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Sex Offender / Sex Crime News - Featured Articles, February, 2005
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Sex crime suspect arrested after filing robbery report
February 25, 2005, The Times Record | Submitted by steve
Written By John Lyon
Article Overview
A sex crime suspect Fort Smith, Arkansas police had been seeking for nearly a year was arrested Wednesday after he contacted police to report he had been robbed.
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Former TV weatherman sentenced in sex crime
February 18, 2005, Local10.com | Submitted by steve
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Legislator proposes sex crime castration
February 17, 2005, St. Cloud Times | Submitted by steve
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Drug-induced castration should be among the punishments for sex offenders who victimize children, a Minnesota state legislator said Thursday.
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Sex crime DNA rule shot down
February 12, 2005, Anchorage Daily News | Submitted by steve
Written By Nicole Tsong
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Convicted sex offenders don't have a choice when it comes to being identified on the state's sex offender registry, but some still will get to keep their DNA to themselves, according to a ruling by U.S. District Judge John Sedwick.
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Released rapist 'worst I've seen'
February 05, 2005, Winnipeg Sun | Submitted by steve
Written By Cary Castagna
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Michel Burton Deschamps, 36, was released from Headingley Jail yesterday, after serving nearly seven years for raping a 16-year-old girl at knifepoint in 1998. In 1989, Deschamps was involved in another knifepoint sexual attack that police say nearly became a murder-suicide.
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Catawba man accused of sodomizing son
February 05, 2005, Roanoke Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Lindsey Nair
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A Roanoke County, Virginia grand jury handed down 65 felony indictments against a man who police say sodomized his 8-year-old son, allowed other men to do the same and captured the acts on film.
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Sex offender bill given initial OK
February 05, 2005, Canon City Daily Record | Submitted by steve
Written By John Fryar
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The Colorado House gave preliminary approval Friday to a Weld County lawmaker’s effort to make it easier for Coloradans to find out if there are known convicted sex offenders living in their neighborhoods. Greeley Republican Rep. Dale Hall's House Bill 1035 eliminates a “need-to-know” requirement that law enforcement agencies must now follow when people request information from the state’s Sex Offender Registry..
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Judge delays deciding if sex offender can move / Verse tells crowd at public hearing he's also been abused
February 05, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by steve
Written By Cecilia M. Vega
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Cary Verse faced a roomful of angry detractors Friday who do not want the five-time convicted sex offender to move to east Contra Costa County and said he is a changed man who is "not a danger to anyone's children or their family."
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Developer sues sex offender on sales loss
February 05, 2005, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by admin
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A developer in Arkansas who claims sales in a subdivision stopped after a sex offender and his wife bought a home has sued the couple and the real estate company that arranged the purchase.
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Sex offender suspected of peeping into homes
February 04, 2005, WFTV.com | Submitted by admin
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A 44-year-old convicted sexual offender, wanted in a child molestation case in Georgia, is now suspected of peeping into Brevard County, Florida homes. Deputies think he had been spying on the Cape Canaveral neighborhood for weeks.
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Police warn of HIV-infected, predatory sex offender
February 03, 2005, KOIN.com | Submitted by steve
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Kenneth Miller, a 35-year-old convicted sex offender, has a history of unprotected sex with women and girls, intentionally exposing them to HIV. His parole conditions prohibit him from having unprotected sex with anyone who is not HIV infected.
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Neighbors sue owner of boarding house over convicted sex offender
February 03, 2005, Newsday.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Joseph Mallia
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A group of Sayville, New York residents yesterday filed suit against the owner of a boarding house where a convicted Level 3 sex offender lives, citing what they said was the landlord's pattern of negligence that has placed a neighborhood in danger.
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Suspect in girl's rape already registered as sex offender
February 03, 2005, Virginian Pilot | Submitted by steve
Written By Matthew Roy
Article Overview
A man being held without bail in the rape of a 9-year-old girl after breaking into her house in Norfolk, Virginia is already a registered sex offender because of a 1979 conviction in an Ocean View (section of Norfolk) rape.
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Sex offender will not be in school
February 03, 2005, Orlando Sentinel | Submitted by steve
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A 20-year-old high school student, who was arrested on a charge of failing to file a correct home address as a convicted sex offender, has been released on $2,000 bail. However, he will not be returned to East Ridge High School, officials said.
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Sex offender law needs work
February 03, 2005, Toledo Blade | Submitted by steve
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A Blade special report by staff writer Robin Erb showed that one in four of the 611 sex offenders registered in Lucas County live within 1,000 feet of a school in violation of a provision added to the law in 2003.
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Residents hound pedophile
February 02, 2005, NEWS.com.au | Submitted by steve
Written By Glenis Reese and Rosemary Odgers
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Residents were picketing a house in Ipswich, Queensland, where notorious pedophile Dennis Ferguson is believed to have taken refuge after being chased out of another town.
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