twice having unlawful sex and three counts of owning indecent photos.
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Charges coming against mall rape suspect
July 14, 2004, Channel3000.com | Submitted by LostTime
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Formal charges may be coming soon in what has become a very large-scale investigation revolving around a 34-year-old Stoughton father suspected of being the mall rapist. It could be one of the largest sexual assault cases in Wisconsin history. Among other crimes, police have connected him to the failed abduction of a 13-year-old girl at a northside hotel in February and expect to see numerous counts related to attacks on women, many in shopping malls. The man, whose identity has not yet been released, could also issue local charges in a child porn case, even though he has already pleaded guilty in federal court to filming underage girls in sex acts.
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Hogsett: Clarify sex offender lists
July 13, 2004, Indianapolis Star | Submitted by steve
Written By John Tuohy
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Joe Hogsett, Democratic candidate for Indiana attorney general, said today that he would run the state's sex offender registry and directory from his office if elected. The Indiana Sheriffs Association and The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute both run separate lists of convicted sex offenders in Indiana, but Hogsett says there is currently confusion which needs to be remedied.
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23 charged as police uncovers paedophile network
July 13, 2004, Agenzia Giornalistica Italia | Submitted by steve
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An investigation codenamed "Pollicino" which was carried out by the Tax Police in Cuneo, Italy has led to the discovery of an online network of paedophiles, with 23 people charged as a result. Officers seized 38 personal computers and hardware supports, 2,054 CD Rom units, 82 DVDs, 70 floppy disks, 36 videotapes and over 2 million files containing images and footage.
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Charges dropped against man who beat molester in jail
July 13, 2004, WFTV.com | Submitted by steve
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A man won't be prosecuted for beating the pedophile who raped and choked him as a child when the two were mistakenly put in the same jail cell. By a fluke, Jason Flores found himself at the Orient Road Jail face to face with Kevin Kinder, the man who had raped and choked him years earlier.
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Loophole closed in sex offender law
July 13, 2004, Daily Press | Submitted by steve
Written By Christopher Moss
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill into law Friday that closes a loophole in an existing law that prohibits schools from putting teachers charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child on unpaid mandatory leave. The bill, AB 891, was proposed by Assemblywoman Sharon Runner and will take effect January 1, 2005. The bill was authored in response to a case in Victorville in which elementary school teach John Desilets was charged with suspicion of continuous sexual abuse of a minor.
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Polk County: Officials detain sex offender
July 13, 2004, Grand Forks Herald | Submitted by steve
Written By Stephen J. Lee
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Douglas Piker, 40, the former East Grand Forks and Grand Forks (North Dakota) man jailed Monday in Crookston, as part of an emergency detention as a high-risk sex offender, has a history of related crimes spanning more than a decade. Polk County Attorney Greg Widseth and a prosecutor from the Minnesota attorney general's office filed a petition Friday to have Piker committed indefinitely as a sexual psychopathic personality and sexually dangerous person. He was released Monday from a state prison in Moose Lake, Minnesota.
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Mom changed law, but son still on sex-offender list
July 12, 2004, Michigan Live | Submitted by steve
Written By Ken Kolker
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The story of the son of Linda Zimmerman of Grand Haven Township, Michigan. Linda Zimmerman, co-founder of Citizens for Second Chances, helped lead a movement that last week prompted Michigan lawmakers to change the sex offender registry law. The bill, which could be signed by Governor Jennifer Granholm this week, would keep young sex offenders whose statutory crimes involve victims close in age to them. However, the bill doesn't apply to those young offenders who have already been convicted, including Zimmerman's now 22-year-old son, who pleaded guilty to attempted third-degree criminal sexual conduct as the result of having sex with having sex with a girl two months short of her 16th birthday a month before he turned 19.
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Suit filed against sex offender, children's aid
July 12, 2004, CTV.ca | Submitted by admin
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An $8 million lawsuit has been filed against now-deceased Ontario, Canada repeat sex offender Douglas Moore and the Peel Children's Aid Society. The suit was filed by a father who alleges his son was sexually abused by Moore while under the care of the Peel Children's Aid Society. The 36-year-old Moore was a convicted pedophile and is suspected in the murders of three young men. Moore killed himself in an Ontario jail in April.
