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Va. Supreme Court upholds commitment of sex offender
March 31, 2005, Potomac News | Submitted by steve
Written By Maria Hegstad
Article Overview
The Virginia Supreme Court decided earlier this month that a Manassas man convicted of raping two county women in 1989 will remain in a state hospital for sex offenders. The court's opinion was their first on a controversial new law that allows for the identification and commitment of convicted sex offenders after they have served their prison sentences.
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Admitted pedophile was working near children
March 31, 2005, WISH TV | Submitted by steve
Written By Pam Elliot
Article Overview
A man who's been open about his sexual attraction toward children was able to get a job where children come and go. Kevin Brown has been open about his sexual attraction to children. “That means I have thoughts and nothing more,” he said.
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'Jessica's Law' eyes sex offenders
March 31, 2005, CBS News | Submitted by steve
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In response to the recent kidnapping and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, Florida lawmakers are taking unprecedented action. They're working on a law that would require registered sex offenders to wear electronic tracking devices at all times. The Jessica Lunsford Act would put an electronic monitoring device on every sexual predator released into the community, for as long as 30 years.
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Sex offender law
March 31, 2005, KCRG TV9 | Submitted by admin
Written By Dave Franzman
Article Overview
The Iowa House of Representatives voted 100 to zero Wednesday to make life a lot tougher for any sexual predator who gets out of prison. The house proposal would ban convicted sex offenders from living within one thousand feet of a school or daycare, require some electronic monitoring after offenders are released, require annual publication of a sex offender list in newspapers and require offenders to update their photos annually in the Iowa sex offender registry.
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Cops: Illegal immigrant sex offenders arrested
March 30, 2005, Newsday.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Keiko Morris and Bart Jones
Article Overview
Federal agents and Nassau County, New York police fanned out across the county Tuesday starting at 5 AM, rousting illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes out of their sleep, apprehending others on the streets and arresting some as they showed up for appointments with probation officers. Officials said 25 were rounded up in Tuesday's sweep and taken to a federal detention facility. This is in addition to 16 other immigrants arrested in the county over the past few months.
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Boy Scouts official faces child porn charges
March 29, 2005, FOXNews.com | Submitted by HPierce
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Douglas Sovereign Smith, a longtime Boy Scouts of America official who directed a national task force to protect children from sexual abuse has been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.
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Sex offender: Registry unfair
March 29, 2005, SunHerald.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Robin Fitzgerald
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Saban Brown, a former Coast radio personality, admits he had consensual sex with a minor, served his sentence and registered as a convicted sex offender. Brown, who now lives in Miami, did register with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on May 6, 2004. Despite his registering with Florida, Brown said, he was arrested Saturday on an outstanding warrant, accused of failing to register as a sex offender.
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Sex offender solicits 9-year-old girl at church
March 29, 2005, WTRF | Submitted by steve
Written By Josh DeVine
Article Overview
Detectives say 53-year-old Robert James Duke walked into the Church of God in Liberty Addition and sat down behind a unidentified 9-year-old girl and passed an explicit note during a local Easter service. It was a note featuring a cartoon character on the front and an invitation for sex inside.
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Local school to email parents about sex offenders
March 29, 2005, CBS 2 | Submitted by steve
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The Half Hollow Hills school district announced on Tuesday that they have joined with the national non-profit, Parents for Megan’s Law, to email parents every time a new sex offender moves into this neighborhood or any neighborhood in the county. Though the district will continue for one year to mail letters to parents about sex offenders who move into the area, they will eventually stop doing so. Sending out those letters costs the district about $60,000 dollars a year and the email system costs nothing.
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ISU professor discusses effectiveness of sex offender treatment
March 29, 2005, TheIowaChannel.com | Submitted by admin
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Some say that sex offenders can be rehabilitated, but an Iowa State University professor said it's also challenging and rehabilitation will not work for every sex offender.
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Legislature to focus on sex offenders
March 28, 2005, Modesto Bee | Submitted by admin
Written By Eric Stern
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California Sen. Jeff Denham, R-Merced, wants to put "all the rotten eggs in one basket" by shipping the state's most violent sexual predators to an Alcatraz-like island. That's among more than 30 proposals about sex offenders legislators will begin considering in committee hearings this week.
