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Registered sex offender accused of stalking teen girls
August 31, 2004, Rocky Mountain News | Submitted by admin
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A registered sex offender living in Jefferson County has been charged in Denver, Colorado with stalking three teenage girls.
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'I forgot' not a defense for sex offender's failing to register
August 31, 2004, San Mateo County Times | Submitted by steve
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"I forgot" isn't a good enough reason to keep a sex offender out of prison for failing to register with law enforcement officials, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday. In writing for the 6-1 majority, Justice Janice Brown stated "We do not believe the Legislature intended that a defendant could successfully evade this duty by claiming 'I totally forgot about that." Brown wrote that to overturn Donald Faye Barker's prison sentence would be to invite all sex offenders who fail to register make similar "I forgot" pleas.
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Sex offender information added to SPD Web site
August 31, 2004, TheKCRAChannel.com | Submitted by steve
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The Sacramento City Council Tuesday approved the addition of sex offender information to the Sacramento Police Department Web site. Maps and offender registration information, including names, photos, offenses and block level residential locations are displayed online.
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Park sex sting: Dane County issues 5 citations
August 31, 2004, Channel3000.com | Submitted by LostTime
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Dane County, Wisconsin officials set up a sex sting at Token Creek Park, just north of Madison, and issued five citations over the weekend. The city is listing in a news release the names of those picked up in the most recent round up. According to Lt. Steve Gilmore, commander of Dane County's northeast precinct, it'll act as a deterrent to curb this activity.
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Mass. clusters of sex offenders
August 29, 2004, BostonHerald.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Thomas
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Hundreds of convicted rapists and pedophiles have clustered in small, mostly rural towns where many parents are oblivious to the danger lurking next door. A Herald analysis of newly available Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry data found that pockets of predators dot central and western Massachusetts.
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Sex offenders blend in
August 29, 2004, BostonHerald.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Thomas Caywood
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Speculation about whether sex offenders target areas where they can find anonymity.
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Source: Sex offender's print found at rape scene
August 28, 2004, Seattle Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Jessica Blanchard
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A fingerprint found at the scene of a recent rape in Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood belongs to a registered sex offender, a source close to the investigation said. Police say they're also interested in looking at the Level 3 sex offender, Curtis S. Thompson, 45, in connection with the stabbing death this week of a disabled woman in her apartment in the city's Bryant neighborhood. Police would not confirm whether Thompson is a suspect in either case, and no arrests have been reported.
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Teacher fails to register as sex offender
August 27, 2004, Washington Times | Submitted by steve
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Mostafa Mehdizadeh, a former Ohio college professor who admitted seeking sex with a police officer posing as a teenage girl has apparently returned to his native Iran.
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Sex offenders must register or be prosecuted, says Cox
August 27, 2004, Chattanoogan.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Irby Park
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Local and state law enforcement agencies in Tennessee “have all gotten together for the purpose of implementing a plan to identify, locate, arrest, indict and prosecute all those (sex offenders) not in compliance” with the new law by Sept. 1, said Hamilton County District Attorney Bill Cox. The new state sexual offender registration law became effective August 1 and requires offenders to be registered by Sept. 1.
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State sex offender Web site expanded
August 27, 2004, The Herald News | Submitted by steve
Written By Daniel Fowler
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The state of Massachusetts has expanded the information it posts on its new sex offender Web site to include the addresses of offenders’ partners or relatives, which critics say may be illegal.
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Convicted sex offender lived in city park undetected
August 27, 2004, WBAY | Submitted by admin
Written By Jason Zimmerman
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A convicted sex offender found living in a park in Appleton, Wisconsin undetected has parents upset. On Wednesday, Robert Krupinski was arrested for the robbery of a downtown bank. He moved to Wisconsin from California, where he was required to register as a sex offender after being convicted of lewd and lascivious behavior with a child under 14 years old, but didn't notify California about the move, and he never registered locally as a sex offender.
