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Sex Offender / Sex Crime News - Featured Articles, February, 2006
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Legislators rush to amend sex offender therapy program
February 19, 2006, Contra Costa Times | Submitted by admin
Written By Sam Stanton
Article Overview
Such flaws in California's program for sexually violent offenders were under full scrutiny at the state Capitol, where Democrats and Republicans scrambled to introduce bills to make immediate changes in the system -- and questions lingered about whether they could reach bipartisan consensus.
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Sex offenders often disappear after release
February 19, 2006, MontereyHerald.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Sam Stanton and Mareva Brown
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California officials, who have no funding or authority to track the sexually violent predators who have been freed, have no idea where some of them have gone. Over the past two years, state Department of Mental Health officials have attempted to locate the men -- to learn how many have re-offended -- by contacting prosecutors in California's 58 counties. But in many counties, prosecutors could not name their released sexually violent predators, much less identify where they were.
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Allen preparing sex offender site
February 19, 2006, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | Submitted by admin
Written By Masaaki Harada
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The Allen County Sheriff’s Department (Indiana) is launching a Web site listing all sex offenders who are living in or are assumed to have some ties with Allen County.
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Required life sentence exacted on sex offender for first time
February 18, 2006, Contra Costa Times | Submitted by admin
Written By Matthew Dolan
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A convicted child molester appearing in a Baltimore, Maryland courtroom Friday became the first person in the country to receive a mandatory life prison sentence under a new federal sex offender law, federal prosecutors said. Judge Marvin Garbis ordered James Reigle, 46, of Harrisburg, Pa., to spend the rest of his life behind bars for sexually exploiting young boys into posing for photographs and then posting those illicit images on the Internet.
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Sex offender 'can't control urges'
February 17, 2006, The Australian | Submitted by steve
Written By Lauren Ahwan
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Robert John Walker, a man who allegedly fantasised about eating the body parts of young children, might be incapable of controlling his sexual urges, an Australian court has heard. Documents filed with the court claimed Walker had unsigned contracts for principals of kindergartens and primary schools to "supply" him with students. The contracts allegedly contained details such as removal of body parts of children, including their brains, eyes, hearts and sexual organs, "to cook and eat". One document allegedly seized from Walker, entitled Bondage and Raped For Ever, contained a permission form for children to sign authorising sexual abuse by an adult and sexual acts on animals.
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Lifetime parole for sex offenders
February 17, 2006, 14wfie.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Emily Sinovic
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Under a bill unanimously passed by the Indiana state Senate, every sex offender in Indiana would be placed on lifetime parole.
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Sex offender questions law
February 17, 2006, WBNS-10TV | Submitted by admin
Written By Tino Ramos
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A Delaware County, Ohio sex offender who committed his crime in 2001, believes a 2003 law about living less than 1,000 feet from a school shouldn't apply to him since the law was passed after his crime. A judge will rule within the next 30 days.
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Sex offender convicted of killing model
February 15, 2006, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by admin
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David Rademaker, a registered sex offender, was convicted Wednesday of kidnapping and killing 21-year-old model Kimberly Pandelios, whose skeletal remains were found in the Angeles National Forest a year after she disappeared.
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