Volume 4, Issue 46
November 9, 2006
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The Child Protection eNewsletter Texas prosecutor caught in Dateline child sex sting commits suicide… NBC News' "Dateline" was in Texas reporting on its "To Catch A Predator" series in conjunction with online watchdog group Perverted Justice. In the midst of that effort, Rockwall County Assistant District Attorney Louis W. Conradt Jr. contacted a decoy from Perverted Justice who was posing as a 13-year-old boy. Local authorities launched an investigation into Conradt's online communications and went to his home with an arrest warrant. In the course of that investigation, Conradt committed suicide. There was no contact whatsoever between Conradt and "Dateline" at any point in the investigation.Conradt had been Kaufman County’s elected district attorney for more than two decades before resigning in 2002 to run for a judgeship. He lost that election and later took the Rockwall County job. While they were glad predators had been arrested, neighbors in the community used for the sting were outraged their town was used as bait. http://abcnews.go.com "They set up a sting to attract child predators to our neighborhood that otherwise would not have been in our neighborhood," said Murphy resident Mike Daniels. Murphy Mayor Bret Bishop demanded that the city manager who approved the sting apologize to the neighbors. "I think they deserve an apology, absolutely. Their children were placed at risk without their knowledge," said Bishop. In other news...  Former U.S. Representative Mark Foley has decided to extend his stay at Sierra Tucson, a rehab center outside Tucson, Ariz., where he has been treated for alcoholism since Oct. 1. http://abcnews.go.com Meanwhile, the South Dakota State Senate is scheduled to convene in a special session Nov. 27 to look into allegations that Senator Dan Sutton, a Democrat from the town of Flandreau, "sexually groped" an 18-year-old male page during this year's legislative session. http://www.cb news.comA federal judge on Wednesday blocked enforcement of key provisions of a ballot measure designed to crack down on sex offenders, ruling California’s “Jessica’s Law” unconstitutional just a day after state voters overwhelmingly approved it. The law prohibits registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park, and requires lifetime satellite tracking for some paroled sex criminals upon their release from prison. http://hosted.ap.org  A man who posted his own sex offender registry photo on the social networking Web site MySpace.com is back behind bars. http://www.wtov9.comA 23-year-old Clover man who police say tried to dig up the grave of a 12-year-old girl after seeing her picture in an obituary has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. http://www.foxnews.com Bryan Nicholas Garci a never did find the girl's grave and told investigators he wanted to "take her home and have fun," Clover Police Lt. Randall Horn said. Nearly 11,000 sex offenders, gang members and other fugitives were swept up in what the Justice Department last week called a sting targeting the "worst of the worst" criminals on the run. http://www.cnn.com The roundup, led by the U.S. Marshals Service, included Allen Marksberry, an unregistered sex offender in Rickman, Tennessee, who was baby-sitting several young children when he was arrested.  An Orange County, California school bus driver who was found with more than 10,000 child porn pictures on his computer may have molested as many as 100 girls. http://www.ocregister.com Authorities said Terry Lee Shields, 51, of Anaheim used his bus route to meet at least three young Orange County girls who now accuse the longtime school bus driver of sexually assaulting them and snapping their pictures.An assistant high school principal has filed a lawsuit against two former students and their parents because of alleged defamatory statements made by the former students on their MySpace.com web page. http://technology.findlaw.com The core allegation in the complaint that deserves parents’ attention goes like this: "Allowing access to the Internet, unsupervised and without restraint poses an obvious risk and unreasonable danger that such children would utilize the Internet for illicit purposes…." A 14-year-old girl has been charged for allegedly leaving a "hit list" in the bathroom of her high school, one of several apparent pranks that set off criminal investigations into school threats in New Jersey last week. http://www.cnn.com One prank included a note threatening a massacre similar to the recent shooting rampage at an Amish school. A study focusing on the role of an important brain chemical sheds new light on why victims of childhood abuse may themselves become abusers as adults, and points to a possible remedy, researchers said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com When baby monkeys in the study experienced high amounts of abuse and rejection from their mother in the month after birth, their brains often produced less serotonin. Low levels of serotonin are linked to anxiety, depression and aggression in monkeys and people.  Prosecutors intend to seek a life prison sentence for a convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping and raping two teenage girls in a crypt-like space beneath his home. http://hosted.ap.org Presiding over the preliminary hearing was the same judge who had previously freed the man after nine years were served in the 1991 rape of a 12-year-old.*for access to member only sites like the New York Times, use the ID "JohnDoeID" and the password "whatever". On sites asking for an email address, feel free to use "info@childprotectionprogram.org" Unsubscribe |
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