Volume 5, Issue 9
February 6, 2007
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The Child Protection eNewsletter Did Jeffrey Dahmer kill Adam Walsh?… Did Jeffrey Dahmer confess to all his crimes? There's a call to reopen the investigation into Milwaukee's most notorious killer. Read More Here There are new questions about Dahmer's criminal history before he returned to Milwaukee and never-reported details that some believe link Dahmer to one of the United States' most notorious cold cases. The boy at the center of that cold case is now a household name. Who can forget the toothless grin of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, the Florida boy abducted, dismembered and dumped in a drainage canal in 1981. A Miami author is making the case that Dahmer may be responsible for the Walsh slaying. Milwaukee’s WISN 12 News dissected his argument and has detailed the never-reported evidence that has at least one career FBI man calling to reopen the case against Dahmer.Adam’s father, John Walsh wrote in 1991, "Many people have forgotten that Jeffrey Dahmer started out as a pedophile, kidnapper, and torturer of young boys. He certainly fits the profile of someone who might be capable of murdering a beautiful 6-year-old boy." Arthur Jay Harris, a freelancer who's published three true crime books, started looking at the Walsh case in 1996 after a landmark legal ruling opened the 10,000-page Walsh file to the public. The Dahmer angle intrigued him. He started digging. Harris just finished a book about Dahmer and recently laid out his case in a Miami daily paper. His article put Dahmer at the Hollywood Mall, in the suspected getaway car on the day Adam disappeared. Buried in the Walsh file, Harris found two statements -- witnesses who said they saw Dahmer at the mall the day Adam disappeared. Devlin charged with two kidnapping counts and 69 counts of forcible sodomy…  A Missouri man accused of kidnapping two boys and holding one for more than four years was charged Monday with molesting them nearly 70 times. Read More Here The charges were the first time authorities have openly accused Michael Devlin of molesting the children.Devlin, a 41-year-old pizzeria manager, was charged with 69 felony counts of forcible sodomy, each punishable by up to life in prison. St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch said 17 of the counts related to 13-year-old Ben Ownby, who disappeared January 8, and the remaining counts were related to Shawn Hornbeck, now 15, who was abducted in 2002. McCulloch said the evidence includes interviews with all of the people involved. "Devlin acknowledged committing these acts," McCulloch said. In other news…  The Mark Foley scandal, which last fall threatened to kill the congressional page program, has had the opposite effect: Interest from teenagers in the program is on the upswing. Read More Here Congressional officials attribute the increase to the old adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity.More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit Web sites while surfing the Internet, researchers say. Read More Here Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in a recent 12-month span. Of those, 66 percent said they did not want to view the images and had not sought them out, University of New Hampshire researchers found. Their conclusions appear in February's issue of the journal, Pediatrics.  The February 12th issue of Newsweek has an article on how 29-year-old Neil Rodreick masqueraded as 12-year-old Casey Price. Read More HereA new study by Columbia University and the Children's Health Fund found as many as 10,000 Hurricane Katrina displaced children across the Gulf are now suffering from clinically diagnosed depression. Read More Here A California elementary school has come under fire for accepting a sex offender as a classroom volunteer. Read More Here The school says that when Mr. Vasquez submitted his application to volunteer, he included a ruling from a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner giving him permission to do so. “It said he ‘may’ volunteer, not that he has a right to,” said Laurie Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “And it doesn’t say that the school has to honor that. There is no constitutional right to volunteer at a school. And you wonder why someone is walking in with a court order to volunteer. That’s a tip-off right there.” A Missouri State Senator has introduced a bill requiring that public school ninth-graders tour a state correctional center before they start their sophomore year. Read More Here The tactic, meant to scare kids into good behavior, would start in the 2009-2010 school year. Principals and superintendents who do not comply would face being fired. The goal is to "show them that crime doesn’t pay," Sen. Tim Green (D-St Louis) said. "We have a lot of forks in the road in our lives. One bad decision can ruin a young person’s entire life. A convicted child sexual abuser was charged in the 2005 death and sexual assault of 12-year-old Amber Harris. Read More Here After a two-day search in freezing temperatures, police and emergency workers found the body of a missing 23-month-old girl in a wooded area near Pittsburgh. Read More Here The medical examiner has ruled her hypothermia death a homicide because he “feels it is unlikely she got there under her own power." 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