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A piece published in The Houston Press titled “The 10 Hottest Women on the Texas Sex Offenders List” has caused a stir. It included photos and descriptions of ten attractive (and not-so-attractive) female sex offenders in the Lone Star State, along with their crimes. Many readers were outraged, and Change.org, a prominent social activism website, immediately circulated a petition demanding that the newspaper apologize for “the trivialization of the sexual assault of children and the misguided emphasis on the women's physical appearance.” While the majority of sex offenders are male, women rape and sexually assault children far more often than...

Here is a list of the teacher 'sexpidemic' cases WND has documented where female teachers have been accused, or convicted, of assaulting students: Abbie Jane Swogger, 34: Teacher's aide at Highlands Senior High School in Harrison, Pa., was arrested Feb. 22, 2008, for renting a hotel room where police found beer, marijuana, an open condom wrapper and at least four teenage girls and boys, including several of her 15-year-old son's friends. Though categorically denying rumors she was having sex with students from the school, Swogger was quoted as saying, "I was stupid, very stupid. I already know I was and...

A man was chased down by bystanders moments after he allegedly molested an 8-year-old girl in a Walmart store in San Leandro, the second such incident in the East Bay in less than two weeks. The latest incident happened at the Walmart at 1919 Davis St. at about 7 p.m. Friday, when the girl was shopping with her family. Her brother became separated from them, and the girl volunteered to look for him, police said. Soon afterward, the girl returned to her mother in tears and said a man had grabbed her from behind and had put his hand down...

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas is back with more hidden videos of New Jersey teachers unions. This time what the videos reveal is far more damaging than the previous release. This time the question of whether teachers unions will fight on behalf of their members who abuse the kids they’re supposed to be teaching is answered definitively. Unfortunately I think Project Veritas focuses on the less important revelations. Are the union members incredibly disrespectful and venomous towards Chris Christie? Sure. Do they let it be known that its still basically impossible to fire a tenured union teacher? Absolutely. However, everybody paying...

David Richard Lovshin was already on probation for a criminal abuse conviction after he sexually abused a mentally impaired victim in 2005. But he didn't learn his lesson. He was witnessed by a relative taking a 5-year-old girl into her bedroom. The witness then heard screams... When police interviewed the girl, she said that Lovshin had raped her on multiple occasions. During their investigation, detectives discovered that he'd also raped a 10-year-old girl. The second girl's injuries were so bad that doctors warn she may never be able to have kids. Yet prosecutors took a plea this week to save...

The NACCP, which captured national attention this week by formally condemning the "racist elements" in the Tea Party, is now supporting a California state lawmaker's proposal to turn the former home of the King of Pop into a state park. Assemblyman Mike Davis said this week that California NAACP president Alice Huffman and others approached him with the idea of the state Department of Parks and Recreation taking over the Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara County. The Los Angeles legislator said the idea is worth studying and that fans from around the world would visit Michael Jackson's former estate. Huffman,...

Calif. Pol Touts 'Pedophile Island' for Sex Offenders (May 21) -- California gubernatorial candidate Douglas Hughes has made quite a name for himself in recent weeks -- not so much by surging ahead in the polls, but rather by promising, if elected, to create a "Pedophile Island" for convicted sex offenders. "I read the newspapers, and always somewhere buried in the paper somebody has [been] raped, tortured, kidnapped and so forth," Hughes told AOL News. "We are not getting anywhere [by] putting them back in the neighborhood. ... It's like any alcoholic, sex or drug addict -- have it around...

State lawmakers voted to increase the penalties - including life in prison and death - facing repeat child molesters. House Bill 2965, by state Rep. Rex Duncan, would expand the penalties for child molesters, allowing repeat offenders to face life in prison without parole or the death penalty. “The death penalty is the ultimate deterrent and reserved for worst of the worst criminals,” said Duncan, a Sand Springs Republican who chairs the House Judiciary Committee. “Individuals with a history of violently raping children clearly fall into that category and should face a punishment equal to their crime.” Under current law,...

Accused killer John Albert Gardner III had nothing to do with the tip that led law enforcement to Amber Dubois’ remains, according to a local private investigator who worked on the case. Bill Garcia, hired by Amber’s family shortly after she disappeared, said he was told by a person with first-hand knowledge that the tip about the location of the remains did not come from Gardner, who was charged Wednesday with the rape and murder of Chelsea King, 17, of Poway. “The entire Chelsea King event emotionally pulled at somebody who had this information,” Garcia said. “They’ve seen the community...

