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United Kingdom, January 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ministers in the U.K.’s Department for Education and Skills (DfES) have allowed registered child sex offenders to teach in schools. Norfolk Police arrested Mr. Paul Reeve in 2003 during Operation Ore, the largest investigation into child pornography Internet rings the UK has ever seen. Mr. Reeve, believed to be in his 30’s, received a police caution for accessing pornographic images of children on the Internet. He was then registered as a sex offender. In December 2005, Mr. Reeve was cleared to work as a physical education teacher in Hewett School in Norwich. Police...

Children as young as seven could be taught gay history in a campaign that urges teachers to introduce pupils to sexual and swear words. The organisers also want historical figures labelled homosexual - even if there is no evidence they were gay. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month is backed by Scotland Yard and Government departments. It aims to "celebrate" gays and their lifestyles and end an alleged "silence" about homosexual issues in schools. Metropolitan Police Chief Sir Ian Blair approved the use of a police headquarters in West London for a reception of LGBT History Month campaigners...

The former rock star Gary Glitter has paid more than £2,000 to the families of two under-age Vietnamese girls he is accused of sexually abusing, his lawyer has confirmed. Glitter gave £1,100 each to the families of the 11 and 12-year-old girls he allegedly had sex with, the lawyer said. The families, who were paid two weeks ago in US dollars, had originally asked for £5,600 and £3,000. Last week both families wrote letters to the court asking for the case against the 70s’ star to be dropped. The payments have been condemned as "shameful" by justice campaigners. Stephen Jakobi,...

"The 13-year-old boy sat in his California home, eyes fixed on a computer screen. He had never run with the popular crowd and long ago had turned to the Internet for the friends he craved. But on this day, Justin Berry's fascination with cyberspace would change his life." "Now, on an afternoon in 2000, one member of his audience sent a proposal: he would pay Justin $50 to sit bare-chested in front of his Webcam for three minutes. The man explained that Justin could receive the money instantly and helped him open an account on PayPal.com, an online payment system."...

A female English teacher at Central York High School has been arraigned on charges stemming from an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student that police said included giving him alcohol once before sex. Robin Winkis, 29, of the first block of West Market Street in York, had taught at the school five years, said attorney Mike King, the solicitor for the Central York School District. The alleged relationship came to administrators' attention in mid-November, King said, and the district launched an investigation immediately. "When it turned up credible evidence, the teacher was suspended," King said. He declined to say...

WASHINGTON, November 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the New Hampshire Attorney General gets ready to defend a challenge of the state’s parental notification law at the US Supreme Court, a recent poll has found almost 70% of Americans support the measure. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted earlier this month found 69% of 1,006 adults questioned favored parental consent before a minor child’s abortion, with 28% of respondents opposed. The poll also found that 64% were in favor of spousal notification before abortion, while 34% opposed spousal notification. Although the majority of respondents opposed an all-out constitutional ban on abortion, more...

WATCH THE VIDEO: OPRAH'S MESSAGE "Today, I stand before you to say in no uncertain terms, as a matter of fact, in terms that I hope are very certain, that I have had enough. With every breath in my body, whatever it takes, and most importantly with your support, we are going to move heaven and earth to stop a sickness, a darkness that I believe is the definition of evil that's been going on for far too long. The children of this nation, the United States of America, are being stolen, raped, tortured, and killed by sexual predators who...

John Walsh and "America's Most Wanted" urge Congress to pass sex offender legislation (H.R. 3132 and S.1086) before the end of the year. Right now Congress is set to adjourn without sending a bill to the President to be signed into law. This critical legislation would strengthen current laws to protect children from predators by creating a comprehensive, national system for sex offender registration and community notification. "How many more children and other victims need to suffer before our elected officials do the right thing and pass this legislation," said John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted. "Enough is enough....

PHOENIX - A couple held a runaway teen captive in a hollow bed frame for weeks and forced her to have sex for money with people they found on the Internet, police said. The 15-year-old girl managed to call family members for help while 18-year-old Matthew Gray and 19-year-old Janelle Butler were sleeping Monday night, authorities said. The two were arrested Tuesday. The girl ran away from her El Mirage home in September and met the couple through a friend about three hours after she disappeared, police Sgt. Andy Hill said. They took her to a park, bound her and...

Would you get P.O.’d if . . . 1. Your ten-year old son was kidnapped out of your front yard by two pedophiles and then taken to a taxpayer funded public library and shown, via the internet, a website that displays men having sex with boys? 2. Or, after your son had been force-fed this sick crap, the two kidnappers tried to sexually assault your boy? Would that make your blood boil? 3. Or how about after your son warded off the initial attempted assault, these sick SOBs killed your child by choking him with a gasoline saturated rag, then...

