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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December 31, 2005 By Moustafa Ayad, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Moments after entering a Yahoo! Internet chat room and receiving an invitation to watch a “hot video,” James Vanlandingham was watching a 6-year-old and 9-year-old girl parade around a bathroom naked. Mr. Vanlandingham, of Leetsdale, immediately picked up the phone and called the Leetsdale Police...
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December 31, 2005 By Moustafa Ayad, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Moments after entering a Yahoo! Internet chat room and receiving an invitation to watch a “hot video,” James Vanlandingham was watching a 6-year-old and 9-year-old girl parade around a bathroom naked. Mr. Vanlandingham, of Leetsdale, immediately picked up the phone and called the Leetsdale Police...
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Dec 21, 2005 By SVEN GUSTAFSON Of The Oakland Press PONTIAC – Convicted sex predators who target children could be forced to undergo realtime satellite monitoring under legislation announced by state Rep. David Law on Tuesday. The proposal would set up Michigan’s own version of the so-called Jessica’s Law. Patterning the proposal after...
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By Ramsey Al-Rikabi Times Herald-Record December 12, 2005 Monroe – State Trooper Matthew Forestire pulls his cruiser onto Route 17 and drives west. He’s on the road only seconds when he pulls over a school bus for an expired license plate. How did he know so fast that the plate was no good?...
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By Raja Mishra and Connie Page, Globe Staff And Globe Correspondent November 8, 2005 MARLBOROUGH — A frantic hunt for two kidnapped children ended last night when police found one of them, a 5-year-old girl, inside a suitcase in a hotel room near Logan Airport, where her mother was trying to hide from...
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Saratoga Springs | Track runner fends off attack near high school By BRENDAN McGARRY 11/1/2005 SARATOGA SPRINGS — A 17-year-old female athlete at Saratoga Springs High School was nearly abducted Monday evening while leaving campus, police said. The girl, whom police didn’t identify, was walking to her car in the West Avenue parking...
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By Tania E. Lopez August 11, 2004 MORGAN COUNTY The man arrested after a chase that ended in a Morgan County cornfield was held Tuesday on $1 million bond on charges stemming from the rape and attempted murder of an Illinois girl. Ronnie L. Johnson, 53, Kansas, Ill., was being held in the...
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Background checks are common, but gaps remain By Carolyn Johnson and Emily Anthes, Globe Correspondents | July 27, 2004 A Massachusetts man’s removal from a camp counseling job because of child pornography charges renews concerns about children’s safety at camp, despite increased efforts to check workers’ criminal backgrounds, child advocates say. ADVERTISEMENT The...
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