NY – New Seneca County sex offender law enacted

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11/2/06

Seneca County is taking a stand against sex offenders. It’s among the first counties in New York State to tell moderate and high risk sex offenders where they can and can’t live. New residency restrictions on sex offenders just took effect in Seneca County.  Thursday, some sex offenders started looking for a new place to live, because the new law regulates exactly where they can live and keeps them away from kids. 

Most Waterloo residents are happy about the new residency requirements in their county.  County Attorney, Steven Getman, researched the law. He said the main mission in the county was to protect the kids that live there and the Sheriff’s Office is willing to enforce the new laws.  “The law does have some teeth in it and we intend to utilize them,” said Sheriff Leo Connolly.

Canada – Child’s sex assault seen online; ‘It raised hair on the back of my neck’

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Nov. 2, 2006. 11:54 AM
TRACY HUFFMAN
CRIME REPORTER

The undercover officer with the child exploitation unit was online, chatting with a man he thought was a pedophile.

Live, in real time on the Internet, the officer says he witnessed the unimaginable: a 34-year-old man sexually abusing a little girl, a preschooler in his home.

“A child is getting abused, right then and there and you have to do something about it. It is very disturbing,” said Det. Const. Paul Krawzcyk, the undercover officer who says he witnessed the violent abuse. “You realize you have to do everything you can to get through that door as soon as possible.”

Canada – Police charge man in live online pedophilia case

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November 02, 2006 – 5:06 pm
By: Charlene Close

Toronto – A St. Thomas man is facing several child pornography charges after police say he sexually assaulted a child and broadcast it live over the internet to an undercover officer.The man was scheduled to appear in a St. Thomas courthouse today on seven charges including two counts of sexual assault, making, distributing and possessing child pornography.

The suspect first came onto Toronto Police radar in January of this year, when he sent digital photos of a child to an undercover officer over the internet.

NY – Man indicted on incest charge

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Kingston – A Catskill man has been indicted on eight counts by an Ulster County grand jury including incest, a course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree and endangering the welfare of a child.

Joseph Barris is charged in ual contact with one of his daughters beginning when she was six years old and continuing for more than 10 years. He was also charged with providing his daughter with marijuana when she was 11, exposing her to pornographic materials from an early ages, and committing regular physical abuse of the girl’s mother in front of her.

“The charges returned by the grand jury are based upon allegations of the most disturbing and egregious behavior of a father toward his own child,” said Ulster County District Attorney Donald Williams. “This reprehensible conduct violated the victim, her family, and the very nature of human decency.”

CA – Man found girls to molest by driving bus, police say

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About 10,000 child-porn images turn up in an Anaheim man’s home and locker.
By KIMBERLY EDDS
The Orange County Register

Peering through binoculars and using videotape equipment, a former Los Alamitos Unified School District bus driver stalked dozens of girls as they played in parks and rode carnival rides, unaware the man was scribbling notes about what they were wearing and how they looked, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials said Wednesday.

Authorities said Terry Lee Shields, 51, of Anaheim used his bus route to meet at least three young Orange County girls who now accuse the longtime school bus driver of sexually assaulting them and snapping their pictures.

Nearly 10,000 pornographic images of children on computers and disks were found when federal and sheriff’s investigators raided a room Shields was renting in Anaheim and a storage locker in South Gate, said sheriffs Detective Bryan Sirkel of the department’s special victims unit.

CA – Probation officers arrest sex offender at Treat Street event

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By E-R Staff
Article Launched:11/02/2006 12:07:04 AM PST

Attempts to disguise himself with a clown wig and fake beard didn’t work for Gordon Henry Hughes, who was recognized by Butte County probation officers as a registered sex offender and arrested Tuesday at Chico’s downtown Treat Street event.

Chief Probation Officer John Wardell said Hughes, 66, was in violation of a probation order forbidding him from visiting places where children are normally found, or be involved in any activity centered around children.

NY – Ulster County sex offender residency law delayed again

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Kingston – A resolution on sex offender residency in Ulster County is being held in committee and will not be voted on at the November legislative session, committee Chairman Frank Dart said Wednesday.

Dart said he was following the recommendations of District Attorney Donald Williams, that a residency law should contain a comprehensive plan pertaining to the control and monitoring of sex offenders in Ulster County.

CA – Sex offender must remain in custody despite castration

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FRESNO, Calif. A sex offender must remain in custody even though he was chemically and surgically castrated after admitting to molesting 15 teenagers.

A state appellate court in Fresno ruled yesterday that Edward Flores could still commit sex crimes. The 46-year-old was sentenced to a state hospital in 1997 under the state’s sexually violent predator commitment law following several convictions. A jury ruled in 2005 that Flores was likely to commit more sex crimes even after being castrated. But defense lawyers filed an appeal saying medical tests showed he could no longer be sexually aroused. Most second-time child sex offenders are required to undergo chemical castration to reduce sexual impulses through drugs. Surgical castration removes the testicles to stop the production of sex hormones.

VT – Bennington County wants sexual abuse unit

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BENNINGTON, Vt., Nov. 2
By The Associated Press

Bennington County officials want to set up a special unit to investigate domestic violence and sexual assault.

Officials hope get a $96,000 grant that would come from the Sexual Violence Prevention Act. The act is designed to create special investigative units all over Vermont by July 2009.

The goal of the program is to bring together law enforcement and social service agencies to work on domestic violence and sexual assault cases.

Bennington County State’s Attorney William Wright says the special unit would have offices in the county courthouse.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)