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Sex Offender / Sex Crime News - Featured Articles, December, 2005
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Glitch causes some offenders to be left off registry
December 30, 2005, WHAS11.com | Submitted by Navigatr1
Written By Renee Murphy
Article Overview
The people of Harrison County, Indiana want to know who their neighbors are, but the website designed to help them find out if sex offenders are living in their neighborhoods is missing 33 of the 41 registered sex offenders in the county due to an unknown glitch.
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Gunshot kills registered sex offender
December 28, 2005, Yakima Herald Republic | Submitted by steve
Written By David Lester and Mark Morey
Article Overview
A 53-year-old registered sex offender found slain in his apartment Tuesday morning suffered a single gunshot wound, authorities said. Police Capt. Jeff Schneider said detectives had yet to develop a motive for the killing.
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Sober worm tricks pedophile into surrender
December 20, 2005, InformationWeek | Submitted by steve
Written By Gregg Keizer
Article Overview
In a first, a computer worm has trapped a criminal rather than an innocent Internet user, a Reuters wire service report from Germany claimed Tuesday.
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Sex offender site criticized
December 18, 2005, The News-Press | Submitted by steve
Written By Melanie Payne and Jeff Cull
Article Overview
The News-Press analyzed the Florida Department of Law Enforcement database of 36,306 sex offenders and found 9,205 of them are incarcerated, 7,037 have run away or can't be found, 824 have been deported; and 516 are dead.
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Sex offender registry burdens police department
December 18, 2005, The Day | Submitted by steve
Written By Ethan Rouen
Article Overview
The Norwich, Connecticut Police Department utilizes a police detective and two probation officers to check up on registered sex offenders one night per week.
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Ontario sex offender registry constitutional
December 14, 2005, 580 CFRA | Submitted by steve
Written By Josh Pringle
Article Overview
Ontario's sex offender registry has been ruled constitutional.
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Crime Commission approves harsher penalties for sex offenders
December 14, 2005, WAVY.com | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
The Virginia State Crime Commission has approved four bills to impose harsher penalties for sex offenders.
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Bosnia's rape babies: abandoned by their families, forgotten by the state
December 13, 2005, Independent.co.uk | Submitted by steve
Written By Kate and Sarah Hughes
Article Overview
Suzanna is 12 years old. In the eyes of the law she does not exist. She lives in the state-run orphanage in Zenica in Bosnia, a run-down building which is home to just over 150 children. Suzanaa and some of the others were abandoned as "rape babies" - children born during the war to women who had been raped - and left unacknowledged by families and state alike.
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Convicted sex offender found with weapons stash hadn't registered with ISA
December 13, 2005, WISH TV | Submitted by admin
Written By Doug Garrison
Article Overview
A fire in Wanamaker, Indiana this past weekend led police to a stash of hundreds of weapons in a convicted sex offender's home.
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Minor commits suicide after gang-rape
December 12, 2005, The Times of India | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A 15-year-old girl committed suicide at a village here after she was allegedly raped by three persons who have been arrested, a police official said on Monday.
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New laws to restrict pedophile movement
December 12, 2005, The Courier-Mail | Submitted by admin
Written By Rosemary Odgers
Article Overview
Pedophiles in Queensland face electronic monitoring and tougher restrictions on their movements, under laws to take effect late next year.
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Victim's mom doesn't want trial for pedophile teacher
December 12, 2005, nbc4i.com | Submitted by admin
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The mother of a 14-year-old middle school student says she believes the case of a former teacher, 25-year-old Debra Lafave, accused of having sex with her son, should not go to trial.
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Pedophile Percy to be quizzed on '67 murder
December 12, 2005, The Age | Submitted by admin
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Victoria's longest serving prisoner, child killer and diagnosed "sadistic pedophile" Derek Percy, is to be questioned by the NSW Coroner over the murder of a boy in Sydney 37 years ago.
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Lawmakers propose license plates for sex offenders
December 12, 2005, cantonrep.com | Submitted by admin
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Two Ohio state lawmakers, Sen. Kevin Coughlin and Rep. Michael DeBose, want violent and repeat sex offenders to have to use specially colored license plates similar to those required for some people convicted of driving drunk.
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Mississippi added to national sex offender registry
December 12, 2005, The Clarion-Ledger | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
The Department of Justice today announced the addition of Mississippi to the United States Department of Justice National Sex Offender Public Registry (NSOPR) Web site.
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Sex-crime loophole closed
December 11, 2005, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by steve
Written By Michael Kiefer
Article Overview
On December 1, the Arizona Supreme Court filled a loophole in the rules of evidence that dictate how cases are tried. Evidence of prior sex crimes can now be raised in a murder trial.