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Sex offender, wife may be charged with arson
August 26, 2004, TheDenverChannel.com | Submitted by steve
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Prosecutors are considering charging registered sex offender Wayne Glasser and his wife Lyssa Glasser with arson for a fire that destroyed their home. After the June 25th fire, Wayne and Lyssa Glasser suggested one of their neighbors may have started the fire because they were upset to have a sex offender living nearby. This week, Castle Rock fire investigators recommended that the Glassers be charged with arson and Douglas County prosecutors said Wednesday they were considering filing criminal charges against the Glassers. This is related to events discussed in an earlier article - Sex offender falls victim to arson
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Top lawmen want sex offender law revamped
August 26, 2004, WLBT | Submitted by steve
Written By Cheryl Lasseter
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Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and Public Safety Commissioner Rusty Fortenberry say they want changes made to the sex offender registry laws. They contend that 20 percent of sex offenders in Mississippi are not registered because it's up to the offenders themselves to register and update their information through the mail every 90 day. Commissioner Fortenberry says he will ask lawmakers to consider electronic-swipe sex offender identification cards during the next legislative session. The group of lawmen also served warrants Thursday for dozens of unregistered sex offenders in six counties.
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Willie K. Smith slapped with new sex assault claim
August 26, 2004, BostonHerald.com | Submitted by Navigatr1
Written By Jennifer Rosinski
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William Kennedy Smith - Ted Kennedy's notorious nephew - faces allegations of sexual assault in Chicago more than a decade after a night of boozing in Florida landed the blue blood in court on allegations of rape.
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Alta prison bans pedophile from socials with kids that fuel his fantasies
August 25, 2004, CANOE | Submitted by steve
Written By Michelle Macafee
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A medium-security prison in Alberta has banned a Manitoba pedophile, Robert Bliss Arthurson, from social functions with the children of other inmates following the man's admission that the events fuel his sexual fantasies. Arthurson, who is serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of 13-year-old Sarah Kelly in 1994, had attended three functions at Bowden Institution in the last 18 months in which children were present, said assistant warden Rita Wehrle.
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Bill to post sex offender’s locations heads to governor
August 25, 2004, The Desert Sun | Submitted by steve
Written By Jake Henshaw
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After nearly a decade of debate, the California Assembly Tuesday sent the governor a bill to identify convicted sex offenders on the Internet. The bill would give the home address of the 50,000 worst offenders and the ZIP code of about another 30,000 to 40,000 offenders.
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UConn basketball coach sentenced for sex crime
August 24, 2004, WTNH | Submitted by admin
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A University of Connecticut assistant men's basketball coach agreed today to perform community service and take a class for men who are accused of patronizing prostitutes. Clyde Vaughan was among more than a dozen people arrested August 18th in a Hartford police sting. Police said he tried to pay for oral sex from an undercover officer posing as a prostitute.
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Pedophile's parole board confirms two attacks
August 24, 2004, The Globe and Mail | Submitted by steve
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A Manitoba pedophile who stunned his parole board hearing by admitting to other assaults has said two of the crimes were committed within a week of the murder that sent him to jail. The report into Robert Bliss Arthurson's failed parole hearing also reveals the children of other inmates fuel his sexual fantasies when they visit prison.
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North County girls testify against sex-crimes suspect
August 23, 2004, San Diego Union Tribune | Submitted by admin
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Three teenage girls testified in Vista, California that a man on trial for 19 sex-related counts groped them in separate attacks in the North County, part of a four-month series of such crimes. The girls described three of nine crimes the state alleges Jose Hermosillo, 28, committed between Sept. 17, 2001, and Feb. 4, 2002, in Oceanside and Vista.
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Court upholds convictions in Glen Ridge sex assault case
August 23, 2004, New York Newsday | Submitted by steve
Written By David B. Caruso
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More than a decade after the case made headlines, a federal appeals court has affirmed the convictions of three former high school athletes who sexually assaulted a mentally retarded classmate. Kyle Scherzer along with twins Christopher Archer and Kevin Archer were convicted in 1993 of being among a group of boys who assaulted the 17-year-old girl with a broomstick and a baseball bat in the basement of a home in Glen Ridge, N.J. All three have finished serving their prison sentences for the 1989 assault and been released, but continue to fight their convictions.
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Sex offender charged in South Bend girl's death
August 23, 2004, Indianapolis Star | Submitted by steve
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A convicted sex offender, Joseph Grembowicz, 44, was formally charged today with murder and arson in the death of his girlfriend's 14-year-old daughter, Nicole Dodd. Dodd's body was found by firefighters Thursday night after a fire was reported at her mother's South Bend home.
