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Feds: Teen sex tape is child pornography
July 11, 2007, The Washington Post | Submitted by admin
Written By Greg Bluestein
Article Overview
A federal prosecutor urged authorities in Georgia not to release any more copies of an amateur sex video that got a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual sex with a girl when they were both teenagers. Genarlow Wilson, was 17 when the tape was made in 2003. On it, Wilson can be seen receiving oral sex from a 15-year-old girl and having intercourse with a 17-year-old girl. The Douglas County District Attorney's Office distributed the tape to 35 people who requested it.
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Sex offender charged in child porn case
July 07, 2007, The Washington Post | Submitted by admin
Written By Jenna Johnson
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Steve R. Houck, 52, of Fairfax, Virginia, a registered sex offender who served a four-year prison sentence for distributing child pornography, was arrested this week on suspicion of telling an undercover detective online that he would pay for sex with a 10-year-old girl.
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Pownal woman denies failing to register as sex offender
July 07, 2007, Rutland Herald | Submitted by admin
Written By Patrick McArdle
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A Pownal, Vermont woman who may be facing criminal charges in Louisiana has been released from prison on $1,000 bail after she was arrested for failing to comply with conditions from the Vermont sex offender registry. Lisa G. Bozeman, 44, pleaded innocent to a misdemeanor charge of failing to comply with the registry on June 19.
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State to modify sex offender classification system
July 06, 2007, KXAN | Submitted by admin
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The Texas Council on Sex Offender Treatment approved a system of additional tests to improve the classification of offenders who could be released from prison. The psychological evaluations will help determine the risk an offender is to the community.
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Convicted sex offender sought in SoCal missing student case
July 06, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by admin
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Authorities searched Friday for a convicted sex offender identified as a person of interest in the disappearance of a female college student who met him on Craigslist. San Diego State University student Donna Jou, 19, was last seen June 23 at a party held at a Los Angeles home rented by John Steven Burgess, said Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. Investigators believe Burgess, a registered sex offender, picked Jou up earlier that day near her Rancho Santa Margarita home.
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Ex-teacher pleads guilty to sex crime
July 03, 2007, Auburn Journal | Submitted by admin
Written By Penne Usher
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Former Roseville California middle school teacher Kelly C. Spaich, 28, pleaded guilty to charges of having unlawful sex with a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She was sentenced to 400 hours of community service, four years formal probation and four months in jail and will no longer be allowed to work as a teacher.
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Sex offender answers door naked; girl found in bed
July 03, 2007, WFTV.com | Submitted by admin
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Tampa Florida police knocked on the door of 52-year-old convicted sex offender Raymond Gomez and were shocked when Gomez answered the door naked and found a 15-year-old girl in his bed.
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Reality TV goes one step further as judge turns gun on himself
June 30, 2007, Independent.co.uk | Submitted by admin
Written By Leonard Doyle
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Murphy Texas prosecutor Louis Conradt was the target of a sting by the police, an online watchdog group called Perverted Justice and the NBC show Dateline: To Catch a Predator. Mr. Conradt never made it to the Dateline house used in the sting, but he allegedly used an internet chatroom to talk dirty with an actor posing as a 13-year-old boy. With cameras rolling and police at his house he shot himself in the head with a pistol.
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DA refuses to prosecute ‘Catch a Predator’ cases
June 28, 2007, MSNBC | Submitted by admin
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A sting in which police teamed up with “Dateline NBC” to catch online pedophiles was supposed to send a flinty-eyed, Texas-style warning about the Dallas Texas suburb of Murphy: Don’t mess with Murphy. Instead, it has turned into a fiasco.
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Threats issued over sex offender website
June 26, 2007, Stuff | Submitted by admin
Written By Kathy Webb
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Sex offenders in New Zealand are threatening to sue the Sensible Sentencing Trust for putting their names on a website for public use. Trust spokesman Garth McVicar said the trust had received 4 threats of legal action from lawyers acting for convicted paedophiles and other sex offenders who did not believe their names should be publicised, but the trust has no intention of removing them.
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AG: Nearly 200 state sex offenders had MySpace profiles
June 22, 2007, The Muskegon Chronicle | Submitted by admin
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Two hundred people whose names match the Michigan sex offender registry had profiles on MySpace.com, the popular social-networking Web site, state Attorney General Mike Cox said Thursday.
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Illegally park-ed
February 08, 2007, Orange County Weekly | Submitted by admin
Written By R. Scott Moxley
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An Irvine, California police officer ejaculates on a motorist but escapes criminal liability. The motorist, a strip club dancer, had also been pulled over by Officer David Alex Park four months earlier.
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Web site listing sexual predators tops 1 million views
June 30, 2006, kgw.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Kristina Brenneman
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A new Web site in Oregon that helps people track dangerous sex predators in their neighborhood topped 1 million hits Thursday, the first day it was available to the public, police said.
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Virginia students to be checked for sex offense
June 22, 2006, CBS News | Submitted by admin
Written By Kristen Gelineau
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A new law requiring Virginia's colleges to hand over prospective students' personal information to police for cross-checking against sex offender lists is coming under fire from privacy advocates and education leaders.
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Sex offender residency bill fails
May 06, 2006, Beloit Daily News | Submitted by admin
Written By Rebekah Danaher
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A Wisconsin bill that would have restricted sex offenders from living within a half-mile of their victims failed to pass out of committee, to the disappointment of the bill's author, Sen. Judy Robson, D-Beloit.
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Sex-offender sweep nets 75 arrests
May 06, 2006, The Muskegon Chronicle | Submitted by admin
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State police sweeps of Ne-waygo, Oceana, Muskegon and Ottawa counties in Michigan netted 75 arrests of sex offenders who failed to register their addresses with the state, as required by law. Statewide, 405 people were arrested.
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FBI looking for psychiatrist sex offender
May 05, 2006, KUTV | Submitted by admin
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The FBI is seeking information on Dr. Bruce Argyle Guernsey, a recently convicted sex offender who is reportedly on the run from his home in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was arrested and charged by the FBI for possession of child pornography last August and was a psychiatrist at the time, working at a practice that treated incarcerated sexual offenders.
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Sex offender bill passed
May 05, 2006, The Salt Lake Tribune | Submitted by admin
Written By Robert Gehrke
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After months of delays, the Senate passed legislation sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch aimed at protecting children from sexual predators. The bill would create a national sex offender registry, replacing the state-by-state system now in place and would require convicted sex offenders to report their whereabouts in person every month.
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Dorgan says 'Dru's Law' wins Senate approval
May 04, 2006, Grand Forks Herald | Submitted by admin
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Legislation that would require a national sex offender registry and monitoring of high-risk offenders has won U.S. Senate approval, North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan said Thursday.
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Mom who let daughters have sex with N.Y. lawyer pleads guilty
April 13, 2006, Newsday.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Samuel Maull
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A woman who let her two underage daughters have sex with a wealthy New York City lawyer for money pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child.
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