The Child Protection eNewsletter
 In breaking news, NBC is reporting that the national director of programs for the Boy Scouts of America has been charged with receiving and distributing child pornography. http://www.msnbc.msn.com Sources in the U.S. Attorney's office told NBC that Douglas S. Smith was expected to plead guilty. The images were of young boys and the investigation started in Germany, the sources added.
 In a major setback for the defense, the judge in the Michael Jackson child molestation trail ruled Monday that the prosecution may admit evidence of previous sexual abuse of young boys by Michael Jackson. http://www.foxnews.com This comes as a double blow to the defense because some legal experts (notably Fox’s Judge Napolitano) had surmised that Judge Melville would only admit evidence of prior molestations if he believed that the prosecution had proved its case. http://www.foxnews.com This comes on the heels of Friday’s testimony by a forensic examiner that he found the fingerprints of Michael Jackson and his accuser in the same ultra-explicit pornographic magazine seized from the Jackson's bedroom. http://www.courttv.com
The reputation of United Nations peacekeeping missions suffered a humiliating blow as an internal report identified repeated patterns of sexual abuse and rape perpetrated by soldiers supposed to be restoring the international rule of law. http://www.guardian.co.uk The highly critical study, published by Jordan's ambassador to the UN assembly , is officially titled “A Comprehensive Strategy To Eliminate Future Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations” and is available online at http://www.un.org
 The Tyler Morning Telegraph reports that every year hundreds of students use the essay portion of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test to write about being abused, neglected or raped. http://www.zwire.com Such essays fall under the state's definition of an outcry, and school officials have a legal and ethical obligation to report the revelations to law-enforcement officials. To their credit, Texas officials follow up on each essay.
Another registered sex offender has been charged in the abduction and murder of a ten-year-old girl from her home. http://www.woi-tv.com While an astonishingly high 25% of registered sex offenders’ addresses are not kept up to date on sex offender registries because of lax enforcement, 75% are. To see if a registered sex offender lives near a child you love, please use the sex offender registry link at our website,
http://www.childprotectionprogram.org/sor/index.php
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland “practiced a policy of secrecy, negligence and disregard for children's safety” that led to the sexual abuse of two altar boys, an attorney argued at yet another civil trial of yet another priest accused of child sexual abuse. http://www.thedesertsun.com
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