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  • Couple charged with attempted murder
    9-5-2010 OregonA Philomath woman and Silverton man have been charged with attempted murder and other offenses, including kidnapping and beating an Alsea woman to keep her from reporting an alleged sexual assault on a child.Peggy Tennessee Watkins, 35, of Philomath, and Bryan Eugene Dover, II, 32, of Silverton, have been charged with attempted murder, first-degree assault, four counts of

  • Is Sex Offender Listing Too Tough For Some Offenses?
    9-5-2010 Iowa:A Drake University law professor questions the stringent punishment of being listed on the sex offender registry in the case of a 24-year-old non-licensed youth counselor convicted Wednesday for kissing a 16-year-old.“Her chances for employment just dropped to zero,” Robert Rigg, also director of Drake’s Criminal Defense Program, said after the verdict came in. “Everybody in the

  • Prisoners have the right to safety, whatever their crime
    9-5-2010 United Kingdom:Prison Officers at Grendon prison are cynically blaming budget cuts for the death of a sex offender this week. According to the warders, the cuts have ‘put pressure’ on the system. That cynicism is bad enough but it pales into insignificance when compared with the vitriol that was poured out on BBC Radio 5 live by participants in the phone-in dealing with this

  • Sex offenders find home, fresh start in Oklahoma City mobile home park
    9-5-2010 Oklahoma:The Rev. David Nichols started Hand Up Ministries in 1996 with the intention of helping convicted felons get a fresh start. It has since evolved to help mostly sex offenders who have no other place to go.There is an unusual warning posted outside a common-looking mobile home park in southeast Oklahoma County. It reads "No women or children allowed past this point," in large, red

  • Housing group files lawsuit against property owners who evicted families
    9-4-2010 Florida:Families out; sex offenders inLANTANA, Fla. - Tara Whyte remembers the stress. "Every day it was a knock on the door. Have you found somewhere yet? Have you found somewhere yet? Have you found somewhere yet?"The knocking came after a letter that Whyte and other families living in Pelican Lake Village near Pahokee received in December of 2008. It said anyone with children under