Sarah Tofte finds it striking...

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Friday, December 21, 2007
Sarah Tofte finds it striking...
Sarah Tofte, a researcher for Human rights watch, who we mentioned here, recently went on WYNC New York Public Radio with Pro-Sex Offender Activist Linda Pehrson. Aside from the usual blame gaming you expect from the likes of Linda Perhson and the talk of "Restorative Justice," what we found interesting was a statement made by Sarah Tofte:

"This is a number that always strikes me, that I think people don't pick up on as much, but to me I find this the most striking number. Is that every year, of all new sex crimes, eighty-seven percent of new sex crimes are committed by someone who has no previous sex crimes convictions."

The implication being that 13% of new sex crimes are committed by people who already have been convicted for sexual offenses.

If we were to compare the number of people who are sexual offenders (627,217) with the entire population of the U.S (301,139,947) we'd find that sex offenders make up roughly 0.2% of the entire population.

Going by her own statistics, I wonder what it is that Sarah Tofte finds most striking about her statistic which illustrates that such a tiny percentage of the population is accounting for a disproportionately large percentage of new sex crimes - 13% committed by 0.2% of the population.

Labels: Human Rights Watch, Linda Pehrson, Recidivism, Sarah Tofte, Sex Offender

jacey posted at 1:35 AM

H.R. 4623 - Child Obscenity and Pornography Prevention

H.R. 4623 - Child Obscenity and Pornography Prevention
Act of 2002
(Rep. Smith (R) Texas and 69 cosponsors)

The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 4623, which would revise and strengthen the Nation's child pornography laws in light of Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition. Passage of the bill would be an important step in protecting children from abuse by ensuring effective child pornography prosecutions.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative/sap/107-2/HR4623-h.html



RON PAUL VOTED NO AGAINST THIS ACT.

Rock Against Child Pornography In Devon!!!

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Hello Friends :)

we have some good and important news to share with you.

on the 25th and the 26th of January 2008 we will hold a
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Host to this is
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Terrific Bands will play till their fingers bleed and their voices fade!
Watch out for the announcement posters on our page!


Ray, the owner and organiser of this weekender, is a strong supporter to our cause!
The aim will be to raise at least 2000 Pound! that is: two thousand!!
This money is desperately needed to man the ABUSE HELPLINE for children.

Every Penny and Pound collected on these nights will go towards this Helpline.

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COME AND ROCK WITH US AGAINST CHILD ABUSE AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY !!

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KEVIN MISNER AKA DEVILMANN26

Reading a blog by Absolute Zero I saw in their comments a link to a page that displays a comment that a sex offender had made. In this comment the sex offender who calls himself, DEVILMANN26 said:

devilmann26

Subject: My way of getting back at the MAN

"As some of you know I am forced to wear this GPS tracking device.Anyway I have found that electromagnets destroy the components of these devices.So everyday at work I accidently get to close to one and oops the tracker stops working.So they have been replacing them 3 a week at least now.Maybe they will ban me from using welding equipment…They say each device costs over 1500 dollars so I have cost they state well over 10000 so far as they already replaced 7 trackers…I love it what a waste ao taxpayers money.Oh wait I pay taxes too so i guess i am screwing myself.Oh wait cant i press charges on myself for screwing myself then i wont be able to be within 25 feet of myself.What a perfect system we have here in good ol New Jersey….Kevin Misner"



Now just by googling his screen name interesting stuff pops up, like his email address is devilmann26@yahoo.com which takes you to this myspace page:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=179861818

The person at this profile under that email address goes by the name,Cal and this is the default picture used for that profile.




It also lead me to find that he also goes by the name, devilsrule on a Apple support site for his computer. And just by googling his real name even more interesting stuff pops up, like this article below:

12/14/2007
Megan’s Law violator

STONINGTON — Kevin P. Misner, 31, of 70 Wilson Ave., Keansburg, N.J., has been charged by state police at Stonington with two counts of failing to comply with Megan’s Law, which requires a sexual offender to register a new address with state police.

State police said Misner informed police that he was residing at 1011 W. Spruce St., Coal Township, but never officially resided there. Police said Misner also failed to report his New Jersey address.

Misner was arraigned at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday by Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III and committed to Northumberland County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19114603&BRD=2715&PAG=461&dept_id=556561&rfi=6



THIS IS HIS SEX OFFENDER INFORMATION:
Name - KEVIN P MISNER
Type - Mappable
Address - 1011 WEST SPRUCE STREET
COAL TOWNSHIP, PA 17866
Conviction(s) NJ004 - SEXUAL ASSAULT

http://www.familywatchdog.us/ViewOffenderDetails.asp?oID=PAdfadaddg&aID=&at=1&sid=&sp=1&nm=

Here is the WIKI on him http://www.wikisposure.com/Roar_for_Freedom
It say's on his WIKI:

-Kevin P. Misner- aka devilmann26 - Convicted of SEXUAL ASSAULT against a minor in New Jersey in 1993 after spending 5 years in prison he has been charged with failing to register in NJ though he did register in PA which has less strict registration requirements. Kevin has stated that he purposefully destroys his GPS monitor just to cost the state money, claiming he's damaged over $10,000 worth, he hides his computers from the authorities and registers dozens of emails simply to overload the system.



Then his WIKI takes you to this screenshot of him from the states Megan's Law website:
http://www.wikisposure.com/Image:Kevin_Misner.png


AND THIS ARTICLE WITH A MAP: (click on the sex offenders tab)

KEVIN P MISNER
70 WILSON AVENUE
KEANSBURG, NJ 07734
Locate on Map

IMAGE UNAVAILABLE

http://www.propertymaps.com/location/mls/usa/new+jersey/keansburg/07734



AND THIS ARTICLE:


Seaside Heights Councilman William Akers stands at Barnegat and Hancock avenues, not far from playgrounds and the Hugh J. Boyd Jr. Elementary School, areas off-limits to sex offenders. Because Seaside Heights is a vacation spot, borough officials are trying to determine if they can force authorities elsewhere to tell them when sex offenders visit as tourists.
Originally published: January 12, 2007
Laws leave offenders fewer places to live
By MICHELLE SAHN
and JAMES W. PRADO ROBERTS
STAFF WRITERS

Billie K. Nichols, convicted of sexually assaulting three children, was told by police to leave his rented room in Keansburg. The 65-year-old was informed that he lives too close to the beach.

About half a mile away, Kevin P. Misner, deemed by a judge to have a higher risk of committing another sex crime, is allowed to live within 1,000 feet of two day care centers and two schools in Keansburg.

Under the borough's residency ordinance, Misner is allowed to stay where he is because he is a homeowner, not a renter.

Keansburg is one of at least 45 towns in Monmouth and Ocean counties that have passed measures since June, restricting where convicted sex offenders can live. And like Keansburg's, some measures have quirks, inconsistencies and seemingly contradictory passages that may run afoul of state law.

Monmouth and Ocean counties were home to 1,220 registered sex offenders in January, according to State Police information. The names and addresses of just 253 were posted on the state's Megan's Law Web site; most of the rest are known only to law enforcement.

Because of the growing number of residency restrictions, an unknown number of sex offenders may be forced from their homes this year. With fewer and fewer locations in which to live, more registered sex offenders could move to areas outside the exclusion zones — from inner-city enclaves to suburban neighborhoods.

Maureen Kanka, who campaigned for Megan's Law in 1994 after her 7-year-old daughter, Megan, was raped and murdered by a neighbor who was a convicted sex offender, said she agrees with the concept of residency restrictions. But Kanka, of Hamilton, said she opposes municipalities that completely ban registered sex offenders from moving in.

Brick effectively did that last year when it set sex-offender-free zones around all school bus stops. Bradley Beach imposed an effective total ban by including zones around a bowling alley, religious institutions, and a recreation building.

"I don't think it's fair for towns to push them out onto other towns," Kanka said. If an alternative is to sentence sex offenders to life behind bars, Kanka said that would be an avenue worth exploring.

Some offenders have put up a fight, saying they shouldn't have to move.

In January, a judge temporarily barred Keansburg from enforcing its ordinance after one borough sex offender challenged the measure in Monmouth County Superior Court. As a result, Nichols and 13 other Keansburg residents who pleaded innocent to violating the local restrictions may remain in their homes, at least until the lawsuit is resolved.

The lawsuit may prove effective — Egg Harbor City in Atlantic County amended its ordinance following a similar court fight. It now allows low-risk offenders to move into exclusion zones, but it still bars offenders deemed to have a moderate to high risk of re-offending.

In Monmouth and Ocean counties, only Middletown permits offenders deemed to be low risk, but bars moderate- and high-risk offenders. Upper Freehold bars high-risk offenders from living 2,000 feet from places including schools and horse farms with formal riding programs for minors, while moderate-risk offenders cannot live within 1,000 feet of those places and low-risk offenders are barred from living within 500 feet.

Local officials say their residency rules are designed to protect communities — particularly children — from sex offenders.

Critics say the ordinances are unconstitutional and interfere with the statewide Megan's Law, which requires community notification about offenders considered more likely to commit another sex crime.

Under Megan's Law, about one offender in five is considered sufficiently high risk to be listed on the State Police sex offender Web site.

The names, photographs and addresses of 115 from Monmouth County and 138 from Ocean County were listed on the State Police Web site on Jan. 5.

Out of those 253 registered offenders in the two counties, about 90 lived within 1,000 feet of a school, according to a Gannett New Jersey review of the addresses.

In Monmouth County, there were three high-risk, or tier three, offenders.

In Ocean County, there were 18 tier three offenders listed on the Web site. Another was added last month.

About half of the offenders listed in Monmouth and Ocean counties in January were in seven towns. They are: Dover Township (28), Neptune (19), Lakewood (19), Brick (16), Asbury Park (16), Seaside Heights (13) and Manchester (10).

Of those seven, all but Asbury Park have new ordinances that now restrict where sex offenders may live.

