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Sex Offender / Sex Crime News - Featured Articles, January, 2005
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Texas teens increased sex after abstinence program
January 31, 2005, Reuters | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
Abstinence-only sex education programs, have had no impact on teenagers' behavior in his home state of Texas, according to a new study. According to the director of the study, Dr. Buzz Pruitt, the Federal government is expected to spend about $130 million to fund programs advocating abstinence in 2005, despite a lack of evidence that they work.
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Sexual offender abuses Web site
January 29, 2005, Oakland Tribune Online | Submitted by steve
Written By Amy Yarbrough
Article Overview
In California, it's illegal for a registered sex offender to enter the state's sex offender registry web site, but a registered sex offender in California used it to look for dates and to locate friends of his. He admitted to sending out five letters looking for dates as well as scanning the registry for friends in San Mateo, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Alameda counties. One of the men who received a letter contacted his probation officer, ultimately resulting in the sender's arrest.
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Alcohol use does not cause sexual violence
January 23, 2005, Concord Monitor | Submitted by admin
Written By Scott Hampton
Article Overview
Understanding the role drinking does and does not play in sex assaults is essential to prevention efforts.
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Communications key to sex offenders' housing
January 20, 2005, Newsday.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Jennifer Smith
Article Overview
In October, after it became known that Suffolk County was housing a handful of homeless sex offenders at a motel, community outrage over such clustering forced the department of social services to investigate how it had happened, and what could be done to prevent it in the future.
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Suffolk County homeless sex offender report
January 20, 2005, Newsday.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Janet DeMarzo, Edward Hernandez
Article Overview
This is the final report of the Suffolk County, New York's task force on homeless sex offenders.
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Diana Delgado tells her side of the story
January 19, 2005, ABC 30 | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
For the first time, convicted sex offender and ousted parent volunteer Diana Delgado talked about the crime that haunts her to this day and the backlash she's gotten from parents.
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Verse to move to Bay Point cottage
January 19, 2005, NBC11.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
After months of delays, a Contra Costa County Superior Court judge announced that authorities have proposed a cottage in Bay Point as a new home for convicted sex offender Cary Verse. Verse's proposed new home is one of several cottages on a gated property owned by criminal law attorney Anthony Ashe of Walnut Creek.
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Pedophiles should never be released
January 16, 2005, Sunday Mail | Submitted by anti
Written By David Murray
Article Overview
According to the results of an exclusive Sunday Mail survey, pedophiles should be jailed for life automatically.
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Sex offender living in foster home
January 09, 2005, Post-Tribune | Submitted by steve
Written By Jon Seidel
Article Overview
The state of Indiana says it tries to keep its foster children safe, but state workers continue to place children in a Knox home despite a history of sex-abuse incidents there. Among those living in the foster home is a 19-year-old son who molested a 3-year-old girl being babysat in the home when he was 13.
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Sex offender law weak, police say
January 09, 2005, Cleveland Plain Dealer | Submitted by steve
Written By Maggi Martin
Article Overview
Although convicted sex offender Steven Brock lives two blocks from McKinley Elementary School and around the corner from St. Anthony Catholic Elementary School and is violating a court order to stay more than 1,000 feet from a school, police have no power to force him to move.
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Sex-offender tracking plan blasted
January 08, 2005, Japan Times | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
In Japan, a top police official's call for the creation of a system to track convicted sex offenders after the completion of their sentence was met with opposition Friday.
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'Seventh attack' by sex offender
January 07, 2005, BBC News | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Police believe a serial sex offender may have struck for the seventh time. Detectives investigating an indecent assault on a 17-year-old girl in Greater Manchester (UK), say it may be linked to six other incidents.
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Accused in sex crimes, ex-teacher gets year in jail
January 06, 2005, Detroit Free Press | Submitted by steve
Written By Naomi R. Patton
Article Overview
A former Dearborn High School substitute teacher faces a short jail sentence and 25 years as a registered sex offender after pleading no contest to having sexual contact with a minor and videotaping some of the incidents.
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Hope to file bill to prevent victims from attending school with assailant
January 06, 2005, The Courier | Submitted by steve
Written By Nancy Flake
Article Overview
Texas State Rep. Ruben Hope of Conroe, plans to file a legislative bill that would prevent sexual assailants and their victims from having to attend the same school once the assailant is on probation or finishes court requirements.
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Records: Dracut man used games to molest boy, 9
January 06, 2005, Lowell Sun Online | Submitted by steve
Written By Jack Minch
Article Overview
Accused child molester Kevin F. Curlew told investigators of a twisted bet, bizarre warnings, a desire to be caught, as well as threats from his victim, according to court records.
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Ex-SCC teacher awaits sentence
January 06, 2005, The Union Democrat | Submitted by steve
Written By Amy Lindblom
Article Overview
A former Sierra Conservation Center instructor yesterday pleaded guilty to nine of the 21 counts of child molestation he faced, and now could become a prison inmate himself.
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Residents learn about sex offender among them
January 06, 2005, Grand Forks Herald | Submitted by admin
Written By Rona K. Johnson
Article Overview
About 70 people crowded into the basement meeting room in the Marshall County, Minnesota Courthouse on Wednesday night to learn about the Level 3 sex offender who had moved into their community.
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Gillmor bill would create national sex offender list
January 05, 2005, The News-Messenger | Submitted by dp1
Article Overview
U.S. Rep. Paul E. Gillmor introduced legislation in Congress Tuesday to create a national database of sex offenders that citizens could access through the Internet. The National Sex Offender Registry Act would consolidate existing law enforcement records into a nationwide registry.
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Tighten Megan's Law, says B'klyn pol
January 04, 2005, New York Daily News | Submitted by steve
Written By Joe Mahoney
Article Overview
Sen. Carl Kruger is pushing for a measure which would require police in New York to alert schools and day care centers within 48 hours whenever a sex offender moves nearby. He also wants a toll-free sex-offender information hotline to replace the current 900 number that charges callers 50 cents for making up to five searches.
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Peoria police bust registered sex offender
January 04, 2005, KOLD | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Peoria, Arizona police have arrested a registered sex offender on four counts of sexual abuse and a kidnapping charge. 31 year-old Ricky Lee Lynn is accused of holding a 12 year-old girl against her will and engaging in inappropriate sexual contact.
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Cops nab suspect for child molesting
January 03, 2005, Pawtucket Times | Submitted by steve
Written By David Casey
Article Overview
At 3 AM on Sunday, Pawtucket Police found convicted child molester John R. Lineberger Jr., 47, hiding in the woods. Lineberger was arrested and charged with one count of first-degree child molestation and one count of second-degree child molestation. Sunday marked Lineberger’s second arrest for child molestation.
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Convicted sex offender facing rape, other charges
January 01, 2005, The Star Press | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Convicted sex offender Christopher L. Bricker, 21, has been accused of sexually assaulting a local girl at knifepoint. In a separate case, Bricker is accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl in late October. Bricker was convicted of sexual battery as a juvenile and is listed on the Indiana Sex and Violent Offender Registry.
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