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Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 5:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
www.sexualpredators.com

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 1:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's a pretty interesting website. So many are so scary looking too. I looked in my state registry and have 58 when I did a search for my zip code...not sure how large the range is (if it's just that zip or a mile radius or what). We just had an Americorps volunteer arrested at the high school for sleeping with one of the students (he's 22)- then a few more claims came up- he's provided alchohol to kids, had sex with others....

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 1:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh....I didn't know they had pictures too....they aren't all close...some are in the next county (about 20 miles) away.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 2:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There's entirely too many!!! Way way way too many! And to think of all the ones that haven't been caught or convicted.

Graceunderfyre
Member

01-21-2004

Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 8:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
wow there's one in my neighborhood. . .the interesting thing is the police just sent us a new report (they do it monthly) this week at the Y so we could check it for names in our membership/staff database and with names of people allowed to be with kids and I didn't see that guy's name on it. I wonder why.

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 11:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Grace, I would try to find out. The man who kidnapped Alex Kirkirt was supposed to be registered and was not. Maybe this would not had happened if his past was made public.

Graceunderfyre
Member

01-21-2004

Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 11:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
yeah I am going to question it when I go to work on Monday.

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 11:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
HAH, I have a federal prison in my county, so there are lots of names on the list. Most are incarcerated, but there are some that live in my little town.

I found it rather odd that you have to get a paper copy for Pennsylvania.

Zachsmom
Moderator

07-13-2000

Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There are 22 in the city where I live and 4 in my zip code. One is rigth down the street from me..

now this pisses me off, here is the offenders "offenses"

261(a)(4) RAPE:VICTIM UNCONSCIOUS OF THE NATURE OF THE ACT
289(d) SEX PENETRATION:FOREIGN OBJ:VICTIM UNAWARE OF NATURE OF ACT
f289(d) SEX PENETRATION W/FOREIGN OBJ:VICTIM UNAWARE NATURE OF ACT

YET...for his address it states:

Specific address not subject to disclosure

Now, most of the offenders have their address on there..I guess pursuant to CA law 'some' don't have to list their addresses..This guys zip is listed and NOT in my zip code, but still! YIKES!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
'SEX PENETRATION W/FOREIGN OBJ:VICTIM UNAWARE NATURE OF ACT'

I don;t understand how victim was unaware. Am I missing something?

WOW, I couldn't believe how many were in my zip and within 3/4 mile from us!


Zachsmom
Moderator

07-13-2000

Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 1:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pamy, I looked up the offenses Here

for 289d is states:Sexual penetration, foreign object, victim unconscious of the nature of act.

perhaps they were knocked out or drugged? I don't know? SICK is what it is.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 2:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
yeah, that does make it even worse!

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 2:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Date rape drug is VERY common. I had several of my girls at a very small town university get taken advantage of because of this.

Either that or some wierdo is going out an raping sleeping victims.

SICK, SICK, SICK

Graceunderfyre
Member

01-21-2004

Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 5:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I wonder if maybe they are unaware of the guy's age?

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Tuesday, March 01, 2005 - 9:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just want to remind everyone to please be aware of the kind of world we live in today.

Please pray for Jessica.

http://www.jessicamarielunsford.com/

Lostintheglades
Member

07-10-2000

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 8:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I put this in the Amber Alert..thought it should go here as well. Please sign Jessica's petition for stronger laws and tougher sentences for these scum bags.

http://jessicaspetition.r8.org/

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 8:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
In a letter found by investigators, convicted sex offender Couey confessed to killing the girl, law enforcement sources told CNN. In a previous confession to authorities, Couey said he buried the girl alive, sources have said.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/20/florida.killing/index.html}

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 5:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sex offenders AWOL from state registry

Nearly 9,000 not accounted for; pictures to be online by autumn

May 9, 2005

BY ZLATI MEYER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

For eight years, convicted sex offender Douglas Brust has walked the streets of metro Detroit anonymously. His Redford Township neighbors didn't know about his criminal past nor, for that matter, did the township police.

Last month, the local police got a tip from the Michigan State Police that the 46-year-old might be living in the township since moving from Hale in Iosco County almost a decade ago.

Convicted of third-degree criminal sexual conduct in 1986, Brust was to remain in the sex-offender registry for 25 years and update State Police of his whereabouts. He faces a return to prison after being charged Friday with a felony for his failure to register.

