An Alabama sex offender has been jailed after getting caught taking a 14-year-old girl to a dance at her middle school. The man had been previously convicted for first-degree sodomy on an 8-year-old.
A helpful reader sent this article about a new University of New Hampshire study which found that "the threat of online predators trolling the Internet and social Web sites seeking to stalk, kidnap and rape young children has been greatly overstated." According to the study, most Internet sex offenders are not adults targeting young children by posing as fellow youths, but rather young adults who target teens and seduce victims into sexual relationships that lead to non-forcible statutory rape.
Sentencing Law and Policy has a post discussing an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which examines how technology is used in sex offender tracking.
A South Carolina middle school teacher has been sentenced to six years in prison for having sexual encounters with five teenage boys. The woman was originally sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In the wake of Ohio's new Adam Walsh Act-complaint law, a federal judge has suspended "community notification for sex offenders who were reclassified into tier three and convicted prior to Jan. 1." The court order also allows for sex offenders to petition their reclassification. The order is subject to change as the lawsuit is still pending in federal court.
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