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Alleged molester accused of killing family set to go on trial
August 22, 2004, PennLive.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Mark Scolforo
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Victoria and Elizabeth Wholaver were less than a month away from testifying against their father on sexual abuse charges when police found them and their mother, Jean, dead on Christmas Day two years ago. ictoria, 20, and Elizabeth, 15, had obtained a no-contact order against their father, Ernest R. Wholaver Jr., after accusing him of having molested them for years. Prosecutors say, Wholaver entered their home and shot each one in the head. Wholaver was to stand trial starting Monday in Harrisburg on three counts of murder, multiple sexual assault charges and one count of trying to hire a hit man from behind bars to frame someone else for the killings.
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Gov. Blagojevich signs sex offender legislation
August 22, 2004, Illinois Government News Network | Submitted by brennus
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Illinois Gov. Blagojevich signed legislation establishing stricter release conditions, harsher parole violation penalties, and improved registration requirements for sex offenders. The three new laws, initiated by Attorney General Lisa Madigan, are intended to keep better track of sex offenders and are effective immediately.
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Sex offender laws revamp plan
August 22, 2004, The Australian | Submitted by steve
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The West Australian Government plans to introduce the toughest laws in Australia against sex offenders. Western Australia Police and Justice Minister Michelle Roberts plans on expanding the registration and reporting system to target all serious and repeat sex offenders, intends to boost police powers and mandatory reporting requirements for these offenders who are found guilty of more than one serious offence, among other plans.
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Paedophile suspect runs children's charity in Tanzania
August 22, 2004, scotsman.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Fiona MacGregor
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A children's charity in Tanzania is being run by a Briton, Duncan Grant, believed to be wanted in India on charges of sexual abuse against young boys.
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Supporters push for passage of "Cole's Law"
August 21, 2004, KSBY | Submitted by steve
Written By Andrew Masuda
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A team of Central Coast, California residents is pushinig legislation to protect children from sexually violent predators. "Cole's Law " would allow closed-circuit television testimony for children who are too traumatized to go face-to-face with the perpetrator. The proposed law is named after a Central Coast boy who was molested by a relative when he was three years old. Cole was too terrified to testify and as a result, his molester remains free.
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Judge limits scope of new sex-offender registry law
August 20, 2004, The Tennessean | Submitted by steve
Written By Rob Johnson
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A federal judge yesterday ordered the state of Tennessee not to enforce its new sex-offender registry law against those convicted before the statute went on the books. The statute, which went into effect Aug. 1, forbids sex offenders from living or working within 1,000 feet of a school or day care. Tennessee's sex-offender registry law was passed this year by the legislature and signed by Gov. Phil Bredesen, despite a warning from state Attorney General Paul Summers that if enacted, the statute was highly likely to be challenged as unconstitutional.
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Pedophile says he won't be a danger
August 20, 2004, In-Forum | Submitted by steve
Written By Dave Olson
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A Minnesota man admitted at the start of his civil commitment trial Thursday that he molested 10 children and it's possible he will always be a pedophile. But Robin John Razmyslowski, 32, said he has a plan to keep others safe and he shouldn't be condemned to a life in prison.
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Senate votes to put Megan's Law database on the Internet
August 19, 2004, San Diego Union Tribune | Submitted by steve
Written By Jim Wasserman
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A campaign to post home addresses and other personal information about California's sexual offenders on the Internet gained momentum Thursday when the state Senate approved an online version of the Megan's Law database by a 35-1 vote. The bill applies to more than 55,000 high-risk and serious offenders who have been released from prison. An online version run by the state's Department of Justice would provide the offender's name and known aliases, a picture, physical description including race and gender, date of birth, criminal history and home address. The state estimates it will cost $650,000 to create the online database.
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New pedophile law to affect few bus stops
August 19, 2004, Palm Beach Post | Submitted by steve
Written By Cynthia Kopkowski
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While their peers in some nearby counties are envisioning districtwide chaos, Palm Beach County school officials will have to move only a handful of school bus stops under a new Florida state law requiring they be 1,000 feet from the homes of sex offenders on probation.
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State sues youth camp operator
August 19, 2004, The Honolulu Advertiser | Submitted by steve
Written By Christie Wilson
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The Hawaii state Office of Consumer Protection yesterday filed a lawsuit seeking restitution for 105 families who signed up for a Maui summer surf and photography camp run by a convicted sex offender. It's unlikely the families will get their money back, because authorities do not know the whereabouts of Aloha Adventure Camps owner Raymond L. Thomas, who used the name Llew Lazarus in connection with the camp.
