Law Loophole Allows Sex Offenders To Live Near Schools
- May
- 15
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One thousand feet, about three city blocks, that’s the distance Missouri sex offenders have to put between their home and schools or daycares.
But of the 8,200 sex offenders in Missouri’s registry, we found many are not following that law.
Some are so close they can look out their windows and see kids in class.
And there’s nothing [...]
Court Backs Texas in Dispute With Bush
- April
- 8
WASHINGTON - Texas can ignore President Bush and an international court in refusing to reopen the case of a Mexican on death row for rape and murder, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.The court said Bush exceeded his authority when he tried to intervene on behalf of Jose Ernesto Medellin, facing the death penalty for killing [...]
Lawyer fails in appeal of sex counts with teens
- March
- 29
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A prominent Toronto lawyer convicted of sexually exploiting two London-area teenage girls has lost his appeal to Canada’s highest court.
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed Peter Budd’s appeal application, upholding the conviction of an Ontario Superior Court justice.
The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the conviction in October 2007, forcing Budd, a 46-year-old energy law [...]
1997 case pivots on DNA evidence
- January
- 28
BOULDER A DNA match has led to an arrest 10 years after the brutal sexual assault and murder of a University of Colorado student that frightened Boulder residents and stumped police.
Diego Olmos Alcalde, 38, was arrested after Wyoming authorities submitted his DNA to a national database.
Alcalde, from Chile, is accused [...]
2007 was a year of ups and down and upsets in Volusia County
- January
- 13
*IN JANUARY,
the Deltona City Commission, worried about rising costs, derailed an organized effort to build a $23 million structure called the Partnership Center, which had been envisioned as a multiuse gathering place for southwest Volusia. The commissioners, as well as several residents, were disappointed that the center’s proposed [...]
Things to do this week and beyond
- December
- 14
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From sexual trauma to healing sex
- December
- 14
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With holiday cheer festooning all my favorite lube stores in the Castro with slippery mistletoe, I’m reminded that it’s the time of year many people see family. While some of us stay put with sweethearts and eggnog-flavored condoms, or look forward to seeing siblings, others are not so lucky %26mdash; nowhere is this more evident [...]
Stanford’s rape reporting system raises student awareness
- December
- 14
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Nine women reported they were raped on the Stanford campus last year, a sharp annual increase that university officials attribute to a more victim-friendly reporting system now in place.
“Students are coming forward with more information because there are more avenues to report these incidences,” said Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cohendet, a spokesman for the Stanford Department [...]
System Failed Australian Rape Victim
- December
- 14
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(12-11) 06:17 PST SYDNEY, Australia (AP) —
Officials conceded Tuesday that Australia’s welfare system failed a girl who was removed from a remote Aboriginal community after being sexually abused at age 7, then gang raped at age 10 when she was returned to live in the town.
The case has drawn outrage in Australia [...]
2 Men Get 15 Years in Attack on Boy
- December
- 14
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(12-12) 09:41 PST DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) —
Two Emirati men were sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison in the highly charged kidnapping and sexual assault of a French-Swiss teenage boy.
Veronique Robert, the mother of the 15-year-old victim, said “justice was done,” but that she would still appeal to try to [...]
