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Legislators to put more sex offenders on Web site
April 27, 2005, TheHawaiiChannel.com | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
Hawaii state lawmakers have nearly reached an agreement on a bill to let Hawaii residents find out if a convicted sex offender is living in their neighborhood. The Attorney General said Tuesday he is delighted with a compromise bill to allow some offenders to petition to be removed from the public registry after years of good behavior. Right now, Hawaii's sex offender registry lists only 74 offenders.
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Off-duty cop saves teen from sexual predator
April 27, 2005, Newsday.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Daryl Khan
Article Overview
Daniel DeViccaro, an off-duty police officer, saved a 13-year old-girl in New York City from the clutches of a man police call a sexual predator when he witnessed her being pulled into a park, authorities said. The suspect, Timothy Felton, 31, who police said has a history of pedophilia, saw DeViccaro rushing at him and fled into the park.
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Man falsely branded as sex offender
April 22, 2005, WESH.com | Submitted by HPierce
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A man in Orlando, Florida, James Turner, has been falsely branded a sex offender as the result of someone posting sex offender fliers outside his house. Neighbor Marlene Morton admits she did it.
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Death penalty push complicates sex offender bill
April 22, 2005, Sioux City Journal | Submitted by admin
Written By Charlotte Eby
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An insistence by some Senate Republicans in Iowa that the death penalty be a punishment option for those convicted of kidnapping, molesting and killing a child is threatening to complicate legislative efforts to crack down on sex offenders.
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Sex offender disrupts his own community notification forum
April 22, 2005, Pioneer Press | Submitted by admin
Written By Mara H. Gottfried
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More than an hour into a meeting about a Level 3 sex offender new to Bloomington, Minnesota, one person in the crowd of 180 asked about the offense that resulted in the man's classification, a police sergeant started to answer, but was interrupted by the sex offender in question, James Ernest Williams. It soon became apparent that Williams was drunk and he eneded up throwing a microphone stand, ran from police officers and was arrested.
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Report of rape a hoax, cops say
April 21, 2005, Detroit Free Press | Submitted by HPierce
Written By Bill Laitner
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A woman who told police she'd been raped on a freeway in Farmington Hills, Michigan by a man who'd changed her tire made an even more stunning statement Wednesday - she had lied. Oakland County prosecutors are expected to decide whether they'll charge the 24-year-old woman from Clinton Township with filing a false police report of a felony, a charge punishable by up to 4 years in prison and a $2,000 fine.
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Names, pictures of juvenile sex offenders to be posted
April 21, 2005, WESH.com | Submitted by admin
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As early as next week, the Orange County Sheriff's Department will be the first in Florida to start putting information about juvenile sex offenders on its Web site. The youngest offender is 11 years old, WESH 2 News reported.
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Kossuth County Sheriff's Office to begin offering on-line sex offender registry
April 21, 2005, The Algona Upper Des Moines | Submitted by admin
Written By Jeff Robinson
Article Overview
Representatives from the Kossuth County, Iowa attorney's office and sheriff's department met with members of the Algona Police Department and the Family Crisis Center to review their protocols for dealing with sex offenders and brainstorm ideas for improving the process. Out of that meeting came plans for a county-maintained on-line registry for local sex offenders as well as plans to issue press releases with photos identifying registered sex offenders who relocate to the area. The Kossuth County on-line registry is expected to be functional later this week.
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Report backs sex-offender monitoring
April 21, 2005, heraldtribune.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Lloyd Dunkelberger
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A new report from legislative analysts supports the main premise of the Jessica Lunsford Act, asserting that the sophisticated and expensive satellite monitoring is best suited for high-risk offenders, including sexual predators. Those findings, which were released in a report earlier this month by the Florida Legislature's Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, came as the Senate debated legislation filed in response to the murder of Jessica Lunsford, a 9-year-old Homosassa girl.
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Sex offender kills self after fliers posted in community
April 21, 2005, nbc6.net | Submitted by admin
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A convicted sex offender in Ocala, Florida apparently committed suicide in despair over signs posted in his neighborhood calling him a "child rapist." Clovis Ivan Claxton was found dead by his father with one of the signs beside his body, less than a day after his release from a psychiatric hospital where he had been involuntarily committed for one day after threatening suicide.
