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According to voter registration records, Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper, is a registered Democrat. He was also the alleged leader among the three Castro brothers, who were arrested this week, and the owner of the house at 2207 Seymour Ave., where the three abducted local women had been kept in captivity for over a decade. Why is this important? Whenever a crime or a scandal captures national attention, the pattern in the mainstream media is to either identify the culprit as a Republican or hold silence -- in which case we can rest assured that the culprit is a Democrat....

CNN) -- Joshua Gravens can't do a lot of the normal things parents do, like drop his son off at school, attend parent-teacher conferences, or take his daughter to the park, a library or anywhere else children gather. For the offense of inappropriately touching his 8-year-old sister when he was 12, Gravens, 26, has spent almost half his life as a registered sex offender. The designation subjects him to residency and zoning restrictions that dictate where he can live and spend time. It has also made him the target of harassment, death threats and hampered his ability to find a...

Four women wanted in alleged sex assault of 19-year-old man in downtown Toronto Toronto police are looking for four female suspects who they say allegedly sexually assaulted a 19-year-old man. The incident happened during the early morning hours of Sunday, March 31, after the man met the four women at a nightclub near King Street and University Avenue. The man left the club with the women who offered to drive him home, according to a written statement from Toronto police. “The complainant was instead driven to a parking lot in the area of Queen Street West and Spadina Avenue where...

Students at Riverside City College in California received a nasty surprise this week: Their recently-elected student government president is a registered sex offender. Doug Robert Figueroa, 40, was convicted of kidnapping and then committing “lewd or lascivious acts” on a 14-year-old boy in 2005. He was sentenced to 10 years probation. Earlier this week, someone posted a flier on campus revealing Figueroa’s status as a sex offender. The flier was initially assumed to be an April Fool’s Day prank, but Figueroa later confirmed the truth. The news stunned students, many of whom said they wished they had known before electing...

RIVERSIDE: RCC student body president is registered sex offender It was no April Fools’ joke. On Monday, April 1, anonymous black-and-white fliers were found pinned to billboards at Riverside City College saying the student body president is a registered sex offender. Students at first thought it was a cruel prank, but once it was confirmed, the revelation left them asking whether RCC administrators, who acknowledge they knew about it before the election, should have disclosed the information to the campus community. Doug Robert Figueroa, 40, of Riverside, was sentenced to five years in prison for admitting that in 2005 he...

OTTAWA — A couple has lost custody of their fourth child — seized by authorities at hospital after birth — for fear the father, a onetime juvenile sex offender, would molest his newborn son in the future. The boy became a ward of the state on Feb. 28 and has been put up for adoption. The Children’s Services of Lanark knew the couple was expecting because the mother was pregnant at a hearing in May about the custody of another baby, also seized after birth at hospital in 2011. In that case, Ontario Superior Court Justice John McMunagle ruled in...

FULL TITLE: Sex offender who 'killed librarian and raped her daughter, 10,' 'reassembled his ankle monitor so quickly it didn't trigger an alarm' A man charged with killing a woman and raping her 10-year-old daughter after a carjacking at a New York mall last week was able to remove his court-ordered electronic monitoring bracelet before carrying out the brutal attacks. David Renz, 29, managed to cut the device from his ankle and put it back together so quickly that it didn't prompt BI, the company in Colorado that makes the monitors, to notify court officers in Syracuse, according to Chief...

FULL TITLE: Warren Jeffs tells followers to 'prepare for end of the world' by January 1 as experts warn it could mean something sinister for the sect loyal to a convicted sex offender Followers of cult leader, Warren Jeffs, who is behind bars for sexually assaulting young girls, are reportedly preparing for the end of the world tomorrow, after their former leader warned of Armageddon before midnight. The only supermarket and major meeting point of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints community across the movement's key sites - Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah - has...

The case against an intern serving in the Newark, N.J., office of Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat from that state, who was arrested Dec. 6 reportedly for being both an illegal immigrant and a sex offender, apparently has gone underground. The Associated Press reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested 18-year-old Luis Abraham Sanchez Zavaleta outside of his Newark home. However, there seems to be no record of the arrest, the progress of Sanchez’s case, or that he is even still in custody.

