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Sex Offender / Sex Crime News - Featured Articles, September, 2005
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Sex offender guilty of murdering Yonkers boy
September 29, 2005, TheJournalNews.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Jonathan Bandler
Article Overview
Sex offender Robert DeRosario was found guilty of murder and kidnapping yesterday in the strangulation of a 12-year-old boy who disappeared nearly seven years ago from their Nodine Hill neighborhood in Yonkers, New York.
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Sex offender must vacate his home
September 29, 2005, The Cincinnati Post | Submitted by steve
Written By Tony Cook
Article Overview
A Hamilton County, Ohio judge ordered a Green Township sex offender Wednesday to vacate his home of 14 years because it is a few yards too close to a school. Gerry Porter, 42, must leave his property on Lakewood Drive within 10 days because it is about 983 feet from St. Jude Elementary School in Bridgetown.
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Sex offender indicted in murder
September 29, 2005, St. Paul / Minneapolis Pioneer Planet | Submitted by steve
Written By Shannon Prather
Article Overview
A Ramsey County, Minnesota grand jury indicted a convicted sex offender, Courtney Bernard Clark, on charges of rape and murder Wednesday, alleging that in July he tied up a St. Paul couple at gunpoint, assaulted the woman and killed the man.
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Letter Duncan allegedly wrote was for sale
September 29, 2005, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by steve
Written By Nicholas K. Geranios
Article Overview
A letter purportedly sent by convicted sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan III was listed on an Internet auction site that specializes in selling items related to serial killers.
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Will state get even tougher on sex offenders?
September 28, 2005, Seattle Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Jonathan Martin
Article Overview
Fifteen years ago, the sexual mutilation of a 7-year-old Tacoma, Washington boy by a serial predator prompted similar reaction — and a new law-enforcement campaign against sex offenders unprecedented in its aggressiveness and cost. The campaign got results. Since 1990, prison sentences for sex crimes have doubled and sex offenders' information is shared with the public, but due to the rage over the Shasta Groene case, Washington state may get even tougher on sex offenders.
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York County man sues over sex offender registry site
September 27, 2005, Virginian Pilot | Submitted by admin
Written By John-Henry Doucette
Article Overview
A man living with his nephew in York County, Virginia had his life turned upside down this spring when a Florida company provided inaccurate information that led his neighbors to believe he was a sex offender, a lawsuit alleges. Darren K. Matthews has never been accused of a sex crime, let alone convicted of one, according to his suit.
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Man gets 30 years for sexually assaulting mom
September 24, 2005, Peoria Journal Star | Submitted by brennus
Written By Andy Kravetz
Article Overview
Calling a sexual assault by a man against his own mother one of the most "brutal and despicable acts" he has seen, a Peoria County judge sentenced the man to 30 years in prison - the maximum under Illinois state law.
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Questions raised over sex offender's position
September 22, 2005, WMTW | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A convicted sex offender's supervisor at Maine Revenue Services wrote a memo questioning the appropriateness of sending a sex offender into homes without first notifying those being visited.
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Sex offender accused of luring girls in Kitsap County
September 22, 2005, KIROTV.com | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
A man accused of trying to lure two girls into his car near a south Kitsap elementary school is a Level One sex offender convicted of child rape.
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Task force recommends stricter sex offender laws
September 22, 2005, WAVY.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A subcommittee of the Virginia State Crime Commission's sex offender task force has recommended stricter sex offender registry laws -- including harsher punishments for those who violate the registry's rules.
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Department of Justice links South Carolina and Guam to National Sex Offender Public Registry Web site
September 21, 2005, U.S. Department of Justice - Office of Justice Programs | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
The Department of Justice today announced the addition of South Carolina and Guam to the National Sex Offender Public Registry (NSOPR) Web site.
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Police: Teen was with sex offender
September 21, 2005, Miami Herald | Submitted by admin
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A convicted sex offender was the last person to admit seeing missing St. Lucie County 15-year-old Erin Nembhard, whose family fears may have been talking to sexual predators over the Internet.
