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InWisconsin, 25-year-old Paulo Sheispan-Landero, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is charged with first degree sexual assault on a child under 13 — a felony which would fall under Jessica's Law. According to the criminal complaint the man on three separate occasions molested a 12-year-old girl.... Landero has two previous convictions, one for battery, and was deported to Mexico. But the mother says he was back in Wisconsin about a week after that deportation. Criminal illegal alien who has already been deported is now charged with a felony sexual assault on a child. He is in big trouble right? Not so...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - A judge on Thursday denied a request by defense attorneys to seal records and prevent the Riverside County district attorney's office from releasing information about the recent arrests of 49 men accused of attempted child molestation. Superior Court Judge Bernard Schwartz denied both motions filed by the county's public defender's office, saying there wasn't enough evidence to justify the request. The decision affected only nine defendants who remain in custody. It was unknown whether defense attorneys will file a similar motion with the other 40 men who have posted bail. A message left for defense attorneys...

Long Island attorney has been charged with being an oline sexual predator. Nassau District Attorney Denis Dillon says 46-year-old Thomas Sheehan of East Setauket is accused of having explicit sexual conversations with a person he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. Dillon says Sheehan is an attorney with an office in Jackson Heights, Queens. DA Dillon says Sheehan visited a chatroom where he began a conversation with an udnercover officer posing as a teen-age girl. Sheehan allegedly talked about meeting the girl for sexual activity. Dillon says at the same time Nassau officers were zeroing in Sheehan -- New York...

Federal law enforcement officials call a Nutley man a ``dangerous predator.'' Kevin Hildreth has admitted sexually assaulting nine children and videotaping at least two having sex in the basement of a church where he was an assistant scoutmaster. The 33-year-old pleaded guilty to federal charges of crossing state lines to sexually assault a child and possession of child pornography. Hildreth was arrested in June as part of an international child porn Internet investigation. He told investigators that he had fondled or raped nine boys in the past 16 years. The victims ranged in age from four to 13. One was...

GIG HARBOR, Wash.  — For the past six years, convicted child rapist Laura Faye McCollum (search) has lived a lonely existence inside the state's women's prison. On Monday, she is scheduled to move to the new Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island (search) to live among 190 other dangerous sex offenders — all of them men. McCollum is worried about attending therapy sessions with the men, and many experts say treating offenders of both genders together could be harmful. "Would you want to sit in a bunch of men who talk about what they did to women and how they'd like to do...

The 17-year-old lives in isolation, in a room created just for him. His visitors are therapists and teachers, and, of course, there are the round-the-clock guards. The cost to keep him at the state's Green Hill Training School in Chehalis: $1,000 a day, $30,000 a month. Last year, the teen became the youngest person ever to be considered for incarceration as a "sexually violent predator" at McNeil Island's Special Commitment Center. As a ward of Washington and a minor, the state has little choice but to try to treat and educate him. And until he turns 18, he cannot...

SEATTLE -- A man has been charged with having sex with a 13-year-old Texas girl whom he lured over an Internet chat room and is being held on $750,000 bail. Jason E. Cox, 34, of Federal Way, was charged Wednesday in King County Superior Court with two counts of second-degree child rape of a child, luring a child with sexual motivation, sexual exploitation of a minor and possession of child pornography. E.H. Burns, a Federal Way police detective, wrote in court documents that Cox sent the girl pictures of juvenile girls having sex with men and persuaded her to send...