Colorado officials can't find records of evaluations for more than 1,200 convicted sex offenders, so all the offenders must be studied to determine if any are sexually violent predators. More than 900 of the offenders are in prison, and 337 are on probation, living in Colorado communities. When someone is designated a sexually violent predator, his or her photo and background is posted on a state Web site, and law officers can call neighbohood meetings to warn people the predators may be living near them. The evaluations are required by a state law enacted in 2001, but either weren't done...

NEW YORK -- Immigration agents Wednesday rounded up 50 foreign-born New Yorkers who had been convicted of sex offenses, including child molestation and rape, but remained free after receiving relatively light punishments. Twelve sex offenders were paraded before journalists as they left a federal building in Manhattan in chains, bound for detention centers where they will face deportation proceedings. (snip) Fourteen of the people arrested were legal permanent residents of the U.S. (snip) Most of the remaining sex offenders were in the country illegally, officials said.

Lexington, Mass. — David and Tonia Parker are asking their neighbors in this liberal town for one consideration: Tolerance. The Parkers believe homosexuality is immoral. So they were appalled when their son brought a picture book home from kindergarten that showed families with same-sex parents. To ensure his "spiritual safety," they demanded the right to pull him out of class whenever homosexuality was discussed. To deny them that right, they say, would be intolerant of their faith. School administrators offer a different take on tolerance. They say it's their job to expose children to the world's diversity. Supt. Paul B....

Did you know that in California, child molesters and rapists are a protected class? It's true. Not only are California landlords banned from using the state's Megan's Law database to decline renting their properties to sex offenders, they're not even allowed to warn other tenants that these paroled criminals are now their neighbors. If they do the first, they can be fined $25,000 for housing discrimination. But if they don't do the second, they can be sued for failing to protect tenants against a known danger. Landlords are caught between a rock, a hard place and the California State Assembly's...

The sales pitch for a planned subdivision promises safety: criminal background checks for homeowners and, guaranteed, no convicted sex offenders. It's a concept that might prove right for the times, said first-time developer Clayton Isom, one of three partners in a company that's creating Milwaukee Ridge on the outskirts of Lubbock. The high-profile deaths of two Florida girls allegedly killed by registered sex offenders inspired the idea, Isom said. "It makes me sick at my stomach every time I hear one of these stories about these innocent girls," said Isom, a graduate student in business administration at Texas Tech. He...

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) - A man kidnapped two girls from their homes while their parents slept, took them to a construction site and raped them before sending them home, threatening to kill their families if they said anything, authorities said. Erick Thomas Knapp Jr., 31, confessed to investigators that he kidnapped, bound and raped the girls, ages 13 and 7, in separate incidents, sheriff's Capt. Michael Savage told the Charlotte Sun Herald for Sunday's editions. He said there may be more victims. "He went into occupied residences and snatched children while their parents were sleeping in the next room,"...

I got a few emails from some Christians after my last column, “A Time to Kill,” ran. They found my easiness with executing confessed and convicted child molesters, rapists and murderers to be offensive and un-Christ like. They stated that I showed a “lack of love” for these culprits whom Christ “cares for,” and that I should “err on the side of mercy” towards these marauders and “love my enemies,” as this would be “the Christian thing to do.” Yes, I was electronically told by this, merciful-to-the-molester-minority, who thinks they’re siding with God when they support sustaining killers who forcefully...

France is in shock as 66 residents go on trial for gruesome paedophilia Amid the bundles of closely-typed paperwork and legal tomes, the lawyers flourish and stab their ballpoint pens at scrawled sketches of family trees on their open notebooks. The scribbled charts are helping them to keep track of the dips and twists of some of the most distressing and gruesome stories of depravity ever to be brought to light in a French court. That France's biggest ever criminal trial should be taking place in the beautiful Loire valley town of Angers, famed for its Cointreau, its heritage and...

(CNSNews.com) - A Florida Republican congressman introduced a bill Wednesday to prohibit so-called online "child modeling" websites that he says are "nothing more than a fix for pedophiles." "They don't sell products, they don't sell services - all they serve are young children on a platter for America's most depraved. These sites sell child erotica and they should be banned," said Rep. Mark Foley, co-chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, in a statement. The websites feature children as young as four- to six-years-old, Foley said, and cause "immense psychological damage to the children" as well as placing...

“Man and Woman”, “Wife”, “Husband”, “Widow”, “Widower” Banished From all Ontario Law Terms, when referring to spouses, are banned from all government programs, services, documentsToronto, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the obscenely rapid, three-day introduction and passage of its same-sex “marriage” Bill 171, the Ontario government has advanced a revolutionary change in the way all laws and government programs and institutions refer to marriage and married persons. Everything referring to spouses must now be gender neutral. No longer can a married couple be referred to as “husband and wife” or “man and woman”. The terms “Widow” and “widower” are...

