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SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The courts will be able to deal with molesters more severely from Tuesday (March 1), as increased penalties for sex crimes kick in.

The Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2021 was passed by Parliament on Sept 12 last year.

The amendments increase penalties for sexual offences, expand and clarify the scope of certain offences and defences, as well as modernise the language of the law.

The number of molest and voyeurism cases went up last year.

In the recent release of annual statistics, the police said there were

WARREN — Trumbull County commissioners are scheduled to vote today to continue funding the Child Assault Prosecution Unit using $329,133 from the county’s Children Services Board fund.

The funds provide the necessary income for the prosecutor’s office to pay for a unit that specializes in the prosecution of people accused of sex crimes involving children, and to ensure those convicted of these crimes stay in prison.

The program was started in the mid-1980s with a grant that later was renewed, according to Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins. The state attorney general’s office

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is pushing for lawmakers to require people convicted of certain child pornography crimes to register as sex offenders.

“This is a matter of the law needing to catch up with technology,” Schmidt said in a statement. “Sadly, as the methods of distributing visual depictions of children being sexually abused have expanded, so too must the legal tools available to respond to that sort of illegal behavior that harms kids. This added tool is needed to help prevent more kids from becoming victims.”

Senate Bill 368 was introduced

Two men have been arrested in connection with a statewide, multi-agency operation to rescue victims of sex trafficking, Long Beach police announced Wednesday.

William Earl Givens, 19, of Long Beach, and Ryan Keith Culpepper, 29, of Los Angeles, were arrested this month in undercover investigations at two motels, where two minors were allegedly being sex-trafficked, according to police.

Givens is charged with a felony count of human trafficking of a minor for a commercial sex act involving a teenage girl between Jan. 1 and Feb. 6, according to a criminal complaint. He

— Two fugitives have been added to the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders List.

Being sought are Michael Deray Johnson, 28, of Paris, and Christopher James Brett Clover, 39, of Wichita Falls, according to a Texas DPS news release.

A cash reward of up to $3,000 is being offered for each fugitive for information leading to their arrests. Tips remain anonymous.

From the Texas Department of Public Safety’s news release:

Michael Deray Johnson, 28, is a high-risk sex offender. He has been wanted since October 2018, when the

Sexual harassment was formally added to the Uniform Code of Military Justice on Wednesday, a move that advocates hope can both help punish offenders and prevent other serious crimes from developing.

The executive order from President Joe Biden also ends some legal questions about whether military officials could prosecute the crime directly or would need to use other misconduct charges to effectively punish violators.

“This is a mechanism for there to be accountability when that’s appropriate, and we really don’t have that right now with these crimes,” said Lynn Rosenthal, who led