"Measured legislation to provide buffer zones for children is simply common sense," said Terence M. Wall, the Keansburg borough manager and a Holmdel committeeman.

Keansburg's ordinance would make virtually the entire borough off-limits to Nichols and other convicted sex offenders who rent or want to move into town. Holmdel also has residency restrictions.

Locally, exclusion zones range from 500 feet to 2,500 feet. In most municipalities, sex offenders who ignore the ordinances can be fined up to $1,250, jailed for 90 days or subject to 90 days of community service.

But there are inconsistencies among the 45 municipalities — more than half of the 86 towns in the two counties — with exclusion zones:

In 15 communities, renters must move but homeowners may stay.

In 29 municipalities, sex offenders who lived in the community before the local rules were adopted may stay. Neptune Mayor Thomas J. Catley said that clause was added to his township's ordinance so it does not run afoul of the U.S. Constitution's ban on retroactive laws. But in Neptune, if a renter with no history of sex offenses is later charged and convicted of a sex crime against a child, that renter would have to move from a prohibited zone, Township Attorney Donald L. Beekman said. A homeowner, however, who committed a similar crime could stay.

In 14 of the 45 municipalities, the rules apply to both adults and juveniles who are sex offenders. All but one of these communities would force a teenager living in an exclusion zone to move, unless the teen's name is on the deed of the home. A teenager who is a registered sex offender may not live near a school — but local rules do not stop him from attending a school.

In 28 communities, only sex offenders whose victims were minors face restrictions. Those locales would allow someone convicted of raping adult college students to live next to a high school. But the measures would bar an 18-year-old convicted of having consensual sex with his 14-year-old girlfriend.

Nichols, of Keansburg, said the boom in residency restrictions has added to a stressful life. He is upset about the prospect of being kicked out of his home and isn't sure where he would go.

An offender may have little money to finance a move: 85 percent to 90 percent of Megan's Law offenders are indigent, according to state Office of the Public Defender spokesman Thomas Rosenthal.

"I've got to live somewhere," said Nichols, who spent 16 years at the state prison for compulsive sex offenders, the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Woodbridge. In 1988, he pleaded guilty to aggravated sex assault against three girls who ranged in age from 5 to 11, records show.

In prison, Nichols said, he learned how to live in society and how to recognize his "warning signs" so he won't commit another sex crime. If he hadn't responded to treatment, the state could have tried to civilly commit him after he served his sentence, he said.

"You've gotta do your work in there to get out," he said.

After Nichols was released in November 2004, a Superior Court judge declared him a moderate risk of re-offending. He must check in with local authorities every three months.

Now that he is free, he is not about to break the law again, he said.

His $115-a-week room at the Belvedere Hotel is not much, he said, but it's home. In fact, it is about the same size as his former prison cell, he said.

His bed was pressed against the far wall. A roll of toilet paper and cleaning supplies sat on one dresser. A small television set sat atop the other.

"NO SMOKING" was stenciled in white on the paneled wall near the door. Black plastic bags of belongings lay on the floor, and his golf clubs were propped against a wall.

"I just have to find a place I can afford," said Nichols, who works as an assistant greenskeeper at a private golf course. "If you mess up, I can see that. But if you go about your business, and you're not disturbing anybody . . . We used to talk in jail — they should make some kind of island for us. We've got to live someplace."

The exclusion zone is not designed to be a cure-all, but it reduces the likelihood of an offender breaking the law again, borough manager Wall said.

"Others would say that 80 percent of victims are assaulted by people they know," Wall said. "True. The 20 percent matter as well."

In December, Bradley Beach became off-limits to convicted adult sex offenders who attacked minors. The mayor says there are "less than a handful" of offenders, perhaps five, who live there.

Borough resident Harriet May Savitz, 72, who lives a few blocks from at least one of the borough's sex offenders, said the restrictions are a "great idea," and further believes offenders should get longer prison terms.

"I don't want them in anyone's back yard," said the grandmother of four. "I think they lose the right to live in society when they touch a child. That's automatic."

If every community created exclusion zones, it would mean sex offenders could only live in rural areas because suburbs and cities have more schools and churches, said Jackson Tay Bosley, a psychologist and the president of the New Jersey Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers.

But most jobs are in cities and suburbs, he said.

Most sex offenders need to be employed, in treatment, and monitored, said Ken Singer, a licensed clinical social worker and the executive director of that treatment association, who also runs therapy groups for both sexual abusers and abuse survivors.

The residency rules are "basically a stupid, feel-good idea," he said. "It doesn't do any good for someone to drop out of sight, and not register. It doesn't make anyone safer."

What does work, he said, are programs such as Child Assault Prevention, a state-funded educational program that empowers children and teaches them to be assertive.

Further, because New Jersey already has sex offender laws, municipalities are pre-empted from imposing their own restrictions on Megan's Law offenders, said John S. Furlong, a Trenton-based lawyer, who co-wrote the second edition "Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification: A "Megan's Law' Sourcebook."

Besides sex offender registration and community notification, New Jersey sex offenders convicted after Oct. 31, 1994, are subject to supervision by parole officers for 15 years to life. Parole officers have the power to bar them from living near schools or with minors.

The state also has civil commitment for convicts deemed sexually violent predators but who have completed their prison terms.

In January, there were 343 such people confined to facilities in Kearny and Woodbridge, and their cases are reviewed every six months, according to William Plantier, an official with the state Department of Corrections. Such people are "not in control of their deviant sexual behavior," he said.

Regardless of how well sex offenders did in their therapy sessions, officials in Seaside Heights don't want any more offenders who abused children living within 2,500 feet of a school and other locations. That's most of the borough.

"If this makes it harder for them to seek housing, or if they wanted to go to one community and they can't, I won't lose any sleep over it," Councilman William Akers said. "I think these are bad people, and every community has the right to protect themselves from bad people."

Because Seaside Heights is a vacation spot, it is even more important for borough officials to know where offenders stay and, if possible, keep them out of town, Akers said. So officials are trying to determine if they can force authorities elsewhere to tell them when sex offenders visit as tourists, he said.

Sex offenders, and people with mental health and social service issues, seem to come to Seaside Heights, perhaps because the community has many low-cost motel and hotel rooms in the winter, Akers said.

Thirteen Seaside Heights sex offenders were listed on the State Police Web site in January. The site reported that one was in custody and two were fugitives.

"We seem to be taking on a lot of responsibility for a lot of different people, and we don't have facilities to help these people," Akers said. "We take on a big burden every year."

http://thnt.gns.gannettonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/B3/20060305/SPECIAL07/101120004



THIS IS WHY WE NEED MEGAN'S LAW, JESSICA'S LAW AND APRILS LAW PEOPLE!!

Suspect has sex-offender past-Neighborhood upset over sex offender case

Suspect has sex-offender past
Man accused of attack on girl served 12 years
Michael Kiefer and Leigh Munsil
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 14, 2007 12:00 AM

A man accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl at a Phoenix playground earlier this week spent nearly 12 years in prison for committing a virtually identical crime.

And in November, he was arrested and jailed after police saw him running naked down Van Buren Street. He was then released on his own recognizance, despite his sex-offender status.

Court records describe William R. Speed, 35, as psychologically troubled and prone to hearing voices.

About 7 p.m. Wednesday, Speed reportedly approached a girl playing on a jungle gym in a park near Van Buren Street and 12th Avenue. Police said Speed had partially removed his clothes and the girl's clothes before family members and witnesses heard the girl's screams and pulled him off her. They held him down until police arrived, according to Phoenix police spokeswoman Stacie Derge.

The girl did not suffer any serious physical injury, Derge said, but was traumatized by the attack.

The attack appeared to be random, Derge said, and police have no reason to believe that the girl knew him.

Speed was charged with sexual conduct with a minor.

The attack bore close resemblance to a 1995 attack on a 7-year-old girl that sent Speed to prison for nearly 12 years.

On September 23, 1995, Speed approached a girl who was walking her dog near his apartment. As the child was cleaning up after her dog, according to court records, Speed sat down next to her and removed his pants, then partially disrobed the girl and sexually assaulted her. Onlookers chased Speed and caught him.

Because of that attack, Speed was charged with kidnapping and sexual conduct with a minor, but in July 1996, he pleaded guilty to attempted sexual conduct with a minor and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

During interviews for his presentence report and a psychological evaluation in the court record, he told evaluators that he heard voices in his head and on the radio that told him to "have sex with a baby." He thought the girl in the 1995 attack was enticing him, he said.

Speed is originally from San Jose, Calif. He told evaluators that his stepfather was sent to a mental institution for child molestation and that a stepmother had sexual relations with him as a teen. He was arrested but not charged for a pair of petty incidents in the 1990s before the attack that sent him to prison.

Speed was first released from the Arizona Department of Corrections in January 2006 after serving 85 percent of his sentence but was sent back a year later to finish out his term after a technical parole violation that corrections officials did not specify. He was released Oct. 5.

A little more than a month later, at about 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 7, he was arrested after running naked behind a bar in the 1800 block of West Van Buren Street. Speed told the arresting officer that he had just smoked cocaine and felt like taking off his pants and running, court records show.

Speed was charged with indecent exposure in that incident and initially held on bond. Then, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, he was released on Nov. 16. He was allowed to go free on Tuesday of this week following a hearing, according to court records.

Because of the 1996 conviction, Speed is registered as a Class 3 sex offender, the highest level, and Derge said he kept his sex-offender registration current; he listed his address as an overflow homeless shelter on Madison Street, a half-mile south of the park where Wednesday's attack took place.

There were no stipulations in Speed's registration that say he cannot be around children, Derge said.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1214sexarrest1214.html

Neighborhood upset over sex offender case
Ryan Kost
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 14, 2007 06:48 PM

Phoenix neighborhood advocates are upset with the Arizona Department of Corrections after a man sexually assaulted a 4-year-old girl at a playground earlier this week.

