TX - House passes ‘2 strikes’ child sex offender bill

Original Article

05/09/2013

By Glenn Evans

A bill that would deal people convicted of violent sexual crimes against children a lifetime prison sentence is in the Senate after unanimous passage Tuesday in the Texas House.

“This requires a two-strikes-and-you’re-out policy,” said Rep. Travis Clardy, one of four authors of House Bill 1302 (PDF), including Marshall Rep. Chris Paddie.

“If there is a second offense, where they are convicted of sexual violence against a child under 14, that’s it. We’re not going to release those people back into society. They have proven what they are, and we’re not going to have them out on the streets.”

The lifelong prison term, which does not allow the possibility of parole, is half of the bill awaiting assignment to a committee in the Senate.

The measure also bans people from several jobs after one conviction for sexual violence against a child.

Such people would be allowed to drive a bus, taxi or limousine. They would not be allowed to work in any service job that requires them to enter a home, and they could not operate amusement park rides.

“This hopefully limits access to children of those people who have proven themselves to be untrustworthy,” said Clardy, R-Nacogdoches.

The measure is called Justin’s Law in memory of the murdered 12-year-old son of a Cherokee County woman.

Authorities believe the child was murdered by a twice-convicted sex offender who lured him into his leased taxi three years ago in Louisiana.
- Believe or know?  Believing something doesn't make it true!  So you are making a draconian law based on a belief and not facts!  Or are we missing something here?

“The tragic story behind this law shows that we the need the toughest punishments for the most heinous sexual offenders,” Paddie said Wednesday. “Justin’s Law will ensure that these offenders are no longer able to prey on our children and should help put parents’ minds at ease.”

Sexual offense laws already prevent convicted people of living near places frequented by children, such as schools or playgrounds. They largely leave it up to employers, however, to decide whether to ban those applicants and conduct background checks.

Under SB 1302, local law enforcement would provide the list of prohibited jobs to people convicted of violent sexual crimes against children when they join a sexual offender registry. Prison officials also are required to provide the no-job list to parolees.

The bill reached the Senate on Wednesday after passing the House by a 144-0 margin Tuesday. It awaited a committee assignment Wednesday night, but Clardy anticipated the Senate’s Criminal Justice Committee a likely placement.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s information officer did not respond to a request Tuesday for information on the bill’s assignment.

The Senate Criminal Justice Committee has a similar measure, one that enhances misdemeanor promotion of prostitution to felony level if the person being prostituted is younger than 17.

House Bill 32 (PDF) would raise the maximum prison term on a second conviction for promotion of prostitution — a misdemeanor commonly called pimping — from one year to two years regardless of the age of the person being prostituted.

If that person is younger than 17, the maximum prison stint rises to 10 years, a third-degree felony level.

House Bill 32 also raises the maximum term for aggravated promotion of prostitution, defined as controlling two or more people being prostituted, from 10 years to 20 if any being prostituted are younger than 17.

The measure, which won 147-0 House passage on April 17, has not been scheduled for a public hearing in the Senate committee.

See Also:

• House OK’s ‘Justin’s Law’ for repeat sex offenders

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TX - Bill gets tough on pimps

Original Article

04/16/2013

By Michelle Casady

A bill focused on tightening punishments for pimps — those who finance, control or manage prostitutes — and would require some to register as sex offenders, is progressing in the House.

House Bill 32 (PDF), filed in November by state Rep. José Menéndez, D-San Antonio, would also hand out stiffer penalties for those convicted of prostituting anyone younger than 17, increasing the charge to a third-degree felony.
- If they are pimping out someone under the age of consent, then it should be treated as any other child sexual abuse conviction.

Second-time or subsequent offenders compelling prostitution, who are currently charged with a Class A misdemeanor, would see that increased to a state-jail felony under the bill, which is punishable by up to two years behind bars and a fine not to exceed $10,000.

Opponents believe the bill's requirement for sex offender registration may overwhelm an “overly broad database that includes too many offenders who are not threats to the community,” according to the House Research Organization.

The bill now awaits a third reading. If passed, it would only apply to offenders arrested on or after Sept. 1.

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DC - FBI's New Crisis: Too Much Sexting

Original Article

02/22/2013

By Matt Cantor

FBI agents have received a stern rebuke in internal reports: Time to stop the sexting. An assistant director says the agency has been dealing with a "rash" of dirty texts and naked photos, some sent on government-furnished devices, CNN reports. "When you are given an FBI BlackBerry, it's for official use. It's not to text the woman in another office who you found attractive or to send a picture of yourself in a state of undress," the official says.

