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Rabbi David J.B. Krishef asks leaders of different religious congregations, “How would your congregation receive sex-offenders as participants in worship and other activities?” Their answers demonstrate religious leaders are insightful, enlightened and informed on the issues. Fred Stella, the Pracharak (Outreach Minister) for the West Michigan Hindu Temple, responds: “West Michigan Hindu Temple has not had to deal with this

When David sifted through the mail the morning of his 18th birthday, he hoped to find cards with money. Instead, he received a warrant for his arrest. The charge: statutory rape. It was 2007, and the 17-year-old junior basketball star had recently moved to a small Missouri town, population less than 500, and almost immediately started dating a girl who

California:  Major changes are coming to the country’s largest (over 105,000 individuals) and oldest (1947) sex offense registry.  Anyone registered in California is listed for life; the state had become an outlier, one of just four states with such a harsh lifetime-registration law.  Soon California will have a so-called tiered sex offense registry, the same type of scarlet letter machinery

We occasionally post stories about the sentencing disparity between male and female teachers who get caught having sexual relations with their students. A teacher from east London, UK, was sentenced to 16 months in jail for a sexual relationship with her 15 year old student. Since this took place in another country, we don’t post this to point out how

Having sex with a 16-year-old in Indiana is legal but sending one nude photos isn’t, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled this week. The court’s unanimous 5-0 ruling means that Sameer Thakar, a former teacher at North Central High School, will go on trial for allegedly sending a 16-year-old girl from Oregon a nude image of himself in 2014, The Indianapolis

Bittersweet news from the US Supreme Court:  The court was asked to review two sex offense-related rulings;  yesterday the court said no to both requests.     Here’s the bitter part:  the court refused to review a federal appeals court decision (8th Circuit) concerning Minnesota’s sex offense civil commitment program.  More than 700 individuals are held in locked facilities for