Residents of the Capitol Mall and University Park areas said Friday that the department uses a nearby homeless shelter as a dumping ground for ex-convicts who have nowhere else to go and then forgets about them.

The local community, they said, suffers as a result.

For proof, residents point to what happened Wednesday night at a park near Van Buren Street and 12th Avenue. There, William R. Speed, 35, - who was released this October after serving 12 years in prison for assaulting a 7-year-old girl - is accused of approaching a young girl playing on the jungle gym.

Speed then grabbed her and began to remove his clothes and the child's until she screamed, alerting family members and witnesses who came running to her defense, Phoenix police said. The girl did not suffer serious physical injury, but was traumatized by the attack, according to police.

A month ago, court records show Speed, who has a history of mental illness, was arrested after running naked behind a Phoenix bar. He was charged with indecent exposure and released the following week. By law, the court could not hold him without bail for a misdemeanor.

Before Wednesday's attack, he was one of dozens of registered sex offenders who lived at the nearby overflow homeless shelter run by Central Arizona Shelter Services.

"This has got to be preventable," said Shannon Dubasik, the executive director of the Capitol Mall Association. "This is wrong on every level."

Dubasik said the problem is not the fault of the shelters, which must admit the ex-convicts, but rather it is that of the local law enforcement agencies that continue to drop people off without additional help. "They don't have a chance of being successful," she said.

A spokesman for the Department of Corrections said Speed had completed all of his jail time and there was nothing more the department could do.

"It's not us, it's the law," said Nolberto Machiche. "Legally, we have no voice or authority over them once they've completed their sentence."

Mark Holleran, the chief executive officer of the shelter, said the neighborhood has every right to be concerned. Outside of the prison system, his shelters have the highest concentration of sex offenders, he said. Wednesday evening, Speed was one of about 80 - maybe more.

"This isn't new," Holleran said. But it's "something that can't continue."

Reporter Michael Kiefer contributed to this report.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1214sexoffender1215.html

Pro-Sex Offender Rally - HIJACKED!

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TAGS: Cheryl Griffiths, Columbus Ohio Rally, Derek Logue, Jackie Sparling, Linda Pehrson, SoClear, SOSEN, Tom Madison

Judy Debates An Idiot!

I don't know about the whole Republican verses Democrat stuff, but the interview makes it's point that this guy is a REAL DUMMMY who does NOT care about ANY children or any victims of sexual crimes!
Who supports this creep? OH, it must be pedo's & sex offenders, because this guy does NOT speak for ALL democrats!
WHAT A LOSER!

_______________________________________________________

Judy "Predator Patrol"
Date: Dec 6, 2007 6:19 PM


There are two video's here. One has the introduction on it but cuts off near the end debate over Debra LaFave. See the 2nd video and drag the bar towards the end to see the end of the show.

If you would like to see them on BleepinTruth.com here is the link:
There are two different video's here that are the same as the ones below.

BleepinTruth.com Video's

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Judy

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December 4, 2007: My Debate With A True Dummy!

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December 4, 2007: My Debate With A True Dummy! (#2)

Britain's most wanted child sex offenders!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/17/upaedo117.xml



The CEOP issued these photos of (left to right:) Alexander Colin Dalgleish, Gordon Stewart, Paul Turner, Joshua Karney and Kamil Krawiec, Britain's most wanted child sex offenders


By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor, and Sally Pook
Last Updated: 1:28am GMT 18/11/2006

Five of Britain’s most wanted child sex offenders are identified publicly today on a new website dedicated to finding them.

The move is unprecedented in that it is the first time details of convicted paedophiles have been published nationally.
Paedophiles
The CEOP issued these photos of (left to right:) Alexander Colin Dalgleish, Gordon Stewart, Paul Turner, Joshua Karney and Kamil Krawiec, Britain's most wanted child sex offenders

Although their crimes are not being disclosed, photographs of the five men and their last known location are, with the consent of the police.

The five men named on the website are Alexander Colin Dalgleish, Gordon Stewart, Paul Turner (also known as Paul Francis or Geddes), Joshua Karney, who also goes by five other names, and Kamil Krawiec.

The site includes photographs, physical descriptions, additional information and a warning against vigilante action.

Dalgleish has connections to Merseyside and the West Midlands, Stewart to central, north and north west England and Scotland, Turner to the south coast, Karney to Lancashire but travels all over the UK, and Krawiec has links to Hackney and Earl’s Court in London and Birmingham.
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The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre created the site at http://www.ceop.gov.uk/wanted, to appeal for information about child sex offenders who have disappeared.

Jim Gamble, the head of the CEOP centre, said: "It is not about publishing details of all sex offenders as this could drive a large number of compliant offenders away from effective management programmes.

"What we want to do is maximise every available opportunity to locate those offenders who are missing to protect children, young people and communities."

He added: "The public must report sightings so the police can take appropriate action. Vigilante activity will be robustly dealt with and is likely to result in arrest."

They are not men wanted over unsolved crimes, but offenders who have already served punishment but since gone missing after failing to comply with legal restrictions on their movements.

Breaching these so-called “notification requirements” - which are conditions of their placement on the sex offenders register - is an arrestable offence punishable with up to five years in prison.

Fear that people would take the law into their own hands was the principal reason why the Home Office refused to introduce a public notification system — the Sarah's Law demanded by campaigners.

The law is named after Sarah Payne, who was murdered six years ago, and modelled on Megan's Law, a system that operates in America. It was established in the mid-1990s after Megan Kanka was killed by a paedophile who had moved close by without anyone knowing.

The Home Office and the police have long opposed the introduction of such a law, but over the summer, John Reid, the Home Secretary, signalled that he might bring one in. Supporters praised the apparent about-turn, but their hopes were dashed when the Government said it was instigating a "review" only.

The CEOP centre stressed that the website was not about “naming and shaming” offenders whose whereabouts are already known, but finding those who have gone missing and cannot be traced by the police.

The police already run a "most wanted" list on their Crimestoppers website which has received almost 40 million hits and led to 24 arrests since it went live a year ago.

It lists Britain's 10 most wanted criminals and carries appeals for information on others who are on the run.

Diary of a Pedophile/Murdered (By Judy)

Judy "Predator Patrol" Date: Dec 10, 2007 10:04 AM


Diary of a Pedophile/Murdered



Thanks to a brave six-year-old boy and the courageous William "Ray" Graves, Westley Dodd was apprehended after trying to abduct the child from a theater bathroom. The police brought him to the station for questioning.

Dodd was visibly nervous as detectives from both Washington and Oregon interrogated him. His record revealed a litany of crimes against children, the most serious an attempted abduction in Seattle in 1987. More importantly, they realized that their suspect lived a short distance from where Cole and Billy Neer were killed, and worked close to where Lee Iseli's body was found.

When questioned about the incident at the New Liberty Theater, Dodd tried to convince the detectives that he intended "only" to molest the boy in the restroom. He admitted to his history of molestations but left out the murders. Eventually, Dodd confessed that he had killed Billy and Cole Neer, and Lee Iseli, and went into graphic detail.

He claimed that he had to kill the Neers so that they wouldn't identify him. "When Cole pulled his pants down, I knew I wouldn't be able to let them go," he said, as if Cole had precipitated his own murder. Dodd recounted how he coaxed Lee into his car, and brought him home, where he molested and killed him. The detectives were disgusted by Dodd's admissions, but were even more disturbed by the fact that Dodd seemed to enjoy reliving the events. He then told them about the briefcase under the bed, where he hid his diaries, his photo albums, and Lee's underwear.


Dodd's briefcase (POLICE)

The briefcase


Dodd's homemade "torture rack" (POLICE)
As investigators searched Dodd's small but orderly apartment, they found ropes and belts (for restraining his victims); X-Acto knives (Dodd planned to use these for his "experimental surgeries"); and ropes around the single bed's headboard and footboard. They found four volumes of Parent/Child books, and a copy of the New Testament, with the words "Satan Lives" scrawled inside. They also found Dodd's homemade torture rack, which had not yet been used.

But the most incriminating discovery was Dodd's briefcase, hidden under the bed.

The first thing investigators noticed when they unlatched the briefcase was Lee's folded "Ghostbusters" underwear. They found his diaries, which painstakingly recounted his assaults and plans for future murders. Dodd had neatly organized the articles pertaining to the Neer and Iseli cases, and had systematically arranged his notes on the crimes, divided into separate envelopes titled "Incident 1," "Incident 2," and "Incident 3." A photo album, with the words "Family Memories" on the cover, functioned as Dodd's pornographic collection, which included images of Christ as a baby from iconographic paintings. It also contained advertising images of children in underwear. There were Polaroids of Dodd naked, Dodd assaulting Lee, and pictures taken of Lee after he had died, including one of the little boy hanging in the closet.

"There's nothing more precious than them little guys"

Dodd was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Billy and Cole Neer, and Lee Iseli, as well as attempted kidnapping at the New Liberty Theater. Initially Dodd pleaded "not guilty," but in January 1990, against his attorney's wishes, he changed his pleas to guilty on all counts. Later that year, he stood before a Clark County judge and read a statement, indicting himself on all charges. He admitted that his crimes, including murder, were premeditated. There would be no trial to determine his guilt, but a jury would have to decide whether to give him the death penalty.

"Look what Mr. Dodd likes to do in his free time," said Prosecutor Roger Bennett to the jury. "Plan child murders. Commit child murders. Relive fantasies about child murders and write about them. With life without parole, two of those things are still available to him."


Dodd's bible, with the words 'Satan Lives', (POLICE)

The jury of six men and six women listened with disbelief, disgust, and grief as they were read sections from Dodd's diary, and saw the photos implicating Dodd's brutalities against Lee Iseli. One of the jurors nearly passed out as he listened to parts of the diary read aloud. They also heard Dodd's detailed plans for his future victims, which included mutilation, dismemberment, and death.