Some 1,045 employees faced disciplinary measures—although that accounts for both sext- and non-sext-related offenses—between 2010 and 2012. Eighty-five of these employees were fired. One was linked to child pornography; another "hid a recording device in (a) supervisor's office"; another engaged in a drunken "domestic dispute." CNN reports a few of the sex cases:

• A worker "paid for a sexual favor from (a) masseuse," prompting a two-week suspension.
• Another sent a "nude photograph of herself to (an) ex-boyfriend's wife," landing a 10-day suspension.
• An employee sent nude photos "to other employees" that "adversely affected the daily activities of several squads."

"I still get files and I think, 'Wow, I never would have thought of that,'" says the assistant director.

See Also:

• FBI battling 'rash of sexting' among its employees
• Read the FBI's internal reports (PDF)
• More FBI, Pentagon Child Porn Videos

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FL - Ex-Haines City Officer (Demetrius Lamar Condry) Pleads Guilty in Sex Case involving underage prostitution, Sentenced to 10 Years

Demetrius Condry & Paul Aaron

Original Article

02/11/2013

By Matthew Pleasant

LAKELAND - A former Haines City police officer arrested in an investigation of underage prostitution has pleaded guilty and received 10 years in prison.

Demetrius Lamar Condry, 27, pleaded guilty Friday to charges of lewd battery and official misconduct, court papers say. The State Attorney's Office dropped a more severe charge of sexual battery by an officer.

Polk County deputies arrested Condry, who worked for the Haines City Police Department about five years, in July 2011 as he neared the end of a shift.

His arrest was part of an investigation into a prostitution business that Paul Aaron Jr., 28, who was a school bus monitor, is accused of running under the name Genuine Quality Entertainment.

Deputies said Aaron exploited runaway girls younger than 18.

An arrest report said one of the girls was forced to have sex with Condry for free so Aaron could receive favors from him in the future.

Condry would arrive at the home the business operated in his marked police car while on duty and wearing his uniform, deputies said. One girl told deputies she had sex with him at least 20 times.

In addition to Condry and Aaron, deputies arrested Christopher Hawkins, 22. He is accused of helping run Aaron's business while rooming with him and having sex with the minors involved.

The girls told deputies they once tried to run from the home and Hawkins chased them down and brought them back against their will.

Cases against Aaron, charged with lewd battery and sex trafficking, and Hawkins, charged with lewd battery, are still pending. Both have pretrial hearings scheduled in March.

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CA - Judge blocks sex offender online-ID law

Original Article

01/11/2013

By Bob Egelko

A federal judge on Friday barred California from enforcing a voter-approved law that requires 73,000 registered sex offenders to disclose their Internet identities to police.

The requirement would discourage offenders from exercising their right to post anonymous comments online about a variety of topics, including social and political issues, with little apparent benefit to public safety, said U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson of San Francisco.

"Registrants are likely to be chilled from engaging in legitimate public, political and civil communications for fear of losing their anonymity," Henderson said.

The law was part of Proposition 35, an initiative approved by an 81 percent majority in November that increased prison sentences for sex-trafficking crimes, such as coercing someone into prostitution.

Friday's order leaves most of Prop. 35 intact. It blocks only a requirement that all registered sex offenders in California, for past convictions of crimes ranging from indecent exposure to rape, provide police with their e-mail addresses, Internet user names and the names of their Internet service providers.

Henderson had issued a restraining order temporarily blocking the same Internet provision on Nov. 7, the day after the election. His new ruling is a preliminary injunction that would remain in effect indefinitely, although the state and the measure's sponsors could appeal it to a higher court.

The suit was filed by two unidentified former sex offenders and an advocacy group called California Reform Sex Offender Laws, which runs a website where the men post anonymous comments. Linda Lye, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing the plaintiffs, praised the ruling.

"Stopping human trafficking is a worthy goal, but the portions of Prop. 35 that limit online speech won't get us there," she said. "It's crucial that free speech remain free for all of us."
- Why do they get a way with making one bill that covers more than one issue?  If they want to handle additional issues, make another bill!  This should be illegal to do this, in our opinion.

Chris Kelly, a former chief privacy officer of Facebook who helped to sponsor Prop. 35 and similar laws in other states, said backers of the initiative were disappointed by the ruling but "we are confident that in due time this common-sense provision will be upheld by the courts."

Henderson acknowledged that Internet identification information could help police in some cases - for example, if a registered sex offender used a social networking site to recruit victims of human trafficking.
- So if you suspect a crime has been committed, then why don't you go get a warrant like you are suppose to?

But he said Prop. 35's requirement swept more broadly and would not prevent officers from making the information public. Police have other tools, such as subpoenas, to investigate online sex crimes, the judge said.

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SWEDEN - "Potential Prostitutes" site lets users label women as prostitutes, charges "removal" fees (Just another extortion web site)

Original Article

This is no different than the Offendex extortion web site for ex-sex offenders, and is yet another reason online records should not be online for anybody!

12/27/2012

By Rob Beschizza

Potential Prostitutes is only the latest sleazy site to wed personal photos to public humiliation. Its offer to publicize anonymous claims of sex crimes, however, is a novelty: any woman may be be anonymously tagged as a prostitute.

