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July 31, 2005
Defrocked molesters fall below the radar
At a time of heightened national concern about the need to track sex offenders, the Catholic Church in America has begun cutting loose dozens - perhaps hundreds - of priests who have molested children. The church had already suspended the... read more...Posted by Nealus at 08:34 PM | Comments (0)
Sexual deviance
Scott Hampton, a psychologist who works with sex offenders, contends there’s little difference between sex crimes today and when he started working 16 years ago. His conclusion may seem hard to believe because of the Internet, the creation of sex-offender... read more...Posted by Nealus at 07:41 PM | Comments (0)
July 30, 2005
CRAPO CALLS FOR NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY
National database would coordinate monitoring efforts. Thursday, July 28, 2005 Washington, DC – Legislation intended to strengthen federal law regarding registered sex offenders, S.792, passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee today and may see a floor vote as early... read more...Posted by Nealus at 12:41 PM | Comments (0)
July 28, 2005
Sixty-two convicted in child sex abuse case that horrified France
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article302043.ece By John Lichfield in Paris Published: 28 July 2005 After the largest, longest and most horrific child abuse trial seen in France, 62 people have been convicted of raping, prostituting, molesting or failing to protect 45 children as young... read more...Posted by Nealus at 07:41 PM | Comments (0)
July 26, 2005
Accused Smart Kidnapper Found Incompetent to Stand Trial
The man charged in the kidnapping of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial Tuesday. The decision by Judge Judith Atherton will send Brian David Mitchell to a state hospital until he is deemed capable of... read more...Posted by Nealus at 10:22 PM | Comments (1)
Accused priests' names disclosed
Recent abuse claims identify two deceased members of the clergy who had ministered in the Davenport Diocese. The names of two deceased priests that the Davenport Catholic Diocese refused to disclose have been made public by men who recently submitted... read more...Posted by Nealus at 01:57 PM | Comments (0)
Man Accused Of Raping, Impregnating Girl, 11
TAMPA - A registered sex offender was arrested Monday afternoon, accused of plying an 11-year-old girl with alcohol in August, raping and impregnating her. Ordray Sada Smith, 31, of 2123 W. Beach St., already was in jail on a charge... read more...Posted by Nealus at 01:54 PM | Comments (0)
July 25, 2005
National Sex Offender Public Registry
Information on sex offenders in 21 states and the District of Columbia is now available on an Internet site launched this week by the federal government. Participation by states is voluntary and assistant Attorney General Regina Schofield said all state... read more...Posted by Nealus at 12:29 PM | Comments (0)
Serial Molester
Police crack alleged child molester's code Accused kept notebooks, was writing memoir, police say. A man who authorities say could be the nation's most prolific child molester was crafting a lengthy memoir about his sexual exploits with boys when he... read more...Posted by Nealus at 12:19 PM | Comments (0)
July 24, 2005
Police seek sex offender, missing girl
Man was living with 8-year-old and her mother in Nevada Authorities are searching for a convicted sex offender suspected of taking an 8-year-old girl from her home near Reno, Nevada, according to the Lyon County Sheriff's Office Saturday. They have... read more...Posted by Nealus at 10:45 AM | Comments (0)
July 23, 2005
Romulus man faces rape charges
A Seneca County man faces charges he had sexual relations with a 15-year-old Tennessee girl he met over the Internet and brought to a Cayuga County cottage, state police said. Joseph F. Greene, 23, of 5596 Tipperay St., Romulus, was... read more...Posted by Nealus at 04:03 PM | Comments (0)
Penn Twp. man faces child porn charges
Police accuse him of supplying child pornography to Internet groups. A tipster used the national Child Pornography Tipline to alert York County detectives of a man accused of supplying child pornography to Internet groups. York County Detective Jeffrey Martz of... read more...Posted by Nealus at 03:46 PM | Comments (0)
July 19, 2005
Protect children - take action
By Caitlyn Mayfair One day in 1991, I woke up from the fog I was living in and in front of my face was the fact that I had been abused as a child. I remember the exact day, almost... read more...Posted by Nealus at 12:49 PM | Comments (0)
July 17, 2005
Calls for probe into child prostitution
A CHILDREN’S rights group has called for an immediate investigation into child protection standards following revelations of organised child prostitution in Ireland. An RTE Prime Time programme on male prostitution in Dublin, broadcast on Thursday, followed one social worker who... read more...Posted by Nealus at 09:36 PM | Comments (0)
Kennedy blasts Santorum on church abuse remarks
