NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY ACT OF 2004 (S. 2154) Why this bill is important: This bipartisan bill seeks to fill a gaping hole...
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By JO ANN BOBBY GILBERT 12/9/2003 ISLE OF PALMS–A parental abduction case that started more than three years ago in California and spanned the country ended here today after police arrested the mother and took custody of the child, said Lt. Ray Wright of the Isle of Palms Police Department. Jonea Marie Rogers,...
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Mark Shaffer Arizona Republic – Flagstaff Bureau Nov. 26, 2003 12:00 AM FLAGSTAFF – A Flagstaff man who triggered a statewide “Amber Alert” after beating his wife and leaving the scene with his 2-year-old son was captured without incident shortly after noon Tuesday, police said. Richard Leroy Ratcliff, 38, was taken into custody...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003 Advertiser Staff and News Services A man accused of leaving Florida with his daughter and hiding out in Hawaii for five years was denied bond after he pleaded not guilty in a court hearing yesterday in Florida. Jon Michael Bryan was ordered to remain in jail in West Palm...
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Girl’s Father Faces Kidnapping Charge POSTED: 3:06 p.m. EST November 5, 2003 MIAMI — An 11-year-old Delray Beach girl returned to Florida Wednesday after what authorities said was a five-year parental kidnapping ordeal. Angeline Bryan-Hoercher was allegedly kidnapped back in 1998 by her father and taken to Kauai, Hawaii. Her mother, Elke Hoercher,...
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German police say they have broken up an international child pornography ring with links to thousands of people in at least 166 countries. Several hundred suspects are being investigated in Germany and more than 500 homes across the country are said to have been searched in the past week. The BBC’s Tristana Moore...
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By bfinley@denverpost.com Bruce Finley, Denver Post International Affairs Writer Wednesday, August 13, 2003 – A federal judge in Denver has decided to send home a girl whose father kidnapped her in Mexico and drove to Colorado – backing up an international treaty on cross-border abductions even though the girl is a U.S. citizen....
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August 13, 2003 — A gutsy 8-year-old girl heroically beat back a sicko predator who grabbed her inside her Bronx apartment building last week - and cops now believe she may have foiled the fiendish “rooftop rapist” from striking again. The teen also photographed the vehicle’s license plate and gave the evidence to...
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08/05/2003 By BEN GOAD, MIKE KATAOKA and BARBARA HERNANDEZ / The Press-Enterprise Acacia weighs approximately 30 lbs. and is 30″ A fugitive mother who kidnapped her daughters amid a custody battle in Texas has been arrested in Blythe, after 16 years in hiding with the help of a religious underground network, authorities said....
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