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Blogs with News Stories on Sex Offender Issues:
Another Florida Teacher Commits a Sex Crime
While laws keep anyone with a sexual offense anyplace in their history from living within 2500 feet of schools, Florida school teachers are committing sex crimes. Yesterday, a Naples, FL teacher was arrested for two counts of sexual assault of a teen, sending...
State Sen. Lauren Book seeks restraining order to silence protester
As Broward State Sen. Lauren Book prepares for her annual walk to raise awareness about child sex abuse, she wants to make sure one of her harshest critics is nowhere near her. On July 26, Sen. Book filed a petition in Broward Circuit Court seeking a restraining order...
Sex offender law prompts lawsuit
Now the police are not only going after registrants, but those trying to help them too! A federal lawsuit filed against a county sheriff’s office in the Kansas City area alleges that an initiative to arrest sex offenders near a charity violates the organization’s...
Hale homicide victim was a convicted sex offender
It's pretty sad and disgusting that this story begins by saying, "Before being killed and buried in his backyard in rural Michigan, a 72-year-old man served time for sexually assaulting a minor. The Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry states Roger L. Knickerbocker...
One in five kids raised on registries attempt suicide at some point in their lives; many succeed
The following is an excerpt from an article by Nicole I. Pittman and Riya Saha Shah of Impact Justice. The article is titled, "Cruel and Unusual: the Case Against Registering Kids as Sex Offenders" and you understand more, from these personal accounts, how horribly...
Sex Offender, 81, Jumps Off Joliet Bridge, Drowns
An 81-year-old man who was a convicted sex offender took his own life on Friday morning by jumping off the downtown Cass Street Bridge, police said. A call came into the Joliet Police Department's communications center at 6:59 a.m. in reference to someone who jumped...
The Dobbs Wire: A live TV news story brought out the pitchforks
Battle Creek, Michigan: A local man hoping to open a new business saw his plans destroyed this week, a victim of panic triggered by a TV news report. The onscreen headline tells plenty, SEX OFFENDER PROPOSES STORE. A new food business set to open in a city with a...
The Dobbs Wire: What about the reporters?
Steven Yoder, a terrific journalist on criminal justice and other issues, takes on the media with a pair of strong essays addressed to reporters who write about sex offenses. This is surely an important topic because what news and entertainment media cover as well as...