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Sex offenses, sex offender issues in prison, jail, civil commitment and the community including residency laws. Adam Walsh Act, recidivism, dangerousness, tiers, community issues, harassment, vigilantism, sex offender therapy issues.
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State police report shows 5,231 on sex offenders list

Posted on January 07, 2011
Would love to know what the "investigations" were about, and if any resulted in further charges?1-7-2011 Connecticut: State police released a quarterly sex offender report Thursday, showing a total of 5,231 registered sex offenders in the state at the end of 2010...

Teen girl charged with posting nude photos on Internet

Posted on January 07, 2011
Wonderful, a new sex offender with THREE charges, as such on a public registry will look like a recidivist. Is this prosecutor out of his mind? Charging her with "Possession of CP" for having in her possession, a self portrait? I would love to know WHERE the self portrait was kept? If in her own bedroom, or on her computer, where no one else goes, are such portraits illegal? Are minors viewing child porn when seeing themselves naked in the bathroom? Prosecutors need limits, and this one needs to have those limits reigned in! 1-7-2011 Colorado: PITTSBURGH (AP) - A 15-year-old girl has been arrested for taking nude photographs of her self and posting them on the Internet, police said...

Police: Mother knew child performed sex act on sibling

Posted on January 07, 2011
Why would a mother allow this? Is this report the whole story?1-7-2011 Iowa: An Iowa City woman has been arrested for child endangerment. Police said the woman knew one of her children had performed sex acts on another one of her children in a bedroom while others watched on a webcam...

Delmont father accuses son of defaming him with sex abuse claims

Posted on January 06, 2011
1-6-2011 Pennsylvania: In a court case that pits father against son, Anthony Cesare of Delmont is asking a Westmoreland County jury to make his 28-year-old son pay for making up a lie that Cesare claims ruined his reputation and cost him business. In court documents filed more than two years ago, Dominic Cesare accused his 53-year-old father of sexual and emotional abuse, according to Anthony Cesare...

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Pawned computer leads to child porn charges

Posted on January 06, 2011
1-6-2011 New Hampshire: MANCHESTER, N.H. ? A 36-year-old convicted New Hampshire sex offender is being held on $100,000 cash bail after he was arrested for having graphic images of child sex abuse on a computer he had pawned. Jonathan Perfetto appeared in court Wednesday, a day after he arrested...

Registering the Wrong People

Posted on January 05, 2011
1-5-2011 New York: Sex offender registries aren?t necessarily a bad idea. For whatever reason, there are certain people who get off on molesting little kids or raping people, and who are not likely to be rehabilitated by a stint behind bars. It?s how their sex drive is wired...

Judge denies Montville's bid to block complex for sex offenders

Posted on January 05, 2011
1-5-2011 Connecticut: New London, Conn. ? Montville?s quest to keep a residential sex offender treatment facility from being built in town could be over. On Tuesday, New London Judge Joseph Q. Koletsky dismissed an appeal by town leaders who hoped to halt or block construction of the $2 million complex because of potential economic and safety impacts on residents and businesses...

Texan declared innocent after 30 years in prison

Posted on January 05, 2011
1-5-2011 Texas: DALLAS ? A Texas man declared innocent Tuesday after 30 years in prison had at least two chances to make parole and be set free ? if only he would admit he was a sex offender. But Cornelius Dupree Jr. refused to do so, doggedly maintaining his innocence in a 1979 rape and robbery, in the process serving more time for a crime he didn't commit than any other Texas inmate exonerated by DNA evidence...

NH commits only 2 sex offenders

Posted on January 02, 2011
1-2-2011 New Hampshire: CONCORD, N.H. -- Four years ago, amid great fanfare, New Hampshire passed a law allowing the state to indefinitely lock up the worst sexual predators. The governor called it necessary to prevent the "immeasurable" cost to children...

Granholm should put power to grant justice to full use

Posted on January 02, 2011
12-23-2010 Michigan: BY JEFF GERRITT, FREE PRESS EDITORIAL WRITER Hundreds of inmates who could safely go home -- some almost certainly innocent -- will either die in prison or languish there indefinitely if Gov. Jennifer Granholm won't fully exercise her rightful power of commutation...

Sex offenders: Some may be taken off registration list

Posted on January 02, 2011
1-2-2011 Texas: Some of the vast work involved in tracking sex offenders in Texas might be alleviated through an option to remove some on the list. Chapter 62, Subchapter I of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure allows development of mechanisms for the early termination of registry requirements for certain offenders...

Agenda: For The Legislature

Posted on January 02, 2011
1-2-2011 Connecticut: Job No. 1 for the Connecticut General Assembly this year is balancing the budget ? a herculean task that The Courant addressed in last Sunday's editorial. But many non-budget tasks demand attention as well. Here is our list for the legislature for 2011...

YMCAs begin to screen for sex offenders

Posted on January 02, 2011
1-2-2011 Massachusetts: The YMCA of Greater Boston has begun screening all current and prospective members and guests against the state?s registered sex offender list, banning access to those classified as Level 2 or Level 3 offenders ? those at moderate or high risk of reoffending...

Police Believe Child Was Killed With Welding Torch

Posted on January 02, 2011
Horrific, beyond anything recorded before!12-31-2010 Texas: HOUSTON -- Homicide investigators said a welding torch is the likely weapon used in 12-year-old Jonathan Foster's death, Local 2 Investigates reported Friday. "We're talking crematorium-type of hot," said one Houston Police Department Homicide Squad officer assigned to the investigation...

