Four high school students have been arrested and charged with raping a teenage girl in the weight room of the gym at Port Sulphur High School. The girl reported to the school that the four boys raped her last Thrusday while in the weightlifting area of the school’s gymnasium, she reported the incident the next morning to the school, the incident was reported to the juvenile division of the sheriff’s office, and the arrests were made for simple rape. The boys are two 16 year olds and two 15 year
New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman introduced legislation that would amend the State Constitution to allow officials to post convicted sex offenders’ names on an Internet site. According to New York Times, all 50 states now have similar statutes, and 16 states list the names and addresses of paroled sexual predators on Web sites. But New Jersey’s Supreme Court has demanded sharp limits on who can be notified, citing concerns about vigilantism and parolees’ privacy rights.
Maureen Kanka, the co-founder of the Megan Nicole Kanka Foundation of Trenton, New Jersey, tells about her neighborhood being like any other neighborhood until one day her 7 year old daughter, Megan disappeared. No one knew of the hidden danger lurking across the street from her house, posing an imminent threat; three convicted pedophiles lived on a street full of children. A massive search was launched throughout the township. Volunteers came from all over as she and her husband, Rich, frantically searched throughout the night calling her name. A puppy
On the west coast of Florida, in Pinellas County, county tax records and state licensing data are secret weapons for tracking sexual predators. A massive crime-tracking computer program there dubbed the Enforcer has made it possible for the sheriff’s office to know in an instant whether a sexual offender is living too close to a home day-care center, or whether a sexual predator resides in a hurricane evacuation zone and might end up at a shelter where children roam freely. The system is so efficient in tracking sexual offenders, some
Jeffrey S. Schnellenberger, 49, an Illinois father of two accused of trying to pay police posing as parents for sex with their fictitious 7 year old daughter, faces charges of soliciting a minor for immoral purposes and solicitation of Internet sex with a minor. Schnellenberger allegedly approached an undercover Internet investigator March 20th in a chat room called dad&daughtersex using the screen name IL_Dad. Schnellenberger allegedly negotiated a price of $100 in return for sex with the girl and her mother in several conversations by phone and e-mail. He also
Jennifer Graham breathed a sigh of relief with her daughter safely at home after being held captive for three days. James Paul Johnson, 38, the suspected kidnapper, was being held on $1 million bail. He has been on suicide watch since March 16th, when he checked into a Gainesville mental hospital as police closed in. The mother, answering reporters’ questions the day after her daughter, Jessica Rodriguez was released said, I just want our lives to go back to normal. Patty Wetterling, who founded an advocacy group for kidnap victims
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