Dubai – Appeal Court increases sentence for incest-rape

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By Bassam Za’za’, Staff Reporter

Dubai: A court has increased a ten-year jail sentence to 15 years for a man who raped his sister.The Dubai Court of Appeal increased the initial verdict up to 15 years in jail after it found the accused, identified as S.G., a UAE national, guilty of raping his 14-year-old sister. The accused, in his 20s, was also fined Dh1,000 because he was drunk when he committed the assault.

The Dubai Public Prosecution, which had earlier charged the accused with rape and consuming liquor, had appealed the initial verdict which was handed down by the Dubai Court of First Instance in July. In its appeal, the public prosecution asked the court to stiffen the punishment. The rapist meanwhile denied his sister’s claims and asked for clemency.

Police heard that the accused raped his young sister in their house in Bur Dubai.

The victim told her parents about what had happened and they called the police.

CA – Cops: Man Tried To Kidnap, Molest Child

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SAN DIEGO — North County police said on Tuesday that they had arrested a man who tried to kidnap and molest a child.

According to officials, Eric Rodney Hill, 27, was following children near Jefferson Elementary School on Jefferson Street in Carlsbad on Friday at about 5 p.m.

Witnesses told police that Hill grabbed a 14-year-old boy and tried to drag him into some bushes, but an adult intervened and stopped him.

Investigators said that Hill, who is from the Compton/Long Beach area of California, told them he has been working as a door-to-door salesman in North County.

Hill has been booked on charges that include idnapping, false imprisonment and attempted lewd acts on a child. His bail is set at $225,000.

Police want anyone who has dealt with Hill to contact detectives at 760-931-2144.

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Singapore – Wives of rapist dad charged with abetting incest

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dpa German Press Agency
Published: Tuesday December 5, 2006

Singapore- Three women who allegedly persuaded their daughters to have sex with their father have been charged with abetting incest, news reports said Wednesday. Two of the women face one charge each, while the oldest, at 41, faces six, The Straits Times said. She is said to have asked the girls, one of whom is her own daughter, to go into a bedroom and have sex with their father.

The alleged offences were committed from December 2003 to June 2005, when the girls were aged between 12 and 17.

The man’s first wife, a 38-year-old, has been charged with helping him have sex with her 17-year-old daughter in June 2004.

Canada – New Allegations Surface About Alleged Internet Pedophile

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Tuesday December 5, 2006

He’s a jail guard at the Mimico Detention Centre.He’s a soccer coach in Mississauga.

But is he a pedophile who sexually assaulted a seven-year-old child on a webcam over the Internet?

That’s what the Crown will have to prove about Michael Hughes, after Toronto Police charged the 26-year-old with the chilling crime.

Detectives here were led to the suspect after receiving a tip from their colleagues in California. It started when a phone sex worker alleges she saw Hughes commit the unspeakable deed over the Net.

MySpace Looks to ID Sex Offender Profiles

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By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
December 5, 2006, 4:19 PM

In an effort to curb use of the site by sex offenders, MySpace plans to introduce technology that would identify and block those attempting to use its social networking service.

While not common, criminals have used the site to solicit sex from underage members. Along with copyright issues, the protection of users from such activity is the highest priorities for the company as it looks to continue its rapid rate of growth.

Within the next month, technology from Sentinel Tech Holding called Sentinel Safe would be deployed. The technology would revolve around a database of the approximately 550,000 registered sex offenders and include identifying information that could be matched to profiles on the site.”Sentinel Safe will allow us to aggregate all publicly available sex offender databases into a realtime searchable form, making it easy to cross reference and remove known registered sex offenders from the MySpace community,” MySpace Chief Security Officer Hernanshu Nigam said in a statement.

The application is the result of joint work between the two parties. MySpace has advocated for amending sex offender laws to include registration of e-mail addresses.

Before the introduction of the technology, no efficient method of identifying sex offenders online had existed. MySpace has also announced it would dedicate a staff specifically to researching profiles, and deleting and blocking those who the system correctly identifies as sex offenders.

However, MySpace says the effort would not be enough unless Congress heeds its calls to force sex offenders to register their Internet identities. It would also work worldwide to have countries implement similar legislation.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.