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Convicted sex offender found dead in cell
March 28, 2005, Star Telegram | Submitted by steve
Written By Don Chance
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A man sentenced to 119 years in prison Thursday was found dead Sunday in his cell at the Wise County jail, said Sgt. Debbie Denney of the Wise County Sheriff's Department. John Robert Morris, 35, appears to have killed himself by using a bed sheet to hang himself from the cell door handle.
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Jessica's death spurs talk of need to change sex offender laws
March 28, 2005, heraldtribune.com | Submitted by steve
Written By David Royse
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Jessica Lunsford's father, Mark Lunsford, has already called for toughening the state's laws against sexual offenders. Others in Florida, including Sen. Nancy Argenziano, have shared ideas as well.
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Sexual offender list here growing
March 27, 2005, The Union Leader | Submitted by steve
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The list of convicted sexual offenders who reside or work in New Hampshire currently has 3,092 names and is lengthening at a rate of about 8 percent a year, according to Lt. Brian L. Hester, who has oversight of the register maintained by the state police.
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Jackson proclaims innocence, suggests conspiracy
March 27, 2005, Kansas City Star | Submitted by admin
Written By Hal Dardick
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Pop star Michael Jackson, a Jehova's Witness, on Sunday again declared he is innocent of child molestation charges and suggested he's the victim of a conspiracy involving the valuable music copyrights he owns.
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Bill would make sex offender registry more available to public
March 25, 2005, wpri.com | Submitted by steve
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A bill introduced by Narragansett lawmaker Donald Lally would expand the number of sex offenders whose names are available to the public on the Rhode Island sex offender registry.
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Nebraska police nab escapees from sex offender program
March 25, 2005, St. Paul / Minneapolis Pioneer Planet | Submitted by steve
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The two men who escaped from a sex offender treatment program in St. Peter, Minnesota apparently by going out a second-story window and through a fence were arrested Friday afternoon at a bus station in Nebraska, authorities said.
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Sex-offender questioned over missing Iowa girl
March 25, 2005, USA Today | Submitted by steve
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Police in Iowa were investigating whether a body found Friday is that of a 10-year-old girl, Jetseta Marrie Gage, who authorities said vanished with a registered sex offender. Cedar Rapids police canceled an Amber Alert for Gage after the body was found. Roger Bentley, 37, a family acquaintance and registered sex offender, was taken into custody in Johnson County for questioning early Friday, but has not been charged.
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Tracking sex offenders
March 23, 2005, The Daily Press | Submitted by admin
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An editorial which focuses in part on the Virginia sex offender registry and registered sex offenders out of compliance.
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Neighbors discuss paying sexual predator to move
March 23, 2005, WCPO.com | Submitted by dp1
Written By Jennifer Steiner
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Some residents of Loveland, Ohio are so concerned about a sexual predator in their neighborhood, they are willing to pay him to move out. Some residents at the Fairways at O'Bannon Creek, want to pay the man $18,000 to $20,000 more than the $385,000 he paid for the home.
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Family members should familiarize themselves with photos of nearby sex offenders regularly
March 23, 2005, Gwinnett Daily Post | Submitted by admin
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Tips for people to make more effective use of sex offender registries.
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Longer probation for sex offender Cary Verse accepts more surveillance
March 23, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by steve
Written By Leslie Fulbright
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Convicted sex offender Cary Verse agreed Tuesday to live another year under the constant surveillance of the state's violent predator program, saying he didn't want to shake things up in his new community in Contra Costa.
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Australia to deport sex offender to UK
March 23, 2005, Guardian Unlimited | Submitted by steve
Written By Bernard O'Riordan
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A paedophile rapist, Robert Ernest Excell, age 66, who has spent 37 years in prison in Perth will be deported to Britain within days despite a last-minute call for the Australian authorities to reconsider his release.
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A Bixby neighborhood wants a convicted sex offender to move
March 22, 2005, KOTV | Submitted by admin
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A Bixby, Oklahoma neighborhood is up in arms after they recently learned a twice convicted sex offender bought a house in their subdivision. Many of them don't want him living near their children. Tuesday night, nearly a hundred angry people met with police officers and city councilors to look for a solution
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Child sex offender registry has flaws
March 22, 2005, WAVE 3 | Submitted by steve
Written By Eric Flack
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WAVE 3 Investigator Eric Flack found that sex offender records are often outdated and wrong, and local law enforcement is trying to make things right.
