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Fear tends to hide the truth from us. Most of what our society believes about sex offenders is not true. Below are just a few of the beliefs we were taught that are either misleading or completely untrue: • Epidemic of rape-murders: The Somer Renee Thompson case is a tragedy indeed, but is a very rare tragedy. In the NISMART-2 study from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, only 115 “stereotypical kidnappings” occurred in the year of the study, with only 45 of those cases ended in death or were permanently missing [1]. Your child has a far...

MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin man transformed his apartment into a pornographic shrine to young girls, arranging mannequins in a sex act, plastering the walls with photos and setting up a bed covered with stuffed animals, investigators said Monday. Kevin M. Derks' collection featured photographs of Hollywood starlets, including a poster of actresses Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen with a caption inviting himself to join in sex acts with them, DVDs of child pornography and photos he said he took of girls at local beaches. Prosecutors charged Derks, 53, of Kenosha, with 20 felony counts of possessing child pornography. His...

A Louisville church that ordained a registered sex offender has found a new home, and one resident who spoke against the church now says this is a partial victory for the Germantown community. The owner of Pillar Properties said four businesses at their Germantown property were asked to vacate the building, including the City of Refuge Center. The owner says it had nothing to do with the dispute between the church and some members of the community, but at least one resident says he's happy to see the church go. Church service hours were posted for the City of Refuge...

A woman accused of holding down a child while her husband sexually assaulted the girl — an act captured on video — pleaded guilty in a Travis County courtroom Friday and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Mariana Garcia's punishmentfor two counts of aggravated sexual assault was part of a plea bargain with prosecutors. The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. Charges are pending against Garcia's husband, Adrian Navarro, 30. Garcia, 24, showed little emotion during the proceedings before state District Judge Bob Perkins. At one point, prosecutor Joe Frederick asked her whether Navarro is her...

Former TV evangelist Tony Alamo has been sentenced to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across US state lines for sex. Alamo, original name Bernie Hoffman, was sentenced today in Texarkana, Arkansas. US District Judge Harry Barnes listened to testimony from Alamo's victims before giving the 75-year-old the maximum time allowed by federal guidelines and effectively ordering that he spend the rest of his life behind bars. The founder of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries took girls into his organisation as underage "brides". Five women, aged between 17 and 33, testified in July that Alamo "married" them in private...

Evangelist Tony Alamo was sentenced Friday to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across state lines for sex, effectively punishing him for the rest of his life for molesting children he took as "brides" in his ministry. During Friday's hearing, some of Alamo's victims testified about how their families were destroyed while the evangelist took over their lives. Alamo, 75, had been convicted in July on a 10-count federal indictment. U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes said Alamo used his status as father figure and pastor and threatened and threatened the girls with "the loss of their salvation."

A man who kidnapped and raped five children, one of whom was left in the desert to die, has been sentenced to be beheaded and his body publicly crucified. Muhammed Basheer al-Ramaly, 22, from the northern city of Hail, will be executed at noon today, according to Saudi reports. He will be beheaded by sword then his body tied to a wooden cross and his head stuck on a pole as a deterrent to other would-be killers. Al-Ramaly was found guilty in February of abducting and raping five boys, the eldest of whom was 7 and the youngest, 3, whom...

PARIS — A French lawyer for director Roman Polanski, imprisoned in Switzerland, says a new bail offer will be filed Monday and it will be a "very, very significant" cash amount. Swiss authorities rejected an offer Friday, considering the 76-year-old filmmaker awaiting a decision on extradition to the United States a high flight risk. They noted it was not a cash offer. Herve Temime told France-Info radio Sunday the latest offer is in cash. He wouldn’t say how much. He said Polanski would accept the extradition decision "whatever it is" and assured his client would never behave "like a fugitive."

MEXICO CITY -- When the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez penned his most recent novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," he was being provocative. The book begins with this line: "The year I turned 90, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." But there is art and there is life. And so just as an international cast and crew were about to begin filming a movie adaptation of the 2004 novella, the plug was pulled as the filmmakers and García Márquez were denounced as aiding and abetting perverts....

The United States has formally asked Switzerland to extradite detained Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski over a three-decades-old child sex case, Swiss authorities say. "The US Embassy in Bern submitted the formal extradition request to the Federal Office of Justice on 22 October 2009, within the deadline of 40 days stipulated under the bilateral extradition treaty," the Swiss Federal Office of Justice said in a statement on Friday. The request will now be forwarded to the canton of Zurich, where Polanski was detained upon his arrival on September 26 to collect an award at the city's film festival. A local court...

