‘Nationally-recognized’ teacher arrested in Fort Lauderdale for sex assault on minor after Tinder meet

A teacher who has worked in schools in Miami-Dade and Broward and who received a presidential award is facing charges in Broward County Court for allegedly sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy who went on to write a college entry essay about it in school, police said. XXXXXXXXXXX, who was born in Texas but lives in Fort Lauderdale, is accused of

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Today is World Mental Health Day

World Mental Health Day is an international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma surrounding mental health. Mental health is something many of us are struggling with. Whether it’s the issues that got you into trouble in the first place, whether it’s the trouble you got into that created the trauma in your life, or

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TX: More than a dozen sex offenders in Lamesa ordered to move

More than a dozen registered sex offenders are living too close to children, that’s according to the Lamesa Police Department. The chief of police confirmed that 19 residents received notices stating they were in violation of the city’s code of ordinances. Eugene Gaspar is a registered sex offender who said the department gave him 90 days to move, or face

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German Court Grants Protection to Florida Sex Offender Registrant on Human Rights Grounds

SOURCE: Steven Whitsett, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Sending registrants back to prison for mere administrative violations of Florida’s sex offender registry violates human rights law.  How’s that for a bit of good news? After paying my “debt to society” by completing a lengthy prison term in Florida and two years of supervision, I decided that I didn’t owe anything further and was

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Gainesville city commissioners consider changes to city’s sexual offender ordinance

Gainesville City Commissioners passed a motion to craft a proposed amendment to the current Sexual Offender and Sexual Predator Ordinance in place to mirror the state statute. [FAC NOTE: THIS WOULD BE GOOD!] “I think it just makes a consistency and so it’s legally defensible. You know, that we’re not sort of afield of what is already accepted through the

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IN: Man shows no remorse for fatally shooting registered sex offender

A man in Indiana told deputies he has no remorse for fatally shooting a registered sex offender, authorities said. According to the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office, 34-year-old Ricky Allen Kiper Jr. shot and killed 41-year-old James C. McClernon on Wednesday. Investigators said Kiper knocked on the front door of a home, asked for McClernon, then shot him. Officials said Kiper

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