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Marine Lance Corporal Kenny K. Titcomb, a 19-year-old US marine, was sentenced to a two-yearjail term for molesting a Japanese schoolgirl in a crime, which fueled protests against the USmilitary and cast a cloud over a leaders’ summit. He was found guilty of molesting the 14-year-oldgirl on July 3rd after entering her home as she slept. Because he is under 20, he could only betried as a juvenile by a Japanese court, instead he was tried in a US military court to help bringa tougher sentence. He was sentenced to

According to the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, while the overall violent crime rate fell 10 percent, incidents of rape rose 20 percent and sexual assault more than 33 percent between 1998 and 1999.  A report release last week by the BJS, was ‘misleading’ because it suggested all types of violent crime were down but important statistics were overlooked amid the good news: incidents of rape and sexual assault are on the rise.  Karen Baker, project director for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, a non-profit group backed by

Paul Perez, 20, is a convicted child molester.  He pleaded guilty in 1999 to abusing his own niece, who was then younger than 11.  He was sentenced to five years’ probation and put on the state’s list of high-risk sexual predators while living in apartment building.  Sam Gaynor lives in an apartment two floors below Perez with his three daughters.  Nobody ever told Gaynor about Perez, who lived for months in the Bruce Avenue apartment.  Several neighbors said they knew nothing about him and had never been notified by authorities

Charles Jaynes, 25, and Salvatore Sicari, 24, were convicted in the molestation and murder of 10 year old Jeffrey Curley of Cambridge in 1997.  Jaynes allegedly viewed the North American Man/Boy Love Association Web site shortly before the murder and also had NAMBLA publications.  Saying important First Amendment issues are at stake, the American Civil Liberties Union is stepping in to defend the group that advocates sex between men and boys against a lawsuit brought by Jeffrey’s family.  They claim that the NAMBLA and its Web site incited the molestation

Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law, accepts a check for $23,000 from New York State Assemblyman Steven Englebright and New York State Senator James Lack.  The funding was secured by Engelbright and Lack through the Division of Criminal Justice Services, the state agency responsible for administering Megan’s Law in New York.  Parents For Megan’s Law will use this funding for the expansion of their Resource and Support Center, which is headquartered in Stony Brook.  Parents For Megan’s Law is a not for profit organization dedicated to the

Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law, accepts a check for $23,000 from New York State Assemblyman Steven Englebright and New York State Senator James Lack.  The funding was secured by Engelbright and Lack through the Division of Criminal Justice Services, the state agency responsible for administering Megan’s Law in New York.  Parents For Megan’s Law will use this funding for the expansion of their Resource and Support Center, which is headquartered in Stony Brook.  Parents For Megan’s Law is a not for profit organization dedicated to the