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Sex Offender / Sex Crime News - Featured Articles, November, 2004
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Third `most wanted' sex offender nabbed in Hub
November 30, 2004, BostonHerald.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Jennifer Rosinski
Article Overview
A third Level 3 offender has been arrested just days after making Massachusetts' police's ``Most Wanted'' list, authorities said. Collins Roosevelt, 29, was nabbed by Boston police and arrested on three warrants, including failure to register as a sex offender and assault and battery for punching a woman in the face and slamming her against a chair and a mailbox in June. He was on probation for a cocaine possession conviction.
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Sex offender postings upheld
November 24, 2004, Cape Cod Online | Submitted by steve
Written By Amanda Lehmert
Article Overview
Local police department Web sites in Massachusetts could soon feature the names and photos of level 3 sex offenders now that the state's highest court has ruled such postings are not an invasion of privacy. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of the Waltham police chief, who was sued last year by a convicted sex offender after the man's photograph and information were posted on that department's Web site.
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Probe on sex offender passport
November 24, 2004, Herald Sun | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
The Australian Federal Government is seeking legal advice to determine if it can cancel the passport of a convicted child sex offender who wants to move from England to South Australia. The sex offender was sentenced in the UK in 1997 to 10 years jail for the sex offences but was released on parole in late 2002.
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Sex offender's lifetime ban from family
November 23, 2004, EDP24 News | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A father of eight has been ordered to stay away from his children for the rest of his life following a landmark ruling at Norwich Magistrates Court. During the civil hearing, John Gotts was made the subject of a lifetime sex offender prevention order - the first of its kind to be heard in Norwich under newly amended legislation.
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Judge rejects challenge of sex-offender law
November 23, 2004, Fredericksburg.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Laura Moyer
Article Overview
A Virginia law that aims to keep violent sex offenders behind bars after they've served prison sentences is constitutional, a Fredericksburg judge ruled yesterday. The Sexually Violent Predators law allows for the civil commitment of certain inmates after they've completed their prison sentences.
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New law would create national sex offender database
November 23, 2004, KELOLAND.COM | Submitted by steve
Written By Jodi Schwan
Article Overview
A bill that would create a national public database of sex offenders is stalled in Congress. Right now the national sex offender registry is available to law enforcement, but if Dru's Law passes, the public will be able to access the same information.
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Ruling limits reviews in sex offender cases
November 23, 2004, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Authorities trying to have an accused sexually violent person locked up indefinitely can't keep asking for evaluations until they get the result they want, an Arizona state court ruled Tuesday.
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Court records never really expunged
November 13, 2004, Lodi News-Sentinel | Submitted by dp1
Written By Layla Bohm
Article Overview
Former Lodi resident Coy Phelps was sent to a federal medical treatment center five years ago, his stay in the city had ended, but now city officials are battling a federal civil rights lawsuit he brought against the city and its Police Department last year. Phelps, 70, alleges that, though a misdemeanor child molestation conviction from the 1980s was cleared from his record, police officers targeted him when he moved to Lodi.
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Panel: Centralize sex offender reports
November 12, 2004, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by steve
Written By Paul Davenport
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A legislative study committee says Arizona state lawmakers should consider having the state take over the job of assessing which sex offenders should be subject to community notification.
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Sex offender guilty in girlfriend's assault
November 12, 2004, Lowell Sun Online | Submitted by steve
Written By Lisa Redmond
Article Overview
A convicted sex offender in Lowell, Massachusetts is behind bars again after a jury found him guilty of assaulting his girlfriend by knocking her down months after she had his baby. Robert Sigman, 31, a level 3 sex offender, has convictions including a 1994 conviction for molesting and raping a child under 14.
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Sex offender faces new sex charges
November 11, 2004, The South Missourian | Submitted by admin
Written By George Jared
Article Overview
An Izard County, Arkansas man already convicted of sexually assaulting two children in Sharp County and charged with raping an 8-year-old female in Independence County has been charged with an additional count of rape and is facing possible child pornography charges.
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Proposed sex offender house drawing neighborhood criticism
November 11, 2004, KOMO TV | Submitted by steve
Written By Leslie Knopp
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The faith-based group Providence House plans to lease a home in the Wallingford area of Washingtn to provide housing for recently released sex offenders, but neighbors are frightened.
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Mom sentenced for leaving child with sex offender
November 11, 2004, Kansas.com | Submitted by steve
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The 29-year-old mother of a toddler allegedly raped by a registered sex offender received a year's probation Wednesday for the felony of endangering a child. The Sedgwick County, Kansas judge presiding over the case said he would have sent Nielie Elvin-Bowes to prison, but he couldn't under the state's sentencing laws.
