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When she was an adolescent, Lauren Book was sexually, physically and emotionally tortured by her nanny for six years. Her abuser’s name will be forever included on a publicly available sex offender registry. So will the name of Shawna Baldwin, a hardworking and loving mother of two whose life has been blighted by a decision, when she was 19, to

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything quite like it. On Friday the Kansas Supreme Court issued decisions in three cases — State v. Buser, State v. Redmond and Doe v. Thompson — holding that Kansas’s Offender Registration Act, requiring anyone previously convicted of various violent felonies, drug crimes or sex offenses to register with state authorities, cannot be constitutionally applied to people whose underlying

Still a “slap on the wrist” from the perspective of most reading this, but former Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert received a 15 month sentence for the financial crimes related to his pay-offs to keep a former victim of his molestation quiet. Hastert, who had a guidelines sentence of up to 6 months, was given three times the amount

SUBURBAN BOCA RATON – A South Florida mother hopes close a loophole she says puts kids in danger. The property manager at her apartment was convicted of sexually assaulting her son in 2013. That man was a registered sex offender at the time, having served time for child pornography charges. She worked with an attorney to sue her landlord. Through

“Untouchable” is the kind of movie that stays with you long after the credits roll and the lights come on in the theater. It’s a documentary that makes each audience member reevaluate his or her moral compass and, like a stereotypical hero on a quest, makes one question the definitions of good and evil. Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival,

A former Louisiana district attorney solicited sex from at least 20 women in exchange for offering favorable treatment from his office, authorities said Wednesday after the veteran prosecutor pleaded guilty to obstructing their long-running investigation of him. They described him as a sexual predator after he pleaded guilty to a narrowly tailored charge of harassing a witness and trying to