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Sex offender registration offers neighbors a defense
July 12, 2004, Modesto Bee | Submitted by steve
Written By Adam Ashton
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Hallye Jordan, a spokeswoman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, said Lockyer is backing an effort to make each county’s sex offender registry more accessible by posting it online. Assembly Bill 488, the measure to post county registries online, has passed the Assembly. Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin is also backing the bill. Currently, counties in California can post high-risk offenders on their websites, but the full sex offender registry is not available via any of the county websites.
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Teen to become first NZ sex offender with ankle tag
July 10, 2004, Stuff | Submitted by steve
Written By Tim Hume
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A Christchurch 17-year-old will become New Zealand's first sex offender to wear an ankle bracelet on parole, ending a five-week impasse during which his lack of electronic supervision prevented him entering rehabilitation.
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Name suppression denied for sex offender suing police
July 10, 2004, Stuff | Submitted by steve
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A convicted sex offender who is suing police for "outing" him in the Wellington suburb (New Zealand)where he was ordered to live on parole has lost a bid for name suppression.
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Gary Beaver sentenced as sex offender
July 10, 2004, The Ledger | Submitted by steve
Written By Jeff Scullin
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Garry Beaver, 57, the husband of Mulberry City Commissioner Vicky Beaver, received 10 years' probation and a year in the county jail Friday for trying to molest an underage girl and related charges. After sentencing him as a sex offender, Circuit Judge Bruce Smith said he thought Beaver had been a pedophile for more than 30 years, as prosecutors argued at his trial. Beaver, who maintained his innocence until the very end, will need to find a new place to live since his designation as a sex offender will not allow him to live in the house he and his wife share next to Mulberry High School.
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Laval sex offender treatment centre shut down
July 09, 2004, CTV.ca | Submitted by steve
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One of the most important treatment centres for sex offenders in Quebec, the Centre d'Intervention pour délinquants sexuels de Laval, or CIDS has shut its doors. That means more than 200 offenders could be without therapy. The shutdown is due to budgetary constraints.
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Repeat sex offender accused of kidnapping
July 09, 2004, The Express Times | Submitted by admin
Written By Tom Quigley
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A Hunterdon County man, Brian Baldwin, 47, with several past sexual assault convictions is charged with kidnapping and attempting to molest a 15-year-old boy Wednesday evening, authorities said. Authorities said Baldwin grabbed the boy by the back of his neck and forced him into an alley. The boy apparently fled before the attack could continue, authorities said. Baldwin later told investigators he had a sudden impulse to have sexual contact with the boy.
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Tougher sex offender law tightens state registry
July 09, 2004, Nashville City Paper | Submitted by steve
Written By Judith R. Tackett
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Tennessee is toughening up its sex offender registry with a new law that will go into effect Aug. 1. The new law should reduce the number of sex offenders who have been actively attracted to Tennessee because the state’s laws were not as stringent as in other states.
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Foster parents sue after sex offender put in home
July 09, 2004, nbc4columbus.com | Submitted by steve
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A foster-parenting couple is suing a Ross County, Ohio agency for placing a known sex offender who raped two foster children in their home. The 17-year-old pleaded guilty to rape in adult court, went to prison and was classified as a sexual predator. The file also included a warning from a juvenile-court probation officer to a caseworker that the boy was a potential "sexual perpetrator" and warned the agency to be careful about where he was placed.
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Reno man accused of stealing sex offender’s ID
July 08, 2004, Reno Gazette-Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By Jaclyn O'Malley
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A 31-year-old Reno, Nevada man, who got construction and landscaping jobs using another man’s identity, was arrested and booked Wednesday on suspicion of using ID information without permission, authorities said Thursday. Guillermo Zuniga-Vargas’ was arrested for stealing the identity of Joshua Sandoval, a registered sex offender formerly of Reno.
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Sex offender asks to return to prison
July 08, 2004, Montreal Gazette | Submitted by steve
Written By Allan Woods
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Less than 24 hours after becoming a free man, Martin Ferrier, a diagnosed psychopath and serial offender, offered two guilty pleas to relatively minor criminal charges yesterday and requested he be returned to prison for the next two years. The 31-year-old Ferrier has more than 60 criminal convictions spanning 17 years. A tearful Ferrier said he was so badgered by local media that he felt no alternative but to ask for a grossly inflated sentence after telling a police officer he would kill a television reporter.
