Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDER AND OTHERS TREATMENT’

January 4, 2021
Neil Docking
Daily Record

A dad-of-three was caught downloading child sexual abuse images when high on drink and drugs.
Gareth Sumner pleaded guilty before a court and claimed he “descended” into paedophilia after his wife died of cancer.
Sumner married his wife Laura Pemberton, 29, the day before she dies in June 2010, just six weeks after being told she had a rare and aggressive form of cancer.
Our sister title The Liverpool Echo report Sumner appeared in the dock at Liverpool Crown Court, having admitted downloading indecent images of children when high

November 29, 2020
Lauren Cross, Bob Kasarda
NWI Times

Ten-year-old Zachary Snider was smothered with a pillow, strangled, brutally raped and murdered by someone in his neighborhood.
His attacker, Christopher Stevens, was a previously convicted child molester and had been out of jail on probation at the time of the killing, but Snider’s parents had no clue. Neither did the neighbors.
That was July 15, 1993, in the small town of Cloverdale on the outskirts of Indianapolis.
A year later, the well-known Indiana murder case ushered in the creation of the state’s first sex offender registry,

February 4, 2020
Tommy Simmons
KTVB

BOISE, Idaho — A former Boise man will spend at least the next 10 years in prison for sex crimes he committed as long ago as 2005, against one of his female relatives and a young girl who lived in his neighborhood.
The Idaho Press reports Fourth District Court Judge Deborah Bail sentenced Gilberto Roman-Lopez, 47, to prison on five counts Monday afternoon — three counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child younger than 16, and two counts of sexual abuse of a minor younger than

November 14, 2019
Jenny Day
KYMA

News 11 investigates the sex offender next door:
Statistics show 99% of child sex offenders reoffend, yet they are still being released into our community.
We spoke to police, probation, victim advocates, lawmakers and even knocked on the doors, of those who have spent years in prison and now have to register as a sex offender for life.
Convicted sex offenders have to inform law enforcement of where they’ll be living, even if homeless these predators have to tell police something – even under the bridge off First Street is

The Texas Council on Sex Offender Treatment approved on Friday a system of additional tests to improve the classification of offenders who could be released from prison.  The psychological evaluations will help determine the risk an offender is to the community.  The state currently uses a risk test that looks at attributes such as age, gender, marital status and previous offenses.  Critics said the old test tends to penalize too sharply the young, low-level offenders while overlooking more dangerous offenders.

(Texas)

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)