There’s helping out a friend, there’s forgiving a man who’s served his time, and then there’s describing the crimes for which that time was served—risk of injury to a child and enticing a minor by computer, both felonies—as the product of someone who was “caught up in a bad situation versus [doing] something…
On Wednesday, the State Department announced that it will terminate existing passports for registered child sex offenders and require them to reapply for new ones that contain a notice identifying them as sex offenders. All new applicants will receive the updated passport with the notice.
In 1988, director Victor Salva was convicted of lewd or lascivious acts upon a child, using a child under 14 in pornography, and oral copulation. He served 15 months of a three-year sentence, according to the AP. The victim in these convictions was Nathan Forrest Winters, whom Salva directed in 1989's Clownhouse.…
It makes sense that convicted sex offenders should be subject to restrictions on where they live, particularly around school zones. And it makes sense that lawmakers and elected officials, if they’d like to keep their jobs, would advocate for the strictest regulations possible. But there’s a wealth of evidence to…
In an attempt to reinstate bail for 21-year-old sex offender Owen Labrie, his attorneys presented a letter from an unnamed professor who compares Labrie to 15th century canonized military heroine Joan of Arc. Wow, so creative!
In the classic tradition of responsibility-evading white men the world over, Owen Labrie has filed a motion requesting a new trial after his conviction on sexual assault charges. Labrie, who was also recently sentenced to a year for violating his probation, has a new attorney, who is arguing that his old ones provided…
Owen Labrie, the 19-year-old graduate of the elite St. Paul’s School tried for raping a 15-year-old classmate, must register as a sex offender after a judge upheld his felony conviction for using a computer to lure a minor.
One day in March of 1975, 12-year-old Sheila Lyon and 10-year-old Katharine Lyon walked to the suburban Maryland Wheaton Plaza Mall. They never came back, and their bodies were never found.
A current lawsuit against the governor of Colorado alleges that juveniles convicted of sex crimes should not be forced to register as sex offenders for their entire lives. The plaintiffs argue that registering offenders (children and certain adults) for life is "cruel and unusual," and, more broadly, that the sex…
A network of Arizona-based websites is using data from sex-offender registries maintained by law-enforcement agencies to basically extort money from purported sex-offenders, some of whom are either no longer required to register themselves or have never actually been convicted of a sex-related crime.
For registered sex offenders in Southern California, Halloween is pretty much the worst holiday on the calendar, since it serves as a potent reminder to their neighbors that they can never, ever, under any circumstances participate in the ritual candy canvassing that makes Halloween simultaneously so magical and so…
A new Louisiana law — the first of its kind in the country — orders convicted sex offenders and child predators to publicly spell out their criminal status on social networking sites.
Christopher Kilkus is an experienced fashion photographer who has shot for brands and publications like Bebe, BCBG, Forever21, Seventeen, and Cosmopolitan. He's also photographed minors for some of these jobs, which is a problem: Kilkus is a convicted and publicly registered sex offender.
Congratulations, women and children of Detroit, you have a new sex offender to look out for. A white male in his 50s has been witnessed frequenting several establishments, mainly clothing stores and salons (where he reportedly requests Brazilians), wearing only pantyhose to cover his lower half. I know, how terribly…
A new app will let you check all your Facebook friends against the National Sex Offender Registry. But who actually needs this service?
A surprisingly high percentage of child sexual abuse is actually perpetrated by other children. But the systems in place for prosecuting adult pedophiles may not be appropriate for child offenders.
A group of British Columbia teenagers lured pedophiles to public locations, then appeared dressed as superheroes like Batman and the Flash and publicly shamed them. They also posted their encounters on YouTube. However, Canadian police have warned them that their unconventional crime-fighting tactics might put other…
Good news, New Yorkers! You can now use facebook to stalk not only your college boyfriend's new girlfriend who sort of creepily looks like you, but also high risk sex offenders who sort of creepily live by you. Well, the ones compliant enough to register, at least.
There's evidence that sex offender registries are crowded with too many people who pose little threat to the community, like those convicted of fornicating with with other teens or sexting photos of themselves. Even if the system isn't perfect, we assume that it's still a valuable tool to protect us against dangerous…
Residents of the Land of Lincoln are undoubtedly aware of the unrelenting clusterfuck that is state and local governments. Usually the tangled web of patronage and ball-dropping results in rueful head shaking, or a shrug along with the line, "Well! That's Illinois!" But now, it seems that the headless vowel elongating…