This is related to events discussed in an earlier article - Camp leader a sex offender
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Port St. Lucie offers to rehire sex offender
August 19, 2004, Palm Beach Post | Submitted by steve
Written By Teresa Lane
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The city of Port St. Lucie offered to rehire a utility worker with a 12-year-old rape conviction Wednesday, one day before the employee was scheduled to appeal his dismissal to City Manager Don Cooper. According to his attorney, Arthur Brandt, Jason Marcano will be offered a job that doesn't bring him into contact with the public. His status as a registered sexual offender in St. Lucie County was discovered by police employees, who recognized Marcano as a city employee and notified supervisors.
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Jailed sex offender seeks freedom
August 19, 2004, Santa Cruz Sentinel | Submitted by steve
Written By Cathy Redfern
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A man who sodomized and drowned a 3-year-old child in a bathtub 16 years ago was in a Santa Cruz courtroom Wednesday in a bid to be released from a high-security youth treatment facility. Donald Gerald Schmidt, 32, is the oldest California Youth Authority inmate in the state, said his attorney, Charlie Stevens. According to psychologist Inga Talbert, Schmidt needs more treatment and his diagnosis includes being a sexual sadist and a psychopath. Doctors believe he has sexual desires for children, which he denies, though Schmidt admits to fantasies of raping women.
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Sex offender escorted off fairgrounds
August 19, 2004, San Mateo County Times | Submitted by admin
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A convicted sex offender was escorted off the San Mateo County Fairgrounds (California) Wednesday, according to Bill Ahern, a commander of the San Mateo County Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement task force, known as SAFE. According to Ahern, who was among a team of agents running the Megan's Law booth near several children's rides, said another agent saw a sex offender on his caseload walk by.
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Sex offender charged in stabbing murder
August 19, 2004, Corpus Christi Caller-Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Diane S. Morales
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A 35-year-old man remained in custody Wednesday at the Nueces County Jail (Texas) in connection with the stabbing death of William Michael Boyles, 39, who was found dead in his home Tuesday. The accused, Barry James Holland, has a conviction record of criminal trespassing, theft and burglary of a habitation and is a registered sex offender.
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Pedophile killer confesses new crimes
August 18, 2004, CANOE | Submitted by steve
Written By Dracy Henton
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A Manitoba pedophile who strangled a 13-year-old girl stunned his parole hearing Wednesday by admitting he committed other crimes police don't know about. Robert Bliss Arthurson, 47, told the three-member panel at his parole hearing that he is willing to deal with those offences now. Arthurson is serving a life sentence for the 1994 abduction and slaying of Sarah Kelly. Arthurson estimated Wednesday he has had 15 or 16 victims, including some that police don't know about.
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Police say convicted sex offender found living with children
August 18, 2004, Fort Smith Times Record | Submitted by steve
Written By John Lyon
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A convicted sex offender who was ordered not to have contact with small children was arrested in Fort Smith, Arkansas on Monday after authorities learned he was violating that order, an investigator said. Paul Woodrow Brock, 39, was convicted in 1994 of raping a juvenile female relative. Brock was allegedly living with his girlfriend without notifying authorities. Officers aw Brock playing with his girlfriend’s three children, ages 3 to 11.
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Secret Witness tips lead police to convicted sex offenders
August 18, 2004, KRNV | Submitted by admin
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Information called in to the Secret Witness program in Reno, Nevada helped detectives locate convicted sex offenders Richard Daniel Sharks in downtown Reno and Morris Paul Dominguez in Arkansas. Both had been wanted for failing to register as sex offenders as required by law.
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Rule fills jails with probation violators
August 18, 2004, St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by dp1
Written By Lucy Morgan
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Florida state probation officials quietly have started immediately arresting more people accused of violating their probation instead of waiting for an order from a judge. The policy is intended to faciliate quickly jailing anyone on probation arrested for a felony or who violates their probation and has a violent history. The new rules follow the separate high profile crimes in which Troy Victorino and Joseph P. Smith were charged.
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Sex offender registry goes back online
August 17, 2004, TheHawaiiChannel.com | Submitted by steve
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The Hawaii Sex Offender Registry went back online Monday afternoon with information on those convicted of felony or multiple sex offenses. On its first day up, the Hawaii sex offender registry listed just three names. Hawaii was forced to shut down the registry in 2001 after the state Supreme Court found the law that allowed the site was unconstitutional. The state has started the process has started to give each offender a required court hearing before his or her name is put on the list.
