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Oct 1, 2006
Associated Press
DALLAS — One in six registered sex offenders in North Texas has false or outdated contact information in the state database that’s charged with tracking them, according to a newspaper investigation.
Eighteen percent of 1,625 convicted sex offenders in North Texas provided the Texas Sex Offender Registry with addresses where they could not be found, The Dallas Morning News reported in its Sunday editions. Read the rest of this entry »
Less than a week after police arrested a brother at the Revival Church of God in Columbia Tusculum, accusing him of raping two boys, police have now arrested one of his victims. Police believe 22 year-old Eric Riggs continued the cycle of violence brought to him by Lyndon Smith. They say Riggs has molested two girls and raped a little boy. Local 12’s Dennison Keller spoke exclusive to the mother of two of Riggs’ alleged victims.
We are not showing her face to protect her children’s identity. When Fairfax Police arrested Lyndon Smith last week and accused him of raping 2 boys, investigators encouraged other possible victims to come forward. Now, Local 12 has learned there are more, not by the hands of Smith, but one of the boys Smith is accused of molesting, a boy who is now grown up.
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Jim Doyle, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley’s solicitations of a Capitol page points to the difficulty of diagnosing and treating adults who are tempted to act out their sexual fantasies involving children, mental health and law enforcement experts said Tuesday.
And the recent sexual assaults of teenage girls and the slaying of one at a Colorado high school, as well as the killing of five young girls by a gunman in an Amish schoolhouse on Monday, highlight an issue that is equally vexing: how to prevent senseless acts of violence and sexual aggression against minors.
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Published 10/04/2006 By DEE GOODIN
JOHNSON CITY – In spite of protests from a prosecutor and probation officers, Criminal Court Judge Lynn Brown on Friday released from jail a Carter County sex offender who violated his probation for a second time this year.
Michael West, 33, 118 Rocky Branch Road, Elizabethton, was released from the Washington County Detention Center after an order was handed down by Brown. Read the rest of this entry »
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By JENNIFER FEEHAN
BLADE STAFF WRITER
BOWLING GREEN – Wood County Common Pleas Judge Reeve Kelsey yesterday issued a new order regarding the classification of convicted murderer John Umbel as a sexual predator. While the judge did not alter Umbel’s classification, he omitted two references contained in a previous decision that inaccurately stated that Umbel chopped his victim’s body into pieces after he molested and strangled him in 1992. Read the rest of this entry »
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Fitchburg police chief says law is too confining
By M. Elizabeth Roman TELEGRAM GAZETTE STAFF
eroman@telegram.comFITCHBURG— After a round of emotional testimony, city councilors unanimously approved for the second time the first formal reading of the city’s controversial sex offender residential restriction ordinance.
The law, which would bar Level 2 and Level 3 registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, day care centers, parks and libraries, was approved earlier by the City Council and signed by Mayor Dan H. Mylott, but it was reconsidered by the council again last night to amend a typographical error that called for a 1,500-foot buffer zone, instead of a 1,000-foot zone. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 4, 2006
By Jennifer Squires
Sentinel Staff Writer
Happy Valley neighbors say their rural community isn’t quite the idyllic place they thought it was. Seventeen sex offenders live under one roof in the quiet, wooded hills off Branciforte Drive.
Behind a wrought-iron gate and no trespassing signs about 1.3 miles beyond Happy Valley School is a pink stucco mansion built in the 1930s. Now low-income housing, the historic Happy Valley Villa is home to 25 to 30 tenants, 17 of whom are registered sex offenders. Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 — A former Congressional aide said Wednesday that Speaker J. Dennis Hastert’s office knew about reports of “inappropriate behavior” by Representative Mark Foley far earlier than Mr. Hastert’s office has acknowledged.
Mr. Hastert’s chief of staff, Scott Palmer, denied the account of the former aide, Kirk Fordham, who said in an interview that he had informed Mr. Palmer of the concerns about Mr. Foley before 2004. Mr. Hastert’s office had previously said it first learned of concerns about Mr. Foley in the fall of 2005. Read the rest of this entry »
