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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Missing Children’s Directory
What do you think of when you read or hear about a kidnapping? Notorious cases like the Lindbergh kidnapping of the 1930s or of little Adam Walsh who was taken from a Florida store and killed? Cases where the victim is taken a long distance away and held for ransom or where the...
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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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Tom waited for over two hours to pick up his daughter Libby from a scheduled visit with her mother. He finally made a phone call, hoping to discover what was causing the delay, and found that Rachel, his ex-wife, unexpectedly departed with Libby on a flight to Germany earlier in the day. When...
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ex offender registry: The measure has already passed in the House By Robert Gehrke The Salt Lake Tribune WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Smart, whose kidnapping in 2002 drew national attention, encouraged senators to approve a national sex offender registry bill that was passed by the House on Wednesday. “I don’t want to see others...
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By Pablo Jaime Sainz UNION-TRIBUNE January 2, 2006 TIJUANA – A nonprofit group based in the United States is sponsoring a campaign of advertisements and billboards across Tijuana that targets foreign visitors looking for sex with children. Messages, written in big letters in English and smaller ones in Spanish, are direct: “Exploit a...
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Dover session will teach ways of recognizing victims HUMAN TRAFFICKING In 2001, the federal government made human trafficking a top civil rights priority. Since then the U.S. Department of Justice, often working with local law enforcement agencies, has stepped up the investigation and prosecution of human traffickers. - According to Justice Department figures,...
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Mother accused of stealing boy from custodial father, fleeing to Greece with him By VALERIE GRACE City Editor COSHOCTON – A father and son are together again after nearly a decade apart, and the boy’s mother was sitting in a Coshocton jail cell Wednesday after her extradition from Greece, sheriff’s deputies said. Paula...
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