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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Case among the oldest unsolved ones in country By SEAN O’SULLIVAN The News Journal 04/13/2006 WILMINGTON — For 13 years, Carl Dodd wondered where his daughter was. Instead of pictures of her growing up, he had only computer-generated speculation — created by a national missing-children’s organization – of what the girl might look...
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Feb 12, 2006 Reported By Anabel Marquez For 23-year old Vanessa Atilano, it’s been a long journey. First she was taken from Philadelphia to Guadalajara, Mexico, at the age of two. When she turned five, her parents split. And by the time she was 10, they told her she had been adopted. To...
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Some sex offenders could be dropped from registry By John Zick 1/9/2006 CORNING | One of the state’s most effective tools in fighting sexual predators has reached its 11th hour. On Jan. 21, a provision in Megan’s Law, legislation that helps law-enforcement officials keep track of sex offenders, will allow all Level 1...
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Sheriff’s Deputy Opens Fire On Man November 30, 2005 WESTERVILLE, Ohio — A Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy fired his gun at a man who answered his door with a handgun and pointed it directly at a police officer early Wednesday, authorities said. The abduction attempt allegedly took place shortly before 6:30 p.m. at...
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Teen’s 2-month ordeal ends with arrest of pair Judi Villa and Lindsey Collom The Arizona Republic Nov. 9, 2005 12:00 AM Since September, the 15-year-old girl had been raped repeatedly, threatened with death and sold for sex over the Internet, police said. Her captors hid the runaway in a hollowed-out box spring covered...
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Josh Kelley The Arizona Republic Nov. 9, 2005 12:00 AM The Gilbert Police Department has commended Terri Tobey and Beth Navarro for providing information leading to the arrest of a man suspected of trying to abduct children near two elementary schools in Gilbert last month.
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Text Messages Used To Track Down Teen, Man She Was Going To Meet November 1, 2005 HOUSTON — An Amber Alert for a missing Fort Bend County teen was called off Tuesday after the girl was found on a bus in Georgia, KPRC Local 2 reported. Meagan Minton, 16, was found safe and...
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By Jerry Schanke 10/05/2005 An attempt by a masked intruder to abduct two 10-year-old twin girls from their Vienna home shortly after midnight Sunday, Oct. 2, may prove to be as ironic as it was unnerving, resulting in the arrest later the same day of the girls’ martial arts instructor, Andrew M. Jacobs,...
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