Juan Kaunasich Gamero, a 28 year old Ricky Martin look-alike contest winner, is charged with being the Ricky Martin rapist. He is accused of raping and beating a series of teenagers whom he lured by posing as the real Ricky Martin. He is charged with raping three young women from San Diego.
According to Newsday, to a polygraph operator, quick heartbeat, sweat glands kicking in, increased blood pressure and adrenalin flowing are indicators that someone is being deceptive. If that someone is a convicted sex offender, analyzing these signals can be a way of helping to teat and monitor the offender. Requiring convicted sex offenders to take regular polygraphs, as a condition of probation or parole is part of the Containment Approach program. It has been used successfully, mostly out west, for 20 years, but former Suffolk Police Officer Robert Mylott has
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The Supreme Court said it will decide whether states must prove sexually violent predatorscannot control their dangerous criminal behavior before they can be committed for treatment. Theyagreed to consider whether constitutional due process principles require proof the predators wereunable to control themselves when state seek involuntary civil commitment after the prison terms ofthe predators have ended. State officials were appealing a Kansas Supreme Court ruling last Julythat a lower court had strayed from that standard in the case of Michael T. Crane. He had beenconvicted of exposing himself to
Angela Coffel, 22, would be the first woman in Missouri committed to a mental hospital under the state’s 1998 sexual predator law. Prosecutors call her a sexually violent predator who should be committed indefinitely because she’s a danger to society. Coffel was sentenced in 1996 to five years in prison after pleading guilty to performing oral sex on two boys, aged 11 and 14. Her attorney, Lyn Ruess contends that Coffel, who was 17 at the time, was drunk and obliging the boys’ request in a game of Truth or
Davis Carpenter, Jr., 38, and Joshua Brown, 22, are charged with capital murder and six counts of rape in the death of 13 year old Jesse Dirkhising. Jesse was found September 26th in the men’s home where he had been going on weekends because he occasionally worked at the hair salon where Carpenter was a stylist. Brown told police he was Carpenters homosexual lover and had sexual relations with Jesse. Jesse was found nude and unconscious on the floor with duct tape wrapped around his right hand and an empty
Martin Frank, a 55 year old Medford man, was charged with one count of second degree sexual abuse, one count of public lewdness and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, all misdemeanors. In August, he allegedly inappropriately touched a 13-year-old girl in his car and in November, he allegedly masturbated in front of a 14-year-old girl, again in his car. Frank is married and has three teenage sons. He told neighbors he was a former New York City Police Department detective, but he is actually retired from