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Sex offender still works at school
November 10, 2004, Stuff | Submitted by steve
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In New Zealand, a Bay of Plenty mother is demanding answers about why a man convicted of indecently assaulting a teenager has not been fired from her children's school. Charles Teddy was convicted in Rotorua District Court in July of indecently assaulting a teenage girl at the Murupara rugby clubrooms on Labour Day last year, yet he continues to be employed as its alternative education coordinator.
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TBI says new sex offender law is working
November 09, 2004, WREG | Submitted by steve
Written By Richard Ransom
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says a new law aimed at tracking sex offenders in our state is working, with more than 3800 offenders have registered or re-registered since the law was passed.
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Convicted sex offender faces sexual harrassment suit
November 07, 2004, nbc17.com | Submitted by steve
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A lawsuit claims a former manager of the Carmike Cinemas, and a convicted sex offender, was targeting teenage boys, NBC 17 reported.
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Sex offender prompts new Dist. 211 rule
November 06, 2004, Chicago Daily Herald | Submitted by steve
Written By Chad Brooks
Article Overview
Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 (Illinois) is changing its policy on who can work inside schools after a registered sex offender was found to be working as a repairman at Schaumburg High School. Superintendent Roger Thornton said the new policy is being enacted after the district was alerted to the fact that a man who had worked at the school about six times over the past 18 months was a registered sex offender.
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Doctor gets probation in child porn case
November 04, 2004, Boston Globe | Submitted by steve
Written By Ben Dobbin
Article Overview
In a show of leniency, a federal judge yesterday sentenced a former pediatric physician to nine months of home confinement for possessing child pornography. Dr. Julius Goepp agreed to a sentence of up to two years and nine months under an agreement with prosecutors in which he pleaded guilty to possessing sexually explicit images of children on his home computer. If convicted, he could have been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.
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Former Connecticut lawmaker to register as sex offender
November 04, 2004, WFSB | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A former Connecticut state lawmaker will have to register as a sex offender as part of a plea bargain made during sentencing Wednesday. The deal means that Jefferson Davis will not see any jail time. The state claims Davis had sexual contact with a boy from when he was six years old until he was ten.
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Sex offender arrested in exposure case
November 04, 2004, Star Telegram | Submitted by steve
Written By Susan Schrock
Article Overview
Police arrested a registered sex offender they said walked into a home in his Arlington, Texas neighborhood early Tuesday morning and exposed himself to a woman living there. The man told the woman that he had come inside to tell her that her front door had been standing wide open, then touched her in an inappropriate place, asked for a sexual favor and exposed himself as he left the home.
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Child porn fight 'lacks funding'
November 02, 2004, BBC News | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
The Children's Charities Coalition for Internet Safety (CHIS) says more money and technology are needed to catch and prosecute net paedophiles and protect child victims of cybercrimes.
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Serial sex offender blamed for Sydney break-in
November 02, 2004, ABC Online | Submitted by steve
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Police investigating a serial sex offender in Sydney, Australia believe the man struck again last night in Ashfield. Police say the failed attack on a 57-year-old woman is the 11th time the man has struck.
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Sex offender registry nets 'F' from watchdog group
November 01, 2004, KnoxNews.com | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
The watchdog group Parents for Megan's Law surveyed 49 states by phone on a range of questions, including whether communities are notified when a sexual offender moves in and whether state registries include all adult and juvenile offenders. Tennessee joined 22 other states with a 60 percent score or less in receiving an "F," according to the survey conducted from June through September.
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Murder victim was sex offender
November 01, 2004, Mail Tribune | Submitted by steve
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Police have identified the apparent murder victim whose body was found Friday in a local motel room as a 68-year-old Medford-area man with a long history of sex offenses.
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Man held in rapes of 2 girls in Toledo is Georgia sex offender
November 01, 2004, Toledo Blade | Submitted by steve
Written By Clyde Hughes
Article Overview
A Georgia man arrested yesterday in Toledo, Ohio in connection with the kidnapping and sexual assault of two 12-year-old girls Saturday was convicted five years ago of molesting a 9-year-old near Atlanta. Police say they believe Daniel Lee Cole, 36, approached the girls at the Miracle Mile shopping center, telling him he was a security guard, while wearing an FBI hat. The police said he hnadcuffed the girls and bound their feet, putting them alternately in the trunk and front seat of his car, then drove around and sexually assaulted them. One break in the case came when one of the girls, while in the front seat, mouthed "Please help me," to a pedestrian.
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