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DNA tests clear Ga. inmate of 25-year-old rape charges
December 10, 2005, Contra Costa Times | Submitted by admin
Written By Daniel Yee
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A judge Thursday freed an inmate whose claims of innocence in a kidnapping and rape went unheeded for nearly a quarter of a century, until DNA evidence proved Robert Clark right.
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Rape suspect commits suicide as police surround him
December 10, 2005, Star Telegram | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
A registered sex offender who was a suspect in sexual assault and attempted rape cases in several cities committed suicide as Garland, Texas officers surrounded him, authorities said. Peter Gerard Thompson, 37, shot himself in the head with a shotgun Friday night after an officer shot him in the arm after finding him at a house.
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Man convicted of rape, death of 15-year-old girl
December 10, 2005, Macon Telegraph | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A 20-year-old man, Jamerson Mangrum, was convicted Friday in the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl whose nude, partially burned body was found near Lake Allatoona more than three years ago.
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Dalit ‘pays’ hand price
December 10, 2005, Calcutta Telegraph | Submitted by steve
Written By Rasheed Kidwai
Article Overview
A 32-year-old Dalit had her hand chopped off in a village near Bhopal, India for refusing to take back her complaints of rape against two upper-caste men. A gang of five armed men thrashed the woman's family members and set her home on fire before hacking her right hand with an axe.
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Sex offender accused of Net blackmail
December 10, 2005, Gazette.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Bobbi Sankey
Article Overview
A convicted sex offender, Benjamin Clinton Stribling, 23, was arrested Thursday for allegedly trying to blackmail a woman into having sex with him by threatening to put sexual photographs of her online.
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Sex offender sues over online posting
December 10, 2005, Contra Costa Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Bruce Gerstman
Article Overview
A convicted sex offender is suing the state of California and Contra Costa County for allegedly invading his privacy by wrongly posting his name on the state's Web site of sex offenders and then keeping him from viewing it. Danville resident Edward Ott said a law prohibiting him and other sex offenders from viewing their own information is unfair.
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Years later, remote Alaskans open up
December 10, 2005, Statesman Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By William Lobdell
Article Overview
Last year, 28 men from the Eskimo villages of St. Michael and Stebbins, broke their silence about the alleged sexual abuse at the hands of late Joseph Lundowski (also known as "Deacon Joe"), a volunteer Catholic missionary who they say molested nearly every boy in the two villages over a seven year period beginning in 1968.
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Stalking suspect to face rape charge
December 09, 2005, Times Union | Submitted by steve
Written By Kate Perry
Article Overview
More women, including a teenager he is now charged with raping, have come forward with allegations against pizza delivery man John Cruickshank III, 25, who is already under arrest for allegedly placing hundreds of harassing phone calls to a Troy woman.
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Springs police reviewing sex offender site following Indy inquiry
December 08, 2005, Colorado Springs Independent | Submitted by steve
Written By Michael de Yoanna
Article Overview
A new Web site meant to help inform the public about sex felons in Colorado Springs does not list what crimes the offenders were convicted of, an apparent violation of state law.
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Sex-offender bill needs help of signatures
December 07, 2005, The Sun News | Submitted by admin
Written By Lou Krieger
Article Overview
A radio personality in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is asking for people to support and sign a petition for Jessie's Law, the Child Sexual Offenders and Predators Bill (bill number H4144 introduced in the House on Nov. 17). The bill proposes restrictions and tracking for convicted sex offenders.
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Bella Vista resident incorrectly identified as sex offender
December 07, 2005, The Morning News | Submitted by admin
Written By Christy Attlesey
Article Overview
Deputies in the Bella Vista Division of the Benton County Sheriff's Office began last week distributing fliers informing residents that a level two sex offender was living in their neighborhood. Jim Owen, who is not a sex offender, received the flier, which contained information about the sex offender and quickly noticed the address listed on the flier was his.
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Minnesota county sued over release of sex offender charged in Idaho slayings, kidnappings
December 06, 2005, Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
The estates of two people allegedly killed by Joseph Edward Duncan are suing Becker County for releasing the registered sex offender on low bail.
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Maryland sex offender laws could get tougher
December 06, 2005, nbc4.com | Submitted by admin
Article Overview
Maryland's governor and state attorney general are proposing new bills designed to better protect the public from the dangers of sexual predators. Maryland Attorney General Joe Curran is proposing new bills authorizing police to call community meetings to notify neighbors when a sexual predator moves in, another bill to improve the state registry of sex offenders and also to extradite sex offenders when they flee to other states.
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Sex offenders' addresses now available online
December 02, 2005, Wisconsin State Journal | Submitted by admin
Written By Phil Brinkman
Article Overview
Starting today, the Wisconsin state Department of Corrections will post online the addresses of all registered sex offenders in Wisconsin. The department has posted offenders' names, photos and conviction records since 2001, but until now their location was limited to their ZIP code.
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