The site accepts anonymous submissions through an online form and promises to post uploads in a browsable "offender" database seeded with mugshots of convicted prostitutes. Entries may be removed by those listed—so long as they pay a hefty removal fee.

Along with Predators Watch, a nearly-identical sister site aimed at "potential" sex predators, it's part of a growing fad for shakedowns that exploit public records, police mugshots, compromising Facebook photos and other embarrassing personal information.

This one differs in how closely it resembles official sex offender registries—and the aggressiveness with which it targets women.

But like other operators, it claims that U.S. laws indemnify it for the actions of its users. Though it solicits material it knows could be libelous or defamatory, it says it has no obligation to remove claims, even when they are proven to be false. It even reports that it's been sued -- and that it has won every case.

"That’s a lie," writes Kenneth White, a lawyer who regularly debunks legal falsity at his popular blog, Popehat. "The site was registered in October 2012. It’s part of the stock language such sites use."

According to their domain name records, the sites were registered to a P.O. Box in Stockholm, Sweden, in the last few weeks. The named registrant might well be a red herring—any information can be entered into the records, and no-one from the site has yet replied to inquiries placed earlier today.

Its Twitter feed consists only of a burst of links to prostitution stings and scandals from early November. Status People reports that only 6 percent of its followers are "good", the rest being fake or inactive accounts.

The site's Facebook page -- itself suspiciously close to exactly 10,000 likes -- is already plastered with removal demands and accusations of fraud.

"You're pathetic for posting just anyone on your website. You even post pictures of kids?", wrote one annoyed Facebook user.

"If my 11 year old son gets one more text from someone looking to hook up I will sue you," claims another.

When the site's owners come forward or are tracked down, White writes that Section 230—the part of the law referred to by the site's operators—might not be as strong a defense as they expect.

"Courts are still determining application of Section 230 to extortion sites, [but] even the most generous application of Section 230 wouldn’t apply if the 'user submission' was a hoax – if the purveyors of the site were themselves the ones populating it with pictures under the guise of users doing it. That’s something that would come out in discovery in any case. There’s reason to question whether the content is actually user-submitted, or whether the purveyors put it in themselves, when a brand-new site appears already populated with content."

"Moreover, Section 230 is not a defense to criminal charges. Extortion is a crime in many states, and a federal crime to the extent it uses interstate communication. Similarly, to the extent the site makes deliberately false statements of fact to extort money, its purveyors may have committed fraud, which is both a state and federal crime."

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CA - Prop 35: Sex Offender Act Could Have Unforeseen Privacy Consequences

Original Article

12/08/2012

By Cristina Maza

In March of 2013, a new law will be implemented in the state of California that ensures that every time a sex offender creates an online profile he or she has to disclose this information to local law enforcement within 24 hours. While some may cheer that Proposition 35 (PDF), also known as the Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act Initiative, is a step forward to curb the impunity of sex offenders on the web, many have failed to consider the implications that a law like this could have for non-sex offenders.

As an article on this new law rightly pointed out, Proposition 35 will create a situation in which a select group of people will have their online anonymity prohibited and will be forced to publicly connect their online identity with their real life one. Given the uproar recently about Facebook’s privacy laws, people are obviously concerned about the fact that they are being forced to reveal their identities whenever they engage in any kind of online activity and that their personal details could be exposed without their knowledge.

While many may support the idea of online freedoms being revoked for those who have committed a heinous crime, it leaves one wondering whether it is only a matter of time before other social groups that law enforcement deem “threatening” are also forced to do the same. Where do we draw the line?

Recently, I wrote an article for PolicyMic about the important role the internet is playing in political mobilization and civic participation around the world. One of the main reasons that the internet has the heavy flow of traffic that it does, is because it is theoretically an anonymous medium through which people can engage in discussion about a variety of topics without having to reveal their identities.

Many times people avoid discussing politically charged issues face-to-face for fear of conflict. Removing the right to remain anonymous could adversely affect the way people use the internet for political or other forms of civic engagement.

A law like Proposition 35 not only highlights the ambiguity of online privacy laws, but puts a striking emphasis on the fact that our actual identities are increasingly connected to our online ones, whether we like it or not. While theoretically the viewing of child-porn may be curbed if online profiles are disclosed, isn’t it far more important to monitor the real life behaviour of sex offenders after they are released from prison than to ensure that they are buying the right type of online products from the right suppliers?

Somehow, I fail to understand how being aware of the Amazon user name of a sex-offender is making me, as a woman, any safer. Perhaps more energy should be put into therapy and rehabilitation than into enforcing a law that could create a precedent for violating the privacy of other citizens.

