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Michael Polanger, a 20 year old who acted in desperation after two years of obsessive,unrequited love when he broke into a house and abducted a barefoot, pajama-clad girl at gunpoint,told detectives he had been plotting the abduction of the girl for at least a month and had boughta pellet gun last week to carry out his plan. On Friday, police released a tape recording of thecall to a 911 emergency line. He had gone to the house several times but was scared off orchickened out and finally got up enough

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Robert Raynovich, a 43 year old man once convicted of molesting children in New Richmond andColumbus, is facing similar charges in Pittsburgh. He was arrested last weekend on charges of rapeand corruption of minors. As many as 14 children, some as young as 6 year old, are involved,according to Allegheny County police. He served four years after a 1991 conviction for sexuallyassaulting a 7 year old girl. He moved to Columbus after his release in 1995 and was almostimmediately convicted of corruption of minors. Allegheny County police investigator Thomas Sturgeonsaid,

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who is head of the French Greens party and a leading figure in 1960’sprotest movements, has denied that he once molested children despite writing and article as a youngman alluding to intimate encounters with minors. He used to work in a kindergarten and later wroteabout how flirtation with young children in his care had taken on an erotic character. He toldFrance Inter radio that the 1975 published article contained passages, which were unbearablyflippant, but said they bore no relation to reality. Cohn-Bendit said, No, I never had sexualrelations

If you want to use the state’s sex-offender registry to find out if your neighbor has a history of sexually abusing children, it’s going to cost you $5.  That’s too much money for some, including childcare centers and pre-schools that would like to check the background of employees and potential workers.  But this may change and may not be for much longer.  The state is working on a no charge Web site that would include information on the whereabouts and history of New York’s most potentially dangerous offenders.  The problem

If you want to use the state’s sex-offender registry to find out if your neighbor has a history of sexually abusing children, it’s going to cost you $5.  That’s too much money for some, including childcare centers and pre-schools that would like to check the background of employees and potential workers.  But this may change and may not be for much longer.  The state is working on a no charge Web site that would include information on the whereabouts and history of New York’s most potentially dangerous offenders.  The problem

Hundreds of angry spectators kicked over courtroom furniture and chanted death penalty when a Palestinian man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for raping a 5 year old girl at knife point.  Bilal Shuko, 22, a baker’s assistant, told the court he abducted his victim on her way home from kindergarten Monday, took her to an abandoned building and raped her.  Human rights activists praised the military court for withstanding public pressure to execute Shuko.  However, they said military tribunals should be abolished because they violate defendants’ right to