Dodd's defense did not call any witnesses, nor did they present any evidence during the trial. Defense attorney Lee Dane did try to suggest that only an insane person would write the diaries that Dodd kept. During the trial Dodd sat quietly, stone faced. He later told The Oregonian that he was bored by the testimony. "I've heard it so many times now, it's kind of old, really."

Prosecutors asked for the death penalty, and on Saturday, July 15, 1990, the jury agreed that Dodd should die for his crimes. William "Ray" Graves, who apprehended Dodd outside of the New Liberty Theater, said, "The man don't deserve to live -- not someone who does that to babies. There's nothing more precious than them little guys."

Death by hanging

Dodd was in the odd position of having to defend his decision to die: "I didn't offer any mitigating evidence during the penalty phase because, in my mind, that's just an excuse. And I don't want to make any excuses," he told the court. "I do not blame the criminal justice system for anything…but the system does not work and I can tell them why," he said. "It doesn't really matter why the crimes happened. I should be punished to the full extent of the law, as should all sex offenders and murderers." Dodd stated that if his death would bring relief to victims' families, then he should die as soon as possible.

After the sentence, Dodd insisted that hanging was the appropriate means of execution, and that he did not want his death delayed by appeals. "I must be executed before I have an opportunity to escape or kill someone within the prison. If I do escape, I promise you I will kill and rape and enjoy every minute of it," he told the court.


The hanging chamber
He wanted to hang, he said, "because that's the way Lee Iseli died." The judge set Dodd's execution date for January 5, 1993, in Walla Walla, Washington. The ACLU fought to keep Dodd off the gallows, arguing that death, especially hanging, was cruel and unusual punishment. But Washington's justice system prevailed, and Dodd's execution date moved closer. By choosing a particularly cruel form of capital punishment, hanging, Dodd fiercely polarized the capital punishment debate, and many rallied to stop the execution. Although Dodd indicated he wanted to die, it seemed that he wanted to die a martyr, not as a criminal.

Dodd lures the media

Dodd made use of his time by courting the news, claiming he could help by telling his story. After his capture, he wrote a pamphlet on how to keep kids safe. But the Northwest communities where he molested children did not need Dodd as their spokesman against pedophilia.

Both the pornographic diary, numerous letters, and the cautionary pamphlet express Dodd's need to talk, and talk, and talk about his sick fetish. Dodd enticed the media, and the media trustingly took him by the hand as an "expert." He marketed himself as a monster -- look at me! Watch out for my kind! There are others out there like me! He appeared on TV shows (including Sally Jesse Raphael and a CNN special,) called radio programs from his cellblock, and gave countless interviews to reporters and to anyone else who wanted to listen to him recount his molestations. During the trial, Judge Robert Harris got so fed up with Dodd's incessant interviews that he threatened Dodd with lockdown conditions, including revoking telephone and mail privileges. He also chastised reporters for printing interviews with Dodd that could sway the jury.

In the end, Dodd used children for his own physical gratification by molesting them, and then used them for ego gratification by becoming an expert on the subject of child molestation.

As his execution date approached, Dodd professed remorse for what he had done. "I have confessed all my sins," he told a reporter in his interview. "I believe what the Bible teaches: I'll go to Heaven. I have doubts, but I'd really like to believe that I would be able to go up to the three little boys and give them a hug and tell them how sorry I was and be able to love them with a real true love and have no desire to hurt them in any way." We can only hope that Dodd's final destination provided some permanent distance between himself and the boys he hurt.

At 12:05 am on January 5th, Westley Dodd was executed by hanging. He was the first inmate to die at the gallows since 1965.



Here is the story broken down into chapters....



http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/dodd/movies_1.html

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/dodd/thirteen_2.html

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/dodd/neer_3.html

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/dodd/iseli_4.html

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/dodd/confess_5.html

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/dodd/children_6.html

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/dodd/children_7.html

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/dodd/bibli_8.html

http://www.crimelibrary.com/about/authors/scott/index.html

I feel sorry for a lot of those animals (ABSOLUTE ZERO’S POST)

CROSS POSTED FROM ABSOLUTE ZERO AT: http://absolutezerounited.blogspot.com/2007/12/i-feel-sorry-for-lot-of-those-animals.html

Wednesday, December 05, 2007
I feel sorry for a lot of those animals
Earlier we touched on the "empathy" displayed by girlchat members in regards to a girl being forced to urinate on a front lawn, in front of a school bus full of her classmates, now LGsouL has given us another insight into the compassion childlovers have for children, in his thread:

"HAHAHAHAHAHA Absolute Zero ====== ABSOLUTE MORONS!"

LGsouL starts out saying that he finds it funny that Absolute Zero talked about Child Pornorgaphers, in our post Anything you say may be used against you and then finishes up laughing about how another Girlchat member is getting married to woman to have easier access to sexually abuse her daughter.

"These are our enemies. And this is why I feel we will win. Logic over idiocy. It may take long but if this is what we are up against then oh lord we will win!"

Pedologic doesn't win you anything, except of course prison time - just ask the other "winners" Remsen Benedict, Robert Vann Smith, Jimbo finn... Childlvr4ever07 aka Rob/Tom chimes in behind LGsouL with:

childlvr4ever07

Absolute Morons is right, I read all of that as well and was appauled , that someone would abuse a Dog !!!

In regards to an investigators description of the intensity of child pornography he'd witnessed:

"Pictures of a young girl, 6 or 7 years old, nude, tied to a chair and being penetrated by a dog."

Appalled that someone would abuse a dog? Never mind the girl which was tied down naked and forcibly penetrated by an animal - photographed being degraded, raped and humiliated, so that perverts could relive the sexual abuse over and over for their pleasure. Joey follows on outraged about the abuse of the dog being used to rape a child:

Joey Bishop

That's obviously not normal behavior for a dog, someone trained him to do that. I feel sorry for a lot of those animals in bestiality porn, though few seem to care, and would rather get all hysterical about CP, which is often consensual.

Consensual just like a girl being tied down or an infant being penetrated by an adult male.

LGsouL..userend-->

Honestly I'd feel sorry for the animal in an adult porn but not in a cp. The dog isn't being abused at all compared to this girl. Do you really think a little girl wants to get banged by a dog? lol not really.

Now there's the wisdom of the ages for you.

..user-->Dissident

None of these outlandish claims of CP are ever verified, so we have no idea what these investigators are actually seeing. Since no one can verify their claims they can lie to their heart's desire and interpret what they see any way they wish.

In typical pedo style, Dissident tries to attack the validity of the investigators statement, denying that sexual abuse may not have even occurred; Despite the fact that members of law enforcement would have nothing to gain from lying about photos of kids being sexually abused. In true "Childlover" style Dissident finishes up with more senselessness:

And btw, I do not think anyone should go to jail simply for wanking off to pics or videos of children.

LGSouL, had this to say in response to Absolute Zero member Violetleavess, mentioning his name:

Hehe her post is exactly what I wanted and expected. I just thought it'd be funny to use her for my amusement. And if she sees what I just said I gave her more ammo to attack me! Oh I am using a sex abuse survivor. LOL

This is the compassion that "Childlovers" have for the kids they claim to love - indifference towards a child being sexually exploited, degraded and humiliated, which they try to gloss over and even deny that any abuse occurred - they display more concern for the animal being using to penetrate a child, than for the child suffering.
Labels: Child Pornography, Pedophile Logic

jacey posted at 11:11 PM |

Deputies Ask For Help In Locating Missing Children

Deputies Ask For Help In Locating Missing Children
Authorities Believe Children In Imminent Danger

POSTED: 8:45 pm MST December 5, 2007
UPDATED: 9:05 pm MST December 5, 2007


DENVER -- Sheriff's deputies in Weld County are asking for the public's help in finding three children, officials believe are in danger.

Deputies received a court order Tuesday from the district court directing them to locate the three children ages 6, 5 and 3 years old, said Shane Scofield of the Weld County Sheriff's Office. The children have been missing since.

The order stated the children are in imminent physical or emotional danger while in the custody of their mother, Evelyn Elmira Jewell, said Scofield.


Police said they are searching several areas for Jewell and her children. Police believe she may try to head towards Mississippi, Scofield said.

Police said they are looking for a black four-door Honda with temporary tags.

Jewell, 24, is described as being 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighing 100 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Weld County Sheriff's Department at (970) 304-6500.



http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14786352/detail.html#

46-year-old convicted sex offender, charged with kidnapping and killing 4-year-old boy!

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Cecil E. New II, a 46-year-old convicted sex offender, was charged Wednesday with kidnapping and killing 4-year-old Cesar Ivan Aguilar-Cano, who disappeared near Churchill Downs on June 29. The boy’s body was found in a garbage truck a few days later.


For Metro Police, it was the end of months of painstaking work to crack this case. Detectives arrested New about 5 a.m. Wednesday near 26th and Jefferson -- just a block or so away from the halfway house at which he was staying.

The case among the most heart wrenching cops have faced: the body of little 4-year-old Ivan Cano discovered in the bin of a garbage truck as tippers made trash pick ups in the alleyways of apartments near Churchill Downs back in July.


Police later searched the apartment of New, located just behind the apartments where Cano's family lived. At that time, no arrest was made.


Then today's arrest and his grand jury indictment hours after he was taken into custody.


Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Stengel said they'd been waiting for some test results.


“We had a whole parameter of scientific tests that we did. DNA testing was one of those things we did,” said Stengel. “You know, there’s a lot of cases out there that never get solved. So we’re real pleased with the job police did on this one and we hope to follow up with a good job on the prosecution.”

