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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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Constant craving: the secret lives of sex addicts

Posted on January 06, 2010
1-6-2010 Global:Sex addiction is in the news, but is it a real disease or just an excuse? Steve Dow reports. Mary* was married for 30 years to a diagnosed sex addict who covered his tracks neatly. The high-flying accountant would regularly pretend to be working late or taking overseas business trips when he would, in fact, hole up in Sydney's Shangri-La Hotel, partaking of prostitutes...

Parents Frustrated Somer Thompson's Killer Hasn't Been Caught

Posted on January 05, 2010
1-5-2010 Florida:JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Life has moved on in Somer Thompson's neighborhood, but some things have changed. Purple ribbons still hang on Somer's school, and Crime Stoppers signs, asking for new information, are everywhere. Somer's memorial, still in front of her Orange Park home, is smaller but the neighborhood has not forgotten the hunt for justice...

Attorney: Sex Offender Law Unconstitutional

Posted on January 05, 2010
1-5-2010 Nebraska:Law Took Effect Monday When Judge Lifted Restraining Order, Excepting Two ProvisionsA new law requiring Nebraska to post the names of all registered sex offenders on a public Web site went into effect Monday after a judge lifted a temporary restraining order...

Task Force to Stop, Child on Child, Sexual Abuse

Posted on January 05, 2010
1-5-2010 Florida:Child on child sexual abuse touches and troubles the lives of thousands of children each year and the state of Florida is launching a new effort to stop it.New research by the Justice Department shows more than a third of sex crimes against children are committed by other children...

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Study: Third of juvenile sex offenders target other kids

Posted on January 05, 2010
1-5-2010 National:More than a third of sex crimes against juveniles are committed by juveniles, according to new research commissioned by the Justice Department. Juveniles are 36% of all sex offenders who victimize children. Seven out of eight are at least 12 years old, and 93% are boys, says the study by the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire...

Woman denies paying for child molester's beating

Posted on January 05, 2010
1-5-2010 New Mexico:CARLSBAD ? A former Eddy County Detention Center employee faces a charge of criminal solicitation after allegedly attempting to pay an inmate to beat up another inmate: the man who was convicted of sexually molesting a 12-year-old relative of the employee...

Man arraigned for 2008 Toledo murder had killed before

Posted on January 05, 2010
1-5-2010 Ohio:TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) ? The suspect arraigned in a violent Toledo murder that took place two in 2008 has been convicted of murder before. 52-year-old Willie Washington faced a judge Tuesday morning for the 2008 murder of 24-year-old Gordon Wright...

Can full-body airport scanners harm you?

Posted on January 05, 2010
1-5-2010 Global:Since explosive materials were sneaked onto a U.S. domestic flight on Christmas Day, full-body scanning machines are far more likely to make their way to security lines at your local airport, even though they might not have detected said materials...

Child Porn Laws Impede Airport Searches

Posted on January 05, 2010
1-5-2010 Global:British Government Outlines New Airport Security CrackdownThe British government today outlined its plans for security crackdowns at airports but said it will need to examine the legalities of the new security regulations, as well as scramble to implement them in the wake of the Christmas Day bomb plot...

Washtenaw County prosecutors review case against sex offender Matthew Freeman

Posted on January 04, 2010
1-4-2010 Michigan:Washtenaw County prosecutors are reviewing the case against a man accused of living near a school after being convicted of having sex with a high school girlfriend one year below the legal age of consent.Matthew Freeman, 23, of Pittsfield Township, who is required to register as a sex offender, is charged with a school safety zone residency violation...

Can the government civilly commit sex offenders?

Posted on January 04, 2010
1-4-2010 National:On Jan. 12, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in United States v. Comstock, a case that raises questions about the federal government's authority to civilly commit sex offenders.In 2006, Congress enacted 18 U...

Sex offender registries give 'false' security

Posted on January 04, 2010
1-4-2010 Maryland:SALISBURY -- Residents mourned the death of Sarah Haley Foxwell after investigators found her body two days after she was reported missing.She was one of 2,185 children across the country who are reported missing each day, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children...

Lower-risk offenders: New law unfair

Posted on January 04, 2010
1-4-2010 Nebraska:Some Nebraska residents found guilty of committing lower-level sex crimes have joined legal efforts to suspend or change parts of new sex offender laws that were set to take effect Friday.One man convicted of sexually assaulting his 15-year-old girlfriend when he was 19 successfully challenged his sex offender registry classification, getting it dropped to Level 2 and removing

Alaska tries to comply with federal sex offender law

Posted on January 04, 2010
1-4-2010 Alaska:ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- It's been more than three years since Congress passed a law ordering stricter laws for sex offenders, but Alaska is still not meeting those federal standards.The deadline to comply with the requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, or SORNA, was July of 2009...

N.C. builds a better rap sheet

Posted on January 03, 2010
1-3-2010 North Carolina:RALEIGH -- Wake County prosecutor Patrick Latour can search a defendant's criminal history through either of two computer programs. The difference is like switching between Pong and a Wii.The current system presents page after page of dizzying white letters and numbers on a black background requiring complicated, tedious commands...

Courts to hear sex offender registry cases

Posted on January 03, 2010
1-3-2010 Nebraska:The number of registered sex offenders who live in Nebraska was set to double this weekend.Not literally, of course.But, by virtue of a law passed by the Nebraska Legislature in May, the public Sex Offender Registry was to add some 1,600 people once labeled at low or moderate risk to reoffend...

