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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Don’t let criminals be your “scrooge” this holiday. Take a few precautions when you venture out to do Christmas shopping and you will “take a bite out of crime”. Personal Safety at Malls The threat of physical assault does not necessarily increase along with the crowds that herald the holiday season. It’s when...
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Youths entering their adolescent years face many transitions. Physical changes occur in conjunction with a striving for personal identity and autonomy. In the runaway, however, attempts to gain independence in a mature, self-sufficient manner fail. Despite the many reasons runaways give for leaving home, runaway youth often return home, only to run away...
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COURTNEY BRUMMER, Staff Writer 02/06/2005 EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a two-part series about parental abductions. In a report to the U.S. Department of Justice concerning parental abductions, Ernest Allen, president and chief operating officer of the National Center for Missing Exploited Children, addressed the question: “The kid is with a...
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First, contact your child’s friends and his/her boyfriend/girlfriend, family, your estranged spouse and his/her family, neighbors, your child’s employer, principal, teachers, coaches, counselors and extracurricular activity leaders. Find out if your child’s boyfriend/girlfriend or any other friends are missing. Check to see what, if any, of your child’s personal belongings are missing. LOOK...
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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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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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STAFF REPORT MANATEE COUNTY — Authorities say a 14-year-old girl who was reported missing more than a month ago was found safe Thursday in Tennessee. Investigators grew concerned in late September after the girl’s mother, Denise White, got a call from her daughter. Andrea White, who had run away in August, said the...
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By Kerry Haglund Mariah Washington, nine, got off an airplane in Amarillo chattering with her mother about her first flying experience — the television screens, the peanuts, the plugged ears. Mariah is back in the Texas Panhandle after a five and a half year absence. The girl and her mother, Georgeann Foster of...
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