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Sex offender guilty of murder
September 20, 2005, scotsman.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Angus Howarth
Article Overview
A serial sex offender named Robert Howard has been found guilty of murdering a schoolgirl and dumping her body in an old cement works.
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Sex offender gets 24 years for jail hostage ordeal
September 15, 2005, ABC Online | Submitted by admin
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Paul Stephen Keating, 46, one of Western Australia's worst serial sex offenders, has been jailed for 24 years for taking a prison education officer hostage earlier this year, and sexually assaulting her.
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Sex offender in jail after hunting down young girls in newspaper
September 15, 2005, CBS 47 | Submitted by steve
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A 30-year old St. Johns County man, identified as a sexual offender, was arrested Wednesday afternoon for violation of probation. The suspect, identified as John Wesley Thompson, was arrested for allegedly making telephone contact with two young girls whose photograph he observed in a Sunday newspaper. The two girls, ages 7 and 8, were identified in a story for raising money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Lunsford Act may be revised
September 15, 2005, heraldtribune.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Lloyd Dunkelberger and Jenny Lee Allen
Article Overview
A new law aimed at protecting children from dangerous sex criminals has turned into an expensive headache for school districts across Florida. Some call it a "bureaucratic nightmare."
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Lunsford Act costs jobs: Is it worth it?
September 15, 2005, Gainesville.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Tiffany Pakkala
Article Overview
School districts throughout Florida are enforcing the Lunsford Act, but are left to determine the meaning of "moral turpitude", resulting in some workers with misdemeanor crimes that aren't sex offenses being barred from school grounds.
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Coach arrested for third time in three weeks
September 14, 2005, KOIN.com | Submitted by brennus
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A former high school coach in Tigard, Oregon has been arrested for the third time in three weeks for contact with a 15-year-old girl. Kathleen O'Brien Erickson, 22, was a basketball and track coach at Tigard High School.
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Vigilantism threatens community notification
September 11, 2005, TheNewsTribune.com | Submitted by Navigatr1
Article Overview
The history of community-notification laws in this country is by and large a testament to the respect Americans have for their justice system. For a nation of a quarter-billion people, there have been surprisingly few instances of vigilantism, which is what makes the murder of two registered sex offenders in Bellingham, Washington two weeks ago alarming. This kind of vigilantism could discourage sex offenders from registering and if there are copycat killings, there’s a decent chance the whole community-notification system could come crashing down.
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Sex offender unit to leave facility also used as evacuee shelter
September 10, 2005, Dallas Morning News | Submitted by steve
Written By Paul Meyer
Article Overview
In Dallas County, a facility that operates a halfway house for sex offenders and is a meeting center for offenders and probation officers is being used as a shelter for Hurrican Katrina evacuees. The head of probation services in Dallas County, Texas said Friday that the circumstances have prompted a decision to move sex offender operations out of the Decker Detention Center this week.
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New sex offender law takes effect
September 09, 2005, WLBZ 2 | Submitted by steve
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A change in Maine's sex offender registration law makes registration requirements retroactive to January 1982 - an increase of 10 years over current requirements.
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Sex-offender law gets court win: Judge rules against ACLU; Issaquah violators facing fines of up to $250 a day
September 09, 2005, King County Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By Noel S. Brady
Article Overview
After filing a civil lawsuit on behalf of Mary Lou Lewis last week, the American Civil Liberties Union lost its bid Thursday for a temporary restraining order against the city of Issaquah, Washington. The order would have stopped the city from evicting Lewis' son and his roommate, both convicted sex offenders, under a contested city ordinance.
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Court overturns child porn conviction
September 08, 2005, The Washington Post | Submitted by admin
Written By Fredrick Kunkle
Article Overview
The increasingly common law enforcement tactic of having adult officers pose as children in Internet chat rooms to arrest potential sex offenders came under legal attack yesterday when Maryland's highest court ruled that the law does not allow the prosecution of people who merely believed they were dealing with children.