An unfair stigma?

Posted on January 03, 2010
1-3-2010 Michigan:For convicted sex offenders who have sought help, the state's public Sex Offender Registry can make it hard to leave the past behindAfter being listed on the Michigan Sex Offender Registry for eight years, William believes he's earned a chance to resume a normal life...

Foxwell Kidnapping Suspect Has Criminal History

Posted on January 03, 2010
1-3-2010 Maryland:SALISBURY, Md.- WBOC has learned more information about the criminal history of Thomas James Leggs Jr.Leggs, 30, of Salisbury, and a registered sex offender in both Maryland and Delaware, is locked up without bond on burglary and kidnapping charges in the Sarah Haley Foxwell case...

Since 1996, sex offender laws have been totally ineffective in reducing sex offenses!

Posted on January 02, 2010
UPDATE: A reader asks, What about other violent crimes? See new chart below comparing sexual assaults to other violent crimes. 1-2-2010 National:The National Judicial Reporting Program (NJRP) compiles detailed information on the sentences that felons receive in state courts nationwide...

Neb. Supreme Court to look at alcoholism ruling

Posted on January 02, 2010
1-2-2010 Nebraska:OMAHA, Neb. - The Nebraska Supreme Court has been asked to decide if alcoholism can be considered a mental illness in determining whether to commit sex offenders.The case involves a man found by the state's mental health board to be a dangerous sex offender in need of inpatient treatment...

Father accused of murdering man who allegedly sexually abused his child

Posted on January 02, 2010
1-2-2010 North Carolina:CONCORD, N.C. -- A father is behind bars, accused of shooting a man to death.Cabarrus County Sheriff?s Deputies say the case could be related to the alleged sexual assault of his child.Sheriff?s Deputies say 46 year old William Ballance once lived with a family just outside of Concord...

SC inmate fatally stabbed in max security prison

Posted on January 02, 2010
1-2-2010 South Carolina:McCORMICK, S.C. (AP) - A prisoner has been stabbed to death by a fellow inmate at a maximum security prison in South Carolina.Authorities say 26-year-old Lamont Perry was attacked around 7:30 a.m. Saturday in a dormitory at the McCormick Correctional Institution and died a short time later...

Not having the sex talk will only put kids at risk

Posted on December 31, 2009
12-31-2009 National:Twenty-four percent of teenage girls have a sexually transmitted infection according to research published in the November issue of Pediatrics. How is it that our children can be so ignorant about sexual health or fail to act on what they know?A recent study also published in Pediatrics gives us some insight into that question...

Tougher law is sought on sex offenders

Posted on December 31, 2009
12-31-2009 New York:Dec. 31--Efforts to eliminate "weak parts" in the state's civil confinement law that have allowed paroled sex offenders, including 100-year-old Theodore A. Sypnier, to remain free were unveiled Wednesday by state lawmakers.A proposed amendment to the 2007 legislation would automatically require repeat sex offenders to receive a psychiatric examination before they are

Prosecutors weigh reforms to state sex offender registry

Posted on December 31, 2009
12-31-2009 Michigan:Michigan's overly broad sex offender list includes some kids younger than 13LANSING ? Anthony Flores doesn?t fit the profile of the card-carrying ACLU member agitating for reform of Michigan?s broadly inclusive sex offender registry, because he isn?t...

Judge blocks part of new Neb. sex offender law

Posted on December 31, 2009
I take exception to two comments made by this judge, they are:"By and large, Nebraska has only done what Congress (and the Attorney General of the United States pursuant to a delegation from Congress) permitted or required. p-1" -and-"In a democracy, we have legislatures to make public policy choices, and a black robe does not legitimize nullification of those legislative decisions simply

Court keeps convicted fondler off sex offender list

Posted on December 31, 2009
12-31-2009 Maryland:A Montgomery County man convicted of fondling an 11-year-old girl and then violating his probation won't be forced to sign up as a sex offender, Maryland's Court of Special Appeals has ruled.My Thien Nguyen, 41, pleaded guilty to assault and a sex offense in 2006, admitting that he had intentionally touched the private parts of an 11-year-old girl, court records show...

Sarah Foxwell update: Thomas Leggs Jr. denies child?s murder, more victims, and rape of teenager

Posted on December 31, 2009
12-31-2009 Maryland:Sarah Foxwell was kidnapped from her Salisbury, Maryland bedroom on Tuesday, December 22, 2009. Her body was found on Christmas day, an autopsy revealed that she had suffered multiple injuries. Now, the man accused of kidnapping her, Thomas Leggs Jr...

Fla. child abuse deaths rise in bad economy

Posted on December 31, 2009
12-31-2009 Florida:FORT LAUDERDALE ? About 200 children were fatally abused in Florida in 2008, a roughly 20 percent increase from 2007. Unemployment rates and drug use also increased in the state ? a factor in many of the deaths, according to a preliminary report...

Who's clicking on your kids?

Posted on December 31, 2009
12-31-2009 National:___ loves taking photos of her three young children and sharing them with family and close friends. But the South Charlotte mom won't post them on Facebook or other social networks. She's afraid.?I'm kind of paranoid posting photos of them,? said 33-year-old ___, a former Bank of America employee turned stay-at-home mom...

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