A Democratic senator hired an unpaid intern who was an undocumented immigrant but a documented sex offender. Apparently Senator Menendez needed an immigrant to do sex offending that Americans won’t do. Meanwhile, Representative Jim Moran is “embarrassed” by the revelation that his voter-fraud-orchestrating son smashed his girlfriend’s face into a garbage can and pleaded guilty to assault. The girlfriend appears to be doing what she can to make the story go away. But don’t worry, the phrase “war on women” may still only be used to describe people who don’t want to pay for someone else’s birth control. ... Obama’s...

Attorneys for sex offenders who claim they’re too poor to register have filed a separate case against the city of Chicago on behalf of homeless sex offenders who say they can’t register because they don’t have permanent addresses. Douglas M. Montgomery, a plaintiff in the new case filed Thursday, says in the lawsuit he’s been in the Cook County Jail since July 2011 when he was arrested for urinating in public. He’s awaiting trial on a charge of failing to register as a sex offender. Montgomery, 57, said he was living under a bridge in January 2011 and police refused...

A Massachusetts man who pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old in 2009 is now seeking visitation rights for the child he fathered — a sensitive case that could force the victim to maintain contact with her rapist. That possibility has left the teen mother in an emotional tailspin, according to Fox 25 Boston, and she doesn’t want to interact with the man — a then-20-year-old she had met through the same church. “She got raped at 14,” the victim’s mother told Fox 25. “She decided to keep her baby. And now she has to hand her baby over for a...

When a family friend told a 17-year-old Tomball girl that she "looked tired and needed a blessing," the girl believed him. After all, the man attended her church and was known to practice black magic. "Because of her religious beliefs," Harris County prosecutors said, "she believed that (he) could bless her."

'Devil played with my head', says teacher accused of rape DUBAI // A Quran teacher told a policeman he raped a four-year-old boy because "the devil played with my head", a court heard today. Prosecutors told the Criminal Court that the Bangladeshi HM, 24, was employed to give lessons to the children of four families who share a villa in Al Hamriya. The Pakistani boy's father, 30-year-old ME, said the lessons took place in the villa's kitchen after Maghrib prayer for an hour every day except Thursdays and Fridays and that his son had been taking part in them for...

<p>Not long ago I posted a story about a Muslim who had been kicked in the face by a horse he was trying to rape. Now it seems the same Muslim returned to the same place to do the same thing. This time he killed a horse, although we don't know if it was the same one.</p>

A South Carolina man can’t understand why the registered sex offender who victimized his 10-year-old daughter gets to live next door, separated only by a chain link fence. Chris Smith, of Conway, told the Sun News of Myrtle Beach that having Kerry Dane Marlowe for a neighbor is hell on his family. He said he would gladly move, but doubts he can sell a house next to a sex offender. “When it’s all stripped away,” Smith told the paper. “I still have a convicted, registered sex offender living next door.” Marlowe was convicted of criminal solicitation of a minor and...

The plea agreement drops robbery and battery charges against the man, who was to be released. A man who grabbed a stranger in downtown Roanoke in March pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted abduction. Mauricio Ramirez-Diaz, 22, initially had been charged with assault and battery and attempted robbery, but in June a Roanoke grand jury added abduction with attempt to defile and misdemeanor sexual battery to the counts against him. Through a plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed the robbery and battery charges and amended the abduction charge to a lesser felony. Ramirez-Diaz, who had been held since March, was given a two-year...

The recent arrest of Brandon Scott Lavergne in the case of the missing co-ed Mickey Shunick has brought some closure to this case. His cell phone was seized as part of his arrest. But can records be found of where he went with his cell phone be located? This would be computerized ROAMING of the cell phones showing the stations that the cell phone used to maintain its signal. Is such tracking possible? Should convicted sex offenders have their cell phones tracked to this degree to help in locate missing people? The pickup seen in a video the night Mickey...

Local child molester slain in L.A. prison An inmate serving a life sentence stemming from the sexual assault of a child in Oceanside was killed Tuesday in his prison cell in Los Angeles County. Francisco Javier Aguilar, 36, was found dead in his cell at the California State Prison in Lancaster after 1 a.m., authorities said. He had a cable wrapped around his neck, The Los Angeles Times reported. The cause of death has not been released. An autopsy was set for Thursday, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office. Aguilar’s cellmate, Aaron Alvarez, 42, has been arrested in...