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Police stop attack on elderly sex offender
July 08, 2004, News4Jax.com | Submitted by steve
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Police in St. Augustine, Florida stopped a knife attack on 82 year old sex offender, David Powers. Isaac Seth Tate, 19, and Douglas Shawn Whitlock, 20, both of St. Augustine, allegedly plotted to kill Powers. A witness told police about the plan before it occured, mentioning the plot was prompted by Powers making a pass at Tate, a former roommate of Powers.
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News 3 helps neighbors catch registered sex offender
July 07, 2004, KVBC | Submitted by steve
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Registered sex offender Shawn Massey is being charged with 51 counts of lewdness with a minor. Neighbors were'nt aware of his status, but after a news story by the News 3, neighbors found out how to look up sex offenders in Nevada, confirming their fears "when parents started realizing Massey's house was always full of kids".
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Teens may avoid sex registry
July 07, 2004, Detroit News | Submitted by steve
Written By George Hunter
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Teenagers in Michigan who have sex with minors close to their own age and are convicted after October 1 will not have their names on the state's sex offender registry, thanks to a bill, House Bill 4920, which was approved 36-0 by The Senate and 101-9 by The House. Governor Jennifer Granholm is expected to sign the bill into law. Critics argue that the bill doesn't help teens who already are on the registry since their only recourse is to petition the court to reduce their time on the list from 25 to 10 years.
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Convicted sex offender wants state job back
July 06, 2004, The New Mexico Channel | Submitted by steve
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The New Mexico state Supreme Court has ruled that a convicted sex offender who was fired from his job as a state employee can have his job back.
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Youth group volunteer arrested on child pornography charges
July 04, 2004, WCNC | Submitted by admin
Written By Silk Rible
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A Charlotte, North Carolina youth group volunteer was arrested Thursday in Georgia after FBI agents discovered several child pornography photos in his home. FBI agents confiscated the items from the home of Russell Earl Miller, including children's underwear and photos of at least two underage children - children identified by Miller's wife as members of the church youth group her husband works with.
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Pedophile database
July 04, 2004, NEWS.com.au | Submitted by steve
Written By Penny Baxter
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The Northern Territory (Australia) is expected to be part of a national pedophile register by the end of the year. The database would record details of convicted child sex offenders who have gone to jail and would be accessible only by police. Offenders would be required to register personal details such as their place of residence and work.
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Child-porn case raises HIV fears
July 03, 2004, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by steve
Written By Dennis Wagner and Karina Bland
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A Valley AIDS expert says it is almost certain that some of the estimated 30 teenage boys believed to have had sex with a pair of Phoenix child-pornography suspects were infected with HIV.
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Huntley claim teenager to marry sex offender boyfriend, 39
July 03, 2004, scotsman.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Nick Foley
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A teenager who claimed she was assaulted by Soham child killer Ian Huntley will today marry the convicted sex offender she ran away with when she was just 15. Hailey Edwards, 18, will wed Colin Giblin, 39, at St Peter’s Church, Humberston, Lincolnshire, less than 18 months after he admitted having unlawful intercourse with the teenager.
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Ten French paedophiles convicted
July 02, 2004, The Age | Submitted by steve
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A French court convicted 10 people in a paedophile case today, finding six of them guilty of child rape after a controversial trial which rocked France's justice system. 37-year-old Myriam Delay-Badaoui, the woman at the centre of the trial, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for child rape. Her husband Thierry Delay and a couple who were their neighbors were also handed prison sentences for rape. All had confessed to raping the Delay couple's four children. had confessed to raping the Delay couple's children. 10 of the 17 defendants were convicted.
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N.C. sex offender sought for kidnapping Greene Co. woman
July 02, 2004, WATE | Submitted by steve
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The FBI said Friday that agents are seeking a registered sex offender in North Carolina who's been charged with kidnapping a Greene County woman. An FBI press release said Michael Ellsworth Sheppard is being sought for the June 29th assault and kidnapping of a woman from Greene County.
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Police: Sex offender raped mentally retarded woman
July 02, 2004, BostonHerald.com | Submitted by steve
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A convicted sex offender from Chicago is being held on $1 million bail, accused of raping a mentally challenged woman while selling magazines door-to-door in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts. Turner appears on Utah's Sex Offender Registry where he was convicted and sentenced to prison for attempted forcible sex abuse of a woman. Prosecutors said Turner's out-of-state criminal history also includes convictions for armed robbery, kidnapping, and other sex crimes.
