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Sex Offender / Sex Crime News - Featured Articles, August, 2005
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Hunt perv caught in a flash
August 27, 2005, New York Daily News | Submitted by admin
Written By Tracy Connor
Article Overview
When a pervert exposed himself on a Manhattan subway last week, Thao Nguyen reached for her secret weapon - her camera phone. The quick-thinking 22-year-old snapped a shot of the smirking sicko, took it to cops and then posted it on the Internet.
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County pedophile suspect found overseas
August 26, 2005, Modesto Bee | Submitted by admin
Written By Chris Togneri
Article Overview
A suspected pedophile wanted by Stanislaus County sheriff's investigators was arrested in Indonesia, deported to Guam, and is awaiting transfer back to the United States, officials said. According to Detective Ken Hedrick, Jack Davis Carter offered to pay $500 to have sex with two young girls in an online discussion. After Carter was charged with attempted felony child molestation and released on bail, he fled the country.
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School is first to adopt sex offender rules
August 26, 2005, Concord Monitor | Submitted by steve
Written By Sarah Liebowitz
Article Overview
The Barnstead School Board has passed the district's first sex offender policy, joining a small number of school districts nationwide that are drafting protections for students from registered sex offenders. The policy lays out conditions under which parents and guardians who are sex offenders can set foot on school grounds and requires background checks on all school employees, volunteers and contractors' employees.
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Convicted sex offender uses friend's name as alias
August 26, 2005, McKinney Courier-Gazette | Submitted by steve
Written By Danny Gallagher
Article Overview
When most people think of identity theft, they usually think of someone stealing personal information to apply for credit cards, withdraw cash from bank accounts, etc. Toby Shoemaker learned the hard way that theft can also affect one's criminal record when an apartment complex ran a background check on his credit and criminal history, which said he was a registered sex offender and that you were charged with aggravated sexual assault with a minor
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Registered sex offender killed in Fort Washington
August 26, 2005, nbc4.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A 40-year-old man who is listed on the Maryland Sex Offender Registry was shot and killed Thursday afternoon. Sources told News4 that police are investigating the possibility that Willie Williams Jr. may have been killed in retaliation for a sexual assault that allegedly occurred earlier in the day.
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ACLU sues Western N.C. town over sex offender park ban
August 26, 2005, TheCarolinaChannel.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has filed a lawsuit against the town of Woodfin, North Carolina, challenging an ordinance that prohibits anyone required to register as a sex offender from entering local public parks.
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AMBER ALERT: Girl, 12, missing with sex offender
August 26, 2005, WCNC | Submitted by steve
Written By Andre Dykes
Article Overview
An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing 12-year-old Rocky Mount, North Carolina girl. Police believe Jodi Renee Collier is with Phillip Denkler, 27, who is a two time convicted sex offender according to the FBI.
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Sex offender putting city's new ordinance to the test
August 26, 2005, WFTV.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A Mt. Dora, Florida man, Shane Vermeulen, may turn out to be the test case for Central Florida's sex offender ordinances. He was arrested on Thursday for moving too close to a school bus stop. Neighbors on Amherst Lane alerted police to the situation.
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The drive to create pedophile-free zones: Why it won't work and what will work
August 25, 2005, FindLaw's Writ - Legal Commentary | Submitted by steve
Written By Marci Hamilton
Article Overview
An editorial by attorney Marci A. Hamilton about why pedophile-free zones will fail and a ten-point proposal for what she feels will be effective.
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Repeat pedophile opts for chemical castration
August 24, 2005, The Edmonton Sun | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A notorious pedophile in Canada has agreed to be chemically castrated as part of his sentence for making and distributing child porn.
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Dover councilor proposes sex offender notification
August 24, 2005, Foster's Online | Submitted by admin
Written By Hiroko Sato
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Dover, New Hampshire City Councilor Matt Mayberry says he will soon propose an ordinance designed to help residents feel safer about living with convicted sex offenders in the community.
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Judge: First 'grad' of sex offender program won't be released
August 24, 2005, Gainesville.com | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
The "first graduate" of the Florida's treatment center for sexual offenders will continue to be confined indefinitely, a judge ruled. Duval Chief Circuit Judge Donald Moran rejected Tuesday a ruling from the Florida Civil Commission that Doug Carlin was ready to be released from the Arcadia treatment center. Sex offenders still deemed dangerous after they finish their prison sentences are sent there for treatment under the state's Jimmy Ryce Act.
