The Child Protection eNewsletter
 A registered sex offender raped 9-year-old Jessica and then buried her alive, kneeling and clutching a purple stuffed dolphin, according to Florida prosecutors. http://www.foxnews.com The coroner’s report confirms she died of asphyxiation. Because of this and other high profile cases, vol3_iss26 the Florida House unanimously passed “The Jessica Lunsford Act” that would set a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life in prison for people convicted of molesting children under 12. If offenders serve less than life, they would be required to wear a global positioning system device after their release. This comes as experts and criminologists continue to warn that pedophiles’ “sexual preference is for children.  They have a compulsion to molest children. Many, if not all, will molest children until the day they die. They’re dangerous and they’re going to reoffend.” http://www.foxnews.com In an unrelated California case, the terrifying final days of Xiana Fairchild were detailed in a California court. http://www.ktvu.com The seven-year-old was held for three weeks and raped by her captor every day. When she cried he would whip her, and when he was done with her he rented her out to other child molesters before killing her and disposing of the body. Once again, we remind you that every state’s sex offender registry is available online at http://www.childprotectionprogram.org/sor/index.php
A police officer who moonlighted as a security guard for Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch testified that in January or February of 2003 he saw a message written on a greaseboard that "simply stated (the boy) is not allowed off-property." http://www.foxnews.com and http://www.courttv.com  The judge did not allow another former ranch employee to testify that he was asked to bring Vaseline to Jackson's bedroom while the pop star was with a boy. http://www.foxnews.com The boy named in the incident received a multimillion-dollar settlement from Jackson in 1994 and subsequently declined to cooperate in a criminal investigation. Meanwhile, a potential defense witness was arrested in New Jersey for having sex with a 14-year-old girl. http://www.msnbc.msn.com The age of consent is 16 in New Jersey.
 Every day in the United States, 160,000 children miss school in an attempt to avoid bullies according to the National Association of School Psychologists. http://www.cbsnews.com The latest in a series of articles about bullying focuses on school buses. School buses present a particular opportunity for bullies because they offer a captive audience and little adult supervision.
An investigation into the sexual abuse allegations against a high-ranking priest of the Roman Catholic Church has been reopened, seven years after the formal complaint was first filed with then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who is now Pope Benedict XVI. http://abcnews.go.com As head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, Ratzinger was put in charge of dealing with the church's worldwide sexual abuse scandal. Critics say Ratzinger made grave mistakes in his treatment of the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal, but see the reopened case as “a hopeful sign.”
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