See Also:

• California Proposition 35, Sex Trafficking Initiative, Blocked By Judge
• Proposition 35 And Why Anonymity Is Good For You

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OR - Woman coerced into sex by former Beaverton police officer (Joshua Jensen) settles lawsuit for $5,000

Joshua Jensen

Original Article

11/29/2012

By Emily E. Smith

A woman who was coerced into oral sex by an on-duty Beaverton police officer in 2010 accepted a settlement in her lawsuit against the former officer and the City of Beaverton for $5,000.

Beaverton City Attorney Bill Kirby said the case resolved last month when the city agreed to pay $4,000 and former police officer Joshua Jensen agreed to pay $1,000 to his victim.

Jensen pleaded guilty to prostitution, official misconduct and coercion charges in June 2010.

The charges stemmed from two incidents that occurred in 2010, in which Jensen arranged to meet a prostitute in Beaverton and surprised them by showing up in uniform, in a marked police car. Both women told investigators he ordered them behind a garbage container.

The woman who sued him said he grabbed her head, forced it down and demanded that she perform oral sex. She told investigators and The Oregonian that she felt she had no choice.

Jensen was not charged with a sex crime and did not have to register as a sex offender. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. According to the state Department of Corrections, he completed his sentence in November 2011 through an Alternative Incarceration Program.
- Of course not, but if the average citizen did what he did, they'd have to.  I thought police were suppose to be held to a "higher" standard?

In the lawsuit, filed by attorney Ted A. Martin, the woman alleges Jensen was not wearing a condom and did not pay her. She sued for one dollar less than $50,000.

She requested damages for lost income in the amount of $120, which she says was the "agreed price for a consensual encounter with the use of a condom," according to the lawsuit. She sought an additional $49,879 for "tremendous anxiety and emotional distress."

Kirby said although the city did not believe it bore responsibility for Jensen's independent actions, officials understood a jury might find otherwise. Leaving the decision up to jurors left the city at greater risk, Kirby said.

"We didn't want to admit in any way that (Jensen) was operating within the scope of his employment," he said.

But the settlement saved the city the cost of going to trial and offered certainty that the city would not face a much higher verdict award, he said.
- Yep, saving your own butts, and your officers.  Things like this, when it involves police / government misconduct, in our opinion, should automatically be pushed to a jury trial.

Martin declined to comment on the settlement. His client did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

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FL - Former Broward Sheriff's deputy (Christian Benenati) sentenced after prostitution sting

Christian Benenati

Original Article

11/20/2012

By Linda Trischitta

FORT LAUDERDALE - A former Broward Sheriff's deputy who was arrested after a prostitution sting was sentenced to six months' probation Tuesday for the misdemeanor offense.

Christian Benenati, 40, was off-duty June 13 when he was accused of soliciting a Broward Sheriff's deputy who was posing as a sex worker in Pompano Beach.

According to an incident report, Benenati offered $20 for oral sex to the undercover deputy and was charged with a lewdness violation.

Four hours later he was arrested at 1000 N. University Drive in Coral Springs, the address for Bru's Room Sports Grill.

The arrest report was signed by Broward Sheriff's Sgt. George Anthony.

Though BSO said Tuesday that Anthony, 39, is suspended with pay, Anthony's lawyer, Tony Alfero said that the sergeant is working full time for BSO as a supervisor.

"The recommended discipline was two days without pay, but he hasn't served it because the hearing hasn't been held yet," Alfero said. "He was absolved of any wrongdoing by the State Attorney's Office. And he didn't do anything wrong administratively."

Alfero said Anthony was running the sting that ensnared Benenati.

"He could not shut down an expensive and productive operation to arrest a deputy," Alfero said. "Anthony called a supervisor. There was never any intention to not arrest Benenati."

Benenati was fired Nov. 2, BSO said, and is seeking to re-join the agency.

"He is working for a family business while he appeals his termination and works to get his job back," lawyer Michael A. Gottlieb said about his client.

Benenati pleaded no contest Tuesday before Broward County Judge Robert Diaz and was granted adjudication withheld, which means that he eventually may be able to have his arrest and conviction record sealed.

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CA - ACLU, EFF Sue to Block Parts of New Sex-Offender Law

againstthecaseact.com

Original Article

I am glad they temporarily suspended this, but I also find it ironic that if it was just pertaining to ex-sex offenders, then nobody would care, but since ex-prostitutes and others could be labeled sex offenders, it now, all of a sudden, matters? When you trample one person/groups rights, it tramples all rights. The video below comes to mind.

11/07/2012

By Karen Gullo

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued to block portions of a California law to combat human trafficking that creates new requirements for sex offenders, alleging parts of the measure violate free speech rights.

California’s Proposition 35 (PDF), which includes increased prison terms for human trafficking, requires anyone who is a registered sex offender to turn over a list of all their Internet identifiers and service providers to law enforcement, the groups said in an e-mail today.

The measure’s online speech regulations are overly broad and violate the First Amendment, both because they prohibit anonymous speech and because the reporting requirements burden all sorts of online speech, even when the speaker is using his own real name as a screen name, they said.

