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Sex Offender / Sex Crime News - Featured Articles, September, 2004
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Deportees escape sex offender registry
September 27, 2004, Oregon Live | Submitted by steve
Written By Niki Sullivan
Article Overview
Over the past decade, more than 450 Oregon sex offenders were in the country illegally at the time of their convictions. Most were deported, and all were registered with addresses of 511 N.W. Broadway - a federal building that houses immigration authorities. Except for those in jail for new offenses, no one in law enforcement knows where these offenders live. Oregon's system for registering sex offenders does not track who has been deported, re-entered the country or committed new crimes.
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Pa meted 26 death penalties for rape of daughters
September 18, 2004, Sun. Star Network | Submitted by steve
Written By Giovanni A. Nilles
Article Overview
A seaman was sentenced to die 26 times by lethal injection for raping his teenage twin daughters in 1998, the first time a Cebu City Regional Trial Court imposed such heavy penalty for the heinous crime of incestuous rape. Judge De Gracia also ordered Andus to pay the twins P295,000 in civil indemnity and damages.
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Trucker charged in rape, kidnapping
September 18, 2004, NewsOK.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Ken Raymond
Article Overview
A Nebraska truck driver accused of attacking an Oklahoma City woman Monday told his victim he'd killed others, court documents show. Carl Wayne Lawson, 32, of Lincoln, Neb., was charged Friday in Oklahoma County District Court with rape, kidnapping and assault with intent to kill. Arrested in Lincoln, Nebraska on Tuesday, Lawson is being held on $3 million bail.
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Ex-deputy pleads guilty to child rape
September 18, 2004, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A former Whitman County, Washington sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of second-degree child rape for encounters with a 13-year-old Malden girl. Howard Banks, who worked for seven years as a guard in the jail where he is now an inmate, admitted having intercourse with the victim twice between February and July. According to sheriff's reports, the victim told officers that Banks had sex with her at his home at least three times, once in the presence of his wife.
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Minister on trial for child rape
September 18, 2004, The Australian | Submitted by steve
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Vietnam's former deputy sports minister Luong Quoc Dung will stand trial on October 29 on charges of raping a 13-year-old girl. According to police, the unidentified alleged rape victim was taken to a hotel in the Vietnamese capital on December 30 last year by her neighbor, Nguyen Thi Quynh Nga, who had been asked by Dung to find him a virgin. Nga, 22, told the young girl that they would be going clothes shopping but she was allegedly taken to a hotel, forced into a room where she was slapped and then allegedly raped by Dung.
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DeVries vows for 'kid-free' life here
September 18, 2004, The Olympian | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Brian DeVries, a serial pedophile who moved from California to Thurston County, Washington this week, has spent decades in and out of prison. He admits he was a "monster" who preyed on little boys around the country while working at places like schools and the YMCA, but he considers this new chance at freedom a precious gift and intends to have a "kid-free life" in South Sound.
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Mother wants judge removed from bench for rape sentence
September 17, 2004, Kansas City Star | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
Supporters of a 13-year-old rape victim are pushing for removal of a judge they believe was too easy on the girl's assailants. The group, called Watchdogs to Remove Judge Martin, seeks to ensure Douglas County District Judge Paula B. Martin, who broke from sentencing guidelines in punishing three of the men convicted in the June 2003 rape, is not re-elected. Martin had said there were "substantial and compelling" reasons for less severe sentences, including her finding that the intoxicated girl was an "active participant" in the rape and wasn't harmed as much as some rape victims.
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Sex-offender priest stays in prison
September 17, 2004, Albuquerque Tribune | Submitted by steve
Written By Joline Gutierrez Krueger
Article Overview
In a 3-0 decision, the New Mexico parole board denied parole to 77 year-old former priest David Holley, likely meaning he'll die in prison.
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Sex offender's housing remains in limbo
September 17, 2004, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Submitted by steve
Written By George Pabst
Article Overview
On Friday a prosecutor said Milwaukee County should be ordered to help find a permanent home for sex offender Billy Lee Morford and explain to the court why he has not been moved from his temporary placement on N. 51st St.
