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 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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DES MOINES (AP) — A homeless man who’s a registered sex offender was arrested after police said he grabbed a toddler and sexually assaulted her in the men’s room of the downtown public library. Police hailed library workers who pulled the girl away from the man as heroes. James C. Effler Jr., 32,...
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