A Pathetic Article On The STUPID Sex Offender Rally In Ohio

I don't have the link to this story though, it was forwarded to me in my mail box . We suspect strongly that the author is a sex offender them self!
Jan you were not there, what happened??? LMAO
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Nation's Top Christ-Based Counselor Speaks for Most Hated Families in Society Reveals Nation's Hypocrisy On Issues Of Sex Offender Registration

Supporters at rally in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, OH (BlackNews.com) - Horrible images of sex-predators including rapists and pedophiles come to mind with the mention of the term, sex-offender. A history-making rally was staged on the capital of Ohio in Columbus where Senate Bill B-10 is being considered for the state. Among other things the Bill would extend sex offender registration to life-time. However, persons in attendance witnessed a completely different story of mothers, wives, sisters, and victims pleading for legislation that makes sense. Armed with statistical facts demonstrating that the principal place of sex offense is within the family, and that sex offender recidivism rate is among the lowest of any kind of offender, one-by-one they made their desires clear. The rally was sponsored by So Clear Media. So Clear's charter involves safety for all children, and streamlining registration to those persons representing a true threat to society.

Representatives from the mental health and legal profession also participated. The day was concluded with an unforgettable speech by Dr. Steven B. DavidSon. DavidSon, the nation's leading Christ-based Counselor is the author of the book, Christ-based Sexual Counseling-The Decade of Sexual Dysfunction.
Identifying himself as a child-of-the-sixties his message called on the God of Biblical patriarchs, the framers of the constitution, civil rights icons, and his grandparents. He included a prayer and proclamation to change the term, God bless America to God have mercy on America. Thanking God for America and citing the evidence of his personal commitment to the nation, he launched a series of unforgettable one liners. Finally, asking God's mercy upon the nation for being a world-leader in sexual promiscuity, he disclosed sexual promiscuity in the nation's leadership including the White House, Capitol Hill, and pulpits across the nation. He further identified sex-offender registration as the vehicle where the public absolves its sex related guilt and sexual failures. Stating that they face little opposition, he blasted law makers charging them with repressive law-making knowing its low risk politics. He cited his God as the one they'll have to fear. Alluding to his child-of-the-sixties background, he included himself and countless others as sex offenders given God's standard that any sex outside of the marriage union is detestable behavior.
He left the listeners with an eye-opening call to tell the Church that sex-offender registration is not for sex-offenders. He called sex-offenders the Beta testers, and revealed it as the same system that will register Christians who do not accept the mark of the lawless government in Revelation 13.
Even counter-protesters listened and evaporated by the time his thundering twenty-two minute message was concluded. Braving sub-freezing temperatures, there were tears, cheers, and restored hope by the attendees. DavidSon pledged to help share their message. "They are not trying to eliminate the registration program altogether. Clearly, the public needs to be aware of persons who present a real threat. However, in its current form, we are back to the days of colonial prosecution and persecution. Sex offender registration is the new public display. Let's be forthright, as currently prosecuted there should be millions of us pilloried with stocks around our necks."
DavidSon, who knows the dilemma personally through his own son's experience calls it a 'God thing.' "No one would choose this. We were called to it. There are obvious threats and dangers involved, but we embrace the calling. What began as a nightmare five years ago with my family has become a place that glorifies the God we serve."
You can see the message in its entirety on Christbasedcounseling.org , or www.youtube.com/davidSonjustice

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I am most worried about this statement from the article here:

"Armed with statistical facts demonstrating that the principal place of sex offense is within the family, and that sex offender recidivism rate is among the lowest of any kind of offender, one-by-one they made their desires clear. "



FACTS!!?? Clearly this so called author has NOT done their homework!

Then get these ones:


" Alluding to his child-of-the-sixties background, he included himself and countless others as sex offenders given God's standard that any sex outside of the marriage union is detestable behavior."


Oh yea, let's compare adult sex outside of marriage to raping, incest, pedophilia and beastiality! (however you spell that ugly word)


"Even counter-protesters listened and evaporated by the time his thundering twenty-two minute message was concluded"


EVAPORATED?! BUAHAHAHAHAHAA!!! What a joke!! Obviously a sex offender him/herself!
You know, I am thinking about getting on one of these damned journalist sites and start presenting some facts of my own HA HA
If they can do it and get away with SPINNING facts, then why can't I go and present the actual AS IS facts?
I hate these people! And they deceive good willed people slowly and slyly who don't know what's up, pisses me off!
And this article came from BlackNews.com? How would Blacknews like to be contacted by a hundred or so people from alll backgrounds and have the REAL recidivism rate facts thrown in their face and the fact that they are helping to spread lies?!
And how would DavidSon like to lose some of his Christian soldiers who are being manipulated & brainwashed/lied to?!

Look at this link!!!!!!! http://www.blacknews.com/pr/hisgloryministry301.html

Flower Mound, TX (BlackNews.com) - One of the most outrageous stories becomes more bizarre. The son of Dr. Steven B. DavidSon, the author of the Christ-based Counseling series was arrested and jailed for a parole violation for finding a job.


OMFG! & They do not tell who the authors are!!!!!!! DAMN IT!

This "Godly" man makes me think of, Rev. Dr. C. David Hess New York Representative of SoHopeful Int.
HA HA HA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy6PtNVszPQ

http://theparson.net/so/

MAN CHARGED WITH RAPE & MURDER OF HIS 8 DAY OLD INFANT DAUGHTER!

MAN CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT, MURDER OF BABY
Category: News and Politics

Monday, December 3, 2007

Father charged with sexual assault, murder of baby
BY KIM KOZLOWSKI / The Detroit News
LINCOLN PARK -- Prosecutors charged a Lincoln Park man today in the death and sexual assault of his 8-day-old daughter, who died from massive bleeding and blood poisoning after the attack.

Christopher Ryan Richardson, 21, was charged with felony murder, and first-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree child abuse. The murder charges carry mandatory sentences of life in prison without parole, while the maximum penalty for the other charges are life in prison and 15 years, respectively.

Richardson vehemently denied the charges during his arraignment this afternoon, calling the acts "psychotic."

"Never in my life would I do some (expletive) like this," Richardson said, as several people in 25th District Court shed tears but declined to comment afterward.

The charges came after Nevaeh Ann Richardson was rushed to Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital with blood coming from her mouth and rectum on the day after Thanksgiving shortly before midnight. She died the following day and the Wayne County Medical Examiner ruled her death a homicide.

Authorities said the child's death stemmed from digital anal penetration.

The infant also suffered from bruises on her arms, legs, head and injuries to her genitals before she died, Worthy added.

"We in law enforcement have seen many horrendous crimes but this is one of the worst when someone will harm an 8-day-old infant," she said.

Nevaeh, which is heaven spelled backward, was living with Richardson, her mother and paternal grandmother when the crime happened.

Richardson was charged last week with domestic violence, third offense, for assaulting and threatening the child's mother on the night Nevaeh was taken to the hospital. He was being held in the Lincoln Park jail with a cash bond of $100,000.

District Court Judge David A. Bajorek increased Richardson's bond to $1 million with the three new charges, noting that Richardson recently failed to appear in a Southgate court for an assault and battery charge and for a probation violation in Roscommon.

With his head hung and tears streaming occasionally down his face, Richardson asked Bajorek if could take blood or lie detector tests to prove his innocence.

"I didn't do it, man," Richardson insisted.

A preliminary hearing will be held Tuesday on Richardson's domestic violence charge. A preliminary examination on the murder and assault charges is scheduled for Dec. 11 at 1:30 p.m

U.S. House of Representatives passed the PROTECT our Children Act of 2007

House Focuses on Internet Sex Predators
By JIM ABRAMS – 15 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is taking on people who use the Internet to prey on children, working through bills that would make it easier to monitor and prosecute cyber crimes against juveniles and to educate children about online dangers.

"We need to think of this as a war," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., sponsor of one of a half-dozen sex predator, child pornography and Internet safety bills heading for passage Wednesday. The bills were put together by Democratic majority but enjoyed wide bipartisan support.

Her bill would approve spending $1 billion over the next eight years to combat online child exploitation. It would create a Justice Department office to coordinate prosecution efforts; increases money for a program that helps state and local law enforcement; and provides more dollars to hire agents and improve forensic lab capabilities dedicated to child exploitation cases. It passed 415-2.

She said law enforcement has identified nearly 500,000 individuals trafficking in child pornography over the Internet, but because of a lack of resources, only about 2 percent are under investigation.

The other bills would:

_Approve $5 million a year for five years for an initiative that conducts Internet safety programs for children. An additional $5 million a year would go for competitive grants for similar initiatives. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., and passed by voice.

_Respond to a court decision last year to throw out a child pornography conviction on the grounds that the material moved on the Internet did not constitute interstate commerce. It would specify that Internet transmissions do fulfill the commerce clause. The bill sponsored by Rep. Nancy Boyda, D-Kan., passed 409-0.

_Enhance federal agent and probation officer efforts to monitor the computer use of convicted sex offenders. It would authorize courts to require, as a condition of probation, that convicted sex offenders cooperate in installing Internet filtering and monitoring systems. Social networking sites are permitted to check sex offender registries to prevent offender access. The bill sponsored by Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., also would increase prison terms for those who lie about their age in order to engage in criminal sexual conduct with a minor. It passed 417-0.

_Make it easier to prosecute federal child pornography law. The proposal would clarify that knowingly accessing child pornography on the Internet constitutes possession even if the person does not download or save the content. It also would subject those who profit from child pornography to money laundering charges. A vote on the bill, sponsored by Rep. Chris Carney, D-Pa., is pending.

_Require the Federal Trade Commission to increase public awareness and education about Internet safety. The proposal by Rep. Melissa Bean, D-Ill., passed 398-6.

All the bills must still be considered by the Senate.


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gygl3oNST-LkmAThjrHdzrM711tgD8STP5F80

http://www.protect.org/childPornography/index.html

Five year sentence to child sex offender using myspace!

HA HA HA, don't VIOLATE PAROLE THEN LOSERS!