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Wanted sex offender arrested twice
September 16, 2004, The Landmark | Submitted by admin
Written By Robin Harned
Article Overview
A level 3 sex offender arrested two weeks ago by Rutland, Massachusetts police was arrested twice last week for failing to register and failing to notify authorities of an address change, and because his status in the state sex offender registry was changed to "in violation."
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Karate coach sex offender
September 15, 2004, Ohio News Network | Submitted by admin
Written By Rob Packard
Article Overview
A Springfield Township (Ohio) karate coach originally accused of raping three boys is free tonight, after making a deal in court. 40-year old Jerry Scott Edwards copped to a plea that reduced the charges of Gross Sexual Imposition and will still be required to register as a sex offender after sentencing. According to prosecutors, two of the victims were his karate students.
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Convicted sex offender in prison for 3rd time
September 15, 2004, nbc4columbus.com | Submitted by steve
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An Ohio judge showed no mercy Wednesday for a convicted sex offender who is back in prison for a third time. Ronald Gross was convicted of attempted kidnapping and trying to lure a 9-year-old girl from a clothing store in December. The girl testified that Gross told her to cover her mouth and go outside so they could have sex, but Gross said he never meant to hurt the girl.
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Man accused of rape is sex offender
September 15, 2004, Milford Daily News | Submitted by steve
Written By Eunice Kim
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The Upton, Massachusetts man accused of raping a Milford woman over the weekend is a Level 2 sex offender who has served time on separate rape charges, documents show. Brian Addeo, 25, was charged with four counts of rape of a child and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail in 2002. He was charged this weekend with aggravated rape, assault with a dangerous weapon, indecent assault and battery of a person over 14, assault and battery and possession of a Class D substance, cocaine, police said.
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Binge-drink culture and rising rape rates: police study link
September 14, 2004, scotsman.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Duncan Forgan
Article Overview
Police are studying the link between women binge-drinking and soaring sex crime rates in the Edinburgh area of Scotland. The move comes after figures showed reports of rape had increased by 58 percent. The fear that binge-drinking may have contributed to many attacks has prompted Lothian and Borders Police to commission the study.
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Judge declares molester totally free - DeVries is first to complete 1-year monitoring program
September 14, 2004, San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by steve
Written By Alan Gathright
Article Overview
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Robert Baines ruled Monday that Brian DeVries, California's first sexually violent offender to spend a year of strict monitoring under a state-mandated treatment program, is free to live where he wishes without supervision and therapy.
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Parole board considers releasing habitual sex offender priest
September 14, 2004, KRQE | Submitted by steve
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Convicted child molester and ex-priest, David Holley is up for parole in Los Lunas, New Mexico today. Today’s hearing came after the parole board rescinded its decision to grant Holley parole in May after it was discovered his victims were never told about the hearing. Holley was convicted of abusing 8 boys in Alamogordo where he served as a priest and was sentenced to between 55 and 275 years in prison, but became eligible for parole after only 7 years.
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Convicted sex offender accused in nursing home molestation
September 14, 2004, KELOLAND.COM | Submitted by admin
Written By Andy Harvey
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Investigators say a sex offender posed as a nursing home employee and got caught molesting an elderly resident in a Rapid City, South Dakota care facility. According to police, convicted sex offender Les Warren Kills inappropriately touched a woman in her 70s while waiting for his girlfriend who worked at the facility.
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Rhode Island police departments begin sex offender notification
September 13, 2004, turnto10.com | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
Rhode Island police departments have started notifying residents about convicted sex offenders in their communities. The notifications are part of a revised sex offender law passed in 2003, which requires police to inform the public about convicted sex offenders deemed most at risk to commit new sex crimes.
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Board to review sex offender students
September 13, 2004, The Hawk Eye | Submitted by steve
Written By Craig T. Neises
Article Overview
Though no change is expected in anyone's status, the Burlington, Iowa School Board today will review the educational placement of a handful of current Burlington students who are required to register as sex offenders. In the case of Burlington's four registered sex offenders who are enrolled — three of them high school–aged, the fourth of middle school age — Superindent Mike Book said he doesn't expect the board's review of their placement to change anything. According to records received from the Des Moines County Sheriff's office, there are 13 people in the county, who range in age from 14 to 20, that are registered as sex offenders and who are potentially eligible to enroll in school.
