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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The Tracy women who helped rescue a missing 12-year-old girl say they figured out who she was from seeing a televised Amber Alert. Looking grimy and hungry, the missing girl and the man accused of taking her were at a Tracy hardware store Thursday evening looking for new clothes. A woman who worked...
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RUBÉN ROSARIO Its official name is the Parental Abduction Child Recovery Team, but perhaps Kidnap Busters is a better fit after this week. With the help of St. Paul cops and others, a week-old Minnesota-based group of private investigators, lawyers, retired FBI types and other do-gooders cracked its first case with the dramatic...
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KIDNAP EFFORT TOWED Thursday, July 06, 2006 By MICHAELANGELO CONTE JOURNAL STAFF WRITER WEST NEW YORK – A convicted sex offender who snatched a 4-year-old girl and took off running was grabbed by police moments later because he’d parked his getaway car in front of a driveway, where it was towed away, officials...
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18-month-old girl remains missing By Matthew T. Hall UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER June 4, 2006 An American couple were arrested in the Tijuana area Friday after selling two of their children in Mexico, federal officials said yesterday. One of the children was still missing late yesterday. The couple were wanted on warrants for taking...
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By Pablo Jaime Sainz UNION-TRIBUNE January 2, 2006 TIJUANA – A nonprofit group based in the United States is sponsoring a campaign of advertisements and billboards across Tijuana that targets foreign visitors looking for sex with children. Messages, written in big letters in English and smaller ones in Spanish, are direct: “Exploit a...
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Police say the 15-year-old had been kidnapped and raped before she escaped Monday morning. By LISA ROSSI REGISTER STAFF WRITER May 31, 2006 Ames, Ia. – Tristan Adams was in Campustown Monday morning to help a friend who needed a job. What he found was a teenage girl who needed to be rescued....
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Proposal before Senate would allow execution in child assault cases March 23, 2006 By Tim Smith CAPITAL BUREAU COLUMBIA — State senators are considering a proposal that would allow South Carolina to execute those convicted two or more times of sexually assaulting children. The amendment came as the Senate took up sexual offender...
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Anna Kaplan Statesville Record and Landmark Sunday, March 19, 2006 Etolia Terry knows how to tell when something’s wrong with her young clients. As an outreach worker with homeless children, she is required, by law, to alert the police if she suspects abuse or neglect. But earlier this month, when she thought something...
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