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NV Law Would Restrict Offenders From Living Within 1,000 Feet of Victims

By Corey Rayburnyung

Nevada lawmakers are considering a bill that would restrict sex offenders from living within 1,000 of their victims. From San Jose Mercury News:Nevada lawmakers debated a bill Tuesday that would provide additional protections to victims of sex offenders, by prohibiting the offenders from moving within 1,000 feet of the victims.Assemblyman Lynn Stewart, R-Henderson, who introduced AB325, told the Assembly Corrections, Parole and Probation Committee that as the law is written now, offenders could move across the street or next door to their victims.Committee members also were told by a young mother, who was raped by her babysitter's boyfriend when she was four years old, that her attacker years later moved next door to her grandmother, where the victim used to live...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on June 02, 2009 (boomark / email).