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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Police say woman didn’t refuse $500 solicitation for sex with child Simon Read, STAFF WRITER MARTINEZ – Police arrested a Martinez woman this week after she reportedly offered her 4-year-old daughter up for sex on a widely used Internet message board. Martinez police apprehended Shannon Nicole Woods, 22, on Tuesday after officials received...
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A 21-year-old Effingham County man is behind bars tonight, charged with kidnapping and raping a six-year-old. It happened over the weekend in Springfield. Sheriff’s deputies say the boy was abducted from a mobile home park on Quail Run Road, then taken to some woods off Old Tusculum Road. Josh Dunson is the man...
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 13-year-old Milwaukee boy who went missing last week was found Tuesday in Phoenix with a man wanted on a child sex charge, police said. Justin Terlecki apparently took a bus to Arizona last Wednesday, lured to Phoenix by a 32-year-old man with whom he had corresponded over the Internet,...
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An 18-year old Erwin man is in jail this morning after being charged with statutory rape involving a Coats runaway. According to the arresting officer, the 14-year-old girl is now home with her parents. Johnathan Luna of 45 Iris Bryant Road, Erwin, was charged Friday. He was jailed in lieu of a $150,000...
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The Jessica Lunsford Act takes effect this week, increasing sanctions for crimes committed against children. BY DAVID ROYSE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE – Some sex criminals who target kids will face the possibility of life in prison or lifetime monitoring by satellite starting Thursday as the Jessica Lunsford Act takes effect. It could be...
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By Josh Montez A proposal introduced today on Capitol Hill hopes to protect children from sex offenders by making it harder for the molesters to hide. The Children’s Safety Act will beef up the penalties for sex offenders who don’t notify states of their residence. Congressman Mark Kennedy of Minnesota is one of...
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Salt Lake Tribune It was last October when Tonia McPeak and Steve Garrett heard an Amber Alert broadcast information about a 3-year-old boy who police believed had been kidnapped by his father. McPeak was astonished when she realized the car in front of her on I-15 matched the description of the car in...
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