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Scorn is Net result of sex offender Web postings
September 13, 2004, BostonHerald.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Marie Szaniszlo
Article Overview
In the month since Massachusetts' highest court OK'd the posting of sex offenders' names and faces on the Internet, some have lost not only their anonymity but their jobs and houses as well. A random survey of Massachusetts cities and towns found that many of the 1,000 offenders whose addresses and photos are posted on the state sex offender registry have already been fired or evicted, or have become targets of vandalism and harassment.
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State lawmaker jailed over groping incident
September 09, 2004, The Daily Ardmoreite | Submitted by Navigatr1
Written By Tim Talley
Article Overview
Oklahoma State Rep. Mike O'Neal was sent to jail for 30 days Wednesday in a plea agreement that will allow him to avoid a felony charge for groping a woman in a motel lounge. He is accused of making a vulgar remark to the victim and then grabbing her buttocks on Feb. 10.
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Bryant prosecutor says rape case was solid, accuser was 'physically ill' before trial
September 08, 2004, San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
A prosecutor in the Kobe Bryant case said there was solid evidence that the NBA star raped his 20-year-old accuser, but officials were forced to drop charges after the woman grew "physically ill" from stress and pulled out of the case.
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Police: Suspect tries to rape woman in front of her daughter
September 08, 2004, WJLA | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
Montgomery County police say the woman and her 2-year-old were asleep in the same bed late Monday night, when a man broke into their home in Wheaton, Maryland and tried to rape her in front of her daughter.
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Uncle urged teenagers to rape, trial told
September 08, 2004, The Sydney Morning Herald | Submitted by steve
Written By Natasha Wallace
Article Overview
A man who led three teenagers in a home invasion took a girl into her bedroom and raped her, then urged his nephews to do the same while her parents were held at knifepoint, a court has been told.
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Nicole Kidman booed at 'Child Love' film
September 07, 2004, 1490 WBEX | Submitted by LostTime
Article Overview
Actress Nicole Kidman was booed at the premiere of her shocking new movie "Birth", which sees her fall in love with a ten-year-old boy. Many walked out of the theater at the Venice Film Festival Tuesday night after a shocking nude scene featuring Kidman and the boy sharing an erotic bath.
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Decorated Chicago cop arrested in Michigan
September 07, 2004, nbc5.com | Submitted by Navigatr1
Article Overview
Police in Kalamazoo, Mich., say a Chicago police lieutenant has been arrested and charged with the sexual assault of a gas station attendant. According to police, Denis Patrick Walsh was intoxicated when he allegedly assaulted a gas station clerk at a service station on Aug. 17
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Secretary shops porn stash boss
September 07, 2004, Glasgow Daily Record | Submitted by admin
Written By Grant Mccabe
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Paedophile laws to tackle 'grooming'
September 06, 2004, scotsman.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Hamish MacDonell
Article Overview
New laws bringing in jail terms of up to ten years for paedophiles who use the web to "groom" youngsters are expected to be announced today in Scotland by First Minister Jack McConnell.
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Suspected British paedophile extradited to Mumbai
September 06, 2004, The Times of India | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
A suspected paedophile, who was booked by Mumbai Police for alleged child sexual abuse in 2001, was extradited from the US and brought to the city on Monday morning. The arrest of Allan Johan Water, who was facing an international arrest warrant by the Interpol, comes the month after Water's accomplice in the alleged crime, Duncan Grant, was arrest by Tanzanian police.
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Squad to hit online pedophile networks
September 06, 2004, The Australian | Submitted by steve
Written By Sid Maher
Article Overview
According to Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a strike team to infiltrate and prosecute organised pedophile rings would be created by a re-elected Coalition government to deal with the estimated one in five children who had been approached online by a stranger. Speaking at a Fathers Day picnic in the Labor-held marginal Sydney seat of Greenway, the Prime Minister yesterday unveiled a $30 million Coalition pledge to create an Australian Federal Police team to shut down organised online pedophile networks.