MySpace URL:

http://www.myspace.com/cssilentstorm


SO sentenced to 5 years for being on MySpace


http://www.mycrimespace.com/2007/02/10/so-sentenced-to-5-years-for-being-on-myspace/


by Trench on February 10th, 2007

Sex Offender Sentenced for Using MySpace:
26-year-old Patrick Wong of Lubbock, Texas is a registered sex offender who was sentenced to 5 years behind bars for violating his parole by being on MySpace. Wong was originally arrested in 2001 for exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl in the Wal*Mart toy department. And in 2002 was placed in probation for failing to register as a sex offender.
patrick wong, sex offender



2/9/07
http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=6066410&nav=3w6y

Sex Offender Sentenced for Using MySpace
Source: Lubbock Co. Sheriff's Dept.
Source: Lubbock Co. Sheriff's Dept.

A Lubbock registered sex offender we found on my space during a NewsChannel 11 investigation will be spending the next five years in jail.

Friday, 26-year-old Patrick Wong was sentenced to five years for violating the terms of his probation. One of those conditions was that the former Texas Tech student was not supposed to be on MySpace. Wong is eligible for parole in two and a half years.

Another paroled registered sex offender who was caught using MySpace is out of jail. Paul Gutierrez was sent to prison three months ago for violating his parole by having a MySpace account. Gutierrez is under close supervision and must carry a tracking device. Since his release, he has taken his MySpace profile down.

HA HA HA!! SO TRUE, Right Jan?

Roar For Freedom’s Micheal Price =AKA= Kiokwus Little Fox

Okay, so we have Shirley Lowery of SOSEN and her affiliate's at Roar For Freedom, Betty and Michael Price.
Michael price is a level 3 registered sex offender from Florida!

http://www.roarforfreedom.com/ContactUs.html


Okay let's take a look at his registry shall we?

http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/flyer.do?personId=15324

and

http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/offenderSearchNav.do?link=showSelectedPersonsList

If those links don't show up for you, go to http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/offenderSearchNav.do?link=advanced

and enter Michael Price, his middle name is Lawrence.

view his flyer, it says:


Price is registered as a Sexual Offender.


Michael L Price
Date Of Photo: 10/11/2004

Aliases
Michael Lawrence Price, Michael Price


Crime Information - Qualifying Offenses
Adjudication Date Crime Description Court Case Number Jurisdiction & State Adjudication

12/12/1994 SEX BAT BY ADULT/VCTM UNDER 12; F.S. 794.011(2) (PRINCIPAL IN ATTEMPT) 8705439 PINELLAS, FL Not Available

06/28/2004 Sx Offender fail to not. Sheriff; F.S. 943.0435(7) (PRINCIPAL) 0004218 PASCO, FL Guilty/convict

Victim Information
Minor:Yes


Michael is also knows as, Kiokwus Little Fox and lives currently in West Virginia. From what I heard, he lives in his wife's mothers basement LOSERS!!!
Here is some gathered info on him:

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http://press.arrivenet.com/education/article.php/655536.html

Kiokwus Little Fox
S.O.S.E.N. Representative
Florida

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http://www.topix.com/forum/city/darlington-sc/TRJAMNHOJGG227QA8

kiokwus WV ---USA

Joined: Dec 21, 2006
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Richwood, WV
ISP Location: Bradley, WV
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http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.com/2007_01_14_archive.html

Police in North Little Rock accuse Colonel Donald Wodash of engaging in an ...... West Virginia needs tougher laws to crack down on Internet predators, ...

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Posted by: kiokwus | Jun 16, 2006 2:38:42 PM

Sometimes living the life of a sex offender still on probation leaves me feeling hopeless that my future will have much worth or purpose. Certainly my present does not have much satisfaction. To know that for the rest of my life my country will consider me a worthless throw away citizen is depressing. At least citizens have the right to vote, so actually I am less than a citizen who was born and raised here. My crime was getting two fifteen minute massages from a foreign exchange student staying in my apartment for a couple of weeks. Oh, yes, I also put aloe vera lotion on her sunburn after we spent an hour at the beach. I acted inappropriately by being naked in my apartment in the presence of the fifteen year old European girl, and for that I will be a registered sex offender for the remainder of my days. Personally, if my days were only a few it would be a joyous relief, because I have no career to return to, no retirement to contribute to since I basically am just making ends meet and getting by, and the mental anguish of daily being reminded that sex offenders are worse creatures on the planet. It did not matter that the girl offered the massages. That was my fault for being touched, especially while being naked for a massage. Regretting my error will never make the judge happy. Paying exorbitant attorneys' fees, losing my career, going to jail for six months, paying to participate in a sex offender course for 20 months, five years of probation where I must go three times a month to answer the same insidious questions that I have not had police contact, or contact with minors, and that I still live at the same address mean nothing to society. Corporations will not hire me. I cannot sell real estate. I cannot become a plumber, even if I had a crack big enough to fill the job. Jokes aside, this law does not consider the fairness of punishing one forever. This was not murder, folks. This was a dumb, single male who took in a stranger from another country who spoke the same language, and made a mistake of being naked in his apartment in her presence. Even murderers don't have to register for life. People who drive drunk and kill people don't have to register for life. Some guy who falls asleep while getting a massage does, though. Yes, I was wrong. I won't do that again. But that isn't punishment enough. Oh, did I forget to mention the $4,000 fine? And, why don't lying attorneys have to register for life? Everyone is guilty of something. Let's register everyone for something. Well, let's not register the police, the politicians, the judges, the district attorneys, the attorneys, or people who lie on the stand. They deserve special favor. All the while, the sex offenders who are all classified as the scum of society have no rights as convicted felons. Why not just kill them all? Start with me, because this system already killed me five years ago when the attorney told me to plead guilty after I told him I didn't have any more money to pay him. (He was doing such a mediocre job, that paying him an additional $7,500 to continue his worthless efforts would have been a greater crime.) Maybe after I am actually dead, not breathing any more, someone will realize that this country that is rapidly losing face around the world has a greater need to stop throwing away its citizens. Recycle bottles, cans, paper, and just for fun, felons who have completed their punishment phases. They are not all alike, but they still have redeemable value that cannot be utilized if discarded forever.


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Notice how Micheal claims the girl was 15 years old in his short story above, however on the Florida State flyer of him it says:

12/12/1994 SEX BAT BY ADULT/VCTM UNDER 12; F.S. 794.011(2) (PRINCIPAL IN ATTEMPT) 8705439 PINELLAS, FL


Their state law crime description for this is:

If conviction between 1993 and 1994:

794.011(2)(a) Person 18 Or Older Commits Sexual Battery And/Or Injures Sexual Organs Of A Victim Less Than 12

2(a) A person 18 years of age or older who commits sexual battery upon, or in an attempt to commit sexual battery injures the sexual organs of, a person less than 12 years of age commits a capital felony, punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.141.

(http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/QualifyingOffenses.jsp1120)


Thanks to a VERY reliable source I got a hold of this info as well, written by Betty price:

http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-52256.html

lencherovp03-24-2004, 11:13 AM

Here is our story. Would love to have people to chat with. Ariel thanks for directing me to this site.
:pissed:
I always was told that a person is innocent until proven guilty. I was always told the policemen, the judicial system, etc worked for the people. I always believed these things until I met my wonderful husband. I met him after being married to an abusive alcoholic for 26 years. I finally got the courage, the sense or whatever you want to call it and leave in July 1999. I met my husband Mike on August 31, 1999. It was love at first sight for us both. We originally met online and chatted for a couple days. I told him I wanted to meet him and he told me he had to tell me something first. I read a little of his story and told him you paid your dues and I wasn't one to judge without meeting and getting to know a person. We met the next evening. We moved in together a couple weeks later. He has helped me through nightmares, flashbacks, and has worked and supported us through most of our relationship. I have panic and anxiety attacks and chronic depression. At times, I faint for no apparent reason. They say this is the form of anxiety attacks I have. He has never pushed me, has done without so I had medication, has taken very good care of me, never complained about being awakened at at night when I have nightmares, holds me when I faint. He is the most wonderful, loving, caring person and I am so lucky to have found him. God was smiling down on me when we met. God meant for us to be together. Here is his story and our story:

In March 1984 Mike was arrested for capital sexual battery. He was coerced into pleading guilty. He was told he was drunk and didn't remember doing anything to his nine year old little girl, who was his oldest daughter. After he pled guilty the States Attorney told the Judge that the medical reports stated there was vaginal penetration. Mike was sentenced to 2 years house arrest and 15 years probation. He didn't see his children for two years. Near the end of the 2 year house arrest he was offered a job in Pennsylvania. The courts allowed his probation to go to Pennsylvania. He had an excellent job. In
December 1994 his youngest daughter said he had touched her breasts. He hadn't done so. The oldest daughter tried to speak on his behalf and
wasn't allowed to. She mainly wanted to let the system know that her sister was lying because she had been grounded. At this time the oldest
daughter was 17. The youngest was 13. He and his wife were having problems and he was planning to move out after Christmas. He was
with a misdemeanor for this as he pled guilty again deciding there was no reason to fight. He was depressed about many things in his life. His
wife moved back to Florida and went to the States Attorney and insisted they violate his probation. Pennsylvania had decided not to let Florida
know anything and she was furious. She had been telling her daughters their Father was dead and no longer of any importance to them, they
were to have nothing to do with him etc. I have this information from the oldest daughter who lives in our home with her two year old son. She
is very close to her Father. In December 2000 we lived near the youngest daughter in an apartment. I worked at the apartment complex. The
youngest daughter had told the oldest daughter she would consider meeting with us. We wrote to her. Her Father wrote and I wrote a
separate letter introducing myself. She then sent the police to our home telling them Mike was a Registered Sex Offender. Mike had me to call
the police station earlier in the year about that because we had watched something on the news about it and I was told he didn't have to Register.
They arrested him that night for Failure to Register. While he was in jail over night I went through his transcripts and read what the States
Attorney said to the judge about the medical reports. I already knew that wasn't true because the oldest daughter had already told me
he had never touched her in anyway and was only a loving Father her entire life! Then I found the copy of the medical record. It reads no
penetration and no evidence of any vaginal trauma or attempted entry! How could the States Attorney get away with this. I asked Mike
this question. He said because he had pled guilty the judge didn't have to actually see the medical report! Also, I found out that Mike hadn't
seen it either. Not only that, but he had never looked at any of the transcripts or anything since they had been in his possession. He said he
just wanted to forget it and get on with his life. Also, while looking at these papers I found his release papers from prison when they violated
his probation. No where on any of the papers does it say he is to register as a sex offender. As a matter of fact the only thing even close is
where they checked "NO, I do not have to register as a sexual predator". I was fired the same night that they arrested Mike and told we had
three days to move out. I didn't receive my last pay check from them. I don't remember what their reason was for keeping it. I also didn't
receive my Commissions due to me. Since I was fired they gave Mike a Public Pretender oops I mean defender. I was a wreck and haven't
worked outside the home since then. We started our own business as a Procurement Agency for the Offshore Gas and Oil Industry. In
November of 2002 our business was doing so well that Mike was able to quit his regular job and work at home with me. While doing research
on the internet to try and help him win this case I came across the Jacob Wetterling Act. It seems the DOC was to have registered Mike
before he even left prison. Had they done that he would have received a letter from the State yearly wanting all of his information as to
address, license number, license plate number, phone number, etc. He never received one of these until after he was arrested for
Failure to Register. We went to court on July 28, 2003 for this charge. The judge said to Mike, "Mr.. Price, I haven't read anything about
your case or seen anything about your case but I can tell you that if you take this to trial you will lose and you will be given 15 years and
the Jimmy Rice Act". Of course, after that he did the same thing and pled guilty. My 16 year old daughter, her boyfriend, Mikes now
26 year old daughter, a friend of ours and myself were all in court to speak on his behalf but were denied. My children and grandchildren
think just as much of Mike as his own daughter does. He has been a great step father to my children and loves them as his own.
He is serving 11/29 in the Pasco County Detention Center, Land O' Lakes, FL. Our customers somehow found out about Mikes criminal
background and the business is now gone. All because of lies and ignorant States Attorney's, State Judges and State Public Pretenders.
Mike's daughter has gone to an attorney and given her statement as a recantation. He went through all the transcripts etc and found
several other reasons besides her statement to file a Motion for Post Conviction Relief. That paperwork was filed on October 30, 2003 but
we have yet to be given a hearing date. They want to rush and put innocent people in jails and prisons but drag their feet on the truth.
I am finished venting now. I am a lot wiser and a whole lot less naive now. Thank you for listening.
Sincerely,
Michael and Betty Price


OTHER GREAT SOURCES ON MICHAEL & BETTY PRICE:

http://www.wikisposure.com/Michael_Price

http://www.wikisposure.com/Roar_for_Freedom

http://www.wikisposure.com/Betty_Price


Here is his wife, Betty's myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/deweywyatt

December 1st, Columbus, Ohio - Rally Against Child Abusers!

PLEASE SEE THIS LINK BELOW FOR COMPLETE BLOG WRITTEN BY ABSOLUTE ZERO!

http://absolutezerounited.blogspot.com/2007/10/december-1st-columbus-ohio-rally.html

Pro-Sex Offender Activists are planning to rally in Columbus Ohio, in an attempt to attack a bill being proposed to further protect children from sexual abuse.

Pro-Sex Offender Organizations planning to attend the rally include:

SO Clear - Headed up by Tom Madison
SOSEN - Headed up by Shirley Lowery
Roar4Freedom - Headed up by Betty Price


What you can do help:

Woman Against Sexual Predators (WASP) and several other Anti-Pedophile Organizations are taking the fight right back to SO Clear and SOSEN, they're Counter-Rallying in Ohio. You can find out more about them and how you can join them in Ohio to show your support here.

Another thing you can do, is, as Tom would say "raise the level of awareness"



http://absolutezerounited.blogspot.com/2007/10/december-1st-columbus-ohio-rally.html

Antisocial & Histrionic

Antisocial personality disorder

Antisocial personality disorder (APD) is a psychiatric condition characterized by an individual's common disregard for social rules, norms, and cultural codes, as well as impulsive behavior, and indifference to the rights and feelings of others. Antisocial personality disorder is terminology used by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, while the World Health Organization's ICD-10 refers to Dissocial personality disorder.

Diagnostic criteria (DSM-IV-TR)

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV, currently DSM-IV-TR), a widely used manual for diagnosing mental and behavioral disorders, defines antisocial personality disorder as a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15vc, as indicated by three (or more) of the following:

1.failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest

2.deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure

3.impulsivity or failure to plan ahead

4.irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults

5.reckless disregard for safety of self or others

6.consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain steady work or honor financial obligations

7.lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another


Diagnostic criteria (ICD-10)

Chapter V of the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases offers a set of criteria for diagnosing the related construct of dissocial personality disorder.

Dissocial Personality Disorder (F60.2), usually coming to attf a gross disparity between behavior and the prevailing social norms, and characterized by:

callous unconcern for the feelings of others;

gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules, and obligations;

incapacity to maintain enduring relationships, though having no difficulty in establishing them;

very low tolerance to frustration and a low threshold for discharge of aggression, including violence;

incapacity to experience guilt or to profit from experience, particularly punishment;

marked proneness to blame others, or to offer plausible rationalizations, for the behavior that has brought the patient into conflict with society.

There may also be persistent irritability as an associated feature. Conduct disorder during childhood and adolescence, though not invariably present, may further support the diagnosis.



Symptoms

Common characteristics of people with antisocial personality disorder include:

Persistent lying or stealing

Recurring difficulties with the law

Tendency to violate the rights of others (property, physical, sexual, emotional, legal)

Substance abuse

Aggressive, often violent behavior; prone to getting involved in fights

A persistent agitated or depressed feeling (dysphoria)

Inability to tolerate boredom

Disregard for the safety of self or others

A childhood diagnosis of conduct disorders

Lack of remorse for hurting others

Superficial charm

Impulsiveness

A sense of extreme entitlement

Inability to make or keep friends

Lack of guilt

Recklessness, impulsivity

People who have antisocial personality disorder often experience difficulties with authority figures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder


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Histrionic personality disorder


Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriate seductiveness, usually beginning in early adulthood.

The essential feature of the histrionic personality disorder is a pervasive and excessive pattern of emotionality and attention-seeking behavior. These individuals are lively, dramatic, enthusiastic, and flirtatious. They may be inappropriately sexually provocative, express strong emotions with an impressionistic style, and be easily influenced by others.

The literature differentiates HPD according to gender. Women with HPD are described as self-centered, self-indulgent, and intensely dependent on others. They are emotionally labile and cling to others in the context of immature relationships. Females with HPD over identify with others; they project their own unrealistic, fantasied intentions onto people with whom they are involved. They are emotionally shallow and have difficulty understanding others or themselves in any depth. Selection of marital or sexual partners is often highly inappropriate. Pathology increases with the level of intimacy in relationships. Women with HPD may show inappropriate and intense anger. They may engage in manipulative suicide threats as one aspect of general manipulative interpersonal behavior.

Males with HPD usually present with identity diffusion, disturbed relationships, and lack of impulse control. They have antisocial tendencies and are inclined to exploit physical symptoms. These men are emotionally immature, dramatic, and shallow. Both men and women with HPD engage in disinhibited behavior.

People with this disorder are usually able to function at a high level and can be successful socially and at work. However, histrionic personality disorder may affect a person's social or romantic relationships or their ability to cope with losses or failures. People with this disorder may seek treatment for depression when romantic relationships end, although this is by no means a feature exclusive to this disorder. They often fail to see their own situation realistically, instead tending to dramatize and exaggerate. Responsibility for failure or disappointment is usually blamed on others. They may go through frequent job changes, as they become easily bored and have trouble dealing with frustration. Because they tend to crave novelty and excitement, they may place themselves in risky situations. All of these factors may lead to greater risk of developing depression.

Causes

The cause of this disorder is unknown, but childhood events and genetics may both be involved. It occurs more frequently in women than in men. Histrionic Personality Disorder is only rarely found in men; men with similar symptoms are often diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.

Little research has been conducted to determine the biologic sources of this disorder. Psychoanalytic theories incriminate seductive and authoritarian attitudes by fathers of these patients.


Symptoms

The symptoms include:

Constant seeking of reassurance or approval.

Excessive dramatics with exaggerated displays of emotions.

Excessive sensitivity to criticism or disapproval.

Inappropriately seductive appearance or behavior.

Excessive concern with physical appearance.

A need to be the center of attention (self-centeredness).

Low tolerance for frustration or delayed gratification.

Rapidly shifting emotional states that may appear shallow to others.

Opinions are easily influenced by other people, but difficult to back up with details.

Tendency to believe that relationships are more intimate than they actually are.

Make rash decisions

Threaten or attempt suicide to get attention




Diagnostic criteria (DSM-IV-TR)

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, defines histrionic personality disorder as a pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

1.is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention

2.interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior

3.displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions

4.consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self

5.has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail

6.shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion

7.is suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances

8.considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are.



Mnemonic

A mnemonic that can be used to remember the criteria for histrionic personality disorder is PRAISE ME:

P - provocative (or seductive) behavior
R - relationships, considered more intimate than they are
A - attention, must be at center of
I - influenced easily
S - speech (style) - wants to impress, lacks detail
E - emotional lability, shallowness

M - make-up - physical appearance used to draw attention to self
E - exaggerated emotions - theatrical




Diagnostic criteria (ICD-10)

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases defines histrionic personality disorder as characterized by:

self-dramatization, theatricality, exaggerated expression of emotions;

suggestibility, easily influenced by others or by circumstances;

shallow and labile affectivity;

continual seeking for excitement and activities in which the patient is the centre of attention;

inappropriate seductiveness in appearance or behaviour;

over-concern with physical attractiveness.