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Congress unveils Jessica Lunsford Act
April 21, 2005, CNN | Submitted by admin
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Members of Congress on Thursday were introduced to legislation that would require states to keep closer tabs on convicted sex offenders not behind bars. The legislation would be called the Jessica Lunsford Act in honor of the Homosassa, Florida, girl who was allegedly abducted and slain by a convicted sex offender.
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Five myths about sex offender registries
April 20, 2005, ABCNEWS.com | Submitted by admin
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Though federal law requires all states to have sex offender registries, there are different laws governing them in each state. Here are five common misconceptions about the lists, from PedoWatch.org, a group dedicated to increasing awareness about threats to children from sexual predators.
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Kindergartners accused of having sex at school
April 19, 2005, KGBT 4 | Submitted by HPierce
Written By Roxanne Lerma
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According to police, two six-year old boys at Emiliano Zapata Elementary School in La Joya, Texas were caught performing oral sex on each other in a bathroom at the school. As a result, the school changed its policies to require children to be monitored when they go to the bathroom.
were performing sexual acts on each other, on campus
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We didn't know rape was illegal: Pitcairners
April 19, 2005, Herald Sun | Submitted by admin
Written By Claire Harvey
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Nobody on Pitcairn Island knew child rape, incest and gang rape were illegal, defence lawyers are claiming in a bid to stop the historic child-sex case on the world's most remote inhabited island.
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Foster carer is child porn pervert
April 19, 2005, The News & Star | Submitted by admin
Written By Phil Coleman
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A 54-year-old Cumbrian foster carer has been told he could be jailed after he admitted downloading more than 1,000 child pornography pictures on his home computer. In some of the sickening pictures found by police on the 54-year-old’s computer, children were photographed being sexually abused by adult males, Carlisle Crown Court heard. The children who had been placed with him at his home in Alston were immediately placed with alternative families when the offences came to light, say social services officials.
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Forged sex offender documents result in arrest of ex-OSU student
April 19, 2005, Albany Democrat-Herald | Submitted by admin
Written By Carrie Petersen
Article Overview
A former member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Oregon State University was arrested Monday for allegedly forging criminal sex offender release notifications with names of his former fraternity brothers. Cyrus Andrew Sullivan, 21, was arrested at his dorm at Portland State University and charged with first-degree forgery, first-degree possession of a forged instrument and criminal impersonation
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Shake-up of watch on freed sex offenders
April 19, 2005, scotsman.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Michael Howie
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The supervision of more than 1,000 of nearly 2,700 total sex offenders living in communities across Scotland will be reviewed amid fears that monitoring agencies are failing properly to protect the public. The move follows a report which exposed failures by agencies involved in the case of 19-year-old James Campbell, who tried to rape a two-year-old girl after being freed from detention.
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School explains registered sex offender on football scholarship
April 18, 2005, WKYT | Submitted by steve
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Pikeville College officials say a registered sex offender who has received a football scholarship isn't someone to worry about.
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Sex offender legislation gains steam
April 18, 2005, AM850.com | Submitted by steve
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Legislation aimed at toughening up convicted sexual offender laws is gaining steam in the Florida state house.
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Group home for sex offenders has neighbors fearful
April 17, 2005, North County Times | Submitted by admin
Written By William Finn Bennett
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Last week, The Californian interviewed a half-dozen parents living in the area surrounding a residence housing 15 convicted sex offenders, known as Alpha Omega. None of those parents had any idea that they live so close to a group home for sex offenders and all expressed disbelief, shock and fear upon learning of the men's presence in their midst.
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Study critical of N.H., Maine sex offender websites
April 17, 2005, Foster's Online | Submitted by admin
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A study by the University of Florida’s Citizen Access Project of sex offender Web sites across the country ranks Iowa’s in the middle of the pack.
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Police: Sex offender guidelines incorrect
April 17, 2005, News Journal | Submitted by admin
Written By Katherine Sayre
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The Texas Department of Public Safety has incorrectly trained East Texas law enforcement agencies on the situations in which they must publish newspaper notices when sex offenders move to town. The mistake stems from confusion over a training manual given out statewide, but a DPS spokeswoman said the department hasn't heard of the same problems elsewhere.
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Resident wants sex offender information publicized on Internet
April 17, 2005, Corvallis Gazette-Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Les Gehrett
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A North Albany, Oregon resident's campaign for more public information about predatory sex offenders has been taken up by State Rep. Andy Olson, R-Albany. Tom Cordier, a retired manager at Wah Chang, brought up the issue after learning that Benton County posts information about predatory sex offenders on the Web, but Linn County does not.
