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Sex Offender / Sex Crime News - Featured Articles, October, 2004
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Former teacher fighting sex offender ruling
October 30, 2004, HoustonChronicle.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Kevin O'Hanlon
Article Overview
The lawyer 31-year-old Todd Senters, convicted for videotaping consensual sex with his 17-year-old girlfriend argues that the former high school teacher should not have been prosecuted under a child pornography law. His lawyer noted that state law allows people age 16 or older to have consensual sex. He wrote that state lawmakers did not intend the child-pornography law — which makes it a crime to tape sex acts involving minors under age 18 — to be used in such cases.
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Mormons accused of shielding sex offender
October 29, 2004, Corvallis Gazette-Times | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A Kent man has sued the Mormon church, alleging it shielded a child molester for more than a decade while he victimized at least five other children. Ken Fleming, 42, said he brought the case against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because he wanted to hold officials accountable after several families reported that Jack Loholt, the leader of a church-sponsored Boy Scout troop, had molested their children.
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Home of sex offender picketed
October 29, 2004, MaineToday.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Seth Harkness
Article Overview
The next-door neighbor of a convicted sex offender just out of prison said she will continue protesting in front of his home until he leaves. Other parents of young children on Waterboro Road said they no longer feel safe in their own neighborhood and are considering moving. Even if convicted sex offender Joseph Tellier were to leave, however, there would still be 16 convicted sex offenders living within a five-mile radius of north Hollis, according to the Maine Sex Offender Registry. The registry shows that most communities are home to convicted sex offenders.
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Repeat sex offender convicted of raping girl
October 29, 2004, Newsday.com | Submitted by steve
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Lowell Pereau, 41, a repeat sex offender convicted of raping a 9-year-old girl, will spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced to three consecutive 25-years to-life sentences under New York's "three strikes law." This was Pereau's fifth conviction for a sexual offense, yet he maintained his innocence.
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Concord to post sex offender data
October 28, 2004, Contra Costa Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Amy Chen
Article Overview
Names and photos of three high-risk sex offenders and 240 serious sex offenders living in Concord, California are expected to be posted on the city's Web site by Jan. 1. he City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday to approve a request by Councilman Mark Peterson to devise a system that would publicize the information on the police department's section of the city's Web site.
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Sex offender to get new home
October 28, 2004, Tri-Valley Herald | Submitted by admin
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State and local officials in California are close to selecting a place where convicted sex offender Cary Verse will be able to call home. Verse and his attorney met with state and county officials behind closed doors to discuss a permanent housing solution for Verse, who has been living primarily in motels since his February release from Atascadero State Hospital.
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Sex offender arrested with police badge
October 26, 2004, NorthJersey.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Justo Bautista
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A registered sex offender was arrested Monday for a parole violation after a sheriff's officer spotted a police badge dangling from the rearview mirror of his SUV, a Bergen County sheriff's spokesman said.
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Henderson's 'sex offender lady'
October 25, 2004, Las Vegas Review-Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By Brian Haynes
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Former sex crimes detective Tricia Longworth is now assigned to track sex offenders who live in Henderson, Nevada.
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Qld to list 1,500 on national child sex offender register
October 25, 2004, ABC Online | Submitted by admin
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Hundreds of Queensland child sex offenders will be added to a national register every year. State Cabinet has decided to join the national initiative to track offenders after they leave jail, but the information will not be made available to the public.
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Sex offender jailed for visit
October 23, 2004, Statesman Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By Alan Gustafson
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A two-time sex offender, Marcus Rodney Berg, 37, of Keizer was arrested in the wake of his chaperoned photography sessions at a Keizer preschool.
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AG: Sex offender can run for Congress in 12th District
October 22, 2004, Miami Herald | Submitted by steve
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A convicted sex offender can remain on the ballot in the 12th District congressional race as the Green Party candidate, the New Jersey state Attorney General's office said Friday. Officials said that, under the U.S. Constitution, Daryl Brooks' offense and the fact he's not a registered voter do not disqualify him from the race. Brooks, a Trenton resident, was released from prison in 2002 after serving nearly four years for exposing himself to several girls in 1995.
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Sex offender laws would include tougher sentences
October 20, 2004, Grand Forks Herald | Submitted by steve
Written By Dave Kolpack
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Tougher sex offender laws that emerged from the disappearance of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin would open up civil commitment hearings to the public.
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Survey: States don't provide much access to Megan's Law data
October 18, 2004, The Mercury News | Submitted by dp1
Written By Kim Curtis
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A nationwide survey by New Jersey-based Parents for Megan's Law suggests most states aren't providing much access to information contained in their sex offender registries. Five states don't currently make their registries available via the Internet. The surveys other findings included that 22 states don't require active community notification when offenders move into new neighborhoods, 21 states don't include all sex offenders on their Internet registries and 15 states don't require juvenile sex offenders to register.
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Sex crime strangest yet: police
October 18, 2004, Winnipeg Sun | Submitted by steve
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Police in Vancouver, Canada investigating an elaborate sex crime say it's the strangest thing they have ever come across. A silver-tongued rapist has duped at least four women into believing he is an investigator with a prestigious international company and needs their help to solve a number of high-profile or violent sex crimes by re-enacting them.
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Woman fears sex offender’s proximity
October 18, 2004, Statesman Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By Alan Gustafson
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A Marion County, Oregon mother was left shaken nearly two years ago when a Keizer neighbor bluntly told her that he was a registered sex offender. Recently she contacted authorities after she discovered the man taking student photos at a Keizer preschool attended by her 3-year-old daughter. Marion County officials are investigating the incident. The man says he is a commercial photographer and had taken photos at the school in previous years, but did not do a background check.