Paedophile websites are being used to pass information between terrorists. A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain. Secret coded messages are being embedded into child pornographic images, and paedophile websites are being exploited as a secure way of passing information between terrorists. British security services are also aware of the trend and believe that it requires...

Florida officials expanded their search for a 7-year-old girl who vanished while walking home from school Monday afternoon. Somer Thompson was released from Grove Park Elementary School in Grove Park, in northern Florida at 2:50 p.m. She was with her twin brother, her 10-year-old sister and friends when she reportedly ran ahead of them after getting into a fight. Her brother and sister said she was not at home when they arrived at 3:05 p.m. Somer's mother's boyfriend searched up and down the block for her when she didn't come home; her mother called home at 4 p.m. to check...

Director Roman Polanski lost an appeal Tuesday to be freed from a Swiss prison ahead of his possible extradition to the United States for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. The Swiss Criminal Court said releasing Polanski on bail or under house arrest posed a high risk of flight.

Roman Polanski has been moved from his Zurich jail for medical treatment, his French lawyer said Saturday. The film director was arrested in September after nearly 32 years in self-imposed exile from the United States following his conviction for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. "All I know is that he has been taken from prison for medical attention. I don't know where he is or when he will be returned to prison," Herve Temime told Reuters. Temime also said he visited the director in jail last week and found him depressed and tired. The move comes in the wake...

ATTENTION: IMAGES ARE SHOCKING . http://www.fdesouche.com/articles/70467#/ (SHORT SUBJECT :: MY PAL RACHID) Court métrage – 1995 – Mon copain Rachid - Réalisé par Philippe Barassat – Avec Jonathan Reyes, Nordine Mezaache, Mathieu Demy et avec la participation de Frédéric Mitterrand (SHORT SUBJECT :: MY PAL RACHID) This video, with intro and voice over by Frederic Mitterrand has surfaced. Frederic Mitterrand, already in hot water in France for his impassioned defense of child rapist Roman Polanski, and his autobiographical "confessions" of participating in "sex tourism" to poor, impoverished third world countries to patronize brothels for sex with young boys. French Minister...

I've always believed in the existence of monsters. During my 20 years as a cop in NYC, I met quite a few of them, many of whom may still be doing time in prisons around the country. However, they were the garden-variety type of monsters; murderers, rapists, armed robbers and other assorted thugs. But there's another, even lower, level of criminal that exists in communities all across America, even in some of our churches. The creature I'm referring to is the pedophile. A few years ago, I received a 6-page letter in the mail from a woman in East Cambridge,...

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy saves sex tourist minister Frédéric Mitterrand The influence of France’s first lady has halted the sacking of a minister – but for how long Matthew Campbell in Paris The reluctance of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, to sack a gay minister with a past as a “sex tourist” in Thailand will certainly please Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, his wife. She had suggested appointing Frédéric Mitterrand, a friend, as culture minister and the government’s support for him, despite his confession to having paid boys for sex, is partly a sign of Sarkozy’s eagerness not to offend his first lady. “She has...

Attorneys for Roman Polanski are lobbying federal officials not to extradite the acclaimed filmmaker to the U.S. from Switzerland, where he is jailed in connection with 32-year-old child sex charges, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles. A team of American attorneys for Polanski met with a deputy assistant attorney general and other Justice Department officials Oct. 2 and presented them with arguments against returning the director to the U.S. to face sentencing on a statutory rape charge, according to a letter included in an appellate court filing Wednesday.

"In fact, I have been unable to find information about any NAMBLA conference which Harry Hay didn’t attend." --From ZombieTime, Memo to Kevin Jennings: Your reputation is on the line The Media Matters "Smear" Poor Media Matters, the Left's "watch dog" that acts like an attack dog. The Left political group has labeled information that emerged about Jennings and his praise of NAMBLA promoter Harry Hay (whom Jennings said "inspired me") as a "smear". From Smear: Kevin Jennings Praised A Member Of NAMBLA: The conservative smear machine, still attempting to damage progressives by drawing shady guilt-by-association connections, is trying to...

Kevin Jennings is Safe School Czar not by some vetting breakdown. He was an official in the Obama Campaign as its Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual fund-raising co-chair. For twenty years until 2008, Jennings succeeded on a massive scale at pro-homosexual propagandizing of school children. His adeptness and accomplishment at semantic deception are extraordinary. In a 1990 "report" for the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, it was Jennings himself who re-coined the very term "safe school" to mean a pro-homosexual school. Just as the word "gay" is forever tainted and can now rarely be used in its original sense without prompting...

