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Many adults slow to adopt smartphone apps, survey finds

Posted on September 15, 2010
These Apps are also available for iPod Touch units. I have over 100 Apps and they go far beyond games, I use the legal ones in my research as well as many of them for home use. There are also some which allow printing from the unit if you have a wireless printer...

Rape remains underreported, underprosecuted in US

Posted on September 15, 2010
9-15-2010 Washington DC:WASHINGTON ? There were 88,097 rapes in the United States in 2009 alone, according to FBI statistics, but the crime remains one of the least reported and prosecuted, witnesses told US lawmakers on Tuesday."It's widely recognized that rape is one of the most underreported offenses in the United States with empirical studies estimating that merely 15-20 percent of cases are

A Woman's Touch

Posted on September 15, 2010
9-15-2010 Texas:Juvenile inmates can make inviting targets for sex offenders--and women are the most frequent perpetrators. Is the Texas Youth Commission ignoring the problem?One evening in November 2007, an 18-year-old inmate in Beaumont?s Al Price Juvenile Correctional Facility was stretched out on his bunk when a female guard named Janice Simpson entered his room...

Walsh Wants to Take 'America's Most Wanted' Worldwide

Posted on September 15, 2010
9-15-2010 National:Show, Web site both getting revampsAs it enters its 24th season on the air, John Walsh has big plans for America's Most Wanted, one of Fox's longest-running primetime programs."The Web has given us a worldwide presence," says Walsh, who wants to take that presence and franchise his show across the globe...

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Weird public sex with inanimate objects: benches, car wash vacuums, cars?

Posted on September 14, 2010
9-14-2010 Global:Men constantly think about sex. Unfortunately when drunk, lonely, or desperate, this desire is sometimes expressed with inanimate objects. In adolescences, many boys ?practice? sex with some pretty strange stuff?sandwich bags, heated peanut butter sandwiches, sofas?basically anything they can lube up or stick their willies in...

Police issue warning about 'Pedo bear'

Posted on September 14, 2010
Lets see, the normal "Sex Offenders Are Coming" isn't working anymore, so law enforcement needs a new way to keep the hysteria HIGH! Soon similar bears will be withdrawn from stores, etc etc etc... 9-14-2010 California:Police in California have issued a warning about the ?Pedo bear?, a computer character created as an internet joke...

Rules keep sex offenders guessing

Posted on September 14, 2010
What is a joke here is, that, the lawmakers believes that, banning RSOs from parks is a form of monitoring them. One thing lawmakers are great at is, perverting the English language and spinning the public. Obviously, stopping RSOs from living in an area DOES NOT stop them from walking into or being in those areas, even then if someone wants to commit a crime, laws will not stop them...

Greensburg Student Takes Life After Being Bullied By Other Students

Posted on September 14, 2010
9-14-2010 Indiana:Fox59 News reports on a 15-year-old Greensburg High School student who hung himself after being repeatedly bullied by classmates at school who perceived him as being gay. "People would call him 'fag' and stuff like that, just make fun of him because he's different basically," said student Dillen Swango...

A how-to guide for child molesters?

Posted on September 13, 2010
A 170-page manual explaining how to get away with molesting children was discovered in Florida. Who?s the sicko behind this?and why are cops saying it?s legal? Ed Smart, father of Elizabeth Smart, Marc Klaas, father of Polly Klass, and former prosecutor Robin Sax offer their views...

Putnam County sex offender residency law struck down

Posted on September 12, 2010
9-12-2010 New York:MEL - A Putnam County law banning the most serious sex offenders from living near places that children frequent is unconstitutional, a state Supreme Court justice has ruled.The Aug. 26 decision by Justice Francis A. Nicolai means the county can no longer order Level 2 and 3 sex offenders - considered the most likely to reoffend - to move...

Montville suing state to keep out sex offender facility

Posted on September 12, 2010
Apparently "Whatever it takes to save one child" does not apply if its "in my backyard." When it gets too personal then attitudes change...9-12-2010 Connecticut:Montville, Conn. ? The Town Council voted Wednesday to take the state to court to try to prevent a residential sex offender treatment facility from being built on Route 32...

Sex offender law would limit two offenders to one address

Posted on September 12, 2010
"Unintended consequences" says the Governor. OR, is it, "failure to consider the consequences of one's act," as so many judges say when sentencing someone for committing a criminal act. What is the standard for those in office?9-12-2010 Tennessee:NASHVILLE ? A new law barring more than two registered sex offenders from living in the same address could cause a problem for Tennessee?s homeless

Sex offender pamphlets anger the sex offender

Posted on September 11, 2010
Read all the way to the end, the cause may surprise you..9-9-2010 Delaware:A Kent County sex offender became angry when a 25 year old Maryland woman was distributing pamphlets about a neighborhood Tier 3 sex offender ? 41 year old Gary Biron of Dover ? when Biron confronted her...

We will never forget...

Posted on September 11, 2010

Schwarzenegger signs sex-offender law named for murdered Naperville teen

Posted on September 10, 2010
Another ill conceived law that will not prevent the crime which it was enacted because of. Further, given its hate component and resulting excessive sentences will ultimately be declared unconstitutional. Hate-based laws do not protect the public, they merely satisfy the whims of certain folks...

