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Michael S. Dorrington, a 26 year old teacher accused of videotaping his kindergarten students as they undressed, was charged with five counts of endangering the welfare of a child last month.  His lawyer wants the charges dropped because the state’s voyeur laws do not cover such an act.  Five girls were told by Dorrington to go inside a closet and change into bathing suits on Water Fun Day at Lincoln Elementary School.  He had a hidden camera in the closet which was in the classroom.  He later dropped the camera

Reverend Andrew Millar, 69, a retired Catholic priest, was arrested and charged with sodomizing a 15 year old mentally disabled boy in a public rest room at Tobay Beach. The boy was at the beach with his father and several other family members May 7th.  The boy told his father he had to use the restroom and walked over to the pavilion alone.  The boy was in the stall when Millar entered the stall and sodomized him.  The boy’s father became concerned when his son did not return right away

WEB SITE TARGETS STATUTORY RAPISTS (Consensual Sex Fuels Rise in Teen Birth, Say Calif. Officials)

Associated Press

7/18/00

Claudia Swing has helped create what is believed to be the first Web site in the nation to name those wanted on felony charges of statutory rape.  She hopes the Internet can help her put more statutory rapists behind bars.  These are the worst of the worst, multiple offenders with multiple victims, said Swing, an investigator for the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office.  She is one of four investigators who handle

State authorities can resume warning residents about sex offenders who live nearby.  An April court order freezing Megan’s Law notifications until a dispute over how these notifications were being conducted could be resolved, had been set aside.  According to the Associated Press, the order was imposed after the state Public Defender’s office filed a lawsuit alleging that sex offender information was being illegally leaked by residents, and that confidentiality rules were haphazardly enforced.

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Tony Bostic, 21, remains behind bars for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl who gave birth tothe baby then dumped it on a trash pile. DNA tests have almost confirmed that the body of an infantpulled from a burning trash heap by a dog is the rapist’s baby. The 15-year-old girl concealed herpregnancy even from her own mother. She told investigators that she didn’t know she was pregnantuntil she gave birth on the floor of her bathroom and that the baby was stillborn. She said thebaby wasn’t breathing so she

According to Newsday, when experts speak of making the Internet safe for youngsters, they are often warning parents about the usual suspect: the adult male pedophile who lurks in chat rooms and lures children into meeting offline.  A new federally funded study finds the threat is real.  Your child stand a nearly one in five chance of being approached for cybersex, but the culprit will likely turn out to be one that hasn’t gotten much media attention: another young person.  The study, Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation’s Youth