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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May 5, 2004 NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge has ruled that an imprisoned child molester is responsible for the disappearance and presumed death of 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979. State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick said she declared Jose R. Ramos responsible for the boy’s death because he disobeyed her orders to...
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Monday April 26, 2004 By JOHN KEKIS Associated Press Writer ======================= SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) While police continued to investigate the abduction of a 5-year-old girl, a neighbor breathed a big sigh of relief that the child had been found alive. “They say she’ll be OK,” 76-year-old Maria Dimitrov said Monday as she stood...
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By: The Associated Press April 10, 2004 AP photo Taking a clue from milk cartons, the IRS has been including pictures of missing children in its packages of the 2003 tax form. The reunification marks the first time the IRS can say with certainty that a photograph in a tax publication led the...
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HELENA, Montana (AP) — A registered sex offender was arrested for allegedly soliciting baby-sitting jobs through fliers and classified advertisements, police said. Kenneth Lee Hall was arrested Wednesday and jailed for violating the terms of his sex-offender therapy, a condition of his probation. Hall, 41, was convicted in May 1999 of sexual assault....
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SANTA ROSA, Calif. A man who recently moved into a group home for the developmentally disabled tried to abduct a 9-year-old girl from a neighboring house after stabbing her mother with a pair of scissors. A neighbor pounced on the man and saved the girl after hearing screams. Police arrested 26-year-old Joshua Theo...
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10/09/2002 Associated Press SEATTLE – A statewide Amber Alert system is up and running in Washington for the first time, Gov. Gary Locke said Wednesday. The next time a child is kidnapped anywhere in Washington, alerts will go out on radio, television and highway signs across the state. So far, Washington has relied...
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Associated Press Aug. 31, 2000 BOSTON — The American Civil Liberties Union will represent a group that advocates sex between men and boys in a lawsuit brought by the family of a slain 10-year-old. The family of Jeffrey Curley of Cambridge said the North American Man/Boy Love Association and its web site which...
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