The suit, which seeks a judge’s order blocking the allegedly unconstitutional portions of the law, was filed today in federal court in San Francisco by two registered sex offenders and the non-profit group California Reform Sex Offender Laws.

The case is Roe v. Harris (PDF) (More Info), 12-5713, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).

Update:

• Proposition 35 blocked (PDF)

See Also:

• Critics raise specter of police state in challenge to new Calif. law
• All related articles

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CA - California's Prop 35: Targeting the Wrong People for the Wrong Reasons

Original Article

Congress loves to pass bills to "look tough" on crime without doing any studies, just to make themselves look like they are actually doing something, instead of just collecting a paycheck. I wonder, if this passes, if the John's will also be labeled "sex offenders?"

11/04/2012

By Melissa Gira Grant

California voters hold the power this Election Day to decide if many thousands of people convicted of prostitution-related offenses in their state must now register as sex offenders. These are their neighbors, their friends, their family—whether they know it or not—and many are women: trans- and cisgender women, poor and working class women, and disproportionately, they are women of color.

This attack on women already made vulnerable to violence and poverty is just one of the possible consequences of Proposition 35, a ballot initiative marketed to voters as a tough law to fight trafficking but is instead a “tough on crime” measure backed with millions of dollars from one influential donor, written by a community activist with little experience in the issue. If it passes? Advocates for survivors of trafficking, civil rights attorneys, and sex workers fear that rather than protect Californians, it will expose their communities to increased police surveillance, arrest, and the possibility of being labeled a "sex offender" for the rest of their lives.

Trafficking is a hot-button issue, where even defining what is meant by the term is contentious and deeply politicized—but at a minimum, it describes forced labor, where the force may be physical or psychological in nature. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that nearly 22 million people may be involved in forced labor worldwide, the majority of which does not involve forced labor in the sex trade. In the United States, anti-trafficking law developed over the last ten years has advanced definitions of trafficking. In addition to Federal law, states have passed their own trafficking laws, which overlap with existing laws against forced labor, child labor, minor prostitution, or prostitution in general.

A good deal of advocacy around trafficking is concerned with proposing new laws, with several organizations—such as the Polaris Project and Shared Hope International—focused on introducing copycat legislation state-after-state, focused on increasing criminal penalties associated with trafficking and moving resources to law enforcement. There is little evidence that strengthening criminal penalties and relying primarily on law enforcement are strategies to end forced labor; in fact, advocates who work with survivors of trafficking, as well as people involved in the sex trade and sex worker rights' advocates, have documented the limitations and dangers of a “tough on crime” approach on trafficking. Still, the “tough on crime” approach has become dominant in what some anti-trafficking advocates now call “the war on trafficking.”
- Why do the war-mongers love to attach the "war" label to things? Everything is a war to them. War on drugs, obesity, education, women, men, children, blah, blah, blah.

Treating Those In the Sex Trade as Sex Offenders

Proposition 35 adds to this dangerous mix: the overlapping matrix of laws concerning trafficking, the increasingly common conflation of commercial sex with trafficking found in these laws, and the concerns of rights' advocates. If passed, Prop 35 will create more severe criminal penalties for what it describes as "sexual exploitation"—a potentially far-reaching term that can include any kind of commercial sex, whether or not force, fraud or coercion was present.

Read the entire article here

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PA - Former policeman sentenced for abetting sex trafficking scheme

Ronald Miko

Original Article

09/25/2012

By Joel Hendon

An FBI press release of September 24, 2012 announced that Ronald Miko, 37, of Reading, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 38 months in prison for obstruction of a criminal investigation. Miko was a police officer in the city of Reading when he utilized a room in a house at which convicted federal defendants Paul Sewell and Michael Johnson operated a prostitution business that trafficked females who were under the age of 18. Between May 2, 2011 and June 7, 2011, Miko wired money to Johnson’s federal prison account to prevent the communication of information to criminal investigators regarding Miko’s involvement in that business.

In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge C. Darnell Jones ordered three years’ supervised release with 450 hours community service and a $1,000 fine.

Ronald R. Miko, 38, told U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones II that he never expected to be addressing a judge about committing a crime. "I know what I did is wrong and I accept full responsibility," Miko said, "I am embarrassed before everyone in my life.” (The Reading Eagle)

"The defendant was a sworn officer who took an oath to protect the community," Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle L. Morgan said. "Instead, he openly associated for several years with a person actively engaged in egregious crimes - crimes which ultimately resulted in the exploitation of children." (Ibid)

The case was investigated by the Allentown Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Berks County District Attorney’s Office. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michelle L. Morgan.

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NY - Former Monroe County Jail guard (Robert Wilson) charged with raping seven female inmates

Robert Wilson

Original Article

09/14/2012

By Brett Davidsen

He was sworn to uphold the law and watch over jail inmates. Now he is charged with raping several females who were locked up at the Monroe County Correctional Facility.

