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Sex Offender / Sex Crime News - Other Articles, April, 2005
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Wyoming men cited for making snow phallus
April 30, 2005, WJLA | Submitted by HPierce
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Two men have pleaded not guilty to promoting obscenity for allegedly building a snow phallus in their front yard.
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Using software to model death row outcomes
April 27, 2005, Christian Science Monitor | Submitted by admin
Written By Susan Llewelyn Leach
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A criminologist and a computer scientist took 28 years of data on prisoners facing the death sentence and fed it into a software program known as an artificial neural network, which was able to predict with more than 90 percent accuracy who would be executed.
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Glitches slow sex offender list
April 22, 2005, The Tribune | Submitted by admin
Written By Aubrey Woods
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Katlyn Collman’s murder and abduction in January has prompted more people to search local and state’s sexual and violent offender registries, police say. Jackson County Sheriff Jerry Hounshel contends keeping the database updated has become a problem.
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Molest rap vs. principal
April 19, 2005, New York Daily News | Submitted by admin
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A middle school principal has been indicted for allegedly getting drunk at a New York Jets football game in 2003 and molesting a 13-year-old girl on the ride home.
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Advocates urge Nevada lawmakers to crack down on sex offenders
April 19, 2005, KRNV | Submitted by admin
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Donna Coleman of the Children's Advocacy Alliance in Las Vegas hails a bill by state Senator Dina Titus that would allow the addresses of more sex criminals to be placed on Nevada's sex offender Web site. Authorities say nearly 2,000 sex offenders are hiding in Nevada, and they think more are flocking to the state because lax laws allow them to evade scrutiny.
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Alleged rape at Prince's Trust show
April 18, 2005, This is London | Submitted by admin
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Detectives are investigating the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl at a music event run by Prince Charles' charity. The incident was reported to have taken place during The Prince's Trust Urban Music Festival at London's Earls Court
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American sex offender who fled to RP deported to US
April 12, 2005, Sun Star, Phillipines | Submitted by steve
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Bryan Mitchell Jones, 49, an American sex offender who escaped to the Philippines to avoid sentencing was arrested and deported back to the United States, the Philippine immigration bureau said Tuesday.
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Forum to discuss sex offender laws
April 12, 2005, The Daily News Transcript | Submitted by steve
Written By Brian Falla
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Following the recent alleged attack by a Level 3 sex offender at a Norwood nursing home, Massachusetts state Rep. John Rogers is organizing a public safety forum. Rogers, who co-sponsored the bill that created the Sex Offender Registry in 1996, said there is a delicate balancing act between laws aimed at controlling sexual predators and a criminal's constitutional rights.
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Legislators says it'll cost millions to change sex offender law
April 08, 2005, Radio Iowa | Submitted by admin
Written By O.Kay Henderson
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Two key Iowa legislators say it'll take up to six million more dollars to pay for the additional prison time they plan to require for sex offenders.
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Sex offender monitor bill might mean windfall for firm
April 07, 2005, Palm Beach Post | Submitted by admin
Written By Dara Kam
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A company with ties to the Department of Corrections and former Gov. Bob Martinez is poised to expand a contract with the state of Florida if lawmakers approve a bill imposing lifetime electronic monitoring of sex offenders whose victims are 12 years old or younger. Corrections renewed a three-year contract with Pro Tech Monitoring Inc. earlier this year, paying the Odessa-based company $2.5 million annually to keep track of some violent and sexual offenders on probation by using satellite-based GPS technology.
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Woman pleads not guilty to raping baby daughter
April 06, 2005, ABC Online | Submitted by admin
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A 26-year-old Brisbane woman is facing trial charged with raping her five-month-old daughter.
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Colo. Governor vetoes rape bill
April 06, 2005, Wired News | Submitted by steve
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Colorado Gov. Bill Owens vetoed a bill that would have required hospitals to tell rape victims about emergency contraception, saying it would have forced church-backed institutions to violate their own ethics guidelines.
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Swiss paedophile couple flees India
April 04, 2005, NDTV.com | Submitted by admin
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When the Mumbai police admitted last week that a Swiss couple accused of paedophilia has fled the country, the entire country was sent into a shock.
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GBI sex offender registry sees heaviest traffic ever
April 04, 2005, News4Jax.com | Submitted by admin
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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation sex offender Web site has become about six times more popular since a Florida girl went missing in February and was found dead last month. GBI spokeswoman Vicki Metz said the site had almost 2.5 million hits last month, and on March 29, the site saw an unprecedented 400,000 visitors. Metz said the site normally gets that number of visitors in one month.
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Online sex offender registry upgraded due to heavy traffic
April 02, 2005, WOI-TV | Submitted by steve
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State officials in Iowa say an increase in visitors to the state's online sex offender registry since the death of an eastern Iowa girl last week nearly crashed the Internet site. Steve Conlon, assistant director of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, says the Web site received 370,000 page views on Tuesday.
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Spare us from the wisdom of this pedophile pundit
April 01, 2005, HoustonChronicle.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Kathleen Parker
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The next-worst thing to hearing of yet another child abducted by a known molester is yet another tutorial by the newest media darling — pedophile pundit Jake Goldenflame.
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Sex offender's ex-wife calls for life terms
April 01, 2005, In-Forum | Submitted by steve
Written By Don Davis
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Amy Blom, former wife of Donald Blom, convicted sex offender and murderer, told the Minnesota House Public Safety Committee she supports life sentences for the most dangerous sex offenders.
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