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Police launch child porn raids
March 21, 2005, The Courier-Mail | Submitted by steve
Written By Glenis Green
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Police have recovered more than 250,000 child abuse images and charged 29 people as a result of a week-long operation targeting child pornography which culminated in a series of raids on homes on the Sunshine Coast (region of Queensland, Australia) yesterday.
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Sex offender tracking legislation nears vote
March 21, 2005, The Tennessean | Submitted by steve
Written By Lucas L. Johnson II
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The Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole was supposed to have hired a company by the end of last year to develop an electronic tracking system for paroled sex offenders, but it didn't happen. Rep. Rob Briley has sponsored a bill to give the board until June 30 to get a contractor.
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Presentation to reveal sex offender tactics
March 21, 2005, Oshkosh Northwestern | Submitted by admin
Written By Jim Collar
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Madison psychologist Anna Salter on April 7 will appear at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh to discuss the deception that sexual offenders implement to commit their crimes and profiles of offenders, particularly rapists.
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DCI, central Iowans talk about effectiveness of sex offender site
March 21, 2005, TheIowaChannel.com | Submitted by steve
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Steve Conlon, of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, said DCI has nearly 6,400 offenders listed on its Web site and eeping track of all of them can be a challenge.
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How dangerous are those who find pleasure in child porn?
March 20, 2005, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | Submitted by steve
Written By Gary Craig
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A big question confronting therapists, authorities and even parents who want to know how to protect their children, is whether those who find pleasure in child pornography would ever molest a child.
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Officers support sex offender bill
March 19, 2005, Montgomery Advertiser | Submitted by steve
Written By Mike Linn
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A Cullman, Alabama lawmaker, Rep. Neal Morrison, is sponsoring House Bill 511, a bill that would allow police to charge convicted sex offenders with a Class C felony if they don't register with the sheriff within seven days of moving into a community.
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Sex-offender-label case headed for Supreme Court
March 19, 2005, The Globe and Mail | Submitted by steve
Written By Kirk Makin
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A Newfoundland woman whose name ended up in a database of suspected sex offenders, will get to make her case in the Supreme Court of Canada. While at Memorial University, Wanda Young was labelled a potential sexual abuser of children after she wrote a paper on sex abuse in 1994.
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Man charged with sex crimes lived with Will Co. deputy
March 17, 2005, Daily Southtown | Submitted by admin
Written By Joe Hosey
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A New Lenox, Illinois man charged with sex crimes in four towns was the live-in boyfriend of a Will County deputy until his recent run-in with the law. David Baller, 41, is accused of exposing himself at an insurance agency; sexually assaulting women in Orland Park and Frankfort; and exposing himself at a real estate agency.
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State revamps sex offender registry
March 17, 2005, The Clarion-Ledger | Submitted by steve
Written By Andy Kanengiser
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Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Wednesday signed a bill that shifts the responsibility for registering offenders from sheriffs to the state Department of Public Safety. With a new law which takes effect July 1, sex offenders released from prison must appear at a DPS driver's license station within 10 days of their release and must verify their address every 90 days in person at a driver's license station or risk having their driver's licenses immediately suspended.
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Case of missing girl, 9, focuses on sex offender
March 17, 2005, Orlando Sentinel | Submitted by admin
Written By Mike Branom
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Investigators into last month's disappearance of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford from her bedroom in Florida want to question a registered sex offender who they say once attacked a girl in her room and left this area suddenly without telling authorities.
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Italian priest accused of kidnapping prostitutes
March 16, 2005, Reuters | Submitted by HPierce
Written By Phil Stewart
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Priest Cesare Lodeserto, former head of an Italian foundation that looks after illegal immigrants, was arrested last weekend over accusations he had mistreated Romanian prostitutes. His defenders in the Catholic Church call it tough love. His critics call it kidnapping.
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Mom accused in child porn plot
March 16, 2005, Montgomery Advertiser | Submitted by HPierce
Written By Mike Linn
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A Prattville, Alabama woman Tuesday was charged with planting nude images of her child in her ex-husband's home, just one day after police accused her of conspiring to kill the man over a custody dispute, law enforcement officials said.
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Who's not on the sex offender registry
March 16, 2005, WHO-TV | Submitted by admin
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Not every juvenile sex offender is placed on Iowa's sex offender registry website. If a person under age 18 is convicted of a sex crime, the law states a judge can decide whether the minor must register.
