According to BBC News Online, William Hague, Downing Street Spokesman, called for a series of tougher penalties, including extension of the use of life terms for repeat offenders, he also said paedophiles should be restricted from living near their victims and should be under tighter supervision, including electronic tagging. A suggestion that Britons convicted of sex crimes abroad should be made to sign the offenders’ register on their return, was made. His proposals follow the public’s anger over paedophiles living int he community in the wake of the murder of
Ever since the News of the World named 200 sex offenders in the wake the murder of 8 year old Sarah Payne, it has been blamed for protests that have gotten out of hand. The homes and property of suspected sex offenders have been targeted and damaged, five families were scared enough to leave the area. A number of people have been attacked after being wrongly identified as child abusers as other campaigns are under way in South Wales. According to this BBC News Online article, the paper is now
Sarah Payne was abducted on July 1st. Her face was splashed across British newspapers for two weeks after she was abducted. On July 17th she was found in a field not far from where she disappeared near her grandparents home. She was found naked and it is suspected that she was suffocated or strangled. Along with her parents Michael and Sara and their three other children, hundreds of people joined them to pay tribute to the murdered schoolgirl in a very emotionally charged memorial service. After the service 12 white
Rape was once regarded as a byproduct of war and rarely punished. A significant precedent onaccountability was set when a federal jury in Manhattan awarded Bosnian rape victims $745 million.This is a key step in the growing tend toward allowing any country to have jurisdiction over warcrimes that occurred elsewhere. The jury found that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzicshould pay for the damages to a group of women who were victims of rape, torture and genocide byhis soldiers during the Balkan conflict. It was determined that the 15 plaintiffs
Frank James Milligan, a 31-year-old man, is accused of kidnapping a 10-year-old boy from the Dallas City Park after promising his $100 for yard work. He is accused of sexually assaulting and then slashing the throat of the boy and faces new charges of attempted aggravated murder, kidnapping in the first degree and sexual abuse. The boy told police that Milligan drove him to a rural part of Marion County, tried to sexually assault him and then slit his throat when he resisted. He was left in a field and
Patrick Naughton, a former Disney Go Network executive, was sentenced to five years probation after admitting he flew to California to seduce a 13 year old girl who was actually an undercover FBI agent. He will pay a $20,000 fine and serve nine months under house arrest with electronic monitoring as part of a plea bargain. He is allowed to use his computer at home but not allowed to visit sexually oriented chat rooms. He also is not allowed unapproved contact with children and he will undergo counseling. In September
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