<p>HOUSTON – A high-risk sex offender was on the loose Friday night after escaping from a Houston halfway house and discarding his GPS tracking ankle monitor, the Houston Chronicle reported.</p> <p>Michael Elbert Young, 42, climbed over a barbed wire fence at the Southeast Texas Transitional Center after last being seen around 9:50pm local time Thursday night.</p>

WINFIELD - W. Va. Ashlee Liebert of Whitmore Lake, Michigan and the 12-year-old girl were found in a parked car in a remote part of Cross Creek Road near Buffalo. Putnam County Sheriff Mark Smith says it's actually a stroke of luck the two were found. While deputies were taking a missing person report on the young girl, there was a report of a suspicious car on Cross Creek Road in Buffalo. According to the criminal complaint, inside the car deputies found Liebert naked with the 12-year-old girl. The two had sex. "They were going back to Detroit, and had...

NEAR ALTON — A man detained for operating a stash house claims a brutal prison gang forced him to “babysit” the 33 immigrants discovered there last week. U.S. Border Patrol agents detained an illegal immigrant near Falfurrias in late February who said she could lead investigators back to the stash house where she’d been kept. Agents began conducting undercover surveillance on the house at 10120 N. Mayberry Road — just south of Highway 107 — on Feb. 29, a criminal complaint states. Agents say they found the man there they would later arrest for harboring illegal aliens. Border Patrol alongside...

’Bama fan in video accused of sexual battery now in NOPD custody The Crimson Tide fan accused of committing sexual battery on a passed out LSU fan is now in the custody of the New Orleans Police Department...

The Hazleton Standard Speaker reports 20 year old Roberto Acosta, of West Hazleton, was charged with two counts each of aggravated indecent assault and indecent assault. Acosta is said to be in this country illegally. There is no mention of the immigration status of his victim, but there is mention of her age, 17. So, Roberto will also face one count each of corruption of minors and indecent exposure. Not all illegal aliens sneak into our country. Many simply gain access the legal way then allow their visas to expire. Such is the case with oneAcosta, of Honduras. Apparently, Acosta...

A convicted child sex offender and illegal immigrant who was charged with breaking into an Elgin home in June where a 13-year-old girl hid in the basement has skipped bail, according to police. Salvador Sarabia, 28, has served time for two burglaries, drug-related charges and criminal sexual abuse of a minor and has been deported twice. He had been free after posting the required $10,000 of his $100,000 bail.Sarabia, of the 800 block of Ford Avenue, did not show up for his court date on Nov. 21, and a warrant was issued for his arrest, according to Elgin police. Although...

Last week the parents of a Wisconsin boy sued Grant County District Attorney Lisa Riniker for charging their son with first-degree sexual assault, a Class B felony, after he played "butt doctor" with a 5-year-old girl. He was 6 at the time. When the boy's lawyer tried to have the charge dismissed, Riniker replied: "The legislature could have put an age restriction in the statute if it wanted to. The legislature did no such thing." According to the complaint (PDF), the girl is "the daughter of a well-known political figure in Grant County," and her brother, who is the same...

WENTWORTH, N.C. (WGHP)— A convicted sex offender was sentenced to 66-89 months in prison Thursday after officials said he sent a Facebook "friend request" to one of his victims. Victor Terrell Gaston, 36, of Reidsville, pleaded guilty to one count of using social media as a sex offender in Rockingham County Superior Court. Judge Stuart Albright sentenced his as a habitual offender. Officials say Gaston sent the request on July 4, exactly 10 years after the offense occurred in 2001. Gaston had been ordered to not have contact with the victim. Gaston was arrested three days after sending the request....

GUTHRIE, Okla. -- Guthrie police launched a "sex offender" investigation following a blocked call to Willow Creek Nursing Home. The woman who answered the phone was disgusted and troubled by what she heard on the other end. According to Lt. Mark Bruning, "When they answered the phone they heard a male voice saying the name Kimberly. He went into a lot of sexually explicit things. Part of the conversation was this person wasn't in school and the consequences for not being in school." Because the calls seemed so graphic and authentic, police launched a search for the caller and victim....

RICHMOND, Va. — Having already served their sentences, hundreds of Virginia sex offenders are held behind bars for months — some for years — while waiting to see whether they'll be sent to a psychiatric center indefinitely, an Associated Press review has found. Judges acting on the requests of both prosecutors and defense attorneys routinely shrug off the legal deadline for making that decision, leaving the inmates in limbo well beyond their designated punishment and without access to the very kind of treatment the state says they may need. Attorneys and authorities blame the delays on court backlogs and note...