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Call to cancel pedophile passports
April 16, 2005, Herald Sun | Submitted by admin
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Child Wise, A child rights group, demanded the passports of recidivist pedophiles be cancelled to stop them targeting children left defenceless by the Boxing Day tsunami. About 20 convicted pedophiles trying to travel to Indonesia and Thailand following the tsunami have been stopped, caught by new rules introduced with a national child sex offender register. Some countries, including Indonesia and Thailand, ban convicted sex offenders from entering their countries.
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Sex offender housing draws debate
April 16, 2005, North County Times | Submitted by admin
Written By Gig Conaughton
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Early next month, a Superior Court judge working with California state and local officials could set the standard for how some 60-plus "sexually violent predators" eventually will be released to live in San Diego County. Judge David Danielson is scheduled to hear a status report May 10 on how officials plan to find local homes for Douglas Badger and Matthew Hedge, the county's first two sexually violent predators as classified by a 1996 law.
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Protecting the children: Phila man upset after learning sex offender lives near his daughter’s elementary school
April 16, 2005, Times Reporter | Submitted by admin
Written By Stephanie Corbin
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After conducting a sex offender search and learning 17 registered sex offenders reside within a mile of his house, Doug VanFossen said he is concerned for his daughter. The girl attends a New Philadelphia elementary school, and a registered sex offender lives near the playground. He doesn’t believe sex offenders should be allowed to live that close to a school.
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3 teens charged with crimes against nature
April 15, 2005, The Daily Press | Submitted by HPierce
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A 15-year-old girl has been charged with two counts of crimes against nature and one count of indecent exposure for an incident on a school bus, James City County police said. Two 16-year-old boys were each charged with one count each of crimes against nature for the same incident. Students reported that the girl exposed her breasts and performed oral sex on the boys on the bus.
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Women can now be convicted for sex with minors
April 15, 2005, Stuff | Submitted by HPierce
Written By Martin Kay
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In New Zealand it is now illegal for women over 16 to have sex with boys younger than that thanks to the Crimes Amendment Act (No 2) - a move brought in after an affair between 21-year-old Wellington swimming coach Stacey Friel and a 13-year-old boy.
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Police want suspected voyeur on sex offender list
April 13, 2005, The Daily Californian | Submitted by steve
Written By Sonja Sharp
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Police are pushing to get the name of a Berkeley man suspected of using a video camera to film up a woman’s skirt onto a state list of sex offenders, authorities said. Robert Knop, 63, who was arrested March 10 at a Costco Wholesale store in Richmond after authorities found a miniature camera in his shoe.
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Investigators question convicted sex offender in Sarah Lunde's disappearance
April 13, 2005, Tampa Bay's 10 News | Submitted by admin
Written By Dave Bohman
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Investigators have questioned convicted sex offender David Onstott in the disappearance of Sarah Lunde.
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Residents attempt to oust sex offenders from home
April 12, 2005, Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by admin
Written By Christopher Sherman
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Neighbors in Winter Park, Florida, some incognito in hats and sunglasses, protested in front of a home Monday in an attempt to pressure the landlord to evict two convicted sex offenders who have been living there since February.
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Senate approves releasing juvenile sex offenders' identities
April 12, 2005, Duluth News Tribune | Submitted by steve
Written By Todd Richmond
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Police chiefs and sheriffs could notify the public about juvenile sex offenders they think pose a danger under a bill the Wisconsin state Senate approved Tuesday.
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Sex offenders file lawsuit against county prosecutor
April 12, 2005, nbc4i.com | Submitted by steve
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The Delaware County, Ohio prosecutor was named in a lawsuit by convicted sex offenders, who said they shouldn't have to follow a law stating they are not allowed to live within 1,000 feet of a school.
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Supervisors support bills to tighten sex offender laws
April 12, 2005, 10News.com | Submitted by steve
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The San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed Tuesday to support bills before the Legislature tightening laws dealing with the release from prison of violent sex offenders.
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Sex offender's location moves school bus stop
April 12, 2005, The New Mexico Channel | Submitted by steve
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A nightmare is haunting parents in one Rio Rancho, New Mexico neighborhood, as a sex offender lives just steps away from a school bus stop.
