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 THOMAS HARGROVE Scripps Howard News Service March 09, 2006 WASHINGTON – The FBI, for the first time, has complied with a 1990 act of Congress by issuing a public accounting of 662,196 lost, runaway and kidnapped children reported by police to state and federal authorities last year. Fifty-eight percent of the missing...
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Woman, daughter lived in N. Fort Myers By Dave Breitenstein March 03, 2006 A California missing child case ended with the arrest of a North Fort Myers woman and recovery of her 9-year-old child, who had been attending class since September at a Lee County school. Terry Ann Dunn, 45, of 16500 Slater...
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Prices Put On Bodies, Souls COLUMBUS, Ohio — Teenage runaways, many from Ohio, are part of a booming business of selling bodies and souls, NBC 4 reported. At age 15, Tina Frundt became part of a human-trafficking network. A man convinced her to run away from her family in Chicago and come to...
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Along with wife and her sons, man is accused in case where police say 2 teenage girls were held captive, prostituted BY SHANNON PRATHER Pioneer Press Ramsey County prosecutors leveled charges Wednesday against a fourth member of a St. Paul family accused of holding two teenage girls captive and forcing them into prostitution....
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By Todd Dorman of the Muscatine Journal Capital Bureau DES MOINES — First-time sex offenders who strike children would serve a mandatory 25-years-to-life prison sentence under legislation endorsed Thursday by Republican and Democratic leaders in the evenly divided Iowa Senate. The bill, co-sponsored by 45 members of the 50-member Senate, targets adults convicted...
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The Desert Sun February 2, 2006 The old saying “Something is better than nothing” certainly applies to Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia’s bill creating special enforcement teams that would visit sex offenders at their homes. While state Democrats and Republicans can’t seem to agree on a plan to track more than 17,500 missing sex offenders,...
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BY FREDERICK MELO Pioneer Press Jan. 19, 2006 A proposed law would require all registered sex offenders to be assigned a risk level – even if they never went to prison. The legislation would close a “king-sized” loophole in the state’s sex-offender notification law, said the bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Joseph Atkins, DFL-Inver...
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