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For four years, hidden cameras recorded Madison Reed's most private moments, beginning when she was just 13 years old. The cameras, placed by a neighbor in the teenager's bedroom and in a beach house, are now gone, but the painful memories remain. "It's disgusting," Madison said. "I don't like to think about it, but I think about it all the time. Like all day." According to law enforcement investigators, Bradley McCollum, a family friend, set up a camera at his Clatsop County beach house in 2010 to secretly record Reed as she visited with McCollum's family. In 2014, he added...

SYLMAR - Concerned that their community has become a dumping ground for sex offenders, residents Thursday applauded a proposed law that would evenly distribute the state's most despised parolees across Assembly districts. Stating that 124 registered sex offenders live in Sylmar and just six reside in Beverly Hills, Assemblyman Richard Alarcón, D-San Fernando, said it is unfair that some communities - often in lower-income areas - shoulder more responsibility than others. "If it was equal up and down the state, I guess Sylmar would have to accept their fair share," he said. "But this is not equal. This is not...

By JOHN COLES A MUM was treated “like a criminal” — for raising the alarm about a freed paedophile. Melanie Singer, 24, posted a leaflet to 250 homes after twisted Tony Adams was let out early from prison. But Adams complained of harassment — and Melanie ended up being arrested. She was fingerprinted, photographed and had DNA swabs taken. And she was later given a formal caution which will hang over her for five years. Mum-of-two Melanie, an assistant at an infants’ school, said: “The system stinks. People have every right to know if someone like this is living in...