A Little More Cheer - Happy New Year

Posted on January 01, 2011

Happy New Year: We Made It Through Another Year

Posted on January 01, 2011

Sex offender registries ruin many lives

Posted on December 31, 2010
12-31-2010 Washington: BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. - Ed Gonda and his family moved to Bainbridge Island upon hearing it was a pastoral "laid back, forgiving" kind of place. After finding a rental, he and his wife enrolled their daughter in school. As Christians, they found a local church they liked...

AR Sex Offender Arrested for Refusing Screening Process

Posted on December 31, 2010
I wonder, did he refuse to show up for the screening, -OR- did he refuse to participate in the screening. It doesn't look like he is on parole or probation, so why would he have to "participate" if that is what he is arrested for? 12-31-2010 Arkansas: A sex offender who allegedly refused to undergo the screening process required by the state has been arrested in northeast Arkansas...

Group to sue if city tightens sex offender rules

Posted on December 30, 2010
At some point this "Not in My Back Yard" has got to stop. Praise to those that will sue to stop politicians that do not know what they are doing enacting "Sounds Good" laws to make them look good to a few in the community. 12-30-2010 Ohio: GREENVILLE ? Officials of a nonprofit law firm in Cincinnati on Wednesday said they will file suit in federal court if the Greenville City Council passes an ordinance extending residency restrictions to the point it makes Greenville virtually off limits for registered sex offenders...

State's sex offender program questioned

Posted on December 29, 2010
12-29-2010 New York: The sex offender ? identified in court papers only as "Douglas S." ? was clearly ready for release from a state psychiatric facility, according to a judge. He had accepted the treatment and excelled in the programs. In fact, he was a model example that even pedophile sex offenders considered dangerous by the state ? those civilly committed in a secured facility ? can benefit from treatment to a point where they can be released to community supervision...

Civil confinement of sex offenders costs state $175,000 a piece

Posted on December 29, 2010
12-29-2010 New York: In New York, the end of a criminal sentence for a sex offender doesn't mean he's going free. In 2007, state lawmakers took steps to protect the public from sexual predators. That year they approved a civil commitment program designed to route dangerous sex offenders whose sentences are ending into treatment in secure state psychiatric facilities...

Civil commitment faces rocky legal terrain

Posted on December 29, 2010
12-29-2010 New York: In 1988, Mustafa Rashid broke into a home in the Bronx, raped one woman, sodomized another, and stabbed a third person who tried to break up the home invasion. In 2000, less than a year after being released on parole, Rashid robbed three homes over four days...

Two Decades of Sounding the Alarm on Sex Offenders

Posted on December 29, 2010
12-28-2010 Washington: POULSBO ? ?This notification is not intended to increase fear,? the Kitsap County Sheriff?s Office flier reads. ?Rather, an informed public is a safer public.? For 20 years, that statement has accompanied the brief dossier on sex offenders released by the sheriff?s office to the community where they will live...

Should All Convicted Sex Offenders Be Required to Register?

Posted on December 29, 2010
12-27-2010 Washington: BAINBRIDGE ISLAND ? Ed Gonda and his family moved to Bainbridge Island upon hearing it was a pastoral ?laid back, forgiving? kind of place. After finding a rental, he and his wife enrolled their daughter in school. As Christians, they found a local church they liked...

Homeless Sex Offenders Struggle With 'Double Jeopardy' For Crimes

Posted on December 26, 2010
12-26-2010 Massachusetts: Many sex offenders, after being released from jail, find it difficult to rebuild their lives. Unable to find jobs or affordable homes due to their crimes, many sex offenders end up homeless after they've served their time...

Ga. lawmakers will face new ethics law in January

Posted on December 26, 2010
12-26-2010 Georgia: ATLANTA - Georgians will be able to keep closer tabs on what lobbyists spend wining and dining state lawmakers. But new ethics legislation set to take effect Jan. 1 doesn't set a limit on what those lobbyists can spend. Reeling from a sex-and-lobbying scandal that toppled Georgia's powerful House speaker, state legislators earlier this year ushered through what they touted as a sweeping ethics reform package...

Confining State's Sex Predators: Is It Still a Cost-Effective Solution?

Posted on December 26, 2010
12-26-2010 Washington: MCNEIL ISLAND The picture on William Deaville?s purple photo badge shows a younger man with amber hair, a glimpse into the past of the now-grayed 44-year-old who?s lived in secure confinement for 21 years. Deaville has been on McNeil Island in south Puget Sound since the state opened the Special Commitment Center (SCC), an indefinite holding facility for those found to meet the statutory definition of a ?sexually violent predator...

eAdvocate's Happy Holidays Message: There is so much to be thankful for.

Posted on December 25, 2010
Ashland College in Ohio always has a beautiful Christmas card and this year they have another one. This should get you into the Christmas Spirit. Make sure you have your speakers on and enjoy (CLICK). When you get there follow the messages in the lower left corner of the picture...

Court challenges mount against sex offender law

Posted on December 22, 2010
12-22-2010 California: Hundreds of paroled sex offenders are winning reprieves from a ban against their living near schools or parks as they flood local courts with constitutional challenges to the most controversial part of Jessica's Law. Judges in Contra Costa and elsewhere have routinely issued stays permitting sex offender parolees to ignore the ban on their living within 2,000 feet of a school or park where children "regularly gather," pending rulings in their cases...

Sheriff proposes sex offender fee

Posted on December 20, 2010
Are registrants responsible for causing the Sheriff extra work? No, they are not, he doesn't have to do the same work for non sex offenders. So, who is responsible? Ahhh, the State, thats who should be paying the Sheriff for the extra work incurred by the sex offender registry...

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