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Sex offender's classmates rally behind him
March 16, 2005, WOI-TV | Submitted by steve
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About half of the 150 students at Russell Community School, which houses students in grades Pre-K through 12th, gathered to support their classmate, Shawn Murphy. The 18-year-old Murphy is a registered sex offender because of at age 13 he forced his 11-year-old cousin to have intercourse with him.
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Gaps in sex- offender laws
March 15, 2005, Orlando Sentinel | Submitted by steve
Written By Charles M. Grist
Article Overview
Massachusetts has a statute that makes it a felony to entice a child to pose in a state of nudity, but Florida does not. This commentary discusses a couple of cases involving adults who used the Internet to engage in illegal behavior with minors.
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Sex offender arrested in attempted rape case
March 14, 2005, Seattle Times | Submitted by steve
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A convicted sex offender who apparently tried to rape a 24-year-old Oregon State University student is under guard at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, where he is being treated for a broken ankle, which he suffered after his leg was run over when he jumped from his van to chase the alleged victim.
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'Parolee motel'
March 14, 2005, Daily Press | Submitted by steve
Written By Leroy Standish
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There are 181 registered sex offenders in the city of Victorville, and 16 of them call the Queen's Motel, on the north end of the city, home.
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The perils of no-tolerance sex law
March 14, 2005, The Age | Submitted by steve
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New laws to protect minors from abuse ignore the realities of teenage sexuality, writes David Gibson.
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State child porn laws to be nation's toughest
March 14, 2005, Hobart Mercury, Australia | Submitted by steve
Written By Danny Rose
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The maximum penalty for possessing or creating child pornography will increase to 21 years in prison from current maximum penalties of 1 and 2 years respectively for possession and creation. This comes after more than 200 people across Australia, including four men in Tasmania, were charged as a result of Operation Auxin, which went public in March of 2004.
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Website against child porn
March 14, 2005, News24 | Submitted by steve
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A new tool aimed at combating child pornography on the internet was launched on Monday by the Swedish branch of Ecpat, an advocacy network, which also opposes child prostitution. The software, "Keep My Net Clean," is a plug-in to popular web browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox.
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New Information on local priest charged with possessing child pornography
March 14, 2005, WROC TV | Submitted by steve
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Questions have surfaced about whether the Rochester Catholic Diocese drop the ball in the case of Father Michael Volino. The priest is facing federal charges after the discovery of child pornography on his computer in January, but WROC has learned that there were concerns about his behavior years before that.
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S.F. program gives convicts a chance for a fresh start
March 14, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by steve
Written By Julian Guthrie
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Using a little-known state law, the Clean Slate program run by the San Francisco public defender's office got more than 1,500 criminal cases cleared from the convicts' records last year. Another 2,227 are being processed.
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Schools find safety in ID numbers
March 14, 2005, HoustonChronicle.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Renee C. Lee
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More than 400 schools in 14 school districts have thrown away the clipboards and replaced them with a new high-tech system that can flag visitors who are known sex offenders by scanning their driver's license or state photo ID.
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The town that sold its children
March 13, 2005, Guardian Unlimited | Submitted by HPierce
Written By Alex Duval Smith
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In the biggest trial in the history of France, sixty-six residents are facing charges that include child sex abuse, incest and pimping their own children for not much more than the price of a carton of cigarettes. The 45 alleged victims are children aged from six months to 12 years old. The accused are their mothers, fathers, grandfathers, aunts and uncles.
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Police capture Atlanta slaying suspect
March 12, 2005, ABCNEWS.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Russ Bynum
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Brian Nichols, a rape suspect accused of shooting a judge and two others at a courthouse, was captured Saturday after a day on the lam in which he allegedly killed an immigration agent, stole his truck and took a woman hostage, officials said. In the rape case, Nichols was accused of bursting into his ex-girlfriend's home, binding her with duct tape and sexually assaulting her over three days.
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Sex crime prosecutor fired over note to girl
March 12, 2005, Indianapolis Star | Submitted by steve
Written By Vic Ryckaert
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Jay Meisenhelder, 53, the Marion County, Indiana deputy prosecutor who was assistant chief of the sex crimes division was fired this week for sending a romantic e-mail to a 16-year-old girl.
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Sex offender law faces hurdles
March 12, 2005, Toledo Blade | Submitted by steve
Written By Robin Erb
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Some Ohio and Michigan attorneys are preparing to challenge new measures to tighten the reins on sex offenders.
In Ohio, a law will allow local prosecutors to try to evict someone whose home is within 1,000 feet of a school, beginning April 28.
