Category Archive for : ‘General’

Newsday/Dan Janison

A system that would keep convicted sex offenders confined after their prison term is expected torequire hundreds of state personnel and more than $80 million a year. It was not immediately clearhow the new civil confinement system will overlap or mesh with the current Level 1, Level 2, andLevel 3 sex offender categories set out under Megan’s Law. Spitzer said about 1,500 inmates wouldfit what will be called a sexually motivated felony, but that does not mean anything close to thatnumber would be confined.

HOW THE PLAN WOULD WORK

Before their

A former Administration for Children’s Services employee who admitted having sex with his two daughters, one of their friends, and the daughter of a girlfriend and co-worker was sentenced yesterday to 18 to 24 years in prison.  All the victims were underage when the 42 year old defendant began assaulting them.  The defendant, who worked for ACS for 10 years, pleaded guilty on January 30 to criminal possession of a weapon and two counts of second degree rape and incest.

(New York)

Thomas J. Bender, a 73 year old former priest from Pennsylvania who was arrested in Nassau on his way to a tryst with someone he thought was a 14 year old boy, was carrying beer, candy, condoms and gay pornography.  After communicating for more than a year online with a Nassau police detective posing as a teenager, Bender, of Macungie, Pennsylvania, drove 2 1/2 hours to meet the teenager at an undisclosed location on Long Island.  Bender was charged with five counts of disseminating indecent material to a minor, a

Allenna Williams Ward, a 23 year old middle-school teacher accused of having sex with at least five boys, was fired and remained in jail yesterday.  Williams had sexual encounters in the past three months with the 14 and 15 year old boys.  Williams was a teacher at Bell Street Middle School in Clinton, S.C.

(Columbia, South Carolina)

New guidelines and procedures announced by Governor Eliot Spitzer and legislative leaders on Thursday for confining sex offenders who have completed prison sentences go well beyond detaining the most violent predators.  The law, which would be one of the most far-reaching of its kind in the country, would also provide mental health treatment to inmates while they are jailed or confined and impose supervision and treatment after their release.

(Albany, New York)

New Jersey lawmakers are considering a measure that would bar released sex offenders from using the Internet and impose new rules on online dating sites.

(New Jersey)