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Charles Daugherty, a 29-year-old convicted child molester, was arrested after confessing tokilling 11-year-old LaShonna Bates in 1994. He claimed to have stumbled across the body of LaShonnawhile chasing a runaway dog. He now has admitted to the killing more than six years later. Herdecomposed body was found two months after the fourth grader disappeared in February 1994 afterbeing last seen at a school bus stop outside of a convenience store. At the time, Daugherty was onprobation for a 1991 child molestation conviction. Based on the suspect’s criminal history, policeMajor

Steven M. Alex, a 29 year old former assistant state attorney is being sought by authorities on charges he sexually molested a 13 year old boy.  He is now the subject of a manhunt after failing to turn himself in as scheduled on Thursday.  He worked for the state attorney’s office from May 1999 until this past September.  Once it was learned that he was being investigated by police for sexual battery against a minor, his supervisors fired him.  Florida officials say he is accused of four counts of sexual

A 12 year old developmentally disabled girl in Berkeley, California, was grabbed, beaten and sexually assaulted by nine boys, ages 11 to 16, after school.  They allegedly grabbed her on school grounds on October 25th, first slapping her and kicking her, then took her to 11 different locations and took turns assaulting her.  Seven of the boys were arrested during a two week investigation into the attack and police are searching for two more suspects.

(Berkeley, California)

Christopher Eric Stubblefield, a Vancouver Christian school teacher, is accused of one count of child molestation and two counts of child rape, both Class A felonies.  He is accused of raping two young girls and molesting another.  A 6 year old student reportedly told her mother one day late in October that she didn’t want to go to school because she had been molested.  Detectives were notified and found two other alleged victims, one age 6 and one age 7.

In New Jersey, where Megan’s Law was born, voters agreed to changes in state law that will allow officials to post information about sex offenders on the Internet, as 26 other states do.  I’m really excited, and I think the parents of New Jersey are going to be quite pleased that their registry will be online shortly, said Laura Ahearn, director of Parents for Megan’s Law.

(New York)

Stephen Lee Miller, a 42-year-old convicted child molester, is accused of molesting an 8-year-old boy in a public restroom.  While the boy was shopping with his parents at Tops store in Stow around 5 pm Sunday when he went to use the restroom.  The little boy closed the door and while in there, the adult opened the door, touched his private parts and asked lewd questions, Lt. Rick Myers of the Stow Police Department said.  When the boy didn’t come out of the restroom after a while, his mother got