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Experts say Pierce will have to register as sex offender
August 23, 2005, WQAD | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
A legal expert says there is little doubt that former University of Iowa basketball star Pierre Pierce will have to add his name to the state Sex Offender Registry after he is sentenced on a sex assault charge in October.
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State's sex offender law reviewed
August 23, 2005, Hartford Courant | Submitted by steve
Written By Tracy Gordon Fox
Article Overview
Legislators in Connecticut Monday unveiled a package of reforms designed to give the state greater control over convicted sex offenders. The 10 proposals would tighten reporting requirements, provide for satellite tracking of an offender's movement and allow for long-term civil commitments in the most violent cases.
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Milwaukee boy found in Phoenix home of sex offender
August 23, 2005, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by steve
Written By William Hermann
Article Overview
Phoenix police say the experience of the 13-year-old Milwaukee boy they found Monday night in the company of a man they suspect of using the Internet to lure the child to town is one that parents need to take to heart.
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Minnesota joins national sex offender registry
August 22, 2005, Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Minnesota has joined the National Sex Offender Public Registry, Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced Monday.
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Restrictive law makes N.Y. city off-limits to sex offenders
August 22, 2005, Boston Globe | Submitted by joy1234
Written By Darryl McGrath
Article Overview
Convicted sex offenders could risk re-arrest in Binghamtom, New York if they pull off the highway to gas up their car because of a new law that makes it almost impossible for them to live, work, or even drive in this upstate city.
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Iowa joins National Sex Offender Registry
August 19, 2005, GazetteOnline | Submitted by steve
Written By Christoph Trappe
Article Overview
Iowa's Sex Offender Registry is now linked with 27 other states and the District of Columbia on the National Sex Offender Public Registry. Iowa, Alabama, Minnesota, Texas and Wyoming were added on Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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Sex offender registration in Texas has hits and misses
August 13, 2005, Star Telegram | Submitted by steve
Written By Michael Graczyk
Article Overview
Texas aggressively registers and tracks convicted sex offenders, offering their names and addresses to the public through a Web site listing 43,000 people. Unfortunately, the system offers no way to identify those most likely to repeat offenses or to identify those who committed crimes against children.
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Alleged 34 year-old sex offender did live at retirement home
August 12, 2005, kvia.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Last week, a Lower Valley community was in shock to learn that 34-year-old high-risk sex offender Abundio Rodriguez was living in a home for the elderly.
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Panel disturbed by sex offender testimony
August 12, 2005, Bangor Daily News | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
As members of the Maine Legislature's Criminal Justice Committee continue to grapple with ways to protect the public from sex offenders, they were shocked to learn Thursday that as many as 95 percent of sexual offenses nationwide go unreported.
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North Dakota: New sex offender information services
August 12, 2005, Government Technology | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
On Wednesday, North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem unveiled new web-based services to provide citizens with information about sex offenders. People can sign up to receive an e-mail notice when sex offenders move into or out of a specific city, county, or zip code, or even limit the notice to information about a specific offender.
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Call for refund of £500,000 to monitor sex offender
August 12, 2005, scotsman.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A document released by Aberdeen City Council has revealed the Scottish Executive spent £437,800 on monitoring sex offender Steven Beech during his 16-month stay in the city. The cost of his care was originally estimated at about £200,000 a year. He left Aberdeen for an undisclosed destination in July 2003.
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Sex offender amendment effective Monday
August 12, 2005, 2theadvocate.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Ellen Tandy
Article Overview
The recent legislative session in Louisiana yielded an amendment to an existing law that makes it illegal for child-sex offenders on probation or parole to live within 1,000 feet of schools, daycares, playgrounds or other safe havens for children. It becomes effective Monday.
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Issaquah to adopt tough new sex offender rules
August 11, 2005, KOMO TV | Submitted by steve
Written By Mary Nam
Article Overview
The Issaquah City Council is about to approve an ordinance that would block sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet from schools or daycare centers. If it passes, it will be the strictest measure in the state of Washington.
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New suspect in slaying of girls
August 10, 2005, Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce | Submitted by admin
Written By Paul Shukovsky
Article Overview
Joseph Edward Duncan III -- a convicted sex offender suspected in a killing and abduction spree in Idaho that left two adults and two children dead -- has told FBI agents that he also killed two little girls in Seattle in 1996.