Federal Marshals Crack Down On Local Sex Offenders

Posted on September 10, 2010
This is so pointless on several levels: First, all the registry is, is a list w/pics of where registrants sleep a few hours of the day/night. How does that protect anyone? Secondly, look at the cost of these multiagency address checks; what a waste of taxpayer money and never a dime for therapy which is proven to be helpful to society...

Accrington men tell sex assault charges 'hell'

Posted on September 09, 2010
9-8-2010 United Kingdom:TWO Accrington men acquitted of sexually assaulting a woman have told of their ?two years of hell? since being accused. Paul Berry, 33, of Park Road, Richard O?Brien, 26, of Norfolk Grove, both Accrington, and Jamie Clayton, 30, of Rossendale Avenue, Morecambe, were cleared by a jury following a second trial...

Woman charged in Facebook crash: I'm the victim

Posted on September 09, 2010
9-9-2010 Michigan:The 23-year-old Pontiac woman who police say caused a fatal crash after a fight on Facebook told police that she was the one being victimized, a detective testified Wednesday.A hearing will continue Sept. 22 to determine whether Torrie L...

Woman Drags Naked Neighbor By Beard To Door

Posted on September 09, 2010
Unbelievable that anyone with such a beard would think he was not recognizable after the fact. There has to be mental issues here. 9-9-2010 Missouri:Woman Says She Used Tape Measure To Fight Off AttackerKANSAS CITY, Mo. -- An east Kansas City woman says her neighbor was anything but neighborly when he broke into her home early Tuesday wearing nothing but his birthday suit...

Texas sex offender registry in danger?

Posted on September 09, 2010
A BIG Opps?9-9-2010 Texas:Proposal to kill registry was $3 million mistake, official now says.In the Texas Department of Public Safety's proposed budget for the next two years, officials warn that if they must reduce spending by 15 percent, a high-profile public registry of sex offenders will have to go away...

Residents Post Signs In Fight With Sex Offender

Posted on September 09, 2010
There is something very interesting in this article. While the neighbor does have a right to post signs on their lawn, and the registrant does have a right to live where he lives, one of those rights does violate law. The neighbor is harassing the registrant using the sign, the neighbor has gone beyond what the law does; ie the state registry...

More on the 'unintended consequence'

Posted on September 09, 2010
9-9-2010 California:A readers tells a story about the nightmarish reality of our sex-offender lawsRegarding your cover story about homeless sex offenders [?Unintended consequence,? Sept. 1]: Thank you for bringing some of these issues to the forefront...

Mistaken Identity Labels Innocent Man a Sex Offender

Posted on September 09, 2010
This implies that, all registrants have to do to bring down the registry is, use names of other people in the public or politicians as aliases causing them to be arrested. That alone shows why the system is ridiculous. 9-9-2010 Washington:Dan Wheeler is trying to clear his name after a sex offender stole his wallet and used his identity...

Dozens of child predator arrests attributed to ORNL software

Posted on September 09, 2010
Software here does not find offenders, what it does is search hard drives of offenders already arrested likely waiting in jail. Notice stats, used in 50 cases which resulted in 30 arrests. That means 20 people were unlawfully detained or said another way, the software was wrong 40% of the time...

S.Korea kids to carry GPS beepers against sex crime

Posted on September 09, 2010
9-9-2010 South Korea:South Korea, shaken by several brutal sex crimes against minors, will supply children with GPS-embedded beepers to warn police of dangers and activate surveillance cameras, officials said Wednesday. Some 1,200 elementary school children in Anyang City, south of Seoul, will receive the beepers in a test run from October...

Va court upholds police use of GPS attached to sex offender's car

Posted on September 08, 2010
See earlier story. Hummm, so if I find something attached to my car which I did not place there, am I allowed to destroy it, if I so desire? Or, maybe attach it to a roving police car? Better a local wild dog... Enough is enough, this is getting crazy...

Akron Ohio: Growing panhandler list includes sex offenders, felons

Posted on September 08, 2010
9-8-2010 Ohio:AKRON -- It's tough to drive through Akron, especially near the main streets and highways, and not see someone asking for money. Often times, there's quite a few people panhandling."On a good day, I make about $33," said Mark Frederick, a 48-year-old homeless man who admits he's been panhandling in Akron eight hours per day for the last two years...

Officials say sex offenders hide out in Puerto Rico to avoid stricter laws in US

Posted on September 08, 2010
If registrants are moving to PR because it is best for them, and they are not committing further crimes, why should that be construed in a negative light? i.e., hiding out. I mean could we say, that, parents who choose to live close to schools, committing no crimes, are doing so because they wish to commit a sex crime one day, rather than it is best for their family situation? Why must

Human trafficking, exploitation is on the rise in Michigan

Posted on September 07, 2010
9-6-2010 Michigan:Theresa Flores will have knots in her stomach when she comes to Grand Rapids later this week.?It?s hard to come back to Michigan,? she says from her home in Ohio, where the carpet cleaning company runs its whirring machine and her teen daughter rings in from her cell phone...

Hypocritical Legal Crusade Against Craigslist Will Not Solve Violence Against Sex Trafficking Victims

Posted on September 07, 2010
9-7-2010 National:AG Richard Blumenthal's obsession with Craigslist does nothing to end the exploitation of people trafficked for sex. For years, Connecticut state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (and his dozen or so allied AGs across the United States) have aggressively attacked Craigslist's Adult Services section...

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