France’s new culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, who has defended the filmmaker Roman Polanski against extradition charges for statutory rape, was attacked on Wednesday for his admission in a 2005 autobiography, “The Bad Life,” that he “got into the habit” of paying “young boys” for sex in Southeast Asia despite “the sordid details of this traffic.” Mr. Mitterrand, who is a nephew of former President François Mitterrand, faced calls for his resignation from the far-right National Front. Later, the Socialist Party spokesman, Benoît Hamon, told Reuters: “As a minister of culture he has drawn attention to himself by defending a filmmaker...

A MALE flight attendant is being investigated by Jetstar over allegations he contacted a teenage girl on Facebook using details from passenger records. The Jetstar attendant sent the 15-year-old girl several messages via the social media website after a flight from the Sunshine Coast to Melbourne last month, reports the ABC. The girl did not give him her name but within hours of the flight landing in Melbourne the man had added her to his Facebook page and sent her several friend requests, the girl's mother says. The woman, who was on the flight with the 15-year-old and another daughter,...

Once you begin to notice that special set of ethics known as Hollywood exceptionalism, you may find yourself seeing it everywhere. In a recent book titled We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives (and enticingly subtitled A Swingin' Showbiz Saga), late-night music maestro Paul Shaffer feels that he perhaps ought to say something about Phil Spector's conviction for the murder of another human being whose name most people can't remember. So he does say something. "I regret all the tragedy that has surrounded Phil in recent years," is what he chooses to say. Not really even a try,...

Georgia Jury Finds Man Guilty Of Six-Year-Old Child's Murder Reported by: Monday, Oct 5, 2009 @04:33pm (Brunswick, GA) -- It took a jury in Brunswick, Georgia less than two hours Monday afternoon to convict David Edenfield of abducting, molesting and murdering six-year-old Christopher Barrios two years ago. Edenfield showed no emotion when the panel announced guilty verdicts on nine counts related to Barrrios' slaying. In his closing argument to the jury, District Attorney Stephen Kelley said Edenfield's own words describing how he sodomized and then choked the six-year-old to death convicted him. Kelley played portions of a DVD recording of...

If CBS producer Robert (Joe) Halderman intended to blackmail David Letterman about the funnyman's sex life, he would have demanded cash, his lawyer said Monday. "Here's a guy who is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, who has dealt with cops and wiretaps and undercover investigations virtually his entire life," defense lawyer Gerald Shargel said of Halderman on the CBS' "Early Show," one the morning shows he hit. "Look at the fact that there was a $2 million check. In the history of extortion, I don't think there's been a single case where the alleged extortionist took a check in payment. It...

Kevin Jennings, Safe Schools Czar, and criminal. Mr. Jennings admits to having known that a fifteen year old student had been ‘seduced’ and repeatedly had sex with an adult. Mr. Jennings also admits to telling the students to use condoms for protection. There is a fine line between ‘seduced’ and ‘raped’ in this case. But, that isn’t the issue. The issue in the criminality of Jennings actions. Law enforcement, emergency responders, medical personnel and school employees are called “mandatory reporters” for a reason. If they know of, or suspect abuse of a minor they are obligated, by law, to report...

Thank God for Whoopi Goldberg. She stands up for artists who are persecuted by the state. When Roman Polanski was arrested this week – for fleeing sentencing after being convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old back in 1977 – Ms. Goldberg protested, “I know it wasn't rape-rape. It was something else but I don't believe it was rape-rape.” Mr. Polanski evidently used Quaaludes and champagne to drug an adolescent girl who wanted to be a movie star. He took photos of her topless, then had anal sex with her against her will. Ms. Goldberg did not explain the difference...

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA (BNO NEWS) – Inmate John Evander Couey, who was on death row for kidnapping, raping and burying 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005, has died at a Florida hospital, officials said on Wednesday. He was 51 years old. Couey passed away at 11.15 a.m. local time at Jacksonville Memorial Hospital, where he was transported to on August 12. Gretl Plessinger, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Corrections, said Couey died of natural causes. Couey abducted 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, a native of Gastonia, from her bedroom in 2005 before he raped and burried her. If Couey's body is not...

Roman Polanski is a film genius. He's a director of rare quality. He's also a criminal that three decades ago committed a horrible crime. Before being adjudicated for that crime, he fled the country to another country (France) that wouldn't extradite him back here. He's lived in France since in a fairly comfortable lifestyle. Movie making has logistical problems because he can only make movies in certain countries, but he's never short on Hollywood stars who are pleased to work with him. His genius overrides the heinous nature of his crimes.