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Landmark child sexual abuse bill passes in California
September 08, 2005, U. S. Newswire | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
California's "Circle of Trust bill" (S.B. 33), introduced by Senator Jim Battin (R-La Quinta) and sponsored by the National Association to Protect Children (PROTECT), makes sweeping changes to how California's child sexual abuse laws are applied to children victimized by family members, the single largest group of sexual abuse victims. It closes loopholes that allow the most serious sexual predators to avoid prison as long as their victim is a child in the home.
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Offenders marry to avoid charges
September 07, 2005, DesMoinesRegister.com | Submitted by anti
Written By Frank Santiago
Article Overview
A new residency law in Iowa that went into effect July 1st, makes it a criminal offense for a woman with a child to knowingly live with a person on the sex offender registry, with both the woman and the sex offender facing child-endangerment charges. However, if the sex offender is the child's parent, the law doesn't apply.
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Suspect surrenders in slayings of Bellingham sex offenders
September 06, 2005, KOMO TV | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Michael Anthony Mull, 36, has turned himself in the killing of two Bellingham, Washington sex offenders, Hank Eisses and Victor Vasquez, saying he picked the victims from a Web site, police said.
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Convicted sex offender charged in sex slave plot
September 05, 2005, phillyBurbs.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A convicted sex offender was charged with planning to kidnap a woman so he could make her a sex slave, Pennsylvania state police said. Stephen T. Morgan, 63, of Pittsburgh, was arrested Sunday morning at the Monroeville interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, where he was about to travel to Philadelphia to get the woman, police said.
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Miramar approves sex offender law
September 04, 2005, Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by admin
Written By Georgia East
Article Overview
Miramar, Florida joins a growing number of cities from Miami to Wellington that are expanding the boundaries where certain sexual offenders cannot live. The commission voted 3-0 last month to approve the ordinance, which bars violators who committed sexual offenses against a minor from living within 2,500 feet of any public or private school, day care center, public school bus stops, park or playground.
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Registered sex offender charged with murder
September 03, 2005, News & Reporter | Submitted by steve
Written By Stephen Guilfoyle
Article Overview
A day after Chester County, South Carolina Sheriff Robby Benson said he couldn't comment on whether a registered sex offender was being looked at in a homicide last week, the Chester County Sheriff's Department charged that man, Casey Raymond Perkins, with murder.
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Clerical error temporarily cuts sex offender free
September 02, 2005, Star Telegram | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
A clerical error sent a convicted sex offender back into the streets for a week before officials realized the mistake and took him back into custody, a prosecutor said. Martin Garcia was convicted of five counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child in May 2000. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison and still had 17 years to serve when he was released on parole on an unrelated case last week.
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Sex offender must undergo chemical castration
September 02, 2005, Palm Beach Post | Submitted by admin
Written By Larry Keller
Article Overview
Phu Tran became the first Palm Beach County sex offender ever ordered to involuntarily undergo chemical castration Thursday when a judge ordered him to submit to five years of weekly injections upon completion of his 20-year prison sentence.
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Burton aide is convicted sex offender
September 02, 2005, Concord Monitor | Submitted by steve
Written By Annmarie Timmins and Daniel Barrick
Article Overview
Mark Seidensticker, a longtime campaign worker for Executive Councilor Ray Burton of Bath, Maine is a convicted sex offender who was arrested again in Concord this week for contact with teenage boys.
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Anonymous letter takes credit for killing sex offenders
September 01, 2005, KOMO TV | Submitted by steve
Written By Bryan Johnson
Article Overview
The author of an anonymous letter delivered to the Bellingham Herald claimed he killed Hank Eisses and Victor Vasquez in their home last Friday night and threatens other Level 3 sex offenders. But police say every fact in that letter could be found in news reports. There is nothing that tells investigators the letter is real.
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