The Dobbs Wire: Stranger Danger & NCMEC

Stranger Danger:  National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) had a big media hit the other day.  On Good Morning America, NCMEC pushed to retire the slogan, ‘stranger danger.’  Those words have drilled fear and moral panic deep into millions of people, especially parents and children.  The phrase has also drawn criticism over the years from various quarters.  NCMEC’s

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Victim’s Advocate Group Does Not Support Residency Restrictions

I read an interesting article out of Pennsylvania concerning some members of the public who wanted their state legislature to pass a sex offender residency restriction. These articles are usually written the same… You have the archetypal “concerned parent” who discovers the presence of someone on the registry living in their community, too close to anything. You have the oblivious

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