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TN - Wild police party results in rape accusation, suspensions (James Patterson)

Posted on January 27, 2011
Original Article 01/24/2011 By Anna Marie Hartman MEMPHIS (WMC-TV) - Two Memphis police officers were recently suspended after a wild police party that went out of control and resulted in a rape complaint against an officer. The party, which was held last August to celebrate a female officer's birthday, went on until 5:00 a...

WA - Lawmakers debate notifications for juvenile sex offenders in school

Posted on January 27, 2011
Original Article 01/26/2011 By JOE FRYER OLYMPIA - If a juvenile sex offender is attending a school, who should know about it? The principal? Teachers? Parents? Lawmakers discussed the tough issue during a public hearing in Olympia Wednesday afternoon...

NY - Confining sex offenders comes at high cost

Posted on January 27, 2011
Original Article 02/13/2011 By Gary Craig In New York, the end of a sex offender's prison term doesn't mean freedom. In 2007, spurred in part by a White Plains murder, state lawmakers approved a civil commitment program designed to route dangerous sex offenders into treatment in secure psychiatric facilities or intense outpatient programs after their prison sentences end...

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Posted on January 27, 2011
Death penalty possible for suspect in beating death of child - WAVE 3 News - Louisville, Kentucky Stepmother charged in child's death - WXVT-TV Delta News - More Local News and Weather WXVT.com | Uncle convicted of murder in toddler's spanking death | balderas, jade, girl - News - The Orange County Register CDCR Today: Sex Offender Task Force Issues Nine Recommendations 2 charged in death of SE Missouri toddler - KOAM TV 7 Joplin and Pittsburg Father Pleads Guilty to Murder of Daughter, Babysitter - New Rochelle, NY Patch

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GA - Sex offenders incognito

Posted on January 27, 2011
Original Article 01/27/2011 By Randy Wyles The Georgia sex offender registry was created to help keep people safe. But how can it do that if it's riddled with errors? The wintry calm of an early December day is shattered as law enforcement officers from several local, state and federal agencies storm a house on Greenleaf Circle in southwest Atlanta to find a convicted child molester with an adolescent girl, along with what investigators would later determine to be pornographic "material and devices...

FL - Do Female Sex Offenders Receive a Lighter Punishment Compared to Males?

Posted on January 27, 2011
Original Article The judicial system is not sexist? Flip the roles, a male having sex with a 15 year old female, and he'd be in prison. 01/26/2011 Sentencing for an Okaloosa sex offender has sparked a lot of discussion. 31-year old [name withheld] had sex with a 15-year-old boy but she will not be going to prison...

FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape

Posted on January 27, 2011
Original Article 01/27/2011 By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made. A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself...

OFF TOPIC - PA - US child appeals against being tried for murder as an adult

Posted on January 26, 2011
Original Article This is insane. In all articles that have kids who are underage, they do not release their photo or name, but in this case, they did. Either you are an adult or not, and he isn't, and this sentence shows our system is screwed, IMO...

Illinois Voices - Newsletter - Volume II (01-2011)

Posted on January 26, 2011
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UK - Sex offenders: Monstrous or misunderstood?

Posted on January 26, 2011
Original Article 01/26/2011 The words "sex offender" spark public revulsion and anger. In our week-long series about the probation service, the YEP speaks to those who rehabilitate men. Ask the average man or woman on the street how to tackle the problem and the response will probably involve restoring the death penalty or permanent incarceration, particularly in cases of paedophilia or rape...

VA - Senator Seeks to Castrate Sex Offenders

Posted on January 26, 2011
Original Article 01/26/2011 RICHMOND - A Virginia legislator is proposing castrating sex offenders as an alternative to the increasing costs to detain and treat them after they've served their prison sentences. Republican Sen. Emmett Hanger's bill would require the state to study the use of physical castration as an alternative to civil commitment for sexually violent predators...

UK - Girl, 15, guilty of false rape accusation against 14-year-old

Posted on January 26, 2011
Original Article 01/26/2011 A teenage girl has been convicted of making a false rape allegation against a boy of 14. The 15-year-old, from Lydney, willingly had sex with him during a game of 'truth or dare' with other youngsters. But her untrue allegation led to the boy being arrested and questioned by detectives until they became satisfied he was telling the truth about her consenting to sex, Cheltenham youth court heard...

IL - State rep proposes murderer registry

Posted on January 26, 2011
Original Article Once again, a politicians trying to make a name for himself. Murderers have the LOWEST recidivism rate of any other criminal, and sex offenders have the second lowest recidivism rates. So it seems to me, they are going about this totally bass-ackwards...