Why I Never Regretted My Affair With A Teacher As a music teacher is jailed this week for having an affair with her 15-year-old pupil, a former student recalls his passionate and loving relationship with his gym mistress. By Harry Green 26 Sep 2009 Helen Goddard, who was jailed this week for her affair with her 15-year-old pupil Photo: STEPHANIE SCHAERER [Pic in URL] I know what a consensual relationship between a pupil and a teacher can feel like. I was the pupil in one such relationship 40 years ago. In fact, the word “consent” barely begins to describe the...

Poland on Friday approved a law making chemical castration mandatory for pedophiles in some cases, sparking criticism from human rights groups. Under the law, sponsored by Poland's center-right government, pedophiles convicted of raping children under the age of 15 years or a close relative would have to undergo chemical therapy on their release from prison. "The purpose of this action is to improve the mental health of the convict, to lower his libido and thereby to reduce the risk of another crime being committed by the same person," the government said in a statement. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said late...

Story Updated: Sep 18, 2009 at 10:15 AM PDT By KBCI Web Staff MERIDIAN - Officials say a southwestern Idaho middle school teacher was caught with a 13-year-old boy in Meridian Thursday night behind some bushes. Police say the 37-year-old teacher at Meridian Middle School, Ashley Jo Beach, has been having a sexual relationship with the 13-year-old for several months. Meridian Police says Beach was arrested for lewd conduct with a child under 16. Officers received a call of suspicious circumstances around 9:30 p.m. Thursday night in the area of Cherry Lane and Vineyards, which is a few blocks away...

'I Slept With My Own Father,' Reveals Daughter of The Mamas And The Papas Singer John Phillips By Daily Mail Reporter 23rd September 2009 The daughter of The Mamas And The Papas star John Phillips Has Revealed She Had A Long-Term Sexual Relationship With The Musician. [Pic in URL] In an explosive new book, Mackenzie Phillips says she was drugged and raped by her famous father when she was 19 and began a consensual incestuous affair that lasted a decade. Ms Phillips, now 49, reveals their first sexual encounter happened the night before she married Jeff Sessler, a member of...

Centrelink has admitted it unwittingly allowed two of Australia's most notorious paedophiles to get back in touch with each other. Dennis Ferguson wrote to Centrelink asking for his contact details to be passed on to former partner in crime Alexandria Brookes. The two were convicted and jailed in 1988 for abducting and raping three children in Queensland. As part of his parole conditions Brookes was banned from having any contact with Ferguson or other paedophiles. Centrelink will today shut down the In Touch program which gave Ferguson's contact details to Brookes. It is the latest controversy surrounding Ferguson, who was...

To family, friends and Fairfield University alumni and officials, he was the model citizen, a social activist whose decade of work with homeless Haitian street boys earned him an honorary degree from his alma mater. But when Douglas Perlitz, 39, appeared Friday in federal court in Denver, he agreed to be returned to Connecticut to face a 10-count indictment alleging he used his position in the university-supported Project Pierre Toussaint program to provide shelter, food, money and other gifts to homeless street boys in exchange for sex.

EDMONTON - A St. Albert teacher facing child pornography charges was found dead in the St. Albert RCMP detachment parking lot yesterday morning. "Our thoughts go with the family of this person," said Cpl. Laurel Kading, with the St. Albert RCMP. "We know this will be a terrible and trying time for them." About 2:35 a.m., two Mounties returning from patrol found the body of Kerry Glen Avey, 45, lying near his vehicle in the visitor's area of the RCMP detachment parking lot close to the sidewalk, police said. He appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police...

ROME, SEPT. 4, 2009 (Zenit.org).- A hundred online pedophile communities will be disconnected and prosecuted by U.S. and Italian authorities thanks to the work of the Meter Association, founded by Italian Father Fortunato Di Noto.ZENIT learned from the association that the networks consisted of some 18,181 people who used online community Web sites to host and exchange "thousands of images and video footage -- 27,894 pedophiliac photos and 1,617 videos -- as well as information regarding the trade of minors." The news was further publicized by Rome's Italian police force, in cooperation with other security forces. "Thousands of children were...

U.S. charges three men with molesting children in Cambodia They are the first to be charged under an international law-enforcement operation that targets U.S. citizens who travel to Cambodia for illicit sex. They could face 30 years in jail for each victim. Raja Abdulrahim September 1, 2009 Three American men who are suspected of traveling to Cambodia to molest children have been charged in federal court as part of a new initiative aimed at cracking down on the child sex tourism business there, authorities said Monday. Ronald Gerard Boyajian, 49, of Menlo Park, Calif.; Erik Leonardus Peeters, 41, of Norwalk;...