TORONTO (CP) - The hit feature Shrek 2 joins the ranks of animated films to be "outed" by some Christian fundamentalists in the U.S., who charge that cross-dressing and transgender themes have made their way into the beloved kids' movie and warn parents to beware. Although many people see the Oscar-nominated film as a humorous story about a green ogre and his true love, the Traditional Values Coalition has a different take on the animated feature. "Shrek 2 is billed as harmless entertainment but contains subtle sexual messages," the coalition says on its website of the movie, a popular DVD...

Trempealeau County Sheriff Warns About Possible Abductions February 11, 2005 AUTHORITIES ARE CAUTIONING PARENTS AFTER THREE REPORTS OF ATTEMPTED CHILD ABDUCTIONS IN TREMPEALEAU COUNTY LAST MONTH. THE FIRST WAS ON JANUARY 22ND IN THE TOWN OF ARCADIA.. INVOLVING A LONE DRIVER IN A PURPLISH- BLUE EXTENDED CAB PICKUP TRUCK WITH DUCT TAPE COVERING THE SIDE WINDOWS. TWO DAYS LATER.. AN ABDUCTION ATTEMPT OCCURED IN THE SAME AREA WITH A SIMILAR DRIVER AND A MALE PASSENGER. IN BOTH CASES, THE SUSPECT TRIED TO CONVINCE A CHILD TO GET INTO HIS VEHICLE.. SAYING HE KNEW THEIR PARENTS AND IT WAS OKAY. AUTHORITIES...

Several agencies have intercepted electronic communications pointing to Al Qaida's plans to launch a major attack over the next two weeks, Western intelligence sources said. The sources said Al Qaida was planning to use Islamic subcontractors to carry out major attacks against civilian targets in Europe. Al Qaida has been gathering assets in several European Union countries and Russia over the past two months, the sources said.

A middle school teacher in South Florida has been arrested for allegedly molesting a male student every week for a year in a supply closet before sending him back to class with a note excusing his absence. Aaron Mohanlal is charged with 37 counts of lewd and lascivious behavior involving a 15-year-old boy, who recently told his parents about the alleged abuse. Mohanlal, 37, is a teacher at New Renaissance Middle School in Miramar, Fla., and may have been involved with more than one child, according to police. "There was such a network of kids around this guy that went...

A pair of illegal immigrants agreed not to contest their deportation, and by doing so avoided five-year prison sentences for molesting a Mundelein girl. Cousins Antonio Reyes-Angeles, 25, and Isidro Reyes-Lorenzo, 20, pleaded guilty to aggravated criminal sexual abuse during a Monday hearing before Circuit Judge Victoria Rossetti. The two were sentenced to five years in prison, but Rossetti agreed to put the prison time on hold in exchange for their agreement to cooperate with the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's efforts to deport them. "They cannot assert their right to remain in the United States in any way,"...

<p>SANTA ANA, Calif. — A convicted child molester serving a life sentence was freed after an appeals court ruled he never had a chance to confront his accuser -- a teenager who committed suicide before the man's trial.</p> <p>To the chagrin of prosecutors and even his sister, Edward Harvey Stokes (search) was released from jail last week, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. Officials believe he has left the state.</p>

Charges considered against Nuwaubians who were in Christmas parade The Associated Press - BRUNSWICK, Ga. Members of a religious sect who asked residents for opinions about their jailed leaders molestation case while marching in a city Christmas parade could face charges for lying on an application to participate in the event, a prosecutor says. United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors members who marched in Saturdays parade told the event organizer when they applied to participate that they were a Masons group, officials said. Authorities are considering whether to charge the group members with submitting false information to a government agency, which...

A bishop who angered homosexuals by suggesting they seek a psychiatric cure is to be investigated by police to see if his outspoken views amount to a criminal offence, it emerged yesterday. The Right Reverend Doctor Peter Forster, the Bishop of Chester, infuriated homosexuals both in and out of the Church of England when he said last week that they could and should seek medical help to "reorientate" themselves. The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement [LGCM] accused him of putting forward an "offensive" and "scandalous" argument from a bygone age. Cheshire Police have said that they are to investigate his...

It was a lovely ceremony. Lots of hugging and crying, all the old friends who hadn't seen each other in ages along for the party. And even television cameras there as well. Which is why, truth be told, a lot of the people came along in the first place. A wonderful day out, and the catering was, darling, absolutely first class. I refer to the ordination as bishop in the United States of an obscure homosexual clergyman in an obscure place in an obscure denomination. The name of the man isn't even that important. His religious affiliation is Episcopalian, a...