On Friday, 41-year-old sergeant Robert Wilson, of Greece, was arrested and charged in a 23 count indictment accusing him of rape and other sex crimes.

Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn announced Friday that Wilson, a 17-year veteran of his department, was now accused of abusing his authority accused of raping several inmates in his custody.

At the Monroe County Correctional Facility in Brighton, Sergeant Robert Wilson was a supervisor in charge. But investigators say for more than two years, he was using his position of authority to sexually abuse seven female inmates.

Addressing the issue head-on, Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn said it was a disappointing day to have one of his respected sergeants betray the public’s trust.

Sheriff Patrick O'Flynn said, “I find that Wilson's actions were obviously reprehensible and disturbing and they are an embarrassment to our organization and to the community we serve."

Wilson was arraigned on a 23 count indictment unsealed Friday morning, charged with rape, sexual abuse, criminal sex act and official misconduct. Investigators believe he had relationships with many of the woman prior to their being locked up, resulting in one charge of patronizing a prostitute. Whether any of the sexual contact in the jail may have been consensual would be irrelevant because, according to the law, inmates cannot consent. The district attorney called them serious crimes and said the victims deserve justice.

Sandra Doorley, Monroe County District Attorney, said, "Regardless of what they've done in the past and where they are and what their station in life is, if they are victims and a law is violated, we will represent their interests in court."

Interestingly, it wasn’t one of the women who first came forward to report the alleged abuses. It was staff at the jail who reported Wilson for improper use of the work computers. An internal investigation eventually led to the alleged sex crimes.

I-Team 10 attempted to reach Wilson at his home in Greece, but no one answered the door.

I-Team asked if Wilson promised any money or favors to the women in return for the sex, officials declined to say. And while the sheriff says Wilson is not believed to have taken any of the inmates off the jail property, he did acknowledge that they were, at times, out of secured areas.

Sheriff Patrick O'Flynn said, “He was a supervisor in charge so he had access to the entire facility and he had very calculated actions to be able to manipulate the system to accommodate his actions."

Authorities say the women are cooperating with police in their investigation of Wilson. But beyond that, the sheriff says they do have video evidence from inside the jail that they have turned over to the district attorney.

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The Justice Department’s Child Porn Problem

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You can read about a lot more corruption and sex crimes committed by those running this country, here.

09/07/2012

By Lori Handrahan

If “as Maine goes, so goes the nation” is true, America is in big trouble. A former Maine politician has been arrested for his alleged role in running a major prostitution ring that apparently includes an all-star client list of some 170 Maine police, lawyers, clergy and politicians. There is no news yet if children were involved; however, a retired police officer from Maine had recently alerted the Department of Justice (DOJ) about Maine police covering up child sex abuse. Eric Holder, Director of DOJ as America’s Attorney General, has taken no action.

Across America police officers appear to be engaging in the child porn industry in epic numbers. I’ve written about the national crisis of federal employees doing child porn on work computers. There is a related epidemic at the state level. Type into Google “police officer arrested for child porn.” Pages of search results show police arrested for child porn across America. No one appears to be tracking the national data. The Cato Institute does host a National Police Misconduct Reporting Project detailing sex abuse of minors by police. It is disturbing reading.

Half of all child porn now originates in America. The profits are massive. Estimated porn profits in 2006 exceed combined revenues of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple, Netflix and EarthLink ranging from $3-$20 billion annually. It is unclear what percentage comprises child porn profits. In child porn 69% of the abused children averaged at ten years old with 39% under six. Every 39 minutes a new porn video is created in America. Ten new images of abused children used in child porn are posted daily (PDF). The sex abuse of one child in front of a live webcam is estimated to generate revenues of $1,000 dollars a night.

This is the face of child trafficking today.

Police who choose the sexual torture of children for their pleasure and profit often work with corrupt judges and government officials creating alliances that provide pedophile rings protection and tax-free millions. The corruption is protected, not the children. The crime requires a steady supply of children to abuse for profit.

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Singapore - Ex-cop (Tan Wee Kiat) gets 12 weeks' jail for sex with underage prostitute

Original Article

08/27/2012

By Tham Yuen-C

A former senior police officer was sentenced to 12 weeks' jail on Monday for having commercial sex with an underage girl, making him the fourth man to be sent to jail in a high-profile online vice case.

Tan Wee Kiat, 39, who was a police suprintendant, had paid the girl $600 for their tryst in Hotel 81 Bencoolen on Dec 22, 2010. He did not ask the girl for her age.

In sentencing him, District Judge Chat Yuen Fatt said that as a senior police officer, he should have known better to find out the girl's age.

Tan, who was formerly known as Jarrod Song Eu Loong, had not even asked her.