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Ferris Bueller actor arrested in Sarasota
July 02, 2004, Daily Southtown | Submitted by steve
Written By Mike Saewitz
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Actor Jeffrey Jones, a convicted sex offender who must register his address with authorities, was arrested Thursday and charged with failing to notify the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office that he had moved, authorities said. Jones, 57, is best known for his role as school principal Ed Rooney in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Jones was required to register as a sex offender after his 2003 conviction for employing a teenage boy to pose for sexually explicit photos.
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Shrink found with child porn
July 01, 2004, News24 | Submitted by admin
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There is "strong" and "clear" evidence against one of Poland's most respected child psychologists suspected of paedophilia after he was found in possession of child pornography, Poland's Justice Minister Marek Sadowski said on Thursday in Warsaw. Top Polish child psychotherapist Andrzej S, 57, was charged with sex crimes against children on Monday and arrested for a period of three months pending a full criminal investigation (Polish law forbids the publication of a suspect's full name).
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NBA great Calvin Murphy indicted on sex charges
July 01, 2004, Reuters | Submitted by steve
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A grand jury indicted National Basketball Association Hall of Famer Calvin Murphy on Thursday on charges he sexually molested five of his daughters more than a decade ago. He is accused of fondling or performing oral sex on the girls between 1988 and 1991 when they ranged in age from 6 to 13.
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Sex offender registry to be updated
July 01, 2004, KTVO TV3 | Submitted by steve
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A new Iowa law that takes effect today gives the public more access to information about convicted sex offenders. The state used to only list sex offenders online if they were considered a threat to reoffend, but under the new law all convicted sex offenders will be listed online. As a result the number listed online will increase from about 1,600 to about 6,000.
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Law council calls for sex offender register safeguards
July 01, 2004, ABC Online | Submitted by steve
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The Law Council of Australia says the proposed national sex offender database needs safeguards. State and territory police ministers agreed to implement the register at a meeting in Hobart yesterday.
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Family pleads for sex-offender postings
July 01, 2004, Lowell Sun Online | Submitted by steve
Written By Denise Lavoie
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Family members of Joanne Presit say that if pictures of Level 3 sex offenders had been posted on the Internet late last year, Presti might be alive today. The 34-year-old Woburn woman and her 12-year-old daughter, Alyssa, were killed at their home in January, allegedly by Michael J. Bizanowicz, a 41-year-old convicted sex offender. Presti's family attended a Supreme Judicial Court hearing yesterday on whether such Internet postings violate the rights of offenders.
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Ontario sex-offender registry 'unconstitutional'
July 01, 2004, CBC Ottawa | Submitted by steve
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An Ontario provincial-court judge has found the law governing the province's sex offender registry is too broad and, therefore, unconstitutional. Christopher's Law requires anyone convicted of a sex offence to register with his or her local police force every year, as long as they live in Ontario. Justice Gary Hearn, presiding over the law's first constitutional challenge in Kitchener, said it deprived offenders of their right to liberty and security, no matter how laudable its goal.
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Police say sex offender left the country
July 01, 2004, The Daily Press | Submitted by steve
Written By Michael W. Kahn
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A convicted sex offender charged with molesting a 17-year-old boy and believed to have attacked others fled the country, authorities said Thursday. Thomas R. Koucky, 41, who was free on $3,000 bond, has been the subject of an intense manhunt since he failed to appear Wednesday for an Arlington, Virginia Circuit Court hearing. U.S. Customs officials confirmed to police that Koucky flew from Atlanta to Guatemala. Prosecutors said Koucky told police he had an uncontrollable attraction to boys and that he had abused as many as 300 boys in the past decade.
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Sex offender falls victim to arson
July 01, 2004, Rocky Mountain News | Submitted by steve
Written By John Aguilar And Gabrielle Crist
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Convicted sex offender and admitted sex addict Wayne Glasser, whose rented Castle Rock, Colorado home burned last week, said Wednesday he and his wife were harassed by neighbors for months. In 1998, Wayne Glasser pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a 14-year-old child using force and sexual assault of an at-risk adult - a 21-year-old woman with Down Syndrome. In April, Glasser was found guilty of violating his probation by picking up another hitchhiker, whom police said was a prostitute and could face up to 17 years in prison when sentenced in August. Both Glasser and his wife claim they have been harrassed both at the house that burned down and t a prior home.
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