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Deputies looking for missing sex offender who skipped out on jail
September 06, 2004, The Herald-Sun | Submitted by steve
Written By Beth Velliquette
Article Overview
Orange County sheriff's deputies are looking for a man who failed to register as a sex offender then disappeared before serving a prison term. After
James Franklin Chavis Jr. was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender and was sentenced to prison, he asked Judge John Jolly if he could have a few days to spend with his newborn baby before reporting to the Orange County Jail to begin his sentence, Jolly granted the request and Chavis did not turn himself in at the jail on July 26 like he was supposed to.
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Judge's anger over sex offender order 'legal loophole'
September 06, 2004, scotsman.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Gemma Collins
Article Overview
A judge today hit out at a legal loophole which prevented him extending a sex offender’s period under supervision after leaving jail.
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Paedophile jailed after teenager speaks up
September 04, 2004, Stuff | Submitted by steve
Written By Deborah Diaz
Article Overview
The teenage boy sexually abused by notorious paedophile Peter Douglas Liddell carried the secret for a year before confiding to a police officer in New Zealand. He stepped forward because he did not want another boy abused. Liddell was jailed indefinitely yesterday after admitting a charge of sexual violation.
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Healers molest women
September 03, 2004, allAfrica.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Moses Nampala
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Cases of herbalists sexually molesting their female clients are on the rise in Jinja district of Kampala in Africa.
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Judge's ruling reduces payouts in clergy molest suits
September 03, 2004, San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by steve
Written By Don Lattin
Article Overview
An East Bay judge handed Catholic bishops across Northern California a key victory Thursday, setting guidelines in sex-abuse lawsuits that will reduce church payouts to victims molested decades ago. The ruling on abuse claims in cases involving the late Rev. Arthur Ribeiro of Concord will set a standard of evidence for more than 150 other lawsuits filed against the Catholic Church in Northern and Central California.
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Blunkett to launch paedophile satellite system
September 02, 2004, scotsman.com | Submitted by steve
Written By David Barrett
Article Overview
The first project in Europe to use satellites to track pedophiles and other offenders was being launched today. The new generation in electronic tagging technology, which Home Secretary David Blunkett has described as a “prison without bars”, will be used for sex offenders, domestic violence offenders and prolific offenders. It is one of a package of measures which aims to meet a new Government pledge to cut offending by 15% by April 2008.
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Ex-judge admits sex crime
September 01, 2004, The Cincinnati Post | Submitted by steve
Written By Kimball Perry
Article Overview
A former assistant prosecutor and judge admitted Tuesday he touched a man in a sexual way. Jim Kenney admitted in a special court hearing Tuesday to sexually touching a 21-year-old man Feb. 15 at Kenney's home. Kenney accepted a plea to the charge of of sexual imposition and could face 60 days and fine of up to $500, but probation is likely. Kenney may have to register in Ohio as a sexually oriented offender.
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Women sex offenders not uncommon
September 01, 2004, KLAS | Submitted by Navigatr1
Written By Colleen May
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Jan Hindman, a child abuse expert and author, is teaching local experts in Nevada just how common women sex offenders are a bigger problem than many realized. 42 percent of sexual abuse victims have been victimized by a woman.
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Prosecutors drop Kobe Bryant case
September 01, 2004, San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by steve
Written By Jon Sarche
Article Overview
The Kobe Bryant case collapsed Wednesday in Eagle, Colorado, as prosecutors said they had no choice but to drop the sexual assault charge against the NBA star because the alleged victim did not want to testify. With the parents of the 20-year-old accuser looking on, District Judge Terry Ruckriegle threw out the case under a deal that means no charges will be refiled.
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New sex offender register launched
September 01, 2004, The Age | Submitted by steve
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A national child sex offender register was launched in Australia, with the federal government declaring it a major step forward in protecting the community against paedophiles. Justice Minister Chris Ellison said all states and territories would now be able to place information about offenders on that register, which will only be accessible by designated police.
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Megan’s Law online awaiting Schwarzenegger’s approval
September 01, 2004, San Mateo Daily Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By Kim Curtis
Article Overview
Californians may soon be able to access free information about sex offenders via the Internet. Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has not taken a position on the measure, has until Sept. 30 to decide whether the Megan’s Law database should be posted on a state-run Web site. If the governor signs the bill, the sex offender registration information will be posted on the Internet by next July.
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