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Yes, Townhall's website is re-loading perfectly fine. No, you are not reading the same news story again, though it certainly feels that way. And who could blame you for thinking that you have deja vu while reading about this case? On Thursday, ABC 7's Kevin Lewis reported that police in Montgomery County, Maryland have arrested an illegal immigrant on molestation charges. This has now occurred again, and again, and again, and again, and again. That's right, this is now the sixth individual illegally in the country accused of sexual offenses in one Maryland county in the past month alone. And...

MATAMOROS — One of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives was captured Saturday near Matamoros and spent the night in Cameron County. Donald Edward Lynch, 66, was spotted by police about 20 miles from here in El Mesquital. He has been featured several times on the television program America’s Most Wanted, most recently on Aug. 5 last year. Lynch is wanted in Tennessee on 11 counts of rape of a child, 38 counts of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and five counts of aggravated sexual battery. The FBI obtained a warrant for his arrest after he fled to Mexico....

ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from a teen who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old. In a ruling released Friday, the court denied a motion for reconsideration filed by lawyers for Genarlow Wilson, who was 17 when he and the 15-year-old engaged in consensual oral sex. He was sentenced for aggravated child molestation. Wilson’s case was one of two cases that were cited earlier this year when lawmakers passed a law that otherwise strengthened penalties for sex offenders, but reduced the penalty from a felony to...

A Franklin County Common Pleas judge says he relied on testimony from two psychologists when he decided not to imprison a man who admitted sexually abusing two boys for more than three years. Judge John A. Connor came under fire this week from the man’s neighbors and victimrights advocates. In December, Connor sentenced Andrew S. Selva, 46, to five years of probation under intensive sexual-offender supervision, including one year of home confinement with electronic monitoring. Violating probation would mean eight years in prison. Selva pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery, a thirddegree felony that does not require prison...

Sex Offender's Family Claims Flier Is HarassmentPolice Say Flier Violates City OrdinancePOSTED: 7:18 pm EDT May 19, 2005 UPDATED: 11:48 pm EDT May 19, 2005 HAZEL PARK, Mich. -- A flier with a warning about a convicted sex offender has a local family arguing that their son's rights have been violated, Local 4 reported. The document (pictured, left), which appears to be a printout of a page from the Michigan Department of Corrections Web site, has been posted to telephone poles across Hazel Park. It contains a picture of John Glenn Sturgill -- a 32-year-old convicted sex offender, who was...

Sex offender John Couey. Rumors are flying that Couey took Jessica Lunsford into his trailor through his bedroom window. All this happened in the pouring rain. This sounds like a pro to me. Has this man done this before? Is someone looking into the areas he lived before to see if anyone was missing?

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 By Bill O'Reilly As you may know, 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford (search) was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered. Convicted sex offender John Couey (search) has confessed to the crime. In the days before Jessica's body was recovered, police visited a trailer close to Jessica's house and asked three people who were living there if they knew anything about the little girl's disappearance. The cops went back to that place three times. But it wasn't until the third time, after Couey had fled the state, that the three individuals, Dorothy Dixon, Madie Secord and Matthew Dittrich admitted Couey...

Border Patrol finds man wanted for sexual offenses BY BILL HESS Sierra Vista Herald/Review DOUGLAS, ARIZONA - An illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was deported in August 1999 and sought for sexual offenses in California was apprehended after he once again illegally entered the United States, a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman said this morning. Victor Manual Grande, 42, was taken into custody. He entered the country around 11:30 a.m. Thursday about three miles east of the Douglas Port of Entry, said Andy Adame, a spokesman for the agency's Tucson Sector. While processing Grande, his fingerprints were put through the...