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Deputies in Florida put the cuffs on two boys and two girls on Friday. All four are facing various child pornography charges. Corporal Larry McKinnon explains a 12-year-old boy took video of a juvenile victim performing a sex act on him.  That defendant then shared the video with a 14-year-old boy who posted it on Instagram.  Two other 12-year-old girls also

A series of new federal sex offender bills have passed the house and are making their way to the senate. Here are some: The House passed the Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act (House Resolution 1188), to reauthorize certain programs established by the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act; passed the Targeting Child Predators Act (HR883), to provide a certification process

In a harsh new measure, a new Australian law proposes to revoke the passports of sex offenders and prevent them from leaving the country. It further “will make it a crime for convicted child-sex offenders to leave or attempt to leave Australia.” You can read more about this here.

The City of Stamford Connecticut is proposing some rules for the operation of a food truck. The new rule “would disqualify anyone convicted of felony theft or assault in the last five years or who is a registered sex offender”. Notice how the other felonies expire, but the “registered sex offender” restriction endures for life. Commit an armed robbery 6

Here’s one that will make you ask WTF?. The Sheriff of a County in Georgia exposed himself in a park and ran from Atlanta police. Here’s how they handled it there… DeKalb County Sheriff Jeff Mann said he will take a self-imposed suspension starting this weekend. In a memo to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, Mann said he is disciplining

“There is huge hysteria around released sex offenders when they are not usually the problem,” said Alison Feigh, the program director at the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center Feigh said children are harmed most often by people they know, trust and have access to – not convicted sex offenders.

A group of sex offenders is suing the city of Milwaukee over a law restricting where they can live.

The state Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday shelved a bill that would have banned all registered sex offenders from school campuses without exception. Senate Bill 26 by Sen. Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) would have made it a misdemeanor for a registered sex offender to enter any school building or grounds without lawful business. SOURCE

DENVER — It’s a question that scares many people to consider: what’s going on in the mind of a sex offender? Hoping to get a glimpse inside those minds, the state of Colorado mandates polygraph examinations, sometimes known as lie detector tests, for sex offenders as part of their treatment. During polygraphs, offenders are asked about their criminal pasts and

It took school and police officials just a few minutes to extinguish 16-year-old Corey Walgren’s promising future. All they did was utter two words: child pornography. Corey, a junior at Naperville North High School in Naperville, Illinois, was a perfectly normal, social, good-looking 16-year-old. He was an honor roll student with dreams of attending a Big Ten college. He had