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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Family and friends of a 13 year old girl, whose descent into drug addiction and prostitution ended in her slaying, recount a life punctuated by sexual abuse and an endless search for acceptance. Despite caring foster parents, social workers and a home life that in many ways seemed normal, Rebecca Hedman’s life ended...
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SCOTT GUTIERREZ THE OLYMPIAN OLYMPIA — A 42-year-old Seattle man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly attempting to have sex with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl whom he met over the Internet and arranged to pick up outside the Westfield Shoppingtown Capital mall. The suspect made the 60-mile trip in his minivan...
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From Roger Maynard in Sydney A TEENAGED Australian girl thought to be dead after being missing for nearly five years has reappeared during the trial of a man the prosecution said had confessed to murdering her. Natasha Ryan, 18, was last seen in l998 when she was driven away in a car by...
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AIMEE JUAREZ Herald Staff Writer MANATEE – Denise White called the sheriff’s office on a hunch Monday morning. For the past week, the mobile home park manager had received complaints from her tenants at Wayside Glen Community about two 19-year-old men harboring three underage girls inside a trailer. At night, the girls would...
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New York City – June 12, 2006 A Vermont teenage girl missing for nearly two years has been found alive and well in New York City. Dominica Smolinski was a suspected runaway when she disappeared at age 16 from her Westford home in 2004. Last fall, she was the subject of a nationwide...
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Police say the suspect had talked to the victim on the Web site MySpace.com. By Scott Pesznecker Herald Writer June 2, 2006 MOUNTLAKE TERRACE – A man who attacked a woman in her home Tuesday had been talking to his victim on MySpace.com, Mountlake Terrace police said Thursday. The woman, who is in...
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2nd suspect sought in girl’s 10-year captivity Sunday, March 26, 2006 By Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Police continued to search yesterday for the second suspect in the disappearance and reappearance of a teenage runaway from McKeesport whose family hadn’t seen her for a decade. A warrant was issued Friday for hairdresser Judith Sokol,...
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Feb 15, 2006 An Austin teenager has been found alive three years after disappearing. Chelsea Castorena is reunited with her family members Wednesday after she was located in Tijuana, Mexico — across the border from San Diego. Authorities, working off an anonymous tip, found Chelsea Castorena in Tijuana where she was living on...
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