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Police: Sex offender lists free
August 16, 2004, The Olympian | Submitted by Navigatr1
Written By Barry Ginter
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A company using an automated phone system to try to sell lists of registered sex offenders has caught the disapproving eye of local law enforcement in Washington state. Detective William Adam, the sex offender registration coordinator for the Mason County Sheriff's Office, is alerting people that the California company, United States Protection and Care Society, is apparently trying to capitalize on public concern about sex offender notifications
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Stores must do more to protect children
August 15, 2004, The State | Submitted by admin
Written By Lynne Taylor
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Dr. Lynne Taylor, executive director of Prevent Child Abuse South Carolina, discusses retailers' responsiblity to conduct criminal background checks on potential employees and commends Wal-Mart for announcing that it will require criminal background checks on all new employees.
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Time spent with teen girls gets sex offender prison term
August 14, 2004, Green Bay Press-Gazette | Submitted by steve
Written By Andy Nelesen
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Brown County Circuit Court Judge Peter Naze on Friday sentenced convicted sex offender Danilo Artez, 68, to four years in prison and eight years’ supervision and ordered he have no unsupervised contact with minors. Prosecutors maintained that Artez spent time with teenage girls - having them make fund-raising calls and drive his car - under the guise of running a charity called Friends of Homeless Women with Children.
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Judge to order sex offender back to Contra Costa -- again
August 13, 2004, Contra Costa Times | Submitted by admin
Written By Matt Krupnick
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Four-time convicted sex offender Cary Verse is now likely headed back to Contra Costa County, a judge ruled this morning, because of a bill California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law on Thursday. Verse had been scheduled to move to Merced County until Schwarzenegger signed a bill requiring serious sex offenders to be placed in their home county after being released from a state rehabilitation program.
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Registered sex offender is charged
August 13, 2004, Lincoln Journal Star | Submitted by steve
Written By Margaret Reist
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A registered sex offender in Lincoln, Nebraska considered at a high risk to reoffend was charged with sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl. Prosecutors charged Robert A. Faeller, 39, with the following felonies: first-degree sexual assault of a child and violating the sex offender registration act.
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Suspect indicted 10 years after slaying of 78-year-old Minneapolis woman
August 13, 2004, Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by steve
Written By Steve Karnowski
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Authorities said DNA evidence helped them crack the case of a 78-year-old Minneapolis woman who was raped and strangled in the basement of her apartment building 10 years ago. A Hennepin County grand jury indicted convicted sex offender Milous Temple, 59, for first-degree murder in the death of Helen Mary Dahl, who was found dead in 1994. If convicted, Dahl would face a life sentence.
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Man released from prison after 22 years, exonerated by DNA tests
August 12, 2004, Miami Herald | Submitted by steve
Written By Luisa Yanez
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Thanks to DNA testing, Wilton Dedge, 42, was a free man Thursday after spending 22 years in Brevard County prison for a rape the state of Florida now admits he could not have committed. He was released with the help of Miami attorney Milton Hirsch and the New York-based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.
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Prison-bound sex offender strikes it lucky
August 11, 2004, IOL | Submitted by steve
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Iorworth Hoare, 52, a rapist and serial sex attacker serving life in a British prison has won £7-million on the country's National Lottery, while on temporary weekend release at a bail hostel.
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DNA lab to try to differentiate genetic makeup of identical twins in Grand Rapids rape case
August 10, 2004, Detroit Free Press | Submitted by steve
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A private DNA lab that helped identify victims in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Orchid Cellmark, will try to determine which identical twin raped a woman nearly five years ago in Grand Rapids. In March, police learned that DNA from Jerome Cooper, 36, taken when he went to prison for an unrelated home invasion, matched the semen sample in a 5 year old rape case, but his DNA matches that of his identical twin, Jerome Cooper. Both are convicted sex offenders behind bars on unrelated charges.
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Child porn suspect caught again
August 10, 2004, WPVI | Submitted by admin
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A Salem County, Pennsylvania man with a history of child pornography arrests is behind bars accused of the same crime again.
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Police: Tip from man's wife leads to child porn arrest
August 10, 2004, Local10.com | Submitted by admin
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Police arrested a Hialeah, Florida man Monday, accusing him of sexually assaulting two children after receiving a tip from his wife.
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Tip led to arrest of sex offender
August 10, 2004, Bismarck Tribune Online | Submitted by steve
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Fargo, North Dakota authorities issued an arrest warrant for convicted sex offender Curtis R. Lauinger, 42, after learning that he was living in the city but had not registered with police as required by law.