In his mitigation, his lawyer Luke Lee had said that tan was suffering from depression brought on by work stress when he committed the offence. He had also asked the judge to consider Tan's 14 years of service with the police force.

Tan is among 51 men charged with having sex with the same girl.

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AFRICA - Most sex workers abused by police (study)

Original Article

08/22/2012

Johannesburg - About 70 percent of sex workers have been abused by police, according to a study released in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

“The human rights abuse of sex workers in South Africa is alarming and demands immediate attention,” reads the study issued by the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat).

“Sex workers experience violence during arrest by police officers who routinely beat them, pepper spray them and sexually assault them.”

The study was based on interviews with 308 sex workers, mostly in Cape Town, by the Women's Legal Centre. The sex workers were mostly women, but included men and transgender persons.

The report included first-person narratives from people who recounted being forced to perform oral sex or being gang-raped by police officers. They reported police officers assaulting them, often with pepper spray.

The study found police officers did not identify themselves or wear name tags when committing their offences.

“Police officers commit these crimes with impunity. They remove their name tags so that sex workers are unable to identify them and they instil such fear in the sex workers that they are afraid to report these crimes to the authorities,” reads the report.

Arbitrary arrest was still common, despite a 2009 order from the Western Cape High Court that police could not arrest sex workers unless they intended to prosecute them.

Of the sex workers interviewed, 138 said they had been arrested, but only 21 ever appeared in court.

“This is a clear violation of the right to defend oneself in court and not to be arbitrarily deprived of one's freedom.”

Western Cape police could not immediately be reached for comment.

Most of those arrested, 117, were fined.

Sex workers were also open to exploitation for money. In a case in Cape Town, police came to a sex worker's flat and asked for a bribe.

“I gave one of them R10 because I knew he was hungry,” the sex worker recounted.

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FL - Melbourne police officer (Jose Otero) facing sex charges may soon learn fate

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Jose Otero

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Yet another corrupt cop in Florida committing sexual crimes!  See the surveillance video here, and another video here.

07/18/2012

By J.D. Gallop

A Melbourne police officer charged with having on-duty sexual trysts with at least three suspected prostitutes in his patrol car could soon learn whether he can keep his law enforcement job, officials report.
- Surely if he is found guilty he will lose his job?

Officer Jose Otero, 42, was charged last month with five misdemeanor counts of purchasing the services of a person engaged in prostitution, and one count each of setting up and maintaining a place for lewdness or prostitution and solicitation of prostitution, court records show.

A pre-termination hearing on Otero’s employment with the Melbourne Police was held late Monday. No decisions have been made.

“He still is suspended with pay and the chief has not yet made a decision,” said Sgt. Sheridan Shelly, spokesman for the Melbourne Police Department, whose agency has taken on a high-profile, proactive role in recent years to try to rid city streets of prostitution.

Melbourne police administrators ordered the officer to turn in his badge, gun and police radio May 26 following findings from their initial investigation.

The case — including possible surveillance video and investigative notes on the reported encounters — was turned over to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The state agency issued Otera, who was never physically arrested or jailed, a notice to appear citation in early July.

Michael Bross, Otero’s attorney, said his client is innocent and adds that he did not have any sexual contact with the suspected prostitutes.

“There are no photos, no videos. It is an allegation. I’ve had the chance to talk to all three prostitutes and these allegations are spurious,” said Bross. “My client knows a lot of suspects and people on the road.” Bross said he believes the women may have crafted the stories to get a better outcome on their own cases.

Otero, hired in March 2008, did not attend the pre-termination hearing. His attorney did. Melbourne police would not comment on the specifics of the case.

“The chief had his meeting and is now taking everything into consideration,” Shelly said.

Melbourne police were tipped off to the allegations of wrongdoing involving Otero earlier this year and carried out surveillance of the officer.

Melbourne officers allege Otero used his patrol car for at least a year to pick up suspected prostitutes and then drive them to a secluded area in the 1000 block of South Harbor City Boulevard near the House of Lights and Home Accents store, which is not far from the police department’s substation on Apollo Boulevard, according to records.
- So if they did legit surveillance, then surely they have it all on video?

Officers said that Otero, whose salary is $37,000 a year, repeatedly paid the suspected prostitutes for sexual acts while sitting in the marked Melbourne police cruiser, according to police records.
- Then don't you have video / audio from his on-board cameras?

Police reported that Otero would then drive the suspected prostitutes to an unknown destination.
- Unknown?  So did you not follow him? You were doing surveillance, were you not?

Otero could not be reached for comment.

“He’s doing fine,” Bross said. “My client has a right to resign, but he hasn’t. He chose not to because he’s not guilty.”

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GA - College park police officers (Horace Roberts, Marcus Dennard) accused of having sex with prostitutes they arrested

Horace Roberts & Marcus Dennard

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06/12/2012

By Jeff Chirico

COLLEGE PARK - A College Park police officer has quit and another is still on the force after prostitutes alleged having sex with them to have their cases dropped.

