According to the Associated Press, any vigilantism against registered sex offenders intended to harm or scare them could jeopardize offender registration laws. Bob Schilling, a police detective in Seattle said, All it’s going to take is one federal judge to say it’s causing too many problems, or that it’s double punishment, and we’ve lost it, all across the United States. Iowa press releases list the offender’s picture, name, age, address and physical description and some include a little information about their crimes. According to critics, the public is not told
Joseph Toscanni was on probation for videotaping young girls last year at a gymnastics center with zoomed in angles of their buttocks and groin area when he was arrested for first degree sex abuse. He apologized to the mother of the 10 year old girl who asked if she’d ever seen a man’s genitalia after unzipping his pants. Then he clamped his hand over her mouth and tried to pull her into a bathroom stall with him as she screamed, she managed to get away. He has been sentenced to
Experts say that showing sex offender mug shots to children may not have much practical value. They agree with Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew’s decision to forbid posting photographs of sex offenders in school hallways. They say that research shows that to recognize a person through a photo lineup is very inconsistent and as an adult, you probably cannot memorize the faces on wanted pictures in the post office. So, they feel it will be less effective for youngsters.
The National Violence Against Women Survey reveals that nearly one in five American women have been the victim of rape. Eight thousand randomly selected women were interviewed in the US during 1995-1996. Eighteen percent said they were the victim of rape or attempted rape. Translated into a statistic, that would reflect the whole country, it would mean about 18 million American women have been the victim of a rapist. Evidently, rape is more prevalent than we had thought. In 40% of these women, the assailant was a current or former
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New York’s version of Megan’s Law mandates community notification and public accessibility to asub-directory which lists the most violent of sexual predators. The Sexual Offender RegistrationAct became a law in New York on January 21, 1996, with the legislative intent of reducing the riskof children like Megan Kanka being attacked by known sexual offenders. The Suffolk County PoliceSex Crimes Unit in Yaphank houses the Sexual Offender Registry sub-directory for Suffolk County,which until recently, provided the community with detailed information about violent sexualpredators. In May, the Suffolk County Police Legal Bureau
Jeremy Strohmeyer, 19, changed his plea to guilty at the last minute yesterday to raping and strangling a 7 year old girl in a casino bathroom, to avoid the death penalty. Under a plea bargain struck just before opening statements, were to have begun, he will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of Sherrice Iverson in the Primmadonna Casino in May 1997. Strohmeyer said he kidnapped, molested and strangled Sherrice. The decision to seek a plea bargain was reached Friday, when prosecutors said they had
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