Nurses hospitalized after opening mystery mail at DeSoto County sex offender treatment center

Two nurses went to the hospital on Monday after opening a letter at the Florida Civil Commitment Center, DeSoto County officials said. A Charlotte County hazmat team tested the letter and did not find anything suspicious, according to officials. Both nurses were released from the hospital later in the afternoon. The Florida Civil Commitment Center is a privately-run facility that

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Lawsuit: State operation to catch sex offenders entrapped innocent men to boost arrest numbers

Quentin Parker believes the sting operation that identified him as a “dangerous child predator” in 2019 failed its mission. Though charges against him were ultimately dropped, he claims in his recent lawsuit against Washington State Patrol that dishonest detectives manipulated him and “forever tainted and destroyed” his life for their own financial gain. According to the suit filed in Thurston

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Matt Gaetz pushed for sexual predator legislation. How will that work out for him?

In 2014, long before he became the subject of a federal sex-trafficking investigation, Matt Gaetz pushed Florida to enact what he called a “scorched-earth” policy toward sexual predators. Gaetz, then 31 years old, served as the chairman of the Florida House of Representatives’ Criminal Justice Subcommittee. He cosponsored legislation that increased the mandatory prison time for convicted sexual offenders, calling

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