In a rare personal attack on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy called Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum self-righteous and insensitive for his remarks linking Boston's liberal reputation to the clergy sex abuse scandal. In recent days, Santorum has... read more...Posted by Nealus at 08:59 PM | Comments (0)
Sex-abuse scandal
As a lifelong Massachusetts resident, I am offended by Sen. Rick Santorum's comments implying that the "liberal culture" of Boston somehow is responsible for the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal. Not only are his remarks divisive and unbefitting a member... read more...Posted by Nealus at 08:52 PM | Comments (0)
July 16, 2005
Man, 44, gets life sentence for rape of child
Ronald Wayne Robertson receives maximum sentences after multiple convictions for attacking 9-year-old girl. A Mobile man convicted in May of raping and sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl was sentenced Friday to life plus 10 years. Ronald Wayne Robertson, 44, received... read more...Posted by Nealus at 10:28 PM | Comments (0)
Minister guilty on 4 counts, sentenced to 50 years
An eight-man, four-woman jury late Friday afternoon found a 48-year-old Missouri minister guilty of all four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child in the 1989-92 sexual abuse of his then 9 to 12-year-old step-daughter. The jurors deliberated 2... read more...Posted by Nealus at 09:58 PM | Comments (0)
July 15, 2005
Man gets 25 to 50 years for raping girl
A former Lehigh Valley man who sexually assaulted a child in New Jersey, didn't register as a sex offender when he moved to Pennsylvania and then molested a Catasauqua girl was sentenced Wednesday to 25 to 50 years in state... read more...Posted by Nealus at 04:20 PM | Comments (0)
Stepfather found guilty on sex charges
PUNTA GORDA -- A Port Charlotte man charged with forcing his teenage stepdaughter to perform sex acts on him was found guilty Thursday on six counts of sexual battery. John Michael Esposito, 43, showed little emotion other than a clenched... read more...Posted by Nealus at 01:49 PM | Comments (0)
Trend Of Child Sexual Assault Crimes
The man prosecuting what could be Dakota County, Nebraska’s first female sex offender says she does not have a criminal past. Forty-year-old Sheryn McCallister of South Sioux City, was arrested early Saturday morning for alleged sexual and child abuse in... read more...Posted by Nealus at 01:28 PM | Comments (0)
July 14, 2005
Idaho May Join National Sex Offender Registry
The Groene family's ordeal highlights one of several high-profile criminal cases across the country this year involving a sex offender. In many of the places where a crime was committed, the sex offender was registered in a different state, and... read more...Posted by Nealus at 04:18 PM | Comments (0)
Expressions of support pour in from across nation for Groenes
COEUR d'ALENE -- All the money, teddy bears and "I'm sorrys" in the world will not erase the past two months of Shasta Groene's life. They are not meant to. But they are the only possessions that thousands of people... read more...Posted by Nealus at 04:06 PM | Comments (0)
Duncan impassive as charges read
Suspected killer appears on six capital counts COEUR d'ALENE -- Suspected Wolf Lodge Bay triple killer Joseph Edward "Jet" Duncan III said nothing on Wednesday as he made his first appearance in magistrate court on more charges that could send... read more...Posted by Nealus at 03:57 PM | Comments (0)
July 11, 2005
States step up efforts to track sex offenders
Twenty-four percent of US repeat offenders are 'missing.' There are more than half a million registered sex offenders in the US today - convicted of a crime involving sexual abuse, released from incarceration, and required to report their whereabouts, in... read more...Posted by Nealus at 05:45 PM | Comments (0)
Federal trial set for child porn suspect
A trial date has been set for August in the federal child pornography case against Kokomo's George Budd. Police arrested Budd, 58, on Jan. 28 after Miami Correctional Facility officers intercepted a letter Budd sent to David L. Lewellen, 58,... read more...Posted by Nealus at 04:55 PM | Comments (0)
Child rape suspect refuses to answer questions in court
A Lufkin woman accused of raping and beating her children in one of the worst local cases of alleged child abuse in years pleaded the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering prosecutor's questions in court Friday. Defense attorney John Tatum said... read more...Posted by Nealus at 04:34 PM | Comments (0)
Two children missing from Arizona home
QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. -- An Amber Alert was issued for two young children missing from their home where the bodies of their grandparents and an uncle were found slain, police said Monday. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said 18-month-old Brian... read more...Posted by Nealus at 04:13 PM | Comments (0)
Remains identified as Idaho 9-year-old
Investigators said Sunday that DNA testing "positively identified" human remains found in Montana last week as those of missing 9-year-old Dylan Groene. The remains were found in the Lolo National Forest in western Montana, and sent to the FBI lab... read more...Posted by Nealus at 01:01 AM | Comments (0)
July 09, 2005
What Will It Take to Finally Protect Our Kids?
