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Mother of One Dead Soldier Suspects Sex Assault

Posted on December 20, 2010
12-20-2010 Ohio: At least 20 female soldiers have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in "noncombat" circumstances that their families find mysterious. The mother of one talks here about why she thinks sexual violence--not suicide--was her daughter's real killer...

Lawyer Who Claimed Child Porn Was Legal Research Is Acquitted

Posted on December 20, 2010
Advocates may want to keep this attorney's name handy should a newly accused person need a lawyer in South Dakota. 12-20-2010 South Dakota: A 62-year-old Sioux Falls lawyer has been acquitted of child pornography charges after claiming he viewed the images at work as part of his legal research...

Some question Va's costly civil commitment program

Posted on December 19, 2010
12-19-2010 Virginia: BURKEVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Virginia's program to indefinitely detain sexually violent predators was made for people like Richard Ausley, a repeat child molester who kidnapped a 13-year-old boy, locked him in an underground box and raped him for a week until the boy was rescued...

New Bill in Congress: To Prevent Sex Offenders from being Employed ANYWHERE they might have CONTACT with MINORS, incidental or otherwise!

Posted on December 17, 2010
12-10-2010 National: S-4029 " Preventing Sex Offenders Access to Children in Our Communities Act of 2010" was introduced by Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 12/15/2010) Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary...

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Bangor rejects sex offender residency restrictions

Posted on December 15, 2010
12-14-2010 Maine: BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- The Bangor City Council has turned down the possibility of amending the city code to include sex offender residency restrictions. The council voted 8-1 against the amendment that would have limited sex offenders from living with 750 of any school, playground, or parks primarily used by children, making roughly one-third of the city off limits to sex offenders...

UPDATE: Killed by Laws: Former Sex Offenders (FSOs) and Persons Associated with Them

Posted on December 14, 2010
12-14-2010 National: The first of our trilogy of reports examining deaths related to sex abuses and the laws that, allegedly are purposed to prevent sex abuses, has been updated today. Killed by Laws: Former Sex Offenders (FSOs) and Persons Associated with Them Please note we have added two sections to the report: 1) Deaths by State; and, 2) Deaths by Age Groups...

Is Florida holding sex offenders in legal limbo?

Posted on December 13, 2010
12-13-2010 Florida: DeSOTO COUNTY - At a state sex-offender treatment center outside Arcadia, hundreds of inmates who completed their prison terms are held until they receive sufficient treatment to learn to control their criminal behavior. But some convicted pedophiles and rapists who fight their commitment under the "Jimmy Ryce" law can find themselves stuck there indefinitely, in a legal no-man's-land...

Men cleared from sex offender registry

Posted on December 11, 2010
12-11-2010 Georgia: A man convicted of a 1993 armed robbery and false imprisonment in DeKalb County has been taken off the state's sex-offender registry because his offense did not involve a sex crime. An order, recently signed by DeKalb Superior Court Judge Gregory Adams, removes Omar Howard from the registry's strict restrictions and is the result of legislation passed earlier this year...

Charges certified in harassment case

Posted on December 07, 2010
Why are they withdrawing the charge of misusing the registry? OK, the perpetrator admits to the police he got the FSOs name from the registry, but then, in court, the police say they have no knowledge of that fact! How about getting the right officer on the stand, the one who admitted what he heard in the police station...

Sex Extortion Plot Foiled by Pederast?s Son

Posted on December 06, 2010
12-6-2010 New York: On Friday, Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes announced the indictment of Simon Taub, 61, on charges that he threatened to bring false sexual assault charges against the son of a pederast, unless the man paid Taub $250,000...

Audit: Half Of Discarded Rape Claims Misclassified

Posted on December 02, 2010
12-2-2010 Maryland: BALTIMORE -- An audit shows more than half of nearly 100 rape reports that Baltimore police deemed false or baseless have been reclassified as rapes or other sex crimes. The audit was presented Wednesday to a City Council panel...

Lawmaker seeks new registry for child abusers

Posted on December 02, 2010
12-2-2010 Michigan: December 01, 2010 - Legislation recently introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives would create a statewide registry for convicted child abusers and set punishments for offenders who don't comply with registration procedures...

Teen sex assault suspect murdered

Posted on December 02, 2010
12-2-2010 Missouri: (KMOV) -- News 4 sources confirm a man found shot to death Tuesday at Route 66 State Park near Eureka was the owner of a south St. Louis comic book store and suspect in the rape of a 13-year-old. Police found the car owned by Kenneth McClure, 57, Wednesday morning in south St...

Rapist loses genitals after being shot seven times

Posted on December 01, 2010
12-1-2010 Ireland: A RAPIST who was shot seven times in the legs and genitals in a paramilitary attack in Belfast last month has lost his genitals, after surgeons were unable to save them. Darren Murdoch was wounded after masked men broke into a house he was staying in, in Ardoyne on the northside of the city, on November 15 and fired at his groin, abdomen and legs, striking him seven times...

Missouri sex offender registry includes those busted for public urination

Posted on December 01, 2010
12-1-2010 Missouri: St. Louis, MO (KSDK) -- With more than 12,000 people on Missouri's sex offender registry, some groups are advocating change. They argue law enforcement can't keep track of everyone on the list. To make the system more efficient and fair, groups like Missouri Citizens for Reform want all non violent offenders removed from the list...

County may shut down sex offender task force

Posted on November 28, 2010
Ever wonder why Federal Taxes are so high? Read closely, a federal grant for a "SPECFIC PURPOSE," now look at what I have highlighted which has nothing to do with the grant, and shows how the grant money has been misused! 11-28-2010 Washington: Spokane County sheriff?s Deputy Damon Simmons spends much of his time hunting for online sexual predators with the Spokane County Child Sexual Predator Task Force...

Governor Rendell Announces Vetoes of Three House Bills

Posted on November 28, 2010
Notice how PA Lawmakers tried to use the "sex offender" card, to pass some totally unrelated provisions affecting all folks. Lawmakers everywhere are tricky they know how to get things into law even when that something may be detrimental to some group or a class of folks...

Middle Finger Lands Man In Jail

Posted on November 26, 2010
The wife says "He's angry," reporter reports that, but the other side of the story is? Missing! Well, I guess he is lucky that he isn't charged with some sex crime, resulting in being listed on a sex offender registry, given the real meaning of "Flipping the Bird...

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on November 25, 2010

Macon County on hook for sexual offender confinement petition legal bills

Posted on November 25, 2010
11-25-2010 Illinois: DECATUR - Macon County officials face a dilemma of how to pay for the legal representation and medical evaluation sexually violent parolees are entitled to as they battle rulings that keep them confined until they successfully complete sex offender treatment...

Of sex and injustice

Posted on November 24, 2010
11-24-2010 Michigan: Why the Michigan Sex Offender List needs to be abolished as soon as possible. Some years ago, I talked to a heartbroken woman who lived near the Ohio border. Her daughter, who was younger than 16, the legal age of consent in Michigan, had been willingly having sex with her 17-year-old boyfriend, an honor student...

Double Jeopardy in Sex Offense Cases

Posted on November 24, 2010
11-24-2010 Tennessee: Most Tennesseans are familiar with the concept of double jeopardy, the principle that is found in both the United States and Tennessee Constitutions and guarantees all citizens that they cannot be put on trial twice for the same offense...

84 sex offenders arrested after failing to notify neighbors

Posted on November 23, 2010
Louisiana requires FSOs to personally mail post cards to neighbors within xx feets of where they live. There is no doubt this forced procedure, to carry thye government's message is unconstitutional. Someday the ACLU will take up the cause and prove same in court, hopefully...

A dozen Sand Springs sex offenders could be forced to move out

Posted on November 23, 2010
11-23-2010 Oklahoma: SAND SPRINGS, Okla. - The city of Sand Springs is taking steps to move nearly two dozen sex offenders who live just down the street from a neighborhood. City officials say parents are worried that so many sex offenders live near their children, so the city created a city park that draws new boundaries...

Lawmakers proposing convicted murderers registry bill

Posted on November 22, 2010
In case lawmakers don't know it, murderers do have a recidivism rate, so sayeth the DOJ! 11-22-2010 Hawaii: HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Days after paroled murderer Justin Boulay arrived in Hawaii, lawmakers are proposing a new bill that would keep tabs on convicted killers in the state...

Minnesota Sex Offender Program: "No Men Will Be Released in 2010"

Posted on November 22, 2010
There is no way this can be said to be anything but further punishment, without further conduct. Minnesota has made this process a joke and criminal. 11-22-2010 Minnesota: Duluth, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) - In a follow up to our report on the Minnesota Sex Offender Program spokespeople say no men will be released in 2010...

Maker of Four Loko drink to remove caffeine from products

Posted on November 21, 2010
Ahhh, the "two other ingredients" which are unnamed! Why?11-21-2010 Hawaii: The manufacturer of popular caffeinated alcohol drink Four Loko has said it will remove the caffeine from its products. Today, Phusion Projects posted a statement on its website, saying the company will remove caffeine and two other ingredients from its product going forward...

Attorney: Man Dealing With Poison Ivy, Not Masturbating

Posted on November 21, 2010
Should this attorney be convicted? Isn't this the kind of attorney every defendant dreams of? 11-21-2010 Kentucky: Charles Licktieg Enters Not Guilty Plea In Case LAGRANGE, Ky. -- A sex offender treatment supervisor for a Kentucky prison has been charged with indecent exposure...

Essay: Sex and Justice

Posted on November 19, 2010
11-19-2010 Michigan: A recent horrifying case involving teen suicide has gotten wide attention. The case got Michigan Radio?s Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry thinking about the state?s sex offender registry. If news is what people are talking about, then the big story in Michigan last week wasn?t the budget deficit, or Governor-elect Rick Snyder?s efforts to put together an administration...

Patient charged with terroristic threats

Posted on November 18, 2010
Talk about over-charging someone, here we see a classic case. Certainly he should be charged with making the threats, but "terroristic" is absurd, such should be reserved for things pertaiing to the security of the country, not a specific person. A case of a Prosecutor out of control!11-18-2010 Minnesota: A 34-year old patient with the Minnesota Sex Offenders Program at the St...

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