Former Officer Horace Roberts, of College Park, resigned from the force in April after College Park police investigators attempted to question him about the allegations. Roberts told CBS Atlanta News that he had no inappropriate relationships with any prostitute and resigned from the force because of stress.

Officer Marcus Dennard, of Fayetteville, is still assigned to the department's Special Operations division after the department investigated and closed the case.

According to a city of College Park police complaint, Jessica Flournoy, 23, and Jenny Clementi, 29, claimed Roberts and Dennard requested sexual favors in return for their charges related to prostitution to be dropped.

The complaint reads, "After an arrest, she started seeing him (Dennard) on a regular basis." Fluornoy claimed Dennard visited her eight times and told her that she would be taken care of if anything happened.

According to the complaint, "She stated that there was no set price for the sex but that he paid her anywhere from $30 to $70 each time for her services."

Clementi claimed Roberts made sexual advances and exchanged numbers with her. Police reported that it was verified by checking Clementi's phone.

Clementi also stated that after she had sex with Dennard, he told her he would not show up in court and have her case dropped.

According to court records, the charges were dismissed after Dennard stated that video evidence he intended to use to prosecute Clementi could not be found.

According to the complaint, Dennard failed a voice stress test on two relevant questions about whether he had sex with prostitutes. The results of a subsequent polygraph came back inconclusive. Dennard admitted to using certain techniques to show the test inconclusive.

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DC - Secret Service Sex Scandal

Question is, will they be held to the same, if not higher standard as the general public, be arrested, put into prison and on the sex offender registry for life, like everyone else? Or are they just going to get slapped on the wrist and the American people shown they are above the law? I vote the latter!

Secret Service Sex Scandal:


And let's not forget the following, which the media has seem to have done.

Conspiracy of Silence: (Read More Here)


FBI & Pentagon Child Porn Scandal - 5,200 Employees Caught:


Child Prostitution, Satanism and The CIA:

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LA - Will unfairly labeled sex-offenders finally be set free?

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04/01/2012

By Jarvis DeBerry

It's too soon to know what will happen to "Louise," the woman who called last summer to explain why she was refusing to follow Louisiana law and register as a sex offender. But a federal judge's Thursday ruling that the law requiring Louise to register is unconstitutional provides some hope that she and hundreds of others like her will be able to get their lives back on track without being stamped with the state's scarlet letter.

Louise got busted in the French Quarter for offering oral sex for money. She'd been convicted before; so she was made to register as a sex offender.

That's a label that, rightly or wrongly, we reflexively associate with people who take advantage of children. In fact, if you are so labeled, your interaction with children is restricted -- even if your crime was committed with an adult.

About 40 percent of people on the registry in Orleans Parish are there for crimes against nature convictions. About 75 percent of those on the registry for crimes against nature convictions are women.

"I can't even go trick-or-treating with my kids," Louise told me. "I've never molested a child."

Had she been peddling sexual intercourse, she'd have been treated differently. She could have been caught and convicted, caught and convicted over and over again. She'd never have been placed on the state's sex-offender registry, never had a label placed on her driver's license, never would have been told to stay away from children.

It's that disparate treatment that U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman criticized last week. He said the state had failed "to credibly serve up even one unique legitimating governmental interest that can rationally explain the registration requirement."

That's because there was no rationality to it, other than the idea that some sex acts are ickier than others. As individuals, we're all free to make such judgments. But there's no reason the state of Louisiana should have ever punished Louise's crime more harshly.

Lawmakers acknowledged as much last year when they passed a bill authored by Charmaine Marchand-Stiaes that applies the same penalties that exist for prostitution to the crime of solicitation of oral sex. That meant the registration requirement went away.

But even as they acknowledged that the state needed to move in a new direction, lawmakers did not do anything to rescue people such as Louise. You'd think they'd have made it easier for her and others who've overcome their drug addictions to get their lives together, made it easier for them to find decent housing and employment.

But no. Lawmakers did nothing to make their law retroactive. They left hundreds of people to serve out their required 15-years on the registry. Why? Apparently the $37,000 the state would have had to pay every year to analyze the registry was considered too much to bear.

Will Feldman's ruling lead to their names being removed? An attorney for the plaintiffs said she doesn't know. He asked the plaintiffs to submit a proposed judgment.

Deon Haywood sounds hopeful. Speaking for Women With a Vision, a New Orleans nonprofit organization that works with women who struggle with the sex offender label, Haywood said Thursday, "This is an opportunity for healing and new beginnings for many people to have a chance to live a life without being labeled."

Louise called after being arrested in July for failure to register as a sex offender. She was defiant on the phone, but later, when faced with spending two years in prison, she pleaded guilty and was allowed to stay out of jail.

However, the sex-offender label is its own kind of jail. Let us hope that Feldman eventually decides that those trapped by the label deserve to be let go.

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