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Former Kaiser teacher sentenced for having sex with students
March 12, 2005, Fontana Herald News | Submitted by steve
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A former Kaiser High School teacher and volleyball coach was sentenced to four years in prison for having sexual relationships with three students. The teacher was the second athletic coach at Kaiser to be arrested on sex charges last year
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Convicted sex offender charged in rape of girl
March 12, 2005, Newsday.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Joseph Mallia
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A registered sex offender in New York was arrested and charged with three counts of raping a 13-year-old girl, less than a year since his arrest for a similar crime, Southampton Town police said Friday.
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Eleven young sex offenders sue to get off state registry
March 11, 2005, Detroit Free Press | Submitted by steve
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Eleven young men have sued Michigan police in federal court, saying they were wrongly placed on the sex offender registry despite participating in a program that clears them of a criminal record.
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Shorewood residents object to home
March 11, 2005, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Submitted by steve
Written By Marie Rohde
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About 75 opponents of a group home for habitual sex offenders gathered for a special meeting of the Shorewood Village Board on Friday afternoon. They are fighting construction of the facility in a nearby Milwaukee neighborhood.
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Officials: Sex offender law working
March 11, 2005, The Jackson Sun | Submitted by steve
Written By Tiffany S. Jones
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It has been more than six months since Tennessee adopted a law that requires sex offenders to register in their communities or face felony charges. According to Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork, so far, offenders in the county have been complying with the law.
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Convicted sex offender at large after leaving trial
March 11, 2005, KOIN.com | Submitted by admin
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Convicted sex offender, David Kelsey, 42, is on the loose after walking out on his own trial. He was accused of raping his stepdaughter between 1993 and 2000.
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Alcohol brewed at sex offender facility
March 11, 2005, Miami Herald | Submitted by admin
Written By Carol Marbin Miller
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Homemade alcohol, called ''buck,'' is freely available at the Florida's treatment center for violent sexual predators, and residents at the Florida Civil Commitment Center often wander the campus ''staggering drunk,'' a report says.
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Jury told of pervert's sex crimes
March 10, 2005, BBC News | Submitted by steve
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A paedophile has been jailed for raping a 12-year-old boy after new laws were used to tell jurors about his previous child sex crimes.
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Pedophile suspect denies love for own kids
March 10, 2005, Guardian Unlimited | Submitted by admin
Written By Stephanie Lacaze
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Jurors in the trial of a pedophilia ring heard testimony Thursday of rape and neglect in a family allegedly at the heart of the case, with a grandfather accused of having sexually abused his children and grandchildren coldly admitting: ``My kids, I don't love them.''
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Teen sex offender held in assault of 14-year-old
March 10, 2005, nbc5.com | Submitted by steve
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A 19-year-old Manhattan man already registered as a sex offender for an assault conviction was indicted Thursday on new sexual assault charges for allegedly having a relationship with a 14-year-old Orland Park girl.
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Mukhtaran’s choice
March 10, 2005, India Express | Submitted by steve
Written By Nicholas D Kristof
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Pakistani gangrape victim Mukhtaran Bibi suffered what in her society was the most extreme shame, and emerged as a symbol of virtue, faith and hope.
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Olympian due in court for sex crime
March 09, 2005, 11Alive | Submitted by admin
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Two-time Olympic gold medalist Angelo Taylor is due back in court Wednesday to face charges that he molested a 15-year-old girl in January. Last month, police arrested Taylor again for having sex with another 15-year-old, as well.
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Registered sex offender busted on campus
March 09, 2005, WCAX-TV | Submitted by steve
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29-year-old Shane Edgerly of Saint Albans is facing felony charges for unlawful trespass and attempted lewd and lascivious conduct after allegedly being caught by a female student taking a shower, in the stall next to her.
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1 in 4 prisoners convicted of sex crimes or domestic violence
March 08, 2005, Haaretz | Submitted by admin
Written By David Ratner
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According to Prisons Service Commissioner, Lieutenant General Yaakov Granot, one in every four prisoners in Israeli jails has been convicted of sex crimes or domestic violence. The number of prisoners serving time for sex crimes has almost quadrupled in the past decade.
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Sex offender on elementary school campus
March 08, 2005, ABC 30 | Submitted by steve
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Visalia Unified says a sex offender was never a volunteer, but some parents feel just his presence on campus is too much to bear.
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