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Tighter sex offender registry photo rules proposed In N.Y.
April 12, 2005, TheChamplainChannel.com | Submitted by admin
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Some New York state lawmakers want to strengthen the rules requiring that pictures of registered sex offenders be posted on an official state government Web site.
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Budget expands sex offender treatment program
April 12, 2005, Kansas City Star | Submitted by steve
Written By Kelly Wiese
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Missouri's civil sex offender treatment program has been in place for more than six years, and so far no one has graduated from it. The number of people held as "sexually violent predators" - after their normal prison sentences have ended - has grown to about 100 people, and about 17 people are being added to that list each year.
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Convicted sex offender charged with trying to kidnap boy
April 11, 2005, WFTV.com | Submitted by steve
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A convicted sex offender, Jackie Ray Higginbotham, charged with trying to kidnap a 15-year-old boy in Orange County, Florida, will make his first court appearance Monday.
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New sex offender registry en route
April 09, 2005, Quad-City Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Todd Ruger
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According to Davenport, Iowa Capt. David Struckman, Davenport police will catalog the city's approximately 300 registered sex offenders based on the crime they were convicted of, giving investigators responding to possible abductions knowledge of the most likely suspects in a given locale.
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Lawyer caught having jail sex gets 2-year suspension
April 08, 2005, Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by HPierce
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The state Supreme Court of Washington announced a two-year suspension for a lawyer caught having jailhouse sex with a triple-murder defendant she was representing.
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Sex offender lawsuit
April 07, 2005, WTAP | Submitted by steve
Written By Denise Alex
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Civil rights activists are challenging a new provision of Ohio law that will allow prosecutors to evict sex offenders who live within one-thousand feet of a school.
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New law strengthens sex offender rules
April 07, 2005, The New Mexico Channel | Submitted by steve
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has signed a measure that requires sex offender registrants to give DNA samples and requires them to notify their employers or schools of their status and to register as sex offenders within 10 days of arriving in the state.
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Sex offender registries might be posted online
April 07, 2005, Colorado State Collegian | Submitted by steve
Written By Brian Park
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Under Colorado's House Bill 1035, agencies would be allowed to post sex offender registries on their Web site with an offender's name, address, known aliases, convictions for sex crimes and prior criminal convictions.
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Senate considers adding limited death penalty to sex offender measure
April 07, 2005, TheIowaChannel.com | Submitted by admin
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Iowa senators considering sex offender legislation that was passed by the House said they want to consider adding a limited death penalty element, which would apply to people who are convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a child.
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Barrister casts doubt over child sex offender register
April 07, 2005, ABC Online | Submitted by steve
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A Canberra criminal barrister says the ACT Government's move to set up a register of convicted child sex offenders is not necessarily the answer to the serious social problem.
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Tougher penalties for sex offenders advance in Senate
April 07, 2005, DesMoinesRegister.com | Submitted by admin
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Legislation toughening punishment for sex offenders passed through an Iowa Senate committee today and backers vowed to go even further next week. The measure requires DNA samples to be taken from all convicted sex offenders and eliminates shorter sentences for inmates who refuse treatment for sex abuse.
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Sexual offender issues debated
April 07, 2005, Chicago Tribune | Submitted by steve
Written By Ofelia Casillas
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About 130 police officers, lawyers, educators, social workers and state officials agreed at a meeting in Illinois Wednesday that sheriff's police need to tell schools about students who are juvenile sex offenders. The three-hour discussion, led by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan at an office of the Illinois State Police in Des Plaines, took place about a week after the Tribune revealed that some schools don't know about juvenile offenders who are students because of a state system mired in confusion
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Principal placed on leave for not reporting gang rape
April 06, 2005, newsnet5.com | Submitted by steve
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A Columbus, Ohio high school principal has been fired for failing to call police after learning that a developmentally disabled female student had allegedly been sexually assaulted by four male students in the school auditorium.
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Hormone therapy for offenders rarely used
April 05, 2005, DesMoinesRegister.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Jonathan Roos
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A controversial drug treatment for child molesters, approved by Iowa lawmakers seven years ago, is rarely used. Courts seldom order the treatment. When they do, physicians are unwilling to prescribe and supervise the use of the drug, which acts to suppress sexual urges, corrections officials told a group of legislators.
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Defrocked Boston priest indicted on child rape charges
April 04, 2005, Boston Globe | Submitted by steve
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A defrocked Catholic priest and convicted sex offender was indicted Monday on six counts of child rape of young boys from Boston parishes, authorities said. Robert Burns, who was imprisoned for three years in New Hampshire, will be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on six counts of rape of a child under 16, and seven counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.
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Sex offender clusters: The Myrick Motel
April 04, 2005, WAFF | Submitted by steve
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he Myrick Motel in Huntsville, Alabama is home to seven sex offenders. All seven were convicted of sex crimes against children.
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Flaws, confusion plague offender registry
April 04, 2005, DesMoinesRegister.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Frank Santiago
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A decade-long effort to gather information on the whereabouts of Iowa sex offenders is beset with loopholes and suffers from public confusion about its intended purpose, state officials said. The computerized Iowa Sex Offender Registry turns 10 years old this summer, but the free online service has faced more scrutiny in recent weeks than at any other time since its inception.
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Day care center closed after sex offender found living there
April 04, 2005, Local10.com | Submitted by steve
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A woman who lives near a home-based day care center in Northwest Miami-Dade, Florida called the Problem Solvers after she found out a registered sexual offender was living in the center. Within hours of hearing about the situation from Local 10, the state Department of Children and Families closed down the day care center.
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Attorney General hopeful: tighten sex offender registry, toughen penalties
April 04, 2005, WVEC | Submitted by steve
Written By Bob Lewis
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According to Republican attorney general candidate Bob McDonnell, Virginia should tighten its 10-day limit for sex offenders to register with an online database after their prison release and make it a crime to knowingly process credit card payments for Internet child pornography. McDonnell also proposed doubling the minimum prison term for child rapists from five years to life to 10 years to life and require entry onto the Sex Offender Registry for five felony first offenses involving children.
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Family upset over registry inaccuracies
April 03, 2005, KCRG TV9 | Submitted by steve
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KCRG-TV9 has received calls from people saying their addresses are listed on the Iowa sex offender registry, even though they're not sex offenders. And that's not the only problem we found with the website, IowaSexOffender.com
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Online child-sex sting results in 9 arrests
April 02, 2005, The Washington Post | Submitted by steve
Written By Jamie Stockwell
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An online child-sex sting operation resulting in 9 arrests, which ended Thursday, was part of a newly formed Northern Virginia-D.C. Internet Crimes Against Children task force. During the 10-day operation, the officers assumed the role of children in chat rooms online. Nine men, including a youth minister and a teaching assistant, were arrested as they arrived at prearranged meeting spots, police said.
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Sexual predator's business targeted
April 02, 2005, TBO.com | Submitted by dp1
Written By Kathy Steele
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Police in Plant City, Floirda took the unusual step of handing out fliers and knocking on doors when they heard a convicted sexual predator, Gary Mark Hicks, had bought a local pet shop. At 10 a.m. today, a group of protesters is expected to gather a few blocks from Pet City Center. The rally and march are being organized by community activist Judy Cornett, who has organized protests against convicted sexual offender Kevin Kinder.
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Debate continues over pope's reaction to sex-abuse scandal
April 02, 2005, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by admin
Written By Alan Cooperman
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During his reign, Pope John Paul II apologized for many things, yet the pope never apologized for the most shocking behavior that came to light on his watch: sexual abuse of children by priests and the church's attempts to hush it up. To some alleged victims, that is a puzzling omission and a deep stain on his legacy.
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Clayton County bus stop in front of convicted sex offender
April 02, 2005, henryherald.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Greg Gelpi
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Every day Clayton County school kids are picked up and dropped off at a bus stop at the doorstep of a convicted child molester. A spokesman for the school system said it still might take a couple of weeks to change the stop now that parents have complained.
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Convicted sex offender charged with molesting child
April 02, 2005, WCCO | Submitted by steve
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North Dakota State University student, Joseph Edward Duncan III, 42, one of this city's first high-risk sex offenders, has been charged in Becker County, Minn., with molesting a 7-year-old boy near a middle school.
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Internet child porn arrests quadruple
April 01, 2005, telegraph.co.uk | Submitted by steve
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Arrests and sentences for internet child porn crimes quadrupled in two years, according to new figures. Figures published last month revealed 2,234 people were warned or charged with crimes in England and Wales in 2003, compared with 549 in 2001. The rise is attributed mainly to Operation Ore.
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