by Linda Chavez -- humaneventsonline.com How many children must die before lawmakers and the courts decide to keep certain classes of sexual predators behind bars permanently? Joseph Edward Duncan III, a registered sex offender from Fargo, N.D., is the most... read more...Posted by Nealus at 06:55 PM | Comments (0)
Sex Offender Laws In Idaho
The story of Shasta and Dylan Groene has caught the attention of Idaho lawmakers, who say their constituents are pushing for stronger sex offender laws in Idaho. Images of the two kids, who are believed to have been kidnapped and... read more...Posted by Nealus at 01:07 PM | Comments (0)
July 08, 2005
Colorado rapist gets 1,319 years in prison
DENVER - A serial rapist was sentenced to 1,319 years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to 66 violent crimes committed over five months against at least a dozen victims. The conclusion to Brent J. Brent's five-month crime spree in... read more...Posted by Nealus at 12:53 AM | Comments (0)
July 07, 2005
Former Fargo doctor loaned money to offender
A convicted sex offender arrested Saturday in Idaho with a missing girl received financial help from a former Fargo doctor, police records show. Authorities believe Joseph E. Duncan III, 42, left the Fargo-Moorhead area shortly after April 5, when he... read more...Posted by Nealus at 07:50 PM | Comments (0)
July 06, 2005
Idaho girl tells police of abuse
In court papers, she says Joseph Edward Duncan III abducted her and her brother and molested them. COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - An abducted 8-year-old girl told authorities that a violent sexual predator repeatedly molested her and her 9-year-old brother, who... read more...Posted by Nealus at 12:14 PM | Comments (0)
Three charged in sex crimes
SHELBY — Of three sexual offense arrests made by Shelby Police over the past week, one is still being investigated and will likely result in more charges and possibly another arrest. Ernest Guthrie Hilton, 44, was charged with one count... read more...Posted by Nealus at 12:02 PM | Comments (0)
July 05, 2005
Limits on Sex Offenders Spread in Florida
MOUNT DORA, Fla. — For now, it's a case in Idaho that has seized the nation's attention, reviving outrage, anger and debate over the treatment of sex offenders. But in Florida, which has been rocked by the lurid kidnap-slayings of... read more...Posted by Nealus at 07:56 PM | Comments (0)
July 04, 2005
Finding sex offenders next door is easier than you think
There are sex offenders in your community, maybe your neighborhood. Most can be accounted for. At least two, however, are missing from the Mercer County addresses they registered with police. Each has been convicted of sodomy, one of rape. But... read more...Posted by Nealus at 11:15 AM | Comments (0)
Is a sexual predator living in your neighborhood?
IT'S EVERY parent's worst nightmare. Your child goes out to play and never comes home. You discover hours, days or weeks later that your son or daughter has been snatched, molested and killed by a known pedophile. That's the scenario... read more...Posted by Nealus at 11:02 AM | Comments (1)
July 02, 2005
Idaho girl found in Denny's; arrest made
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho --An 8-year-old girl who disappeared with her brother six weeks ago from a home where family members were bludgeoned to death was found Saturday at a Denny's restaurant in the same town. The girl's 9-year-old brother, Dylan,... read more...Posted by Nealus at 04:39 PM | Comments (0)
