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"A Move to Register Sex Offenders Globally"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new piece in Time.   Here is how it gets started: While the world's attention was focused on Phillip Garrido, who is accused of abducting 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 and holding her hostage for 18 years as a sex slave, three other alleged sexual predators were quietly brought back to the United States to face prosecution for abusing countless children in Cambodia.  The horrifying ordeal of Garrido's victim is now well documented; however, the stories of an estimated 1.8 million other children worldwide who are forced into the multi-billion dollar commercial sex trade every year remain largely unheard. One of the men arrested in Cambodia, Jack Sporich, 75, spent nine years in a California prison for molesting as many as 500 boys during camping trips...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).