But the resident of the 18000 block of Beech Daly is far from the only person who has fallen off law-enforcement officials' radar screen. According to the State Police, close to 9,000 are AWOL -- or 24 percent of Michigan's 36,748 sex offenders on the state's complete registry, which is available only to law enforcement. The public registry has fewer names because certain offenders, such as juveniles, are not listed.

On May 1, the State Police ramped up the registry by posting pictures of some offenders. The Secretary of State provides the photos, which must be verified before they are posted. By fall, photos should be available for every sex offender on the registry, said Shanon Akans, State Police spokesperson.

During a phone interview in late April, Brust defended his decision to not update the state on his whereabouts, saying he faced harassment after he served an 8-year sentence and completed his parole in January 1996. He was found guilty of having forced sex with a drunken woman in a Dalton Township apartment 10 days after his 27th birthday, according to Muskegon County Circuit Court documents.

The now-married father of four sons, who range in age from 15 months to 8 years, explained that he didn't update his registry information out of fear that he would be attacked.

"I paid my restitution," said Brust, adding that he's also quit drinking. "This has been haunting me. When do I get a break in this? I got kids in school. I worry about them."

Under Michigan law, offenders must initially register upon their convictions. Felony offenders must report to a local law-enforcement agency every quarter; misdemeanor offenders must check in annually. They have to report a change of address within 10 days and must remain on the registry from 10 years to life, depending on their crime.

State Police are not required to make sure that sex offenders update the registry. But State Police spokeswoman Melody Kindraka said when police catch people who were required to check in and didn't, arrest warrants are issued and entered into the Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN). As soon as their records are pulled up -- such as during a routine traffic stop -- officers will know they are absconders.

Few police agencies check to make sure sex offenders within their city boundaries are registering and updating addresses, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said last week, but he has made it a priority. County deputies are visiting the homes of sex offenders who have not registered or updated their addresses with police. Offenders who have not checked in but have not moved are to be slapped with a misdemeanor punishable by to 90 days in prison.

Offenders who have moved and not registered are subject to a felony charge punishable by up to four years in prison, said Bouchard, who, as a state senator, sponsored the 1996 legislation to make the registry public.

He said he believes the system is having an impact.

"I think the number of people not registering is diminishing in Oakland County," Bouchard said. "I think adding the photos to the registry will be a useful tool, too. Individuals often don't want to report in and if a neighbor or someone sees the person's photo, they can help us double check. We're training the eyes and ears of the community to help us run down those individuals who are breaking the law."

Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said Tuesday that the sheriff's office tracks the more than 100 registered sex offenders in his jurisdiction through the required quarterly check-ins.

If some are no-shows, the sheriff's staff sends notices to their last known residence. Failure to respond to those prompts detectives to seek arrest warrants.

Since the existing system is efficient, he said, his department doesn't conduct so-called sweeps that can be a financial burden to law enforcement agencies.

Critics of the state's efforts to keep track of sex offenders agree that the photos may help, because they make identification easier.

"If the registry were better updated and had a better compliance rate, it wouldn't be necessary to have photos on it," said state Rep. Leon Drolet, R-Clinton Township, who helped come up with the idea to add headshots to the sex-offender database. "They just don't have adequate manpower to keep tabs and follow where people move."

Since the public registry went online in 1999, it has been heavily used by people searching for sex offenders in their neighborhood. On Brust's street, the news that an unregistered offender had been living in the area brought mixed reactions.

"It's a shame you have people like that in the neighborhood," Brust's neighbor Earl Masters, 47, the father of a 2-year-old girl, said. "I just try to keep my kid safe and do the best that I can. I thought this was a pretty decent neighborhood ... I'm surprised."

But Sarah Thomas, 23, whose family has lived in the house next door to Brust's for 13 years, defended him. "He's like my dad. ... I don't think it should be public. I don't think it's necessary for everyone in ... Redford to know. It should be between him and the court."

Brust's current address is now in the state registry. The charge against him carries a possible penalty of four years in prison and/or a $2,000 fine, Maria Miller, spokeswoman for Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, said Friday.

Redford Township Police Capt. Scott McLaey has characterized Brust as a model citizen since his release from prison. However, the U.S. Department of Justice says 5 percent of sex offenders are rearrested for another sex crime within three years of their release from prison -- which is 4 times more likely than non-sex offenders.

Brust, a truck driver, said some offenders need to be on the registry because they leave prison and commit another sex offense. "They got a problem. They keep getting into trouble for same thing. First-time offenders like me? I just want to get on with my life and do what I got to do."


Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Monday, June 06, 2005 - 6:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just wanted y'all know that the site was updated with another nasty guy out there spreading child porn...

