Volume 5, Issue 16
March 6, 2007
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The Child Protection eNewsletter Sixth graders had sex in class… For months it's been a well-kept secret, but now Warren Township Schools in Indianapolis confirm a disturbing case of sex in the classroom. Read More Here The illicit activity has parents concerned and a district at a loss for words. Shop class gives students a chance to learn outside of the book, but at Warren Township's Raymond Park Middle School, two students engaged in illicit acts in view of goggled eyes.Channel 13 was tipped off by a disturbed resident who writes: "...during school hours in a classroom with an experienced teacher present, two sixth graders completed the act of intercourse...at least ten students were witnesses. No disciplinary actions were taken against the teacher... All teachers were told to keep quiet." The superintendent in charge of middle schools in the district provided a three-sentence statement: "Two students were involved in inappropriate conduct in a lab class last semester. We have investigated the matter and taken appropriate action. The school corporation considers the matter closed and will have no further comment." Associate Superintendent Jeff Swensson told Eyewitness News off camera the teacher didn't know what was going on because another student acted as a "look-out”. Once the teacher discovered the behavior, immediate action was taken. Swensson says the students involved were recommended for expulsion, but he did not say whether the board followed that recommendation. Teens arrested for giving marijuana to young kids in video…  Two Texas teenagers were arrested after police found a video of them showing two children how to smoke marijuana, authorities said. Read More Here Fort Worth police found the video February 22 while investigating Demetris McCoy, 17, and Vanswan Polty, 18, in connection with some burglaries. Police said the boys are McCoy's nephews, ages 2 and 5. The children have been placed in foster care, the child protective services said.The youngsters, who will be screened for drugs this week, appear to be healthy and show no lingering problems from the marijuana, Marissa Gonzales, a Child Protective Services spokeswoman, said Monday. The two teens have been charged with injury to a child. Read More Here Gonzales said the boys also will have physical exams. A hearing to determine whether they will be returned to their mother, who authorities say was asleep in a back bedroom during the incident, is to be held March 26. Sex offender causes stir at Nevada church… A Lutheran congregation in Reno, Nevada is grappling with how to deal with a convicted sex offender who says his church attendance is an important step toward rehabilitation. Read More Here Clergy and members at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd say they're in a quandary over how to protect their children while following in Christ's footsteps and welcoming a stranger. "Clearly, we are called to love," said the Rev. Rebecca Schlatter, associate pastor. "But is it safe to love this particular person up close?" The church has offered a covenant of 17 conditions to paroled sex offender Calvin Brugge, who says he will sign it. Among other restrictions, he can only attend the 7:30 a.m. Sunday service, and he's barred from using the restroom or attending church-sponsored functions that include children. Plans call for a support team to meet with him regularly and an accountability team to observe him while he's on church property. New York Governor and legislature reach civil confinement deal… New York has joined more than a dozen states that continue to detain sex offenders after they have finished serving their prison sentences under an agreement reached this week by Governor Eliot Spitzer and the State Legislature. Read More Here The agreement ends several years of agonizing debates between victims’ rights groups that argued that such laws were needed to protect the public from sex offenders and civil libertarians who were troubled that the state could confine people after their sentences were served. Civil confinement legislation was long championed by the Republican-led Senate and by former governor George E. Pataki, a Republican, but it met with resistance in the Democratic-led Assembly, which raised concerns about civil liberties. About 2,700 pedophiles, rapists and other sexual offenders are already being held indefinitely in 19 states, mostly in special treatment centers, under so-called civil commitment programs which on average cost taxpayers four times more than keeping the offenders in prison. Read More Here In other news… DNA evidence from a stained mattress and fingerprints from a pizza box link 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford to the man accused of abducting and killing her, forensics experts testified Monday. Read More Here Wesley Zackery, an analyst at the state crime lab in Tampa, said positive matches were made of prints of Jessica's left thumb and defendant John Evander Couey's two index fingers on the pizza box, found in Couey's bedroom closet. Similar matches were found on a glass tabletop in the bedroom, he said. Michael Devlin, the Missouri man suspected of kidnapping and molesting two boys, was indicted for the third time in as many days Friday, accused by a grand jury in St. Louis County of 71 counts of kidnapping and sodomy. Read More Here A Katy, Texas eighth-grade math teacher was charged with sexual abuse of a child after she was discovered with a student in a car parked in an isolated area in far west Harris County Saturday morning. Read More Here The arrest of a prominent attorney on charges of destroying evidence in a child pornography investigation is raising alarm bells that a law targeting corporate accounting schemes could be used to prosecute lawyers over work done on their clients' behalf. Read More Here The law, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was aimed at cases involving corporate document shredding, made it easier to prosecute obstruction of justice by requiring only that an investigation was foreseeable rather than already pending. Prosecutors also no longer have to show the defendant acted with corrupt intent to keep evidence from investigators, experts say. A group of Tennessee high school students is in hot water for trying to make a steamy porn movie between classes. Read More Here Four female and two male students were punished after a drama teacher caught them filming the flick in a Union County High School classroom. The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld an incest law that applies to stepparents, even when the stepchild reaches 18. The decision is available online at Read More Here. Meanwhile, a German brother and sister who have four children together are calling for their country's incest laws to be abolished so that they can legally continue their sexual relationship. Read More Here A judge agreed Monday to seal a court-appointed psychologist's evaluation of a 29-year-old sex offender accused of tricking four schools into allowing him on campus as a student. Read More Here Neil Havens Rodreick II is charged with 15 criminal counts, including child pornography, assault, fraud, forgery and failing to register as a sex offender. He was previously convicted in a 1996 Oklahoma incident in which he was accused of lewdly propositioning a 6-year-old boy *for access to member only sites like the New York Times, use the ID "JohnDoeID" and the password "whatever". 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