Category Archive for : ‘ABOUT SEX OFFENDERS’

Newsday.com/Robert E. Kessler 5/15/15 Jay Kroll, a 58 year old Massapequa man who served six years in state prison for sodomizingan 11 year old, was indicted on charges of videotaping “sexually explicit conduct” witha 13 year old.  Kroll, a registered sex offender, pleaded guilty to child exploitation chargesand will face a mandatory sentence of life plus 10 years in prison.  The current case arose in2013 after agents of Homeland Security Investigations searching the Internet came across what theybelieved was Kroll accessing child pornography, the prosecutors said. In searching Kroll’s home,they

Every person confined in this facility has served time for sexual offenses. But, when theirprison sentences were up, they weren’t set free. Instead, they went before a review board and ajudge. If these violent sexual predators were deemed too dangerous to return to society, they werecommitted to McNeil Island indefinitely.
It’s not voluntary, not by any means, Kelly says. Our primary purpose is public safety.We don’t want any more victims.

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Dangerous-Sex-Offenders-Confined-on-an-Island#ixzz3m0cWYprP

Message from Executive Director Laura A. Ahearn: Parents for Megan’s Law and the CrimeVictims Center provides advocacy, counseling and other valuable support services to child and adultvictims of sexual assault and to all victims of violent crime.  Please visit our website atwww.parentsformeganslaw.org for news, information and resources in your community.

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news12 7/30/15 There is a new push to change a law that currently allows a sex offender to legally livenext door to a child’s school.  County restrictions that kept registered offenders away fromschools and playgrounds were tossed out by the State Court of Appeals in February.  There iscurrently a bill to restore the power to counties restricting where sex offenders live.  Thereis also a new call to expand a predator’s time on the sex registry from 20 years to 30 years. (New York)

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rnrnrnaol.comrn 7/15/15rn Lloyd Lee Michael Welch, Jr., a 58 year old imprisoned sex offender, has been charged withrnfirst-degree murder in the disappearance of two sisters from a suburban Maryland mall inrn1975.  Twelve year old Sheila Lyon and 10 year old Katherine Lyon walked from their house tornthe Wheaton Plaza Mall in March 1975.  They never came home and no bodies were found. rnAfter decades of investigating leads and periodically identifying suspects, officials say they nowrnknow that Welch was responsible.  He is a child sex offender serving a lengthy prison term inrnDelaware. 

newsday.com 4/16/2015 Rodney Stover, a homeless sex offender, has been arrested for raping a 23 year old womaninside a restroom stall at the Turnmill Bar on East 27th Street in Manhattan on Saturdaynight.  He was taken into custody on Wednesday and faces rape, predatory sexual assault,criminal sex act and assault charges.  Police say he was hiding in one of the stalls of thewomen’s restroom when he allegedly grabbed the woman by the throat and raped her.  He waslater caught on a surveillance tape outside the bar.  Stover has spent about

CNN 3/23/15 Parents are demanding answers after learning that Michael Paul Jacobs, a registered sexoffender, worked as the Easter Bunny at a Pennsylvania mall. He was fired after three days on thejob and now he’s speaking out about what happened.  “I can understand, you know,where they’re coming from, about them being upset.  But what a lot of people need torealize is, you know, I wasn’t put in jail for touching little kids,” saidJacobs.  “My case, it revolved around having consensual sex when I was a teenagermyself, with another teenager,” he