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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On Father’s Day, a young mother sits in her room in a secure and well-managed private hospital in North Carolina, feeding her newborn infant. A woman in a nurse’s uniform comes into the room and tells the mother that she is taking the infant for tests and to have him weighed. The mother...
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Case histories for this study were selected from a sample of interviews of former prostitutes who began prostituting as juveniles and who were involved in two outreach programs, Paul & Lisa, Inc., and WHISPER. Both programs work primarily with female prostitutes. In addition, interviews were conducted with six ex-pimps known to the WHISPER...
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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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By Carol O’Hara “Nikki asked permission to cross the street to play with a friend. She never got there.” Mary Ann Campbell blinks back tears that well up easily as she talks of the December 27, 1991 kidnapping of her only daughter, Amanda Nicole “Nikki” Campbell. Nikki?s dad was home that day. The...
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Thursday November 3, 8:00 am ET ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ – Top officials from the U.S. and 21 other countries adopted an aggressive 17-point action plan to eliminate commercial child pornography worldwide by 2008; establish new national centers in Europe patterned after the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in...
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By Jim Kouri, CPP September 27, 2005 The Department of Homeland Security’s US Immigration and Customs Enforcement created new milestones in Operation Predator, the Department’s ongoing campaign to combat child sexual predators worldwide. The advances include the signing of an agreement with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The announcement to...
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June 30, 2005 Police in Wisconsin are crediting General Motors’ OnStar system and the AMBER Alert program with the successful rescue of a 17-month-old child taken last Thursday from his mother’s home. Although this was a stolen vehicle, the child, who was the subject of an AMBER Alert, was recovered in good condition...
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