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Sex Offender / Sex Crime News - Featured Articles, December, 2004
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CRIME: High-risk sex offender faces civil commitment
December 31, 2004, Grand Forks Herald | Submitted by steve
Written By Elisa L. Rineheart
Article Overview
The Mahnomen county attorney is seeking a civil commitment trial for a high-risk sex offender who moved to the area early this week after being released from prison. County Attorney Julie Bruggeman decided to file for a civil commitment trial after reading a report that Elias Edward Thompson had refused treatment and warning that he could still be a danger to society.
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Hostage taker identified as a sex offender
December 31, 2004, HometownAnnapolis.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Patrick Ripley
Article Overview
A Glen Burnie, Maryland man who allegedly held his wife hostage for about two hours in his apartment has been identified as a convicted child sex offender by the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
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Sex offender job checks
December 30, 2004, WEIU | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has launched an initiative to check the accuracy of employment information provided by registered sex offenders.
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Sex offender find prompts review of law
December 30, 2004, Daily Southtown | Submitted by steve
Written By Kristen McQueary
Article Overview
For the second time in a month, convicted sex offenders have been found in the South Side's Beverly community living together or in the same building, alarming local officials. Both cases have caused a flurry of intervention by local and state officials, from Chicago Ald. Ginger Rugai (19th) and state Rep. Kevin Joyce (D-Chicago) to Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Gov. Rod Blagojevich. All four are working on legislation to close gaps in the sex offender registry law.
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Sex offender given life sentence for videotaping young girls
December 29, 2004, North County Times | Submitted by admin
Written By John Hall
Article Overview
A man classified as a "high risk" sex offender was given a potential life sentence Wednesday for videotaping two young girls in their Sun City, California bedroom last year.
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East Bay family mistakenly appears on sex offender list
December 28, 2004, abc7news.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Not all offender addresses in California's sex offender registry are current. Look up Pam Brown's address on the sex offender list and there's a map to her house, plus data on a convicted child molester, Don Marsh, who lived there before the Browns bought the home 11 years ago.
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Teacher pleads guilty to sex charges
December 28, 2004, Federal Way Mirror | Submitted by steve
Written By Tracy Loew and Dennis Thompson
Article Overview
Houck Middle School band teacher Joe Billera, 30, pleaded guilty Monday to 10 of 15 sex-related charges involving four former students. Billera hopes to get a reduced sentence of six to 12 years, based on a pretrial conference with Judge Albin Norblad.
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St. Clair officer wants tighter sex offender law
December 24, 2004, The Birmingham News | Submitted by steve
Written By Mike Cason
Article Overview
St. Clair County sheriff's department investigator George Bagwell said too many sex offenders drop out of sight because it's only a misdemeanor for a registered sex offender to move without giving notice. He wants the Alabama state Legislature to make it a felony for a sex offender to move without giving notice.
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Bacon sizzles in dark role as sex offender in `Woodsman'
December 22, 2004, Miami Herald | Submitted by steve
Written By David Germain
Article Overview
In "The Woodsman," Kevin Bacon gives a career performance as the most reviled of sex offenders, a child molester coming off 12 years in prison for abusing young girls. Filled with self-loathing, his character makes an honorable attempt to go straight but is tormented by temptation, shunned by his family and abhorred by co-workers who discover his past.
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Police: Convicted sex offender killed third woman
December 20, 2004, Newsday.com | Submitted by admin
Written By William Kates
Article Overview
Police said Monday they have linked a third murder to convicted sex offender Nicholas Wiley, but have found no evidence to back his claims that he killed four other women.
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Pecos school builds taller fence to protect against sex offender
December 04, 2004, KOBTV.com | Submitted by steve
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Pecos Elementary School in Pecos, New Mexico is building a higher fence because a convicted sex offender lives across the street.
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Judge dismisses suit challenging sex offender law
December 03, 2004, KATV Channel 7 | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that challenged Arkansas' sex offender law. But the U.S. District Judge has left in place an agreement barring enforcement of a provision that would force some sex offenders to move if they live within two-thousand feet of a school or day care center.
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Sex-offender database upheld
December 03, 2004, Pantagraph.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Kurt Erickson
Article Overview
In a 25-page decision issued Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed a Champaign County judge's 2003 ruling that part of the state's sex-offender registration act is unconstitutional because it violates the offenders' right to privacy.
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School screens all visitors against sex-offender list
December 01, 2004, Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Kati Phillips
Article Overview
Visitors to a Will County school (Illinois) are now being checked against the state sex-offenders registry, in an unusual pilot program that takes school security to a new level. They recently installed V-Soft, a visitor-tracking application, at Walsh Elementary School in Lockport..
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College district to vote on sex offender policy
December 01, 2004, HoustonChronicle.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Paris Achen
Article Overview
The board of the North Harris Montgomery Community College District (Texas) will decide today whether to adopt one of the most stringent policies in the nation on the enrollment and employment of registered sex offenders. Trustees will consider allowing administrators to bar sex offenders who they consider dangerous from attending classes or working at the district's five colleges.
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