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Sex offender's bid to beat deportation fails
October 18, 2004, The New Zealand Herald | Submitted by admin
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A Tongan man, jailed for sex and violence offences, has failed in a bid to avoid deportation. Siuvahanoa Tuipulotu had been jailed in September 2001 after admitting representative charges of indecent assault on a girl under 12, indecent assault on a girl aged 12 to 16, and sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection, and charges of indecent assault on a woman, attempted sexual violation, assault on a female, assault with intent to injure, and wilfully attempting to pervert the course of justice. As part of his appeal against deportation Tuipulotu had said he was not guilty of any of the sex offences to which he had pleaded guilty.
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Victim goes public about molester
October 17, 2004, MaineToday.com | Submitted by steve
Written By David Hench
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Maine resident 26-year old Michelle Tardif tells of the sexual attack and beating of her at age 10 by a neighbor, Joseph J. Tellie, who is on the eve of his release from prison. Because Tellie was convicted prior to June 30, 1992, he doesn't have to register as a sex offender with the state, but Tradif is leafleted the neighborhood in Hollis on Saturday where he will be living.
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Jury finds vendor guilty of sex crime
October 16, 2004, The Daytona Beach News-Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By Jay Stapleton
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Hot dog vendor David Charles Sussman's decision to have sex with an underage girl -- and then his choice to take the stand on the last day of his week-long sex-crime trial -- will send him to prison. Prosecutors said Sussman was 41 when he met a 15-year-old Edgewater runaway at a bus station in Daytona Beach in 1999. That day, they had sex in Sussman's car, an act which Sussman recorded on video. About two months later, the two obtained a marriage license in Georgia using false identification. They lived together as husband and wife for about 16 months.
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Ottawa proposes databank of sex offender DNA
October 15, 2004, CTV.ca | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
The Ottawa, Canada federal government is proposing that DNA samples be collected from people convicted of making child pornography. The current national DNA databank holds samples from people convicted of committing serious crimes, including sexual assault, murder and manslaughter. If passed into law, the new bill would add 28 other Criminal Code offences to the list of those subject to DNA collection orders, including Internet luring, child pornography, sexual exploitation of a disabled person and prostitution offences involving anyone under 18 years of age.
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Town tells of sex offender fears
October 14, 2004, BBC News | Submitted by steve
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A campaign to stop sex offenders being housed at open prisons will go to the Home Office, after over 200 people attended a public meeting on Wednesday. The meeting in Usk, south Wales, was called after a convicted paedophile absconded from HMP Prescoed last week, 48 hours after the policy was implemented.
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Police say sex offender's at it again
October 12, 2004, DailyBreeze.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Larry Altman
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Robert Edward Romo, 44, a sex offender convicted five years ago of videotaping under the skirts of young girls at Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, was arrested again Tuesday, suspected of secretly aiming his concealed camera at the crotches and buttocks of girls playing on the sand at Hermosa Beach, California.
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Sex offender gets 2 to 4 years for looking at student files
October 12, 2004, Newsday.com | Submitted by steve
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A registered sex offender who posed as a Department of Education official to get into two Queens, New York schools and look at confidential student files was sentenced Tuesday to two to four years in prison. Matthew Matagrano, 28, a registered sex offender who served 16 months in prison in the late 1990s for sexual abuse and sodomy, went to two schools and pretended to be an education inspector for quality assurance, gaining access to student records at one of the schools.
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Sentencing Commission endorses changes in sex-offender registration laws
October 11, 2004, KRQE | Submitted by steve
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The New Mexico state Sentencing Commission has narrowly endorsed harsher registration penalties for sex offenders. If approved by the Legislature, the proposals, supported by Governor Richardson, would require certain sex offenders to register with law enforcement for life instead of 20 years.
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Ruling in 30 days on Megan's Law
October 09, 2004, NJ.com - Everything Jersey | Submitted by dp1
Written By John P. McAlpin
Article Overview
A judge in Trenton, New Jersey said yesterday he will rule within 30 days on the latest challenge to Megan's Law, this one attacking the Internet registry of convicted sex offenders. Lawyers tried yesterday to convince state Superior Court Judge Andrew J. Smithson that the constitutional amendment violates several protections afforded under federal law, including additional punishment and the lack of a right to challenge their postings in court.
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Pensioner's home vandalised after sex offender 'prank'
October 08, 2004, scotsman.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Alex Thompson
Article Overview
According ot police, the home of an 80-year-old woman in Staffordshire, Scotland was targeted by vandals after leaflets stating a sex offender lived at the address were distributed locally. After the house was vandalised the woman moved out.
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Attorney General wants sex-offender alert system
October 07, 2004, TheIndyChannel.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Under an initiative Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter announced Thursday, Indiana would notify registered residents by e-mail if someone convicted of sex crimes, kidnapping or confinement moves in or near their neighborhood. Carter said it was not enough to have a database of convicted offenders where people must "navigate a maze of government Web sites and paperwork.", referring to two separate databases of convicted sex offenders, run by the Indiana Sheriffs Association and the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute.
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Sex offender used costumes in crimes
October 05, 2004, TheOmahaChannel.com | Submitted by admin
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The man Lincoln Public Schools (Nebraska) is watching closely because he is a former sex offender used costumes as part of his crimes. Robert Stewart, 59, who once played Santa Claus at a Lincoln mall and also dressed up as a clown, was convicted of sex crimes in 1984 and 2002.
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Online sex offender registry up and running
October 02, 2004, The Times Argus | Submitted by steve
Written By Lisa Rathke
Article Overview
The state of Vermont launched its online sex offender registry on October 1st. The registry includes the name, birth date, a photo, the date and nature of the crime, whether the offender has gone through treatment and whether there is a warrant for the offender's arrest, but unlike most states' online registries, it does not list the offenders' street addresses.
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