Joanne L. Talazus, the principal of Longview Elementary School, faces up to four years in prison after a grand jury indicted her for failing to stop a school counselor from sexually molesting students. She is charged with felony child abuse and misdemeanor neglect after she allegedly ignored reports going back to 1994 that counselor Ronald Maldonado Ruelas had been molesting students. Talazus had allegedly seen the injuries on some of the children and received reports that children had been abused, but did nothing about them. Ruelas was indicted in February
Japan’s lower house of Parliament today banned the production and sale of child pornography and outlawed sex with a minor, answering mounting criticism over the country’s lax sex-crime laws. The new law bans the sale, distribution, production, possession and trading of child pornography and imposes punishments of up to three years in prison or fines of up to $24,400 for violators. The legislation also makes it illegal to have sex with a minor 17 or younger. Violators will face a prison term of up to three years and fines of
German police are developing an Internet search engine that will hone in on illegal activity on the Web, including pedophile networks and neo-Nazi propaganda, and lead detectives to those who publish or even view such sites.
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Laura Ahearn, a certified social worker and mother of two daughters discovered more than two years after New York enacted the Sex Offender Registration Act of 1996 (Megan’s Law), that the Suffolk County Police Department had stopped enforcing it. In May 1998, Denny Chin, a Federal judge, ruled that Megan’s Law could not be applied retroactively and the Suffolk County police mistakenly applied the injunction, meant for sex offenders who were on probation, on parole or incarcerated prior to the day the law took effect, to all convicted sex offenders.
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Timothy B. Guenther, 26, climbed into the crawl space above the ceiling of a tanning salon tospy on scantily clad patrons reclining in the tanning booths. But the three women relaxing at thesalon got a surprise when Guenther tumbled through the ceiling tiles and crashed to the floor afterthe weak drop ceiling collapsed under his weight. He jumped up from the scattered chunks of tileand locked himself in a bathroom but was seen by one of the patrons and called police. Guenther isbeing held in the Baxter County Jail on
In Salt Lake City, around 3am on Thursday May 6th, a mother heard muffled screams from her daughter’s second floor bedroom. The mother opened the door to find a man kidnapping her 8 year old child out the window. The mother immediately called police who found Adam Ure hiding in the bushes around the corner. According to police, he had his hand over her mouth and an officer heard this muffled sound and decided to check it out. The girl was treated and released from the hospital. The girl and
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