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Jurors split on keeping sex offender jailed
August 10, 2004, San Mateo Daily Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By Michelle Durand
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A judge ordered jurors, split 9-3 yesterday, to keep deliberating over whether to keep a convicted rapist, Ava Zinlu, committed in a state hospital. Zinlu, 53, is scheduled for release from the sexual predator unit of Atascadero State Hospital, but a 1996 California law allows a county to ask for an extension if prosecutors can prove the person has two violent sexual convictions, a mental disorder and a propensity to re-offend.
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Sex offender's sister speaks of "loopholes" in the law
August 09, 2004, WNDU | Submitted by steve
Written By Janelle Hall
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A Berrien County woman whose brother was convicted of violent sexual offenses against children, discusses what she consideres to be loopholes in Michigan's laws against sex offenders.
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Megan's laws gain new attention
August 08, 2004, USA Today | Submitted by steve
Written By Richard Willing
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States and municipalities across the nation have begun aggressive campaigns to enforce sex offender registration laws, arresting dozens of offenders who have failed to tell police their whereabouts after being released from prison.
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F.R. posts sex offenders online
August 07, 2004, Herald News | Submitted by steve
Written By Gregg M. Miliote
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The names and photographs of the 34 level three sex offenders living or working in the city of Fall River, Massachusetts are now available for to the public at the Fall River Police Department’s Web site.
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Police say evidence of rape was found with obscene pictures
August 07, 2004, Ohio News Network | Submitted by dp1
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Authorities in Olmsted Falls, Ohio are investigating a case of child pornography against Jimmy Thompson. Police say they found 10,000 pieces of evidence against Jimmy Thompson. including evidence found in his car during a DUI stop - naked pictures of little girls in the console and children's underwear in the back seat.
Since this story broke, police in Olmsted Falls say that they have gotten multiple calls from concerned parents.
Thompson, 39, allegedly had thousands of pictures of naked or near-naked minors, some on computer, some on disk and some on tape. There is also evidence rape, police say
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Jury finds sex offender still a risk
August 07, 2004, Santa Maria Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Quintin Cushner
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Despite reservations from one member, a Santa Barbara County Superior Court jury Friday unanimously found that a man convicted of sex crimes against two Santa Maria girls, 44-year-old Maurice Van Roberson, poses a danger to society and should remain incarcerated at a mental hospital.
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New tools for keeping tabs on sex offenders
August 06, 2004, The Barnstable Patriot | Submitted by steve
Written By David Still II
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A state-funded pilot program at the Barnstable County Sheriff's Department that will categorize and track sex offenders within the corrections system is seen as a great benefit to those charged with keeping tabs on them. The proposed improvements require a convicted sex offender being released from a Massachusetts state Department of Correction facility who intends to reside in Barnstable County to register with the Sex Offender Registry Board at least 90 days prior to release, and to be transferred to the Barnstable County jail 30 days prior to release. The state is paying for the $275,000 pilot program.
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Young boys charged with sexual assault
August 06, 2004, WFSB | Submitted by steve
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Two 9-year-old boys and a 12-year-old boy from Middletown, Connecticut are facing sexual assault charges. According to police, one of the boys showed a knife and forced a 7-year-old girl to perform oral sex on one of the 9-year-old boys. Parents in the neighborhood say there were other children around and can't understand why no one went for help.
is only seven.
The mother the girl who was victimized lives in a low-income apartment complex in Middletown. She was cooking dinner when she noticed her daughter was missing.
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Governor approves new restrictions for sex offenders on parole
August 06, 2004, WQAD | Submitted by steve
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Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signed new rules into law today for sex offenders who are released on parole. The rules, found in the bill HB6786, include not talking to the families of their victims and not doing anything that brings them into contact with children and take effect January first.
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Sex offender petitions filed
August 06, 2004, Maui News | Submitted by steve
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The Maui County, Hawaii prosecutor's office is asking that information be made public about 16 sex offenders on Maui, most of whom had assaulted children. If a judge rules the release of information is needed to protect the public, the offenders' names, photos and other information could be posted on the state Sex Offender Registry Web site, which was shut down in November 2001 by a Hawaii Supreme Court ruling.
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French pedophile arrested in Cambodia
August 06, 2004, scotsman.com | Submitted by steve
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A French bar owner has been charged with committing sex crimes against children, in the latest crackdown by Cambodian police on foreign sex predators, officials said. A debauchery charge was levied against Michel Blanchard, 39, owner of the Happy Bar in the capital Phnom Penh.
