JACOB WETTERLING: MINNESOTA

In 1994, Congress approved the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act.  It requires all fifty states to create a registry of offenders convicted of crimes against children or sexually violent offenses.  On October 22, 1989, 11 year old Jacob Wetterling was abducted by a man with a gun.  Jacob, his brother and a friend were riding their bicycles home from a convenience store where they had rented a movie.  A man carrying a mask stepped out of a driveway and told his brother and friend