Rhonda Blevins has counted more than 2,000 signatures on petitions backing a law she thinks could have saved her youngest child, 7-year-old Kristi. She wants juvenile sex offenders included in an Oklahoma law that alerts the public to adult sex offenders in their midst. On August 19, she and her husband discovered that Kristi and a 12-year-old friend, who had been playing outside, were missing from their home. The two were found by searchers in an abandoned home. The 12 year old had been raped and Kristi had been strangled.
David L. Mitchell, a 22-year-old man, is being held on a charge of raping a 14-year-old girl who is accused of leaving her newborn daughter to die in a shed. He has admitted to having sex with Elizabeth Grace Law, but denies fathering her child. Tests are being done to determine if he is the child’s father. He is charged with statutory rape because Law is a juvenile. The girl admitted that she hid her pregnancy from her family and delivered the baby alone at home about a week before
Young girls who are forced to hae sex are three times more likely to develop psychiatric disorders or abuse alcohol and drugs in adulthood, than girls who are not sexually abused, researchers report. The study, which involved more than 1,400 adult female twins, found that the sibling who was abused had a consistently higher risk of psychiatric disorders, such as depression and bulimia, despite being raised in the same family and having the same genetic makeup as her sister. Dr. Kenneth S. Kendler and colleagues, from the Medical College of
Durelle White, 18, and two 17-year-old students at Central High School are charged with taking a 15-year-old girl in to a room at the school Friday afternoon and raping her. She had left her classroom and was headed to the restroom around 2:30 p.m. when she ran into the three teens in the hallway saying they wanted to show her something elsewhere in the school and asked her to come along. She went with them to a locked room adjacent to the auditorium and one of the students had a
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Two inmates who finished their prison sentences were sent back to jail because they did not havea place to live upon release and could not meet sex offender registry requirements.
Matthew Dix was convicted of rape 17 years ago in Philadelphia. He finished his sentence October3 at the state Correctional Institution at Dallas, but has been behind bars ever since for lack of$5,000 bail. He is the second Pennsylvania inmate in three months to face such a dilemma andcorrections officials say more than 10 sex offenders in the past year
Joshua J. Cruz, 19, pretended to be a 17 year old to get into a teen party. Then he lured a 14-year-old girl into a bowling alley bathroom and raped her. An adult supervisor found him with the girl in the men’s restroom and another girl was with them. Cruz was arrested Monday and pled innocent to rape and other charges and was ordered held on $10,000 bail. Police said it took nine officers to restrain and arrest him.
(Taunton, Massachusetts)
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