While I was filming for a forthcoming project at CPAC, I was confronted by Hannah Giles, Andrew Breitbart and a mob of crazed teabaggers. They were enraged by an article I wrote for Salon.com about James O’Keefe’s attendance of and assistance with a white nationalist event featuring open racialists Jared Taylor and John Derbyshire as well as Kevin Martin of the right-wing front group Project 21. Project 21, by the way, is a black front group created and is operated by white conservative operatives to provide cover to figures like Taylor.

Imagine if you could get full salary and benefits for a decent paying job and you didn’t have to work to get it. All you had to do was be accused of a crime. What crime, you ask? How about molesting school kids? That’s what the teachers‘ unions in states like California and New York State are doing: coddling accused criminals — at your expense. And it’s probably going on elsewhere as well. Believe it or not, New York is a lot tougher on them than California. From the New York Post: "At the beginning of his 32-year career as...

My article on anti-Muslim rhetoric was posted on the Free Republic site with the heading *barf alert* http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2385780/posts Here are a few of the comments that were left in response to that posting. I believe that such comments are an important indicator of a general level of anti-Muslim feeling in our country. At least we need to be aware of how a segment of the population of America feels about Muslims. Really. They haven’t heard nothin’ yet These people are nothing but the domestic political arm of their terrorist co-religionists. Yep. Another major attack and I predict all freakin hell...

MOBILE, Ala. -- Two men who admitted taking trips to Thailand for sex with young boys face 6½-year prison terms, but could trim the time by testifying against the alleged organizer of the encounters. Burgess Lee Burgess of Mobile and Mitchell Kent Jackson of Pensacola pleaded guilty in November 2008 to traveling to have sex with a minor and conspiracy to do so. The two men once lived together in Mobile.

ELDORADO, Tex. — One of the leaders of a polygamist sect was convicted Thursday night of sexually assaulting an under-age girl whom the church elders had assigned to him as one of his nine wives. A jury of seven men and five women deliberated 2 hours 20 minutes before returning a verdict of guilty in the first trial of a dozen members of the Yearning for Zion Ranch just outside this rural hamlet in West Texas. The defendant, Raymond M. Jessop, 38, seemed unperturbed as Judge Barbara Walther of State District Court read the verdict. Mr. Jessop was immediately handcuffed...

It's now more than 50 years since the revolution began. Sexual "liberation" has been endlessly ballyhooed by the national media, promoted in the movies, embraced by Playboy guys and Cosmo girls as a freedom more delicious than Eden's apple. No American under 40 can honestly remember a time when sex on TV was taboo, when "living together" meant married, when "gay" meant happy, and when almost every child lived with both parents.   If truth be told, the revolution has been a disaster. Before the push to loosen America's sexual mores really got under way in the 1950s, the...

Repeatedly, the [Los Angeles Unified School] district failed to follow up on sexual misconduct complaints against employees once police or prosecutors dropped criminal actions. ... Prosecutors say molestation cases are extremely difficult to try because they often depend heavily on the accounts of young, frightened and shame-filled victims. But nothing prevents L.A. Unified from looking further into cases that police or prosecutors decline to pursue. Indeed, district policy has long required school officials to perform an independent inquiry. Under state law, the district can fire teachers for conduct it deems immoral or unprofessional, even if the acts fall short of...

The case of a 13-year-old Arizona girl strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain-reliever will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week. The justices in January accepted the Safford school district case for review, and will decide whether a campus setting gives school administrators greater discretion to control students suspected of illegal activity than police are allowed in cases involving adults in general public spaces. The case is centered around Savana Redding, now 19, who in 2003 was an eighth-grade honors student at Safford Middle School, about 127 miles from Tucson, Arizona. Redding was strip-searched by school...

PLEASE CALL GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD. The Number to call is : 1 916-445-2841 Legislature Passes Bill for 'Gay Day' Celebrations in California Public Schools By Peter J. Smith August 8, 2008, SACRAMENTO (LifeSiteNews. com) - California public schools soon will be planning 'gay day' celebrations every May 22 unless Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes the legislation. Thursday the California Assembly approved AB 2567, which designates May 22 as 'Harvey Milk Day.' The 43 to 26 vote occurred on party lines with Democrats for, Republicans against. Earlier this week, AB 2567 passed the California State Senate on another...

Europe Catholic adoption agency’s new policy will allow homosexuals to adopt London, Jul 27, 2008 / 05:57 pm (CNA).- The largest Catholic adoption agency in England and Wales has decided to implement an adoption policy that does not rule out same-sex couples in the face of new laws that forbid such screening. The change in its adoption policy was made with the full support of the bishops who oversee the agency.

When William Shakespeare wrote his ironic verse about hanging the lawyers, he hadn’t met the likes of Rep. James Fagan (D-Mass). Had he heard what State Rep. Fagan had to say for himself regarding how he would defend people accused of raping children, The Bard would have considered hanging far too kind a way to end a malicious and hateful existence. Fagan rose to debate a bill that would have imposed long mandatory sentences on anyone convicted of raping children in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Fagan showed the world how Democrats are the party of compassion. He spoke out on...

Criminal investigation of polygamous sect unimpeded by court wrangling But officials say uncovering crimes is slow work By Mike WardAMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Saturday, May 24, 2008 The state's decision to put hundreds of children from a polygamist sect into foster care bogged down in legal maneuvers this week, but authorities said Friday a criminal investigation into sexual-abuse allegations at the sect's West Texas ranch is moving ahead unimpaired. However, it's unlikely that any charges will be filed soon, officials said. "The Rangers and the DPS are methodically going through all the evidence," said Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department...

<p>Imagine: One day you’re frolicking in the open air on a large compound, doing your daily chores, and feasting on hearty homegrown fare; the next you’re gagging on a diet of T&A courtesy of MTV, and fast-food compliments of your fat foster mom. As the makeshift mom hollers at you to swallow your zombifying meds—the Texas foster care system is notorious for pumping its charges full of psychotropic drugs—her flaccid live-in lover eyes you lustily.</p>

EAU CLAIRE, Wis — A middle school principal says he made "an error in judgment" last week by not more fully discussing a teacher's plan to tell seventh-grade students her sexual orientation during health classes. South Middle School Principal John Wallace said in a letter to parents of about 125 students in Stephanie Rowe's health classes that parents send their children to school each day "trusting that we as their educators will make the best decisions as to how to instruct and care for them." "On certain occasions, however, a decision is made that is clearly not in the best...

I'm sorry, but if teachers or coaches seduce high school students, they ought to spend some time in jail. That's not been happening around here lately. - Erin McLean, 29, a student teacher at West High School, had an affair with a male student that led to his death. She left town, got another teaching job in Nashville, tried to seduce another boy, then skipped out when that came to light. Prosecution has not been pursued. - David Higgins, 51, a West High ROTC instructor, videotaped female cadets changing clothes and convinced them to disrobe and perform stunts. He got...

The Boy Scouts of America's refusal to bend its rules to permit gay scouts will cost the organization's local chapter $200,000 a year if it wishes to keep its headquarters in a city-owned building on Logan Square. Representatives of the Boy Scouts of America's Cradle of Liberty Council were notified that to remain in their 79-year-old landmark headquarters, they needed to pay the city a "fair market" rent, Fairmount Park Commission president Robert N.C. Nix said yesterday. Currently, the rent is $1 a year....

Three young people died in Newark, the latest casualties in illegal aliens' war on America. But don't expect even this bloody outrage to end the complacency of the political elite -- or the mainstream media -- as the alien invasion turns our streets into a slaughter house. On August 13, The New York Times, America's newspaper of wretched, covered the Newark murders in its usual, agenda-driven, fashion. In "After Killings, Sense of Unity Surprises Newark," the Times reported, "Political rivals have promised to work together, young men in gangs have signed pledges to put down their weapons, and a mayor...

HURON -- A man suspected of being an illegal alien was charged with gross sexual imposition after he was accused of entering an apartment and lying down next to and touching the thigh of a sleeping 8-year-old girl, according to Huron police. Lucio Sanchez-Martinez, 32, also was charged with entering the apartment where the girl lived with her father and two other children, said Huron police Chief Randy Glovinsky. Huron police began investigating the morning of Aug. 8, when they received a call for a sex offense investigation, according to the police report. When officers arrived at an apartment building...

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. -- One Bloomfield Hills school is enforcing a new policy that will end the use of a popular Web site on the premises. St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic School students were informed recently that under a new school policy, Think First, Stay Safe, the use of MySpace.com will be prohibited at school and at home. The policy states that students enrolled in the school can't have a MySpace.com account or any similar type of personal site, according to a news release.

The Roanoke Times is the latest newspaper to discover that just because something can be done does not mean it should be done. As reported by Michelle Malkin and others, the Times on March 11 ran an editorial titled "Shedding Light on Concealed Handguns" announcing that it was publishing a list of everyone in Virginia's New River Valley possessing a concealed carry permit. This type of story has become a ritual event with second and third-tier news outlets across the country. Others who have published similar stories include the suburban New York Westchester-Rockland Journal News, the Argus Leader of South...

ICE, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, rounded up 12 illegal immigrants in Utah this week, identified as child sexual abusers. The arrests come as part of a nationwide effort called Operation Predator. In all, 9,500 people nationwide were arrested, all of them identified as child sex offenders. One of them is Leonel Ortiz-Reza, and his story serves as a cautionary tale for anyone who is an illegal immigrant and who has a record. ICE is stepping up enforcement with immigration raids last year and a new roundup this week of 12 foreign national "child sex predators" in the Salt Lake...

"Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters." ... On February 23, former president of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU Charles Rust-Tierney was arrested at his home in Arlinton, Va. and charged with receiving and possessing child pornography... Despite the news worthiness of this story, the mainstream press has failed to cover it. Rust-Tierney owned numerous computer discs filled with images of young girls being victimized. The investigation report described prepubescent girls "seen and heard crying" and many "bound by rope." There were even...

Pittsburgh Steelers' linebacker Joey Porter was fined $10,000 by the NFL on Thursday for a gay slur he made towards Cleveland Browns' tight end Kellen Winslow after the game on Thursday. During the game, Winslow was flagged for a personal foul for hitting Steelers linebacker James Farrior after a play. In a post-game interview, Porter referred to Winslow with a derogatory word used to describe homosexuals. On Tuesday, Porter apologized, saying he didn't intend to offend anyone but Winslow. "I guess, how we used that word freely, me using it growing up, I didn't think anything of it," Porter said...

By any reasonable measure, this is truly the golden age for men who prey on underage girls for sex. Instead of referring to abortion as "a woman's right to choose," it would be more accurate to label it "the pedophile's get-out-of-jail-free card." The first evidence of this was a Life Dynamics undercover investigation into America's growing epidemic of underage girls being sexually exploited by adult men. The results documented that family planning clinics associated with Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation are operating a nationwide pedophile protection ring. (Read the complete report at ChildPredators.com or call 1-800-800-LIFE for...

I hope you all had a Happy Labor Day weekend. I know that for many of you, this will have involved time with your children, grand-children, even great grand-children. For someone in America it may have been the last time they saw that child alive. For out there this weekend there will have been a John Couey, a Richard Allen Davis, a Joseph Duncan, a Brian David Mitchell, or a Joseph P. Smith watching your loved ones and planning to rape and murder them. Who are these people?? They are respectively those who attacked Jessica Lunsford, Polly Klaas, the Groehne...

VISTA – An Encinitas violinist who had a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison. Reginald Clews, 32, pleaded guilty on the eve of his trial in June to 18 counts of child molestation. Because of the plea, he was able to avoid being sentenced to the maximum term of 42 years in prison. Superior Court Judge John Einhorn agreed to a sentencing range of six to 15 years in prison. Midway through the hearing yesterday, he told the attorneys he was bothered by the unusual circumstances of the case and asked their...

(JHR) At this time last year, the San Diego Gay Pride organization (www.sdpride.org) was under investigation for employing numerous pedophiles as volunteers and staff superviors during it annual parade and festival. The scandal involved dangerous sex offenders working for San Diego Gay Pride who had been convicted of having sex with young male minors or young children (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45151). One of those pedophiles was hired by the San Diego Gay Pride group to work in its children's garden during their 2005 festival (http://www.10news.com/news/4857263/detail.html). Most San Diegans would have thought that in 2006, the last place that public schools would allow their...

SAN DIEGO – A Chicago flight attendant and psychologist was sentenced Friday to more than three years in prison for his role in a plan to travel to Ensenada to molest boys. David Mayer, 50, was one of seven men arrested in February after an undercover FBI sting operation infiltrated the North American Man/Boy Love Association. U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Miller also ordered Mayer to be supervised, basically on probation, during the 12 years following his release, and to register as a sex offender, undergo psychiatric testing and treatment and to have no access to children. He was sentenced...

Would you try to put out a fire with gasoline? No? Then you might disