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Program goal: redemption for the reviled
May 31, 2005, Richmond Times-Dispatch | Submitted by steve
Written By Frank Green
Article Overview
Insight into sex offender treatment programs in Virginia's state probation and parole offices and its prison system.
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Man prosecuted by Governor now seeks pardon
May 31, 2005, WRAL | Submitted by admin
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A man who spent 20 years in prison after being falsely convicted of molesting a young girl wants his record cleared. But that could be a conflict of interest because of the North Carolina governor's role as the Brunswick County District Attorney who sent him to prison in 1984.
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Officials unsure who will pay for sex offender tracking
May 31, 2005, KOTV | Submitted by admin
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Oklahoma officials say they're unsure who will pay for the lifetime tracking of indigent sex offenders that will be required under a new state law. The law requires offenders to wear GPS bracelets, at a cost of about $4,000 per offender per year.
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Spiderman attacker is scared off
May 30, 2005, National Post | Submitted by admin
Written By Siri Agrell
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A Scarborough man convicted of more than two dozen sexual assaults is the main suspect in a violent attack in which a man scaled an apartment building to reach his victim. Herbert William Ward, 41, has a criminal record stretching back 25 years. In 2001, he was coined the "Cliffside Stalker", a sexual predator who attacked women after climbing building walls to enter their apartments.
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Number of unregistered sex offenders reduced by more than half
May 29, 2005, Boston Globe | Submitted by steve
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The state of Massachusetts has eliminated a backlog at the Sex Offender Registry Board and reduced the number of unregistered sex offenders by more than half in less than two years, officials said.
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Predator or just an offender?
May 29, 2005, Denver Post | Submitted by dp1
Written By Kirk Mitchell and Sean Kelly
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Colorado's system for identifying and warning communities about sexually violent predators - the worst rapists and child molesters - has identified almost none of them. Since a state law went into effect in 1999, Colorado has labeled only two men not in prison as sexually violent predators.
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In Colorado, he's not a sexual predator
May 29, 2005, Denver Post | Submitted by admin
Written By Kirk Mitchell
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A sex offender convicted three times for exposing himself admits that he did so thousands of other times to young male victims at schools, malls and parks over the past 36 years. As soon as he's out from under monitoring by the Colorado Department of Corrections in October, the 47-year-old traveling salesman with HIV plans to return to public places to expose himself again.
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Spanish police, helped by Canada, break up pedophile ring that abuse babies
May 28, 2005, CBC News | Submitted by admin
Written By Harold Heckle
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Police broke up a pedophile ring suspected of abusing children as young as 11 months and distributing images of the abuse on the Internet, officials said Thursday.
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Plea deal that let sex offender keep address near school
May 28, 2005, Gainesville.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Lise Fisher
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A local judge is questioning a 2004 plea agreement that allowed a Gainesville, Florida man designated as a sex offender to continue living near a school.
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Pedophile link to 4th murder: Lewis
May 27, 2005, The Advertiser | Submitted by admin
Written By Bryan Littlely
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An Elizabeth man murdered in an execution-style shooting was the fourth person to be killed after alleging a state MP was a pedophile, former speaker Peter Lewis told Parliament yesterday. All four had claimed to have knowledge of or to have been the victim of an alleged pedophile MP.
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House get sex offender bill
May 27, 2005, Chicago Defender | Submitted by steve
Written By Raam Wong
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A bill moving through the Illinois General Assembly this week would prevent the concentrating of sex offenders in one neighborhood. The bill, approved 40-16 by the Senate, prohibits sex offenders from living together at one address except for a licensed group home. The move results from a report revealing that the Department of Corrections had placed 10 percent of the stat's sex offenders out on parole in the 60628 ZIP code on Chicago's South Side.
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Sex offender wanted for questioning kills self
May 27, 2005, Williston Pioneer Sun News | Submitted by steve
Written By Mike Bowdoin
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A sex offender who had been registered to live in Yankeetown killed himself May 20 rather than face an investigation by the Levy County Sheriff's Office into a new allegation of sexual crimes made against him in April. George W. Hummel, 61, shot himself in his head when a deputy tried to question him at his mother's house in Summerfield.
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Bill would create Web site to identify sex offenders
May 27, 2005, Statesman Journal | Submitted by admin
Written By Tara McLain
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Oregon Rep. Jerry Krummel, R-Wilsonville, drafted a bill for her that would make the Oregon State Police post high-risk sex offenders on a single Web site. Every state but Oregon publishes the names, photos and backgrounds of at least some people convicted of a variety of sex crimes, particularly those involving children.
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Va. sex offenders got Viagra
May 27, 2005, Richmond Times-Dispatch | Submitted by steve
Written By Frank Green
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The Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services has discovered that Virginia provided Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs to 52 registered sex offenders through its Medicaid program last year. Gov. Mark R. Warner signed an emergency regulation stopping the benefit for those offenders, but that may result in potential legal problems. By banning the drugs solely for registerd sex offenders, the state's Medicaid program may have to drop coverage for such drugs for everyone.
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Shaq works on hunting down sexual predators
May 25, 2005, Palm Beach Post | Submitted by admin
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NBA star Shaquille O'Neal has joined a Department of Justice task force that tracks down sexual predators who target children on the Internet. The 7-foot-1, 325-pound center for the Miami Heat was recently sworn in as a U.S. deputy marshal and, on the Saturday afternoon before the Miami-Washington playoff series, spent six hours with Miami Beach police investigators helping with cases. According to Shaq, when he's done playing, he plans on going undercover and then becoming a sheriff or police chief.
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Senate passes sex offender e-mail notification bill
May 24, 2005, Michigan Live | Submitted by steve
Written By David Eggert
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The Michigan state Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would let residents be notified by e-mail when a sex offender moves into their zip code. The Senate voted 34-2 to send the bill to the House.
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Rape victim's mom sent nude pics to suspect
May 24, 2005, FOXNews.com | Submitted by HPierce
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A mother is accused of sending nude photos of her 13-year-old daughter to a man who is charged with raping the girl. The 28-year-old mother, whose name was not released to shield her daughter's identity, was charged with promoting child pornography.
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Sex offenders get Viagra paid for by Medicaid
May 23, 2005, CNN | Submitted by admin
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New York's comptroller urged the nation's top health official Sunday to ban high-risk sex offenders and convicted rapists from receiving Viagra paid for by Medicaid. Comptroller Alan Hevesi said his office found that from January 1, 2000, through March 31, 2005, 198 Level 3 sex offenders received Medicaid-reimbursed Viagra after being convicted of a sex offense.
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Girl, 8, found buried alive in Lake Worth landfill; suspect, 17, charged
May 22, 2005, Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by admin
Written By Tal Abbady
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An 8-year-old girl who'd been reported abducted survived for hours inside a recycling bin where police said her alleged attacker had buried her with concrete chunks. Police arrested a 17-year-old suspect who lives in the home of the girl's godmother. The teen was charged with attempted murder, false imprisonment on a victim under 13 and sexual battery on a child under 12.
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Critics: Sex offender tracking smacks of '1984'
May 22, 2005, NJ.com - Everything Jersey | Submitted by steve
Written By Terrence Dopp
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Legislation calling for satellite tracking of released sex offenders would set New Jersey on a perilous road toward an authoritarian state, a national attorneys group warned. Several proposals are pending in Trenton that would authorize police to outfit released pedophiles and others convicted for sex crimes GPS anklets, but detractors fear an Orwellian world of Big Brother and cite the potential for abuses by authorities that could infringe on the privacy rights of average citizens.
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Sex offender sought by officers fatally shoots self
May 21, 2005, Gainesville.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Millard K. Ives
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A registered sex offender wanted for questioning in the molestation of a child killed himself Friday morning when a Marion County, Florida sheriff's deputy came to his mother's house.
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Amnesty over for sex offender registering
May 21, 2005, Palladium-Item | Submitted by steve
Written By Don Fasnacht
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An offer of amnesty brought at least four unregistered sex offenders in out of the cold in Wayne County, Indiana. Wayne County Sheriff Matt Strittmatter, in cooperation with the Wayne County Probation Department, had given unregistered sex offenders two weeks to sign up without any penalty.
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New sex crime penalty: parole for life
May 20, 2005, Quincy Herald-Whig | Submitted by admin
Written By Rodney Hart
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Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he will sign legislation, the Lifetime Supervision of Sex Offenders Act, requiring some sex offenders to be on parole for as long as they live. The bill was approved by the Senate Wednesday and the House last March.
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National sex offender registry planned
May 20, 2005, HoustonChronicle.com | Submitted by steve
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The United State Justice Department will put a searchable nationwide database of sex offenders on the Internet, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced Friday. Gonzales said that the US national sex offender registry will be available by the end of the year, providing access to information from the forty-eight states that already have public state sex offender registries.
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Local case asks when is child porn copying 'production'?
May 17, 2005, The Muskegon Chronicle | Submitted by steve
Written By John S. Hausman
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No one disputes that copying Internet child pornography onto a computer disk is a felony in Michigan. But is it simple possession -- a crime punishable by a maximum of four years in prison, and sometimes penalized with county jail time of less than a year? Or is it an act that "produces" or "makes" child porn -- a far more serious offense with a top penalty of 20 years, virtually guaranteeing a multi-year prison term?
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Meeting on sex offender rattles neighbors
May 17, 2005, St. Paul / Minneapolis Pioneer Planet | Submitted by steve
Written By Laura Yuen
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A man who raped three women in one night 20 years ago moved into St. Paul's Selby-Dale area Monday, forcing neighbors to respond to their first resident high-risk sex offender since the state's community notification law was enacted in 1997.
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Mom arrested for exposing children to sex offender
May 17, 2005, WAFF | Submitted by admin
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Alisha Lee, the mother of two young children believe to be raped and sodomized by Richard Reeves, is under arrest for child abuse. Police believe she knew Reeves was a child molester, but allowed her children to be around him anyway.
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Lie-detector tests for sex offenders
May 17, 2005, telegraph.co.uk | Submitted by steve
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Sex offenders will face compulsory lie-detector tests, the British Government has announced. The move will ensure they are telling the truth about their behaviour, such as obeying bail conditions to keep away from schools and playgrounds.
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Sex offender bill planned
May 17, 2005, The Kentucky Post | Submitted by steve
Written By Feoshia Henderson
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Kentucky State Rep. Jon Draud is planning to introduce legislation in next year's General Assembly to impose stricter penalties on convicted child sex offenders.
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Police step up efforts for registry
May 16, 2005, Rockford Register Star | Submitted by steve
Written By Mike Wiser
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Illinois has tried to crack down on sex offenders by passing laws with tougher punishments, by upping enforcement efforts with "compliance check" raids, and raising awareness of its Sex Offender Registry Web site. Now state officials are appealing to media, asking newspapers to run mug shots of some serious cases in hopes that someone may recognize a picture and call authorities.
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Name and shame approach questioned
May 16, 2005, TVNZ | Submitted by admin
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A treatment programme for people who sexually abuse children says publicly outing offenders as has happened in Blackball only drives them underground.
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Sex offender law changes await vote
May 16, 2005, Mobile Register | Submitted by admin
Written By Brendan Kirby
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Proposed changes to Alabama's sex offender registration law that would place more requirements on offenders and increase penalties on violators could come to a vote today, but advocates said they fear time in the legislative session will run out.
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Accuracy of sex offender registry under scrutiny
May 16, 2005, TheIndyChannel.com | Submitted by admin
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Indianapolis police, who maintain the local sex offender registry, say that nearly 500 of 1,672 registrants in Marion County have ignored notices to update their registrations.
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Inmate sex offender sends letter to Lebanon school
May 16, 2005, WCPO.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Deb Silverman
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In a letter sent from the Lebanon Correctional Institute to the principal at Lebanon's Bowman Elementary, the inmate says he has an idea to select a few children, who are lonely and unsure, to correspond with him. It was allegedly signed by Ronald Getz, an inmate who is sentenced to 20-years for rape.
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Convicted sex offender suspended from Blountsville police
May 16, 2005, nbc13.com | Submitted by steve
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A police officer in Blountsville, Alabama has been suspended after members of the community pointed out he's a convicted sex offender.
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Man charged in Sarah Lunde's death tries to dig out of jail cell
May 15, 2005, Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by steve
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David Onstott, the sex offender accused of killing 13-year-old Sarah Lunde, was caught trying to dig a way out of his jail cell at the Hillsborough County Jail.
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Mystery girl in child porn case found safe
May 14, 2005, CTV.ca | Submitted by steve
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A girl who has been the object of a continent-wide child pornography investigation has been found and is reported to be safe. The young girl, believed to be around the age of 11 or 12, has been located in a foster home in the Pittsburgh area.
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Find money for both meth, sex-offender bills
May 14, 2005, DesMoinesRegister.com | Submitted by steve
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In Iowa, a methamphetamine law was signed into law in March, but the body of Jetseta Gage was found three days later and the state legislature passed bills related to sex offenders, pitting the two initiatives against one another for funding.
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Man forced onto police sex list
May 13, 2005, BBC News | Submitted by admin
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A known sex offender from the Republic has been forced to go on the Northern Ireland sex offender's register. His inclusion will allow police and the social services and probation agencies to monitor and manage the offender's behavior - the first time a such an order has been made under sex crime laws.
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Mead Valley residents' anger targets sex offender
May 13, 2005, Los Angeles Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Susannah Rosenblatt
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Mead Valley, California residents, incensed over the last-minute placement of a paroled sex offender in their Riverside County neighborhood, on Thursday picketed the halfway house where he lives, concerned about their families' safety.
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Reports: Sex offender ran gynecological clinic
May 13, 2005, Tallahassee Democrat | Submitted by admin
Written By Ron Wood
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The state of Florida is investigating reports that a former gynecologist, who went to prison for trading drugs for oral sex with teenage girls, was running a gynecological clinic. He has not, however, been accused of examining patients.
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More than 250 sex offenders removed from Web site
May 12, 2005, KPUA | Submitted by steve
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Hawaii's attorney general's office has temporarily removed 256 convicted sex offenders from the state's recently updated online registry.
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Supreme Court ruling makes it harder to stop child porn
May 08, 2005, The Union Leader | Submitted by admin
Written By Shawne K. Wickham
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According to some New Hampshire prosecutors, a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision that “virtual” child pornography is protected free speech will have a “chilling effect” on bringing some offenders to trial. The high court ruled in the Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition case (often referred to as the Ashcroft case) that sections of a 1996 federal law banning computer-generated or “morphed” child pornography were “overbroad” and unconstitutional.
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Delray Beach child molester charged with assaulting 2 girls
May 08, 2005, Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by admin
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A 19-year-old man already on probation for sexually assaulting a child has been arrested on charges that he molested two young girls. Emanuel Moreland allegedly molested the girls while he was baby-sitting them last week. and was being held without bail at the Palm Beach County Jail, charged with two counts of kidnapping a child under 13, a felony punishable up to life in prison; molesting a child under 12; lewd or lascivious exhibition to a child under 12; and showing obscene material to a minor.
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Street justice? Sex offender's death raises questions
May 08, 2005, The Salt Lake Tribune | Submitted by steve
Written By Allen G. Breed
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For nearly four years, Chuckie Claxton lived anonymously in the Florida Orange Groves subdivision. Then the crimes of others drew new attention to his own. In the statewide outrage over the arrests of sex offenders in the separate killings of two young girls, someone discovered that Claxton had molested a young girl 15 years earlier, blanketed the neighborhood with dozens of fliers containing the sex offender registry entry for Claxton, with "CHILD RAPIST" added to the bottom of the page. Four days after the fliers appeared, Claxton was found dead.
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Sex-offender monitoring ready
May 07, 2005, Lowell Sun Online | Submitted by steve
Written By Julie Mehegan
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Probation officials in Massachusetts will begin actively monitoring the comings-and-goings of the state's most dangerous sex offenders next week when the first probationer is outfitted with a satellite-tracking ankle bracelet.
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Missouri to expand Amber Alert system
May 06, 2005, Kansas City Star | Submitted by admin
Written By Betsy Taylor
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Missouri will join an Amber Alert system using the Internet to spread information more quickly about missing children, and allowing citizens to get electronic notices about searches, Gov. Matt Blunt said Friday.
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Police in Europe crack down on child pornography networks in massive raid
May 06, 2005, CBC News | Submitted by steve
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Police using Internet monitoring software that allows them to spot the downloading of child pornography raided the homes of about 100 people in eight European countries, police said Friday. The software used, LogP2P, monitors websites and forums and allows police to identify in real time people who are downloading or uploading child porn, police said.
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New information surfaces on child molestation suspect
May 06, 2005, KOMO TV | Submitted by steve
Written By Michelle Esteban
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Tony Prom, who admitted to fondling little boys hundreds of times, admitted trying to touch his wife's son and confessed to molesting other boys, after his wife confronted him and marched him into the Bonney Lake police department. KOMO learned that Prom worked off and on as a substitute school teacher in Washington.
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Man who killed widower he believed was a paedophile is jailed for life
May 06, 2005, Independent.co.uk | Submitted by admin
Written By Ian Herbert
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A man who battered a widower to death in the mistaken belief that he was a paedophile has been jailed for life. Brian Kearney, 21, donned a hooded jacket and a joiner's belt filled with weapons before cycling to a deserted barn where he launched the deadly attack on Barry Sewell, 49, who was living rough after the death of his wife.
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Amber Alert delays, problems in Jetseta case under review
May 04, 2005, DesMoinesRegister.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Jennifer Jacobs
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Iowa legislators want to know why nearly 2-1/2 hours passed between Jetseta Gage's kidnapping from her Cedar Rapids home and when authorities issued a statewide alert - and why glitches further slowed posting the alert on highway signs, an official Web site, and lottery ticket terminals.
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Legislators approve sex offender registry law, DNA collection
May 04, 2005, KPUA | Submitted by admin
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Hawaii legislators have approved two major bills to help law enforcement. One bill clarifies the state's sex offender registry law. Another requires DNA testing and hand impressions of all convicted felons.
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Erlanger neighborhood nervous about sex offender
May 04, 2005, The Cincinnati Enquirer | Submitted by admin
Written By William Croyle
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Residents of Erlanger, Ohio were furious when Paul Iles moved to the Deer Chase subdivision in January because the 49-year-old is a lifetime registered sex offender with two victims under age 12. He wants people to give him a chance, but neighbors aren't interested.
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Senate passes measure toughening sex abuse laws
May 04, 2005, press-citizen.com | Submitted by admin
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After proponents abandoned their efforts to reinstate the death penalty on Tuesday, the Iowa Senate quickly approved a package significantly toughening the state's sex abuse laws. Measures approved include doubling the prison term to 10 years for committing lascivious acts with a child and tightening supervision of those who are released from prison on sex charges.
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Parent identifies sex offender at school
May 04, 2005, San Luis Obispo Tribune | Submitted by admin
Written By Cynthia Neff
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Parents of preschoolers at a county-run program in Grover Beach, California will be told when they drop off their children today that police have arrested a convicted sex offender who has been volunteering there. A county education official said his office wasn't aware of Francisco Cruz Gomez's criminal history before police brought it to its attention Friday. Gomez was arrested Monday on charges of failing to register as a sex offender.
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Teen charged with child molestation at mother's day care center
May 03, 2005, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by steve
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The teenage son of a Chehalis, Washington day care operator has been charged with four counts of first-degree child molestation, accused of preying on children being tended in the family home. Owen M. Dailey, 18, is being held on $100,000 bond. The documents quote Dailey as telling police he started touching the children when he was 13. Best Buddies Daycare license was suspended April 19th.
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Sex offender forced to move out of neighborhood, but can visit
May 03, 2005, WFTV.com | Submitted by admin
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A judge ordered sex offender Michael Barrick out of the Park Stone subdivision off 434 in Winter Springs. Although he is no longer allowed to live in the neighborhood with his own family because it's less than 1,000 feet from a park, he can legally visit, which has upset neighbors here. Earlier this year, a judge allowed Barrick to move into his family's house, because the state didn't realize the house was so close to a park, a bike trail, and a neighborhood full of children.
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Governor signs Lunsford Act, toughening sex offender laws
May 03, 2005, heraldtribune.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Lloyd Dunkelberger
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On Monday, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed legislation that will force criminals who sexually molest children to serve longer prison sentences and face lifetime satellite monitoring if they are released from prison. The legislation, the Lunsford Act, is named after Jessica Lunsford of Citrus County.
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Sex offender detector
May 03, 2005, nbc6.net | Submitted by admin
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Technology developed by Raptor Technologies to identify registered sexual predators and offenders by scanning sex offender databases after swiping school visitors' drivers licenses is described. According to the company's president, Allan Measom, the system costs about $1,500 to install and then just short of $500 a year.
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Coroner: Sex offender may have killed himself
May 03, 2005, Belleville News-Democrat | Submitted by admin
Written By Nivklaus Lovelady
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Authorities said a 67-year-old Godfrey man, Franklin Carver, who died after jumping from the Clark Bridge had been shot five times, possibly by himself. Carver pleaded guilty last year to a count of criminal sexual abuse for committing a sex act with a girl when she was 13 or 14.
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State sex offender registry begins adding photos to Web site
May 02, 2005, Michigan Live | Submitted by admin
Written By Crystal Harmon
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Michigan's state sex offender registry now includes photographs of convicted offenders on its online public database. he site, www.mipsor.state. mi.us, has had more than 14 million visits since it debuted five years ago. It provides the name, address, date of birth, height, weight, eye color, hair color and conviction information for the 36,748 registered sex offenders in Michigan.
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State's sex offender list is now a click away
May 02, 2005, Concord Monitor | Submitted by admin
Written By Annmarie Timmins
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New Hampshire state officials have recently made it easier to find its list of sex offenders, including where they are living and what they look like. The list, once several clicks from the state's main Web page, is now displayed front and center on the homepage. The relocation came in mid-April after a national television news program aired a show telling viewers how to access sex offender lists in their individual states.
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'Amie's Law' on the books
May 02, 2005, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Submitted by admin
Written By Jacqueline Seibel
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Named for the first known victim of Joshua Wade, who committed sexual assaults as a juvenile, Amie Zyla, Amie's Law will now allow law enforcement in Iowa to notify communities about juvenile sex offenders living in the area.
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Newspaper publishes sex offender lists
May 01, 2005, Mobile Register | Submitted by admin
Written By Brendan Kirby
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Today, the Mobile Register begins publishing the names, addresses and photographs of southwest Alabama residents required to register as sex offenders under the state's community notification law.
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Man charged with hiring prostitute for young boy
May 01, 2005, Virginian Pilot | Submitted by HPierce
Written By Steve Stone
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Police in Suffolk, Virginia have charged a 58-year-old man with hiring a prostitute for a 15-year-old relative. According to police, the woman, who was paid $13 for her services, has not been located.
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The odd case of a naked nanny
May 01, 2005, St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by HPierce
Written By Leonora LaPeter
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Sarah Slicker had been babysitting for a family for 3 months until an incident that split a neighborhood and a church. She was fast-forwarding through a James Bond movie, Die Another Day, when a sex scene appeared. The 4-year-old boy in her care demanded she take off her clothes. Slicker complied, and let him touch her. Today, Slicker sits in jail, labeled a sex offender, but she maintains her actions were not sexual.
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