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Sex offender's trip cut short at airport
August 09, 2005, heraldtribune.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Michael A. Scarcella
Article Overview
Harold Lynn Winslow, a registered sex offender who lived in a Bradenton, Florida motel, arranaged a trip to Australia where federal authorities say he planned to have sex with 6-year-old girls. Following a two-month undercover investigation, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent arrested the Bradenton man Saturday at Tampa International Airport.
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NSW may review working with minors law
August 08, 2005, The Age | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
NSW may review a law used by 89 people to gain exemptions from a ban on sex offenders working with children. Since 2003, 89 sex offenders in NSW have been granted exemptions from orders prohibited them from working with children because of their crimes.
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Schools rush to screen vendors
August 08, 2005, St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Eddy Ramirez
Article Overview
Tampa Bay area school districts are scrambling to begin running criminal background checks on tens of thousands of contract workers as school officials wonder how they will keep track of them all. As a result of the Lunsford Act, Florida's 67 school districts face a Sept. 1 deadline to start screening and fingerprinting any vendor and their subcontractors who go on a campus while students are present.
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Alabama’s sex offender law goes into effect Oct. 1
August 07, 2005, Decatur Daily | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
Known as the Community Notification Act, Alabama's new law tightens restrictions and penalties on people convicted of sexual crimes.
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N. Idaho schools to check visitor ID with sex offender database
August 07, 2005, The Casper Star-Tribune | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Two northern Idaho school districts have installed new security systems that will check visitors' photos and identification against registries of convicted sex offenders in Idaho and 41 other states. Visitors to schools in the Lakeland and Post Falls districts will be required to present a state driver's license or a state-issued photo identification card, which will be scanned against the database of 42 states' registered sex offenders.
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Tracking systems will undergo testing for sex offender program
August 07, 2005, TBO.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Chantelle Janelle
Article Overview
State corrections officials in Florida will begin testing two satellite tracking systems Monday that eventually will be used to track sex offenders under a law that goes into effect in September, under the Jessica Lunsford Act.
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Exchange program due for a change
August 05, 2005, Cleveland Plain Dealer | Submitted by steve
Written By Chris Seper
Article Overview
The State Department on Friday will propose new regulations that toughen background checks on exchange student hosts and force high school exchange programs to better report students' problems. The State Department's new rules also would require exchange programs to vet every adult member of a host family through the National Sex Offender Public Registry, nsopr.gov.
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Sex offender registry seeing heavy traffic
August 04, 2005, The Herald-Dispatch | Submitted by steve
Written By Curtis Johnson
Article Overview
After the West Virginia State Police unveiled the new version of its sex offender registry Web site Monday, it received approximately 600,000 hits during the 24-hour period between Tuesday and Wednesday morning, almost seven times the site's average of 86,000 hits per day. The new Web site displays specific street addresses for each convicted sex offender. Previously only each offender's city was listed.
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Man shot by police was Anoka County fugitive, sex offender
August 03, 2005, Grand Forks Herald | Submitted by steve
Written By Jason Hoppin
Article Overview
A man killed by police Monday in Minneapolis was a fugitive who had pleaded guilty to charges that he sexually assaulted his girlfriend's 5-year-old daughter, Anoka County, Minnesota authorities said Tuesday.
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Judge criticized for sentencing child sex offender to needlework
August 03, 2005, KGBT 4 | Submitted by steve
Written By Ray Pedraza
Article Overview
Robert Thompson was sentenced to 320 hours of needlework by Hidalgo County State District Judge Rose Guerra Reyna for pleading no contest to sexually assaulting a child.
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Sex offender Duncan linked to California killing
August 03, 2005, Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by steve
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Joseph Edward Duncan is under investigation in the 1997 kidnapping and killing of a 10-year-old California boy, the Riverside County sheriff said. Duncan is suspected of murdering three people in Idaho and abductin two siblings, one of whom was later found dead.
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Sex offender stabbed at Cook County Jail
August 03, 2005, Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Frank Main
Article Overview
A Cook County Jail inmate named Demtre Golden was recovering Tuesday from a stabbing in a maximum-security wing of the Southwest Side complex. Golden was booked into the jail in June on a charge of failing to register as a sex offender. The motive for the attack is unclear, but investigators are looking into the possibility that it was related to his history as a sex offender or was gang-related.
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Number of offenders in registry increased
August 02, 2005, Billings Gazette | Submitted by admin
Written By Brad Fjeldheim
Article Overview
The State of Montana Sexual and Violent Offender Registry added 107 new names in June, up from the 22 added in May and more than the 43 in July - the first month in which the number processed has exceeded 100 since January 2003 when 103 were added.
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