The Child Protection eNewsletter
 Two of the 12 jurors who voted to acquit singer Michael Jackson of child molestation and other charges said Monday they regret their decisions. http://www.cnn.com Appearing on MSNBC’s inaugural show of Rita Cosby Live & Direct, (see video at http://video.msn.com) Jurors Ray Hultman and Eleanor Cook, who both have pending book deals, said they were pressured into letting a pedophile go free.
 San Francisco Archbishop William Levada, soon to be the highest ranking American at the Vatican, was welcomed to his final Sunday Mass by thousands of admiring parishioners, a few critics and a subpoena compelling him to testify about sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. http://www.cnn.com Levada was handed the subpoena minutes before he began the procession to the altar at St. Mary's Cathedral. It requires him to give a deposition August 12 concerning sex abuse allegations against priests in the now bankrupt Portland, Oregon Archdiocese, where he was archbishop from 1986 to 1995. Levada is expected to leave later this month for his appointment as head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the post held by former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became Pope Benedict XVI. Meanwhile, a former Catholic priest admits what many have alleged, that he was moved from parish to parish after he was accused of molesting boys in an effort to cover up the abuse. http://www1.pressdemocrat.com
Sixty-two people have been found guilty of abuse and sentenced in one of France's biggest child sex trials. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com Sentences ranged from four months suspended to 28 years for second-time offenders. Sixty-five people were tried on charges of sexually abusing 45 children aged between 6 months and 12 years old. Three were acquitted. The entire trial, greeted with a collective yawn in France, has prompted many to ask if the French are unmoved by the fact that parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, raped, pimped and traded their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. (for a typical article see http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au)
A program used to catch sex offenders walking into schools in Texas, Florida and Arizona soon will be introduced to New Jersey lawmakers. http://www.courierpostonline.com The program, called V.Soft, requires a visitor to hand over his driver's license when entering a school. The license would be inserted into an optical scanner. In about 10 seconds, the visitor would receive an identification sticker with the image from the license, the visitor's name, the date and time. During the time taken to produce the sticker, the visitor's name and date of birth would be checked against sex-offender databases from 42 states.
A foster care community designed by U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) and his wife, Christine, to resemble a small neighborhood so that foster families can support each other and raise children in a stable setting was officially opened Monday in Fort Bend County, TX. http://www.chron.com The Oaks at Rio Bend is a privately funded effort that will eventually be home to 192 foster children. The DeLays are former foster parents and launched the project because of their interest in the care of neglected and abused children. DeLay said he hopes Rio Bend will serve as a model for similar projects across the state and country.
Hundreds of sex offenders being tracked by the state won't be allowed into public hurricane shelters in Florida under a new policy, which will require them to ride out the storms in prison facilities instead. http://www.local6.com
Convicted sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan III who was found with an abducted Idaho girl at a Denny’s restaurant is now a suspect in the abduction and murder case of a ten-year-old Riverside County, CA boy. http://www.newsday.com
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