A man is suspected of raping and robbing a 71 year old woman who was grabbed from behind on her way to vote. He put his hand over her mouth and dragged her 50 yards to a pile of brush. There he raped her. Police are searching for the man and a reward of $1,000 is being offered leading to the arrest and conviction of the rapist.
John Stephen Bracknell, 47, is being tried on a 21-count grand jury indictment that includes counts of first-and second-degree sexual abuse and first-and second-degree sodomy. A 15-year-old girl testified Tuesday in Lauderdale County Circuit Court that she had been sexually abused on many occasions by, Bracknell, a family member since she was 9 years old. Witnesses testified they did not see the defendant engage in any inappropriate conduct with the girl but he did frequently take the victim with him on trips to grocery or video rental stores and that
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A Stony Brook based organization called Parents for Megan’s Law, have the names, addresses,crimes and punishments listed of three hundred convicted sex offenders on an Internet Web site.Laura Ahearn, executive director of the organization said, we’ve had lots of positive feedback,people are so supportive and so thankful. One parent wrote that they lived right across the streetfrom a convicted sex offender and never knew it. In its first week of operation, the Parents forMegan’s Law site had more than 150,000 Internet users checking it for information.
Maine has a 9 month old law that may not require sex offenders to be on that state’s sex offender registry. Because of this loophole, some New Hampshire sex offenders are considering taking advantage of it and moving to Maine. A Maine law that went into effect last year exempts those who were convicted in other states before September 1999 from that state’s sex offender registry. According to APB, if offenders are no longer on parole or probation, like the majority of the 2,000 on the New Hampshire registry, they
Scott Carmell was convicted in 1997 on 15 counts of indecency with a child, sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault. He engaged in various sex acts, including intercourse, with his stepdaughter over a four year period, beginning in 1991 when she was a 12 year old sixth grader. According to the Associated Press, the Supreme Court threw out some of the Texas man’s convictions for sexually assaulting her. By a 5-4 vote, the justices ruled that four of his 15 convictions wrongly were based on a Texas law enacted after
Dragan Nikolic, 43, a Bosnian Serb detention camp commander pleaded innocent today to 80 counts of rape, torture, murder and other war crimes more than five years after he was indicted by a UN tribunal. The indictment charges him with war crimes, crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. If he is found guilty of any single charge, he could be sentenced to life in prison.