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 Brianne E. Boykin The News Herald Thursday, May 5, 2005 Editor’s Note: It is The News Herald’s policy not to name a victim of sexual assault. MORGANTON – A 13-year-old girl walked into the Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday morning. Detectives had been searching for the girl since Saturday. The girl told detectives...
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They say they took the boy to Costa Rica to give him a stable home BY SUE LINDSEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VIRGINIA BEACH – A couple who fled with their 6-year-old grandson to Costa Rica and stayed there for 11 years pleaded guilty yesterday to one count each of parental abduction. Under a...
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Suspect Quickly Apprehended Nov 10, 2004 PHILADELPHIA –Two fast-thinking boys turned the tables on a man who allegedly tried to abduct them. Now, police say what they did in those frightening moments could help save other kidnapping victims. CBS 3’s Walt Hunter reports both a 10 and 11-year-old boy learned an important lesson...
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Canadian Press POSTED AT 9:48 AM EST Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004 EDMONTON ? The father of a boy taken from him 14 years ago by his estranged wife says his son learned last year he’d been abducted by seeing his own photograph on the Internet. The Ponoka-area resident found out last year that...
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WAFF.com – 12-year-old Lydia Dunn spends most evenings like many other kids, riding her bike at the end of the cul de sac at her apartment complex, but Tuesday night was unlike any other. “A guy jumped from behind the truck and grabbed me by my arms,” she says. “Male subject grabbed her...
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News Staff Writer By F.M. WIGGINS After more than a week away from her family, Julia Silva has returned home. The teen had walked off her family’s front porch and disapppeared June 24. Friday, the Hopewell teen reunited with her family. “It was an incredible feeling to have her back home,” said Julia’s...
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