The Child Protection eNewsletter
 Continuing last week’s focus on sex offender registries, (see vol3_iss49) seven more states (Alabama, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming) have joined the national sex offender registry http://www.nsopr.gov/ since the Justice Department promulgated it last month. 22 states, including New York and California, are still not participating. A private company has now gone one better, utilizing mapping technology to display registered sex offenders on a map, showing proximity to a given address. www.mapsexoffenders.com has mapped every state but six (Maine, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont and Wisconsin). Utah refuses to allow access to information from its website. The other five do not provide addresses on their sex offender registries. Mapping technology is a useful addition to registries as parents and grandparents often do not know the relatively arbitrary borders of zip codes which are typically used to search directories. Florida became the first state to offer mapping technology in conjunction with its sex offender registry in June. vol3_iss40
As if pro-pedophile publications were not enough, vol1_iss13 and vol1_iss10 you now can order vibrators, condoms and sex toys from Amazon.com and the websites it powers like ToyRUs and townhall.com. http://www.msnbc.msn.com Under the heading of Sex and Sensuality, discreetly located under the Health and Personal care section of its U.S. site, Amazon is offering more than 40,000 products, including over 9,000 vibrators and more than 5,500 "sex-enhancers." A quick search showed these products can be ordered from ToysRUs.
 Human trafficking is on the rise worldwide, with millions of women and children ending up as sex slaves, beggars and mine laborers each year, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. http://abcnews.go.com The International Labour Organization estimated more than 2 million people were trafficked worldwide every year. We reported two weeks ago that child trafficking is likely to outpace illegal drug trading. vol3_iss48
A man accused of impregnating a 13-year-old girl whom he later married pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge he sexually assaulted the teenager. http://www.sfgate.com Nebraska requires people to be at least 17 before they can marry. But after the 13-year-old became pregnant, her mother gave permission for the 22-year-old man to take the girl to Kansas, which allows younger minors to get married with parental consent. The Kansas Governor is asking for the law to be changed. Sexual activity with a child under the age of 14 is a crime in Kansas. Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline has been the nation’s leading prosecutor in statutory rape cases. vol3_iss12
Sex offenders in California will no longer be able to get state-funded anti-impotence drugs under a bill passed by the legislature on Monday. http://today.reuters.com The issue came to light nationwide in May after an audit showed New York State gave Viagra to nearly 200 sex offenders in recent years. California subsequently found it had distributed the drug to 137 offenders between April, 2004 and May, 2005 under its Medi-Cal system.
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