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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SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES Monday, May 16, 2005 Washington state police agencies failed to report at least 76 missing children to the FBI from 2000 through 2004, despite a federal law requiring such reports, according to data from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. But Washington did better than...
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Dozens of departments aren’t following federal law, investigation shows Monday, May 16, 2005 By THOMAS HARGROVE SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE Fifteen-year-old Bryona Williams had been missing for four days before the Detroit Police Department reported her disappearance to state and federal authorities. Her half-naked, raped, strangled and decomposing body was found two weeks...
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By Sam Wood Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer Mar. 22, 2005 A Cherry Hill teenager who had been missing for more than a year has been reunited with her family, police said yesterday. Zhen Li, 16, known to friends as Jenny Lee, was a ninth grader at Cherry Hill High School East when she...
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February 17, 2005 By Bryan Johnson ROCKVILLE, MD. – A 43-year-old Aberdeen man, John William Diehl is in jail, accused of unlawful imprisonment for allegedly transporting a 15-year-old girl from her home outside Washington, D.C. to his apartment in a housing authority project called Aberdeen Manor. Police say that Diehl told them he...
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Rhianna Powers Jacob Goldschmidt Posted: Thursday, Feb 17, 2005 – 04:52:00 am HST Mom faces charges in California, Hawaii By Paul C. Curtis – The Garden Island A boy believed to have been abducted by his mother in Lihue near the end of 2003 has been reunited with his father in California, after...
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The Internet is an area that can pose a very real threat to children. The anonymity of the ‘Net offers adults the chance to pose as children, then try to set up a face-to-face meeting. Young teens may also be lured into virtual relationships with older adults that may result in actual encounters....
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Police say woman didn’t refuse $500 solicitation for sex with child Simon Read, STAFF WRITER MARTINEZ – Police arrested a Martinez woman this week after she reportedly offered her 4-year-old daughter up for sex on a widely used Internet message board. Martinez police apprehended Shannon Nicole Woods, 22, on Tuesday after officials received...
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Undercover officers will train to pose as kids ERIC FRAZIER Child molesters prowling for victims on the Internet will soon stand a greater chance of running into undercover officers. A new N.C. law, combined with a ramped-up police training program, will bring tougher penalties and higher numbers of undercover officers onto the Internet....
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