In This Issue: The Scouts Lose A Major Case, California Judges Compromise, Comparing The Scouts To The Taliban, and Hackers and Bookburners. Dear Reader, The Scouts suffered a major defeat recently when a federal appeals court unanimously upheld the lower court ruling that Connecticut could discriminate against the Scouts because of their position on homosexuals. The state had eliminated the Scouts as an eligible charity to receive funding through the state employee payroll deduction program. The Scouting Legal Defense Fund filed an amicus brief supporting the Scouts in this case and we will continue to support them if they choose...

There is an old adage that individually, people can be very smart, but put them in a group, and dumbness reigns supreme. Unfortunately, there are no calculations that correctly specify how many people need to put their heads together to reach the point of group insanity. However, we all know that twelve seems to have been the smallest number necessary. After all, that’s how many it takes to make up a jury. In recent years, juries have awarded multi-million dollar awards to plaintiffs for spilling hot coffee on themselves and getting burned, smoking cigarettes in boxes with warning labels, even...

In front of a camera, Bobbi Jo is a stunning Alabama beauty with incredible sex appeal. She has the right look, innocent with a touch of naughtiness beckoning the viewer, a shapely body that looks good in a pair of tight jeans and a bare midriff top and even better in a bikini. All woman – except for one fact. Bobbi Jo is 13. At 13, this Alabama sex kitten has been modeling for two years, has a Yahoo discussion group (called “Beachbabe”) and a web site where those willing to put $19 a month on their Visa can look...

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA), founded almost a century ago, is the largest one-on-one mentoring program in the world. With 500 affiliates across America, it’s been widely respected and boasts Microsoft, the NFL, Pillsbury, UPS and others as corporate sponsors. That may be about to change, at least the part about being widely respected. BBBSA turned a corner earlier this month by approving a resolution not to exclude a mentor for various reasons, including "sexual orientation." Yes, we’re talking homosexuals here. This policy has been in effect at the national level for several months, but now it’s mandated...

MOLESTERS INC. Pedophilia advocates, unfazed by national outrage over a 1998 expose, continue the push to normalize the sexual abuse of boys. By Karla Dial It’s easy to imagine what pedophilia advocates were thinking in 1998 when they published a study suggesting that the sexual abuse of children wasn’t all that harmful. After all, they’d seen the vast cultural and legal gains the pro-gay movement had won since 1973, when homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual — the psychiatric profession’s blue book of mental disorders. Why not try to normalize molestation the same way? So Bruce Rind ...

    Harris ... 'horrific rape and abuse' Victim: I beat up pervert By JOHN SCOTTA FATHER of four told last night how he beat up a man who he said had abused him for six years as a child. Mark Heath traced former family ‘friend’ Dave Harris — now in his 50s — and punched and kicked him outside his house. Mark spoke out after escaping with an 18-month conditional dischage for assault when JPs heard of his ordeal between the ages of seven and 13. He told how he snapped after a prosecution against Harris failed. Mark...

Officer may have written message Online posting proposed revealing names of child molesters to inmates 06/04/2002 By ED TIMMS / The Dallas Morning News Texas prison officials say that a correctional officer apparently is the author of an Internet posting suggesting that the identity of child molesters in prison should be revealed to other inmates. The message, posted last week on an unofficial message board frequented by correctional officers and other employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said the names of child molesters in prison are listed on a Department of Public Safety sex offender database. "Justice...

Last week at New York's JFK Airport, a small 5-year-old girl emerged from a commercial flight arriving from Colombia. Traveling alone, the little girl lugged two suitcases through customs before an inspector took her aside to perform a routine check. The officer discovered more than a kilo of heroin packed in her suitcases. "Sending a 5-year-old girl alone on a plane to smuggle heroin represents a new low - even for drug traffickers," Customs special agent Joe Webber said. The little girl - believed by U.S. customs to be the youngest child discovered smuggling drugs - is now in...

Traditional Values CoalitionOpinion EditorialFor publication on or afterWednesday, March 27, 2002 Catholic Church Must Face ItsHomosexual Child Molester ProblemBy Rev. Louis P. SheldonChairman, Traditional Values CoalitionWashington, DC – According to Father Charles Fiore in a recent interview in WorldNetDaily, the Catholic Church isn’t facing the exposure of a network of pedophile priests. It is facing a crisis of homosexual priests who are repeatedly abusing teenage boys under their care. As Father Fiore notes: "Strictly speaking, pedophilia is the sexual molestation of a pre-pubescent child of either sex. More than 90 percent of the cases involve the clerical molestation of teen-age...