"I mean, this guy was lying. He's a big, fat liar, Herman Cain. I'm going to say it on TV. Herman Cain is a big, fat liar, okay? When Bill Clinton shook his hand, his little finger at the nation and said 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman,' everybody in the country knew he was lying. You can smell it. This guy is lying. There is no difference between Herman Cain -- being accused of sexually harassing woman after woman after woman, we're now at five -- by the way, there are five flags behind that podium,...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A registered sex offender in southern Indiana has been arrested after police said he molested his girlfriend's daughter, who prosecutors said was about 12 years old at the time, although the girlfriend said it never happened. Justin Pound, 23, entered a plea of not guilty during his initial appearance in a Clark County courtroom on Thursday. It's the second time Pound has been accused of engaging in an inappropriate sexual act with a minor. "It's pretty heartbreaking. I'm certain, for this mom, that this person that she gave a second chance to and she put her faith...

The former U.N. weapons inspector convicted in an online sex sting has been sentenced to 1½ to 5½ years in state prison. Following his sentencing in Monroe County Court on Wednesday afternoon, Scott Ritter was led out in handcuffs and sent to Monroe County Correctional Facility, where he will remain until it is determined which state prison he will serve his sentence at.

FORT THOMAS, Ky. -- Northern Kentucky authorities say being on the state sex offender registry and Facebook at the same time got a registered offender into trouble. Mark Steven Schlasinger was taken to the Campbell County jail after his arrest on a charge of failure to comply with registry requirements, according to The Kentucky Enquirer. State troopers and Fort Thomas city police searched Schlasinger's home and say they found computer equipment. Kentucky State Police received tips that Schlasinger was on Facebook. Officers said they found an email address not listed with the Kentucky Sex Offender Registry and a Facebook account....

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A 67-year-old man was arrested after police said he left vulgar and sexually explicit notes on several telephone poles. Police arrested Kenneth Downs, and they said the victim was his 15-year-old neighbor. Over the course of a week, investigators said Downs wrote several vulgar notes on telephone poles near her house. One of them was right in front of her home, which prompted her father to call police. The rest of the notes were found along the route she walks to catch the bus. The victim and her father told police they're worried Downs is a danger...

The Delaware American Civil Liberties Union has filed court papers to stop sex offenders from being evicted from a safe house that is located near a new day care center. The ACLU, along with an attorney representing the safe house and three sex offenders, has asked a judge to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent the city from evicting the residents. “The state has asked the residents to leave, and if they don’t leave they will be arrested,” attorney Daniel Wolcott, Jr. told Fox News Radio. Wolcott is representing the owner of the safe house and three sex offenders....

2 N.J. teens labeled sex offenders for life after 'horseplay' incidentUpdated: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 8:47 AM By MaryAnn Spoto/The Star-Ledger The Star-Ledger SOMERSET COUNTY — Call it bullying or call it horseplay. Either way, a state appellate court panel says roughhousing with a sexual connotation by a pair of 14-year-old Somerset County boys was a crime that requires them to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives. In a decision handed down Monday, the three-judge panel acknowledged the severity of its decision, but said it was bound to uphold the law. "We are keenly aware that...

A 68-year-old twice-convicted sex offender was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday for using a computer to entice a child to engage in sexual activity, according to U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer. Trial evidence revealed that Allen Mark Levinson, of West Palm Beach, entered an Internet chat room named "dadanddaughtersex" and engaged in conversations with an undercover police officer posing as the father of an 8-year-old girl. During online chats with the undercover 'father,' Levinson bragged about having molested his own daughter repeatedly throughout her childhood. Levinson previously had been convicted of the aggravated sexual abuse of a...

Man dies while raping elderly South Texas woman Associated Press Posted on June 13, 2011 at 4:59 PM Updated today at 5:50 PM Tivoli, Texas View larger map REFUGIO, Texas (AP) — Investigators said a man has died while in the act of raping an elderly South Texas woman. The Refugio County Sheriff's Office identified the man as 53-year-old Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez. Sheriff's Sgt. Gary Wright said the incident happened June 2 after he rode two miles by bicycle from his home to that of his 77-year-old victim in the tiny coastal community of Tivoli.