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Sex offender Toft must remain in halfway house
August 06, 2004, CTV.ca | Submitted by steve
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Canadian serial sex offender Karl Toft, who has admitted to assaulting more than 200 boys, won't be allowed to move out of a halfway house into his own apartment, the National Parole Board has ruled. Toft was convicted in 1992 of sexually assaulting 18 boys while working as a guard at New Brunswick's Kingsclear reform school. He has since admitted to abusing as many as 200 boys at the facility over a 20-year period.
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Roman Catholic Church removes two priests linked to sex abuse scandal
August 05, 2004, KOLD | Submitted by steve
Written By Jim Becker
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Tucson, Arizona Bishop Gerald Kicanas announced Robert Trupia and Michael Teta will no longer be a part of the church as clergy. The two priests can no longer perform church ceremonies, wear clerical garb or get financial support from the church. Trupia and Teta had been accused of sexually abusing children in the 70s and 80s.
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Registered sex offender's information accessible
August 05, 2004, The Eureka Reporter | Submitted by steve
Written By Christine Bensen
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Last week, the Eureka Police Department added a new component to its Web site, a section devoted exclusively to Eureka sex registrants.
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Iowa lags in posting sex offenders on Web
August 05, 2004, Sioux City Journal | Submitted by steve
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Only about one-third of the 6,016 names of Iowa sex offenders have been posted on a public Web site more than two months after the effective date of a new law requiring nearly all the names be posted. According to Steve Conlon, who oversees the Iowa Sex Offender Registry, said the Sex Offender Registry's small staff, and the large number of files that must be processed are primarily to blame for the list now being incomplete.
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Riverside County Little League coach pleads guilty to molesting 4 brothers
August 04, 2004, Los Angeles Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Lance Pugmire
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Adolph Ganion, 54, a registered sex offender who used a fake name to skirt a criminal background check and become a Little League coach in Riverside County, California pleaded guilty to molesting four brothers between the ages of 7 and 12. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Ganion was convicted of molesting eight boys in separate Los Angeles County criminal cases in 1978 and 1987.
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Offender sues over sex law
August 04, 2004, Nashville City Paper | Submitted by steve
Written By Chris Lewis
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Within a day of taking effect, Tennessee's tougher sexual offender registry law has come under legal attack over a provision that restricts where offenders may live.
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Letourneau released from prison today
August 04, 2004, Seattle Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Michael Ko
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After serving most of a 7 1/2-year sentence for child rape, Mary K. Letourneau was released from prison this morning, and within hours the former pupil she was convicted of raping filed a motion to lift the no-contact order that would keep the two apart. The attorneys for the former student, Vili Fualaau, who was 12-years-old at the time of the crimes, filed a motion in King County Superior Court this morning seeking to have the no-contact order lifted. Mary Letourneau has been allowed frequent supervised visits with her two daughters by the now 21-year-old Fualaau, now 7 and 5 years old.
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Sex offender Web site inundated on first day of postings
August 04, 2004, BostonHerald.com | Submitted by steve
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Tuesday's ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court cleared the way for Massachusetts to join 42 other states that post information about sex offenders on the Internet. By early afternoon, the Sex Offender Registry Board had posted the names, addresses, physical descriptions, convictions and other information about all 975 of the state's Level 3 sex offenders - those who are classified as the most dangerous and at a high risk to reoffend. The Sex Offender Registry Board did not track the exact number of visits to its site Wednesday, but the chairwoman said the site quickly became overloaded as numerous people tried to log on at once.
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Web site to post names, photos of sex offenders
August 03, 2004, NBC 4 | Submitted by steve
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion Tuesday to post the names and photos of high-risk sex offenders on a locator webpage. The motion, authored by Mike Antonovich, would let residents search for sex offenders living in their neighborhood. If a search finds a high-risk offender, a resident can click on a red dot and it will show the offender's name and photo, but will not list the offenders' addresses and will not provide any information on them.
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Mass. Court allows sex offender detail on Internet
August 03, 2004, Reuters | Submitted by dp1
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that sex offender details may appear on the Internet when the court wrote "By reason of the necessities of the situation, the registration information of level three sex offenders, lawfully determined to pose a high risk of danger to others, may be posted on the Internet to protect society." The court's decision was unanimous.
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