Associated features may include egocentricity, self-indulgence, continuous longing for appreciation, feelings that are easily hurt, and persistent manipulative behaviour to achieve own needs.



Treatment

Because of the lack of research support for work on personality disorders and long-term treatment with psychotherapy, the empirical findings on the treatment of these disorders remain based on the case report method and not on clinical trials. On the basis of case presentations, the treatment of choice is psychotherapy aimed at self-development through resolution of conflict and advancement of inhibited developmental lines. Group therapy is not recommended for those with HPD because it often perpetuates histrionic behavior because the person then has an audience to play off of.

Family therapy
Medications
Alternative therapies


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder

Sexually Active Teenagers Are More Likely to Be Depressed and to Attempt Suicide

Sexually Active Teenagers Are More Likely to Be Depressed and to Attempt Suicide
by Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., and Lauren R. Noyes
Center for Data Analysis Report #03-04
Teenage sexual activity is an issue of wide­spread national concern. Although teen sexual activity has declined in recent years, the overall rate is still high. In 1997, approximately 48 percent of American teenagers of high-school age were or had been sexually active.

When compared to teens who are not sex­ually active, teenage boys and girls who are sexually active are significantly less likely to be happy and more likely to feel depressed.

When compared to teens who are not sex­ually active, teenage boys and girls who are sexually active are significantly more likely to attempt suicide.

Thus, in addition to its role in promoting teen pregnancy and the current epidemic of STDs, early sexual activity is a substantial fac­tor in undermining the emotional well-being of American teenagers.

DATA SOURCE AND METHODS

The data used in this analysis are taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adoles­cent Health, Wave II, 1996. This “Ad-Health” survey is a nationwide survey designed to examine the health-related behaviors of ado­lescents in middle school and high school. Its public-use database contains responses from approximately 6,500 adolescents, representa­tive of teenagers across the nation. The survey is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and 17 other federal agencies.

This Heritage CDA analysis focuses on the link between sexual activity and emotional well-being among teens in high school years (ages 14 through 17). The Ad-Health survey asks students whether they have “ever had sexual intercourse.”[4] For purposes of analysis, teens who answered yes to this question are labeled as “sexually active” and those who answered no are labeled as “not sexually active.”

The survey also records the emo­tional health of teens. Students are asked how often, in the past week, they “felt depressed.” They are provided with four possible answers to the ques­tion: They felt depressed

(a) Never or rarely,
(b) Sometimes,
(c) A lot of the time, or
(d) Most of the time or all of the time.

For purposes of analysis, the classifi­cation of depressed is given tothose teens who answered yes to options “c” or “d”—that is, they said they felt depressed a lot, most, or all of the time. Thus, throughout the paper, the terms “depressed” or “depression” refer to this general state of continuing unhappiness rather than to a more specific sense of clinical depression.

SEXUAL ACTIVITY AND DEPRESSION

The Ad-Health data reveal substantial differences in emotional health between those teens who are sexually active and those who are not. As Charts 1 and 2 show:

A full quarter (25.3 percent) of teenage girls who are sexually active report that they are depressed all, most, or a lot of the time. By con­trast, only 7.7 percent of teen­age girls who are not sexually active report that they are depressed all, most, or a lot of the time. Thus, sexually active girls are more than three times more likely to be depressed than are girls who are not sex­ually active.

Some 8.3 percent of teenage boys who are sexually active report that they are depressed all, most, or a lot of the time. By contrast, only 3.4 percent of teenage boys who are not sexually active are depressed all, most, or a lot of the time. Thus, boys who are sexually active are more than twice as likely to be depressed as are those who are not sexually active.

The link between teen sexual activity and depression is supported by clinical experience. Doctor of adolescent medi­cine Meg Meeker writes, “Teenage sexual activity routinely leads to emotional tur­moil and psychological distress…. [Sex­ual permissiveness leads] to empty relationships, to feelings of self-contempt and worthlessness. All, of course, precur­sors to depression.”[5]

Sexual Activity and Attempted Suicide

The Ad-Health survey also asks students whether they have attempted suicide during the past year. As Charts 3 and 4 show, the link between sexual activity and attempted suicide is clear.

A full 14.3 percent of girls who are sexually active report having attempted suicide. By con­trast, only 5.1 percent of sexually inactive girls have attempted suicide. Thus, sexually active girls are nearly three times more likely to attempt suicide than are girls who are not sexually active.

Among boys, 6.0 percent of those who are sexually active have attempted suicide. By contrast, only 0.7 percent of boys who are not sexu­ally active have attempted suicide. Thus, sexually active teenage boys are eight times more likely to attempt sui­cide than are boys who are not sexu­ally active.

Social Factors

The differences in emotional health between sexually active and inactive teens are clear. However, it is possible that the differences in emotional well-being might be driven by social background factors rather than sexual activity per se. For example, if students of lower socioeco­nomic status are more likely to be sexu­ally active, the greater frequency of depression among those teens might be caused by socioeconomic status rather than sexual activity.

To account for that possibility, additional analy­sis was performed in which race, gender, exact age, and family income were entered as control variables. This means that each teen was compared to other teens who were identical in gender, age, race, and income.

The introduction of these control or back­ground variables had virtually no effect on the cor­relations between sexual activity and depression and suicide. In simple terms, when teens were compared to other teens who were identical in gender, race, age and family income, those who were sexually active were significantly more likely to be depressed and to attempt suicide than were those who were not sexually active.

Teens Express Regrets over Sexual Activity

The significantly lower levels of happiness and higher levels of depression among sexually active teens suggest that sexual activity leads to a decrease in happiness and well-being among many, if not most, teenagers. This conclusion is corroborated by the fact that the majority of sexu­ally active teens express reservations and concerns about their personal sexual activity.

For example, a recent poll by the National Cam­paign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy asked the ques­tion, “If you have had sexual intercourse, do you wish you had waited longer?”[6] Among those teens who reported that they had engaged in inter­course, nearly two-thirds stated that they wished they had waited longer before becoming sexually active. By contrast, only one-third of sexually active teens asserted that their commencement of sexual activity was appropriate and that they did not wish they had waited until they were older. Thus, among sexually active teens, those who regretted early sexual activity outnumbered those without such concerns by nearly two to one.

Concerns and regrets about sexual activity are strongest among teenage girls. Almost three-quarters of sexually active teen girls admit they wish they had delayed sexual activity until they were older. Among sexually active teen­age girls, those with regrets concerning their initial sexual activity outnumbered those without regrets by nearly three to one.

The dissatisfaction and regrets expressed by teenagers concern­ing their own sexual activity is striking. Overall, a majority of sex­ually active boys and nearly three-quarters of sexually active girls regard their own initial sexual experience unfavorably—as an event they wish they had avoided.

Discussion

While the association between teen sexual activity and depression is clear, that association may be subject to different theoretical interpretations. For example, it might be that depressed teenagers turn to sexual activity in an effort to assuage or escape their depression. In this interpretation, the link between sexual activity and depression (presented in Table 1) might be caused by a higher level of sexual activity among those who are already depressed before commencing sexual activity. Thus, depression might lead to greater sexual activity rather than sexual activity’s leading to depression.

In limited cases, this explanation may be cor­rect; some depressed teens may experiment with sexual activity in an effort to escape their depres­sion. However, as a general interpretation of the linkage between depression and teen sexual activ­ity, this reasoning seems inadequate for two rea­sons.First, as Table 1 shows, the differences in happiness and depression between sexually active and inactive teens are widespread and are not the result of a small number of depressed individuals. This is especially true for girls. Second, the fact that a majority of teens express regrets concerning their own initial sexual activity strongly suggests that such activity leads to distress and emotional turmoil among many, if not most, teens.

Hence, the most likely explanation of the overall link between teen sexual activity and depression is that early sexual activity leads to emotional stress and reduces teen happiness.

Moreover, theoretical questions about whether teen sexual activity leads to depression or, con­versely, whether depression leads to teen sexual activity should not distract attention from the clear message that adult society should be sending to teens. Teens should be told that sexual activity in teen years is clearly linked to reduced personal happiness. Teens who are depressed should be informed that sexual activity is likely to exacer­bate, rather than alleviate, their depression. Teens who are not depressed should be told that sexual activity in teen years is likely to substantially reduce their happiness and personal well-being.

Conclusion
Sexual activity among teenagers is the major driving factor behind the well-publicized prob­lems of the high incidence of teenage STDs and teen pregnancy. The analysis presented in this paper also shows that sexual activity is directly connected to substantial problems among teens regarding emotional health.

Teenagers of both genders who are sexually active are substantially less likely to be happy and more likely to be depressed than are teen­agers who are not sexually active.

Teenagers of both genders who are sexually active are substantially more likely to attempt suicide than are teenagers who are not sexually active.

Until recently, society provided teenagers with classroom instruction in “safe sex” and “compre­hensive sex education.”[7] In general, these curric­ula fail to provide a strong message to delay sexual activity, fail to deal adequately with the long-term emotional and moral aspects of sexuality, and fail to provide students with the skills needed to develop intimate loving marital relationships as adults.

Over the past five years, there has been a growth in abstinence education programs that stand in sharp contrast to “safe sex” curricula. The best abstinence education programs teach:

The primary importance of delaying sexual activity,

That human sexual relationships are predomi­nantly emotional and moral rather than physi­cal in character, and

That teen abstinence is an important step lead­ing toward a loving marital relationship as an adult.

Such abstinence education programs are uniquely suited to meeting both the emotional and the physical needs of America’s youth.

Robert E. Rector is Senior Research Fellow, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., is Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Fellow in Statistical Welfare Research in the Center for Data Analysis, and Lauren R. Noyes is Director of Research Projects in Domestic Policy at The Heritage Foundation.