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Monday, June 06, 2005 - 9:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OMG! There's 20 in my zip code! I won't be going out walking by myself anytime soon!

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 5:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Twinkie, that is a wise decision. Take care over there!

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 5:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Omigod! There are ten in my little town and one lives right across the street. I am going to make a point of sharing this web site with some of my neighbors who should be aware, but I am sure are not.

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 7:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Scary, isn't it?

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Thursday, June 09, 2005 - 7:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
MANCHESTER, N.H. - A man who took sexually explicit pictures of his 2-year-old granddaughter was arrested on child porn charges after he printed the pictures at a drug store and a clerk found the images, police said.
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The arrest of Richard Hawes, 63, came after a frantic police investigation into the identity of the girl in the photos. Fearing she was in danger, police finally released nonsexual photos of the toddler.

Relatives saw the pictures Wednesday on national television, and the girl's father then identified her in photos e-mailed by New Hampshire police, leading to Hawes' arrest.

Police said further charges may be filed in Florida, where the girl and her family live. Hawes' son — the girl's father — told police Hawes visited them this spring.

Hawes, a summer resident of New Boston, entered no plea to five counts of possessing child pornography at an arraignment Thursday. He was ordered held on $200,000 bail pending a preliminary hearing June 22.

A police affidavit released Thursday said Hawes admitted taking the photos with a digital camera during his Florida visit. He told police he became "fascinated" by his granddaughter's genitals after giving her a bath.

After heading back home to New Hampshire, Hawes twice tried to print the photos using self-service kiosks in CVS drug stores. The first time, in Nashua, he fled after realizing the photos were printing behind a counter, police said.

The second time, he printed the photos at a CVS in Manchester. A clerk found the photos May 24 when she went to clear a backlog of digital images. She went to police.

Some of the photos were typical family fare of a blonde toddler. But in others, the girl was "positioned and posed in sexually explicit ways," the affidavit said.

Police said they spent two weeks trying to identify the girl and security-camera images of Hawes before releasing two non-suggestive photos to the media Tuesday. That led to Hawes' Wednesday arrest at his home.

A public defender for Hawes had not yet been assigned.

Steve Olson, a spokesman for the Seminole County Sheriff's Office outside Orlando, said it was likely that Hawes would face charges there of capital sexual battery, lewd and lascivious molestation, and sexual performance on a minor charges. A conviction on capital sexual battery carries a mandatory life sentence.

"We're still working out the details on whose case is moving forward first," Olson said. "Ours is probably the most serious of the two."

The girl was being cared for by authorities in Florida early Thursday. A call to the Department of Children & Families to determine her status was not returned.

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Friday, June 17, 2005 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
SEATTLE - Relatives of a man suspected in thousands of cases of child sexual abuse described him Friday as a "black sheep" whose only ties with the family dissolved years ago when his grandmother died.


Dean Schwartzmiller, 63, was arrested May 23 in Washington state on a California fugitive warrant. An anonymous tipster provided information that led to his arrest, Snohomish County Sheriff's spokesman Rich Niebusch said Friday.

Authorities searched his San Jose home and found detailed, handwritten records of 36,000 assaults over a span of decades. Headings for the logs include "Blond Boys," "Cute Boys" and "Boys who say no," San Jose Police Lt. Scott Cornfield said.

Jack Schwartzmiller of Butte, Mont., said his cousin Dean lost contact with most of his relatives years ago. Dean Schwartzmiller has three brothers and a sister living in western Washington, but they could not be reached for comment.

"They knew he was in trouble all the time and they really had disassociated themselves of him," Jack Schwartzmiller said, calling his cousin "just a black sheep in the family."

Schwartzmiller's family knew he had legal troubles, but are likely "pretty surprised at the part that's coming out now," said his aunt, Shirlea Schwartzmiller of Edmonds.

Authorities said Dean Schwartzmiller apparently gained the trust of victims and parents by working as a home renovation contractor. Police in San Jose got involved after he allegedly befriended at least two boys in the city with gifts, invited them to his house for video games and movies, and molested them.

He was returned to California on June 7 to face molestation charges involving two 12-year-old boys.

Although police said Schwartzmiller appears to have spent much of the past 30 years in California, he has been arrested on child molestation charges in New York, Arkansas and Washington. He also served prison time in Idaho for child molestation in the late 1970s, and is wanted in Oregon on sexual assault charges involving a minor.

Police believe he may have victims in Brazil and Mexico, as well.