Protecting Children On the Internet In early 2007 my office did a study that found that over 85% of registered sex offenders in New York City live less than five blocks from schools, and 670 sex offenders live within just two blocks. Some offenders are even closer, permanently residing less than 500 feet away from unwitting parents, educators and childr

Dominique Strauss-Kahn underwent forensic tests today following his arrest on sex attack charges in New York - as a second woman in Paris reported him for attempted rape. The 62-year-old head of the International Monetary Fund, who was tipped to become the President of France next year, ‘vigorously’ denies the claims made by an unnamed American chamber maid. But now Tristane Banon, the 31-year-old god-daughter of Strauss-Kahn’s second wife Brigitte Guillemette, said he attacked her almost a decade ago. "SNIP" Ms Banon’s mother, Anne Mansouret, said the only reason she did not press charges at the time was because 'she...

A piece published in The Houston Press titled “The 10 Hottest Women on the Texas Sex Offenders List” has caused a stir. It included photos and descriptions of ten attractive (and not-so-attractive) female sex offenders in the Lone Star State, along with their crimes. Many readers were outraged, and Change.org, a prominent social activism website, immediately circulated a petition demanding that the newspaper apologize for “the trivialization of the sexual assault of children and the misguided emphasis on the women's physical appearance.” While the majority of sex offenders are male, women rape and sexually assault children far more often than...

MILWAUKIE, Ore. -- A Milwaukie teen says a man, later found to be a sex offender, tried to grab her while she was walking home from school Thursday evening. Luckily, her father quickly came to the rescue and tackled the suspect, Fox12 News reports. Police cited Douglas Quinn and are charging him with harassment. Picture of Sex Offender: ... She was able to get away and use her cell phone to call her dad. That’s when the two started driving around the area looking for the suspect on their own. A few blocks away, they spotted him.

State police captured a “sexually violent predator” from Milford who was freed despite being convicted last year of aggravated rape, rape and abuse of a child, and indecent assault and battery among other offenses, according to state records and state police. Brian M. Addeo, 32, cut off his GPS tracking bracelet Friday in a Tewksbury parking lot and tossed it in the back of a pickup truck, state police said. Addeo remained on the run until last night, when the State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension team captured him in Augusta, Maine, state police said. “We’re thrilled we got him,” said...

Duchess of York admits Duke arranged for convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to pay off her debts The Duchess of York has admitted that her former husband arranged for a convicted paedophile to pay off her debts.

The Chandler Police Department released the full report on the Susan Brock sex scandal this morning, and it's a doozy. Turns out that she, her county supervisor husband, Fulton Brock, and the parents of the victim of her bizarre sexual trysts met with leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in October 2009 to discuss "frustration with Mrs. Brock's interference in [their] son's life."-SNIP- During the 2009 meeting with LDS Stake President Mitch Jones, the father of Brock's victim asked her point-blank if she was having a sexual relationship with his son. Brock denied it -- with her county...

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - A relatively new state law bans registered sex offenders from using social networking websites like myspace and facebook, but prosecutors say it's rarely used in court. The law was enacted in December of 2008. Prosecutor Kelly Miller says the law is great idea, but difficult to enforce because registered sex offenders on probation typically use the internet in the privacy of their homes. They often use different screen names and don't have their pictures on the account. It often takes a court order for police to gain access to computer information needed to verify the account...

A 53-year-old former girls basketball coach from Renton who was convicted in 2003 of sexual misconduct with a minor was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 32 months for identity theft and Social Security fraud. Anthony D. Giles was alleged to be using the identity of a deceased infant as early as 1990, according to the release from the U.S. Attorney Office in Seattle. Prosecutors said he had gotten drivers licenses and social security cards in the baby’s name. They also said he used it to obtain work at Boeing and to avoid having to disclose that...

A sex offender just released from prison is accused of groping a woman on a RIPTA bus. The woman got up from the window seat, pushed past the heavy-set Austin, and told the bus driver what was happening, LaCross said. That’s when Austin suddenly got off the bus in Barrington. The woman was able to identify the groper from photos. The police said that she picked out Austin, who’d been released from the Adult Correctional Institutions two weeks earlier after serving 4½ years for second-degree child molestation.

CALIFORNIA – Police arrested a registered sex offender on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl in a discount store in Union City, California. Union City police said Eugene Ramos, 36, snatched the child in an aisle of a Dollar Store and assaulted her last Wednesday, while the child’s grandmother and mother were shopping in the next aisle. Reports said the toddler’s grandmother witnessed the assault and started chasing Ramos. Two bystanders then tackled Ramos and pinned him down until law enforcers arrived.

A teacher convicted of sexually assaulting one of his students had an odd request for the judge at his sentencing Thursday. Adam Friedman, 46, offered to be castrated in an effort to avoid prison time.