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 Josh Montez A proposal introduced today on Capitol Hill hopes to protect children from sex offenders by making it harder for the molesters to hide. The Children’s Safety Act will beef up the penalties for sex offenders who don’t notify states of their residence. Congressman Mark Kennedy of Minnesota is one of...
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By Barney Lerten Bend.com Posted: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:58 PM Reference Code: AR-20825 ======================== Mother ‘very glad’ to hear son, now 17, is Ok. January 27 – A teen-ager who ran away from a northeast Bend home about 2 1/2 years ago, at age 14, and was listed on a national missing-children...
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For Immediate Release December 9, 2004 Everett, Washington – Twenty years ago, as they simply began helping parents of missing children hand out flyers, no one could have told Melody and Michael Gibson, founders of OPERATION LOOKOUT® National Center for Missing Youth, that the organization would grow into an award winning, local, national...
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POSTED: 1:30 pm EDT August 6, 2004 MOBILE, Ala. – A 6-year-old North Carolina boy missing for four years has been found living in Mobile with his father, a discovery made with the help of a tipster who had seen a computer-enhanced picture of the child at a web site. Nicolas Dipietro vanished...
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By Tom Farmer Friday, July 30, 2004 A Maine camp counselor charged with possessing child pornography was reported by his Jamaica Plain roommates who found hundreds of sexual images of young boys on his computer, a prosecutor said yesterday. Matthew Elansky, 22, was ordered held on $5,000 cash bail by West Roxbury District...
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Investigators say incident is case study in Web stalking The Associated Press July 25th, 2004 CHICO – In a brick building tucked behind a toy store in the historic section of downtown sits the National Yo-Yo Museum, where two dozen children or more gather each Saturday to practice with the Chico Yo-Yo Club....
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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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