The convicted sex offender accused of snatching Jaycee Lee Dugard from a South Lake Tahoe street 18 years ago, then fathering her two children, told a Sacramento television station that "a digusting thing'' took place but that his life has "been straightened out.'' Phillip Garrido told KCRA 3 in a telephone interview that "you are going to be completely impressed'' when more details of what took place are revealed. "It's a disgusting thing that took place with me at the beginning,'' he told the TV station. "But I turned my life completely around and to be able to understand that,...

Columbus County Sheriff Chris Batten said Kyle Blackburn was taken to Loris Community Hospital in South Carolina, though he did not know the extent of his injuries. The shooting occurred on Soles’ property in Tabor City when two men went to the senator’s house and tried to kick in his front door, Batten said. The other man involved in the incident is B.J. Wright, Batten said. The State Bureau of Investigation is probing the shooting, Batten said, because the agency is already looking into accusations against the senator. A man accused Soles of attempting to molest him, leading authorities to...

The Sacramento Police Department says that Christopher Guzman went to Garcia Bend Park on Monday night, believing that he was meeting up with a 14-year-old girl he had met on a social networking website. "This would've been the first physical contact between the suspect and the victim," said Sacramento Police Department Sgt. Norm Leong. As Guzman waited in his car, police say five or six of the girl's family members walked up and began attacking him and his vehicle. Guzman tried to drive away, but the family members chased him, forced him out of his car and held him for...

A jury in Arkansas convicted evangelist Tony Alamo on Friday of 10 federal counts of taking minors across state lines for sex, according to the court in the Western District in Arkansas. Authorities in September charged Alamo, the 74-year-old founder and leader of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, and raided his 15-acre compound near Texarkana, Arkansas. Jurors reached the verdict after more than eight hours of deliberations. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 10 years. Between March 1994 and October 2005, Alamo transported five girls younger than 18 across state lines for sex, according to the indictment. The criminal complaint...

Detroit Police dedicate police squad cars to escort Michael Jackson plush toys to Woodlawn Cemetary. So far as I know, this is NOT an Onion News Network piece.

ORANGE COUNY Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - A judge denied bond for a 29-year-old man accused of molesting a child at Walt Disney World’s Typhoon Lagoon on Thursday. Orange County Sheriff's Office Sex Crimes Detectives arrested David Eugene Thomas, of Mountlake Terrace, Washington, charging him with one count of lewd molestation. The victim is a 13 year old boy. “One of the victim's father witnessed what was going on, and the lifeguard on duty also witnessed what was going on,” said Orange County Sgt. Rich Mankewich. Before a judge on Friday, it was revealed that Thomas told investigators that he...

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest has been convicted of sexually abusing an altar boy at a Germantown church more than seven years ago. The Rev. Aaron Cote (koh-TAY') is expected to be sentenced Oct. 14 to 10 years of probation. The former part-time youth minister at Mother Seton parish also must register as a sex offender under a plea agreement announced Monday. Cote was convicted of a third-degree sex offense. He pleaded not guilty and was convicted by a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge, who heard a recitation of undisputed facts. The 57-year-old priest, who now lives...

Pedophiles Need Not Live in Fear If S909 is Passed Posted on July 15th, 2009 nocompromise No comments This bill [S909] addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these ‘Philias’ and fetishes and ‘isms’ that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. Declared, Democrat Representative Alcee Hastings, (FL), and impeached judge, in a House Debate regarding the Pedophile Protection Act. It seems every time one turns on the tv...

RICHMOND, VA—Walter Guilbeault, age 60, of Hopewell, Va., was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge James R. Spencer to 60 months incarceration for one count of Receipt of Child Pornography. Guilbeault pled guilty to the charge on March 5, 2009. Dana J. Boente, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, announced the sentence. According to court documents and information provided in open court in August 2007, Walter Guilbeault hosted a live meeting over the Internet in the course of his employment with a software company. At the conclusion of this “web meeting,” Guilbeault neglected to...

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Texas authorities used a hoax call about abuse at a polygamous sect's Texas ranch as a pretext for an "unlimited, general search" in April 2008 -- a search law officers "had wanted for years to conduct," an attorney contends in a new court filing. The size and scope of the investigation showed from the outset it was not about checking the well-being of a single abuse victim and her child, and authorities failed to make even basic attempts to corroborate claims made in the hoax calls, the 100-plus-page brief filed Monday by attorney Gerald Goldstein on behalf of Frederick Merril...

<p>Where are the defenders of "the cause" when you need them? When an actual social tragedy occurs, where are the self-titled leaders of the black movement? I'll answer my own question: They're busy fighting for an interview or a microphone during all of the Michael Jackson festivities.</p>