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Kathy and Tim Schilla appeared before a state legislative panel to testify on behalf of a bill that would require that teaching licenses be denied or revoked for anyone convicted of criminal sexual conduct in the first through fifth degrees.  In 1997, the Duluth couple discovered that the teacher who had molested their then 9 year old daughter in 1984 was teaching upper elementary students at Albrook Elementary near Duluth.  They applied the pressure that led to the district securing, by paying for, the teacher’s resignation.  Noting that the Legislature

Kathy and Tim Schilla appeared before a state legislative panel to testify on behalf of a bill that would require that teaching licenses be denied or revoked for anyone convicted of criminal sexual conduct in the first through fifth degrees.  In 1997, the Duluth couple discovered that the teacher who had molested their then 9 year old daughter in 1984 was teaching upper elementary students at Albrook Elementary near Duluth.  They applied the pressure that led to the district securing, by paying for, the teacher’s resignation.  Noting that the Legislature

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Keon Easterling, a 19 year old Roosevelt man who is mentally retarded, has been charged with twocounts of first-degree sexual abuse following allegations that he fondled two boys in the bathroomof a Hempstead church in December. According to police, Easterling, a parishioner of Faith BaptistChurch, followed two boys who are between the ages of 4 and 10, to the church’s downstairsbathrooms on or about December 30, 2001. He touched the boys’ genital areas through their outerclothing, said Det. Lt. Kevin Smith, a Nassau County Police spokesman. The man’s grandmother deniesthe

Scott M. Murtagh trolls the Internet for young boys interested in sex but he unknowingly solicited the same undercover policeman twice in ten months.  The great probability that he would continue to prey on the young without treatment and incarceration concerned US District Judge Alvin W. Thompson.  The plea for leniency was rejected and Murtagh was sentence to 52 months in prison.  Murtagh, not realizing he was conversing with a 41-year-old detective posing as a boy, was arrested last February at Union Station in Hartford, where he expected to pick

According to the Associated Press, in a move that reverses a decision made by the Legislature last year, a conviction of kidnapping or falsely imprisoning a youngster would automatically qualify a felon for a listing on the state’s sex abuse registry under legislation approved Monday by the House.

David S. Kelley assured wary parents in the suburb of Northboro they had no reason to worry, that he served his time for child molestation and had registered as a sex offender as required by law.  But today, the 43 year old man was charged with raping a little boy in town, he pleaded innocent.  Questions are now raised about the usefulness of registration laws that have been enacted across the country.  When he was released in 1996 after serving 10 years for child rape, he was classified by the