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URGENT: Obama is acception questions for the State Of The Union, get yours in now

Posted on January 25, 2011
I'm sure they'll go ignored, but it never hurts to try. Get your questions in now before it's too late. You can pose your questions on YouTube and Twitter.

DC - U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing

Posted on January 25, 2011
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MA - Former Salisbury police chief (David L'Esperance) in drug and sex scandal

Posted on January 25, 2011
Original Article 01/25/2011 BOSTON - The former police chief of Salisbury is at the center of a sex and drug scandal, and that's just the beginning. The results are in Monday night of an investigation into the former chief by the town, making him out to be as dirty as they come...

NY - No sex offender has completed treatment; program faulted

Posted on January 25, 2011
Original Article 01/25/2011 By Gary Craig 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...

UK - Police officer (Daniel Lishman) jailed for life after child sex offences

Posted on January 25, 2011
Original Article 01/25/2011 By Andy Simpson A former police officer has been jailed for life after a jury found him guilty for sex offences against children. He was told that he will spend at least 11 years in prison. Daniel Lishman, from Northamptonshire, was convicted of serious child sex offences against minors...

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Posted on January 25, 2011
Inquest into baby death reveals malnutrition - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) YouTube - Troy father gets 15 years to life for beating child to death Father Charged In Child's Death; Records Show It's The 2nd Time | WSPA 83-Year-Old Ordered To Jail For Deadly Crash - News Story - WSB Atlanta

OFF TOPIC - The Bellamy Brothers - Jalapenos

Posted on January 25, 2011

ME - LD 8 - An act to increase the maximum distance from a school in which a sex offender may reside

Posted on January 25, 2011
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LA - Former Shreveport attorney (Robert Goodman) sentenced for sex crime

Posted on January 25, 2011
Original Article 01/24/2011 Shreveport (KSLA)- A long time Shreveport Attorney received a one year probation on charges of sexual contact with a juvenile. Robert Goodman, 81, received his sentence Monday morning at the Caddo Parish Court House. Goodman pleaded not guilty on those charges back in March of 2010 after police raided his downtown law office...

MI - Action News Investigators dig into possible motives for shooting that wounded four DPD officers

Posted on January 25, 2011
Original Article 01/24/2011 By Scott Lewis DETROIT (WXYZ) - The Action News Investigators have uncovered new information on a possible motive for the police station shooting that left four officers wounded on Sunday. A source tells Channel 7 that police were hot on the tail of the gunman, [name withheld] in their investigation of an unsolved sex crime...

Recovery Money for Byrne JAG Won?t Stimulate Greater Public Safety

Posted on January 24, 2011
Original Article 10/2010 The Justice Policy Institute (JPI), a research and policy organization in Washington, D.C. that studies law enforcement issues, recently reviewed two documents related to the $2 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds spent on the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program: a new U...

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Posted on January 24, 2011
Police: Man Arrested in Two-Year-Old Boy's Death - WJW Fort Campbell Soldier Accused of Child's Murder - NewsChannel5.com | Nashville News, Weather & Sports Tell City Death Investigation - TriStateHomePage.com

VA - Sex offender program elicits queries

Posted on January 24, 2011
Original Article 01/23/2011 The concept of civil commitment has always raised certain troubling philosophical questions. Now in Virginia, it?s raising financial ones as well. Civil commitment is the system through which violent sexual predators who are considered likely to commit another sex crime may be held in state custody after their prison term ends...

FL - 2 Police Officers Killed, as 2 Others Are Mourned

Posted on January 24, 2011
Original Article 01/24/2011 By LYNN WADDELL and DON VAN NATTA Jr. ST. PETERSBURG - Two St. Petersburg police officers were shot and killed Monday morning in a gun battle with a suspect whom the police had tried to serve with a felony arrest warrant, a police spokesman said...

Do you have a story you want to tell? Then send it to us to be published!

Posted on January 24, 2011
There are many people out there, ex-sex offenders and family members, who have nightmare stories about the sex offender laws, harassment, homeless and joblessness, kids being harassed, etc. If you have a story, and would like others to be able to read it and see that they are not alone, then please consider sending us your story...

CA - Assemblyman Tom Ammiano Questions State's Sex Registration Laws

Posted on January 24, 2011
Original Article 01/24/2011 By Erin Sherbert No two sex offenders are the same, which is why Assemblyman Tom Ammiano wants California to consider a tiered system to categorize those who break the state's sex laws. As he points out, there is a gradation of offenses...

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