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sex offenders stories: 37 news summaries

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 Post Office  
 Drops North Pole 
 Letter Program 

Cancellation infuriates Santa's helpers in Alaska town

Nov 19, 09 12:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Furious North Pole residents are accusing the Postal Service of playing Grinch by ending its letters to Santa program—because it attracted a sex offender. Since 1954, the Postal Service has happily sent letters to Santa to North Pole, Alaska, where volunteers respond and mail them back with a North... More »

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Alaska • North Pole • sex offenders • Santa Claus • post office • US Postal Service • North Pole, Alaska • letters to Santa

Wife Poses as Schoolgirl to Nab Husband

Sets up her own web sting after growing suspicious

Nov 12, 09 8:45 PM CST
(Newser) - A UK woman posed as a teenage girl online to entrap her 68-year-old husband in a pedophile arrest. Police say the wife, 61, became suspicious of her husband's constant use of the Internet, signed into a chatroom he used, and struck up a steamy conversation as a 14-year-old. After he... More »

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Internet • pedophile • sex offenders • husband • wife

Calif. Parole Bungled
Jaycee Case

Watchdog says
Dugard could've been found long ago

Nov 4, 09 3:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Jaycee Lee Dugard could have been found and Phillip Garrido put behind bars much sooner if California parole officials had done their jobs properly, a report by a state prison monitor says. For starters, authorities did nothing when Garrido’s electronic monitor showed he’d traveled further from his home... More »

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California • sex offenders • parole • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido

 Sex Offender Held in 
 UK Facebook Murder 

32-year-old posed as teenager, led police to body

Oct 28, 09 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - British police are holding a convicted sex offender after he confessed to murdering a 17-year-old girl he met on Facebook, posing as a fellow teenager. The 32-year-old blurted out "I've killed a girl" after being picked up for a car insurance violation. He then led police to a field... More »

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United Kingdom • murder • Facebook • sex offenders • suffocation

Missing Girl's Body Found
in Ga. Landfill

7-year-old Somer Thompson vanished
on Monday

Oct 22, 09 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - A child's body found in a Georgia landfill has been identified as Somer Thompson, a 7-year-old Florida girl missing since Monday. The local sheriff told reporters that police were now in "full investigation mode" after discovering the corpse. Somer, who was identified from her clothes and a birthmark,... More »

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sex offenders • missing child • child murder • Somer Thompson

 Abuse Victim Fights 
 for Homeless Sex Offenders 

Woman, father were behind ordinances that forced abusers under bridge

Oct 12, 09 1:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - The homeless sex offenders who live under Miami’s infamous Julia Tuttle Causeway aren't quick to thank two of their most diligent advocates for working on their behalf. “They know who we are, and don’t like us very much,” says Lauren Book-Lim. Book-Lim was sexually abused by... More »

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Miami • sex offenders • homeless • homeless encampment • pedophilia • homeless shelter • Lauren Book-Lim • Ron Book • Julia Tuttle Causeway

 Parents Track 
 Sex Offender 
 Homes for 
 Halloween 

But critics warn that friends, family members are responsible for most kid assaults

Oct 12, 09 2:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Parents are preparing for their kids' trick or treating this year with a costume, candy bag—and a map of all the sex offenders in the neighborhood. Concerned families are turning to an iPhone application locating sex offender addresses to plan routes on the spooky night. "With Halloween, I'm... More »

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iPhone • children • child molestation • sex offenders • Halloween • molestation • child rape • sex assault

iPhone App Tracks Sex Offenders

1 million users download program, but info isn't perfect

Sep 30, 09 5:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Concerned parents—or vigilantes—with an iPhone can download a new set of applications that track crime, list fugitives, or even pinpoint the locations of freed sex offenders. Using public records, developers have built programs like Offender Locator, which uses the phone's GPS to identify homes of nearby felons, complete... More »

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iPhone • sex offenders • felon • vigilante justice • iPhone applications

Poland OKs Chemical Castration for Pedophiles

Controversial new law also covers incest

Sep 26, 09 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new law in Poland will require convicted pedophiles or those who rape family members to undergo chemical castration when their prison term is up. Human rights groups immediately raised objections, but Poland's prime minister isn't budging—he says the criminals in these cases don't qualify as "human,"... More »

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human rights • crime • Poland • pedophile • sex offenders • punishment • incest • castration

UK Teacher
Jailed for
Lesbian Affair
With Student 

Had sex with girl, 15,
at parents' home

Sep 21, 09 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A London teacher was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for having a lesbian affair with a 15-year-old student. Music teacher Helen Goddard, 26, was banned for life from working with children and will have to register as a sex offender, but will be allowed to see the girl... More »

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sex • sex offenders • affair • student • teacher • Helen Goddard

 Garrido 
 Turned 
 Me Into 
 Zombie: 
 Victim 

His attacks on a child had to be far, far worse, Katie Callaway Hall laments

Sep 1, 09 2:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - News that Philip Garrido had struck again horrified the woman he kidnapped and raped in 1976, CNN reports. "I started screaming 'Oh my god, it's him,'" Katie Callaway Hall told Larry King. Hall says she was permanently traumatized when Garrido attacked her as she was handcuffed naked in... More »

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abduction • sex offenders • sex crime • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Katie Callaway Hall • Christine Murphy

UPDATED

  Kidnapped Girl Had First Child 
  at 14; Kept in Backyard Shed 

Jaycee Lee Dugard, two daughters with Phillip Garrido 'kept in complete isolation'

Aug 27, 09 6:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jaycee Lee Dugard, the California girl abducted in 1991 at age 11 and found alive yesterday, gave birth to her first child at age 14, BNO News reports. Abductor Phillip Garrido, 58, admitted to fathering two girls, now 15 and 11, with Dugard; she and the children were kept hidden... More »

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kidnapping • sex offenders • compound • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Nancy Garrido • Antioch, Calif.

 Apple Pulls Sex Offender App 

App Store withdraws paid version of 'Offender Locator'

Aug 7, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apple's App Store will no longer sell “Offender Locator,” an iPhone add-on for tracking sex offenders, CNET reports. The company offered no explanation, and it pulled only the paid version of the hugely popular application—leaving “Offender Locator Lite” available. It's possible that the software ran afoul... More »

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Apple • sex offenders • criminal • iPhone applications • software applications • App Store • Offender Locator

Want to Locate Sex Offenders?
There's an App for That

iPhone can now display nearby predators

Jul 30, 09 12:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s getting harder and harder to be a sex offender these days. A new iPhone app called “Offender Locator,” available for a mere 99¢, is growing in popularity and recently cracked the App Store’s Top 10, the Chicago Tribune reports. Just input an address, and... More »

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iPhone • sex offenders • iPhone applications • App Store

(Newser) - Miami’s sex offenders have been corralled into a squalid tent city under a highway overpass thanks to a law that critics call inhumane, the BBC reports. Sex offenders are barred from living within 2,500 feet of any place in the city where children congregate, including libraries and parks—... More »

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Miami • sex offenders • tent city

Girl Faces Kid Porn Charges for Posting
Self Nudes

14-year-old may have to register as sex offender

Mar 27, 09 3:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been charged with possessing and distributing child porn for posting nude photos of herself on her MySpace web pages, reports WPIX-TV. If convicted, the girl may have to register as a sex offender. The case highlights increasing problems with children posting or texting racy... More »

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MySpace • New Jersey • pornography • sex offenders • child pornography • texting • teenager • cyber sex • Howard Stern Grid

Ga. Sex Registry Pulls Non-Offenders Onto List

Those who committed no sex offense are subject to harsh rules

Mar 16, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Georgia’s sex offender registry includes rapists, child molesters, and, in a controversial move, a growing number of people who never committed a sexual offense, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Under the state's broadly written law, anyone convicted of kidnapping or false imprisonment of a minor goes on the list, too,... More »

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Atlanta • kidnapping • Georgia • sex offenders • parole • sex crime

Sex Offenders Kicked Off MySpace Land on Facebook

Company analyzing data for MySpace says of 90K booted, minimum 8K back online

Feb 3, 09 4:35 PM CST
(Newser) - MySpace grabbed headlines today when it announced that it had kicked 90,000 registered sex offenders off the site over the past 2 years. Where did they all go? Many went to Facebook, says Sentinel, the security firm that roots out such offenders for MySpace. “We found over 8,... More »

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social networking • Internet • MySpace • Facebook • sex offenders • sexual predator

Self-Portraits of Teens Spur Kid-Porn Charge

Nude photos shared by phone could make senders sex offenders

Jan 16, 09 11:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Pennsylvania teens are in trouble over child-porn photos—of themselves. Three girls who took the pictures, and three boys who got them via cell phone, have been charged, Pittsburgh’s WPXI-TV reports. A student was caught with one of the phones in school in October, prompting a police investigation. But... More »

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cell phones • sex offenders • nude photo • child pornography • texting • teenager • sexting

Man Attacks Lottery-Winning Sex Offender

Motive unclear for daylight beating in downtown Anchorage

Jan 14, 09 11:24 AM CST
(Newser) - The convicted sex offender who won an Alaskan lottery that benefited sex-assault victims was severely beaten yesterday in broad daylight near a mall in downtown Anchorage, the Anchorage Daily News reports. It’s unclear if the 20-year-old California man charged in the crime attacked Alec Ahsoak, 53, because of offender... More »

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Alaska • sex offenders • assault • lottery • Alec Ahsoak

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