NY – Heat on district in sex cases; Rivera calls for internal inquiry into how incidents were handled

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Gary McLendon
Staff writer

(November 4, 2006) — School superintendent Manuel Rivera has called for an internal investigation into the school district’s response to two sexual abuse cases, after school board member Cynthia Elliott questioned the district’s handling of the incidents.

Elliott says there’s either no clear-cut policy or a double standard concerning how the district handles these types of personnel issues.

“They need to answer how the policy and how the decision was made to transfer one person and terminate the other. They need to correct the policy, and somebody (in administration) needs to be terminated,” Elliott said.

DE – Sex offender ordered to wear T-shirt warning others

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The Associated Press
Published: November 4, 2006

A sex offender with a history of exposing himself has been ordered by a judge to wear a T-shirt proclaiming “I am a registered sex offender.”

Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden also sentenced Russell Teeter, 69, to two months in jail Friday for repeatedly exposing himself at his Newark-area business to a 10-year-old girl.

Jurden handed down the unusual sentence at the suggestion of the state’s deputy attorney general, Donald Roberts, who noted that Teeter has more than 10 convictions dating to 1976 and has been treated for being a compulsive exhibitionist.

MI – Sex offender faces prison for school visit

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Saturday, November 04, 2006

THE SAGINAW NEWSA convicted sex offender has found himself in trouble again.

Samuel M. Neupert, 28, attended his child’s play Oct. 27 at Ganiard Elementary School in Mount Pleasant, though as a convicted sex offender he is prohibited from coming on school grounds, said state police Sgt. Gary Green of the Mount Pleasant Post.

“A probation officer saw him and knew that he was not supposed to be attending the play,” Green said.

IA – Sex offender arrested for drugs, child endangerment

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By Rob Daniel
Iowa City Press-Citizen

An Iowa City man on the Iowa sex offender registry has been charged with drug possession and child endangerment following a search at his apartment Friday night.

Quartez Andrew Watson, 27, 2100 Broadway St., Apt. E, was arrested at 8:31 p.m. Friday for failure to comply with sex offender registry requirements — including living within 2,000 feet of a child care facility — child endangerment, possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, possession of crack cocaine and failure to affix a drug tax stamp.

Also arrested was Jenny Clarine Furne, 20, who lived at the same address and was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, possession of crack cocaine, failure to affix a drug tax stamp and failure to comply with the 2,000-foot requirement of the sex offender registry law. Their apartment is across the street from the Broadway Neighborhood Center, which contained a child care facility, police reports said.

UT – Attorney General Asks for Invalidated Sentence in Sex Offender Case

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s attorney general’s office is asking the state Court of Appeals to invalidate the reduced sentence of a sex offender because it was illegally imposed.

Prosecutors also want a district court hearing to determine why 3rd District Judge Leslie Lewis decided to alter the convicted man’s original sentence without notifying prosecutors.

Lewis, whom prosecutors want disqualified from the case, could be called to testify.

AK – School bus monitor charged with abuse

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By ANDREW WELLNER and BECKY STOPPA
Anchorage Daily News
Published: November 4, 2006
Last Modified: November 5, 2006 at 03:14 AM

WASILLA — A Wasilla man with a DUI and a domestic violence conviction on his record was arrested Friday, accused of groping and harassing six Wasilla Middle School girls in September while working as a school bus monitor.

Martin Fleming, 35, was arraigned at the Palmer Courthouse on three counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor, one count of attempted third-degree sexual abuse of a minor and three counts of second-degree harassment.

A drug test done on Fleming the day of the incident came back positive for methamphetamine and cocaine, according to the Alaska State Troopers.

Because Fleming did not have a lawyer Friday, Magistrate David Zwink entered a not-guilty plea for him.