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Postman jailed over clock camera

A postman has been jailed for 18 months because he hid a camera inside an alarm clock so that he could film a woman undressing. ... more

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Father kills sex offender in daughter's room

Rober McNally, 64, killed David T. Meyers, 52, when he found him naked in or near his 17-year-old daughter's room at their... more

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No Halloween for sex offenders

The most disturbing Halloween accessory this year may not be the spider webs hanging off the shrubbery or the door sensor that... more

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Federal judge strikes down part of Mo. law on sex offenders and Halloween

New law means lights out for sex offenders on Halloween By Alyson E. Raletz ASSOCIATED PRESS 10/27/2008 ST. JOSEPH, Mo. --... more

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Wisconsin Mother Gets Prison for Sex with 13yo Boy

Teresa M. Cantrall, Forty-two-year-old mother of two, has been sentenced in Winnebago County Circuit Court for sexually assaulting... more

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New Tool Helps Pinpoint Sex Offenders

New technology could help parents better protect their children against sex predators. People in Gwinnett County can now pinpoint... more

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Female Counselor Arrested for Sexual Exploitation of Boy

Diane Kathleen Oliver (aka Diane Kathleen Scott), a 32-year-old addiction counselor from Danville, has been arrested for the... more

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Texas woman charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child

Nicole Elizabeth Gray, 32-year-old woman from Fort Worth, Texas, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with a... more

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States target sex offenders before Halloween

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Authorities have arrested 24 sex-offense suspects during a two-day sweep, part of a national crackdown on... more

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Female Teacher Had Sex With Male Student Outside Wal-Mart, Under Bridge, in Hotels

Cynthia Horvath, 45-year-old teacher at Warner Christian Academy, in South Daytona, Florida, has been arrested for allegedly... more

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Female Teacher Admits Raping Mentally Disabled Student

Mandi Weeks a 27 year old special education teacher at Deveraux Foundation NY Center in Red Hook, New York was arrested in July... more

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Female babysitter accused of sex with boy

Jennifer Rae Merriman, a 31-year-old married woman from Lenawee County, Michigan, has been charged with five counts of... more

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53-year-old Beaverton woman accused of sex with 15-year-old boy

Oregon woman, Sue Ann Close, 53, of Beaverton, was arraigned in Clatsop County Courthouse Thursday on rape charges. She is free on... more

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Female Teacher Drugs And Sexually Abuses Male Students

Laura Lea Pace, 38, a teacher at Eustis High School in Eustis, Florida has been arrested and charged with five counts of unlawful... more

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Female Counselor Accused Of Sex With a Teen boy

Noelle Howlett, a 41-year-old counselor at Alternative Behavior Treatment Center, is charged with five counts of aggravated... more

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Mother accused of sex with neighbor's teen son

Sheila Broome Langman, 38 yars old mother of daughters, ages 9 and 14, hasbeen arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with a... more

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Md. Sex Offenders Ordered to Steer Kids Away on Halloween

Sex offenders in Maryland have begun receiving paper signs in the mail that read "No candy at this residence," which... more

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McCain's Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law

Registered sex offenders will have to start providing their e-mail addresses to a national database available to social networking sites, under the misleadingly titled "Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2008" — a bill authored by Senator John McCain and signed by President Bush on Monday.

The idea behind the law (.pdf) is that a social networking site can query the database to keep registered sex offenders from signing up, and thus prevent them from preying on underage users. Needless to say, the law does nothing to stop first-time predators. But it's doubtful that even recidivists will be affected. Pedophiles looking to victimize children — a felony worth years, even decades, in prison — won't be afraid to violate this new law by using an unregistered Gmail address. And now law enforcement will have to struggle to discern whether an offender is using a disposable webmail account to commit new crimes, or just to shunt the blacklist and network with their adult friends and family.

The idea for this law originated with Fox a few years back, after a series of child predation cases were linked to the company's MySpace service, prompting several state attorneys general to start investigating the site. Fox's feel-good fix was then adopted by McCain, who turned it into legislation.

Here, Fox's interests and McCain's converge perfectly. For any social networking site, it's much easier to check an e-mail address than to effectively police message boards and friends lists for signs of predation. And this plan allows McCain to appear tough on child predators, while opposing more serious efforts against pedophiles that offend the far right.

In television ads he ran last month, McCain slammed a 2003 Illinois measure once supported by presidential rival Barack Obama that would have taught children how to recognize, and avoid, sexual predators. McCain called the plan "comprehensive sex education" for kindergartners.

In other words, to McCain, teaching children to avoid predators is as bad as teaching sexually active teenagers about contraception. But setting up an e-mail database that relies on pedophiles being honest and respectful of the law — well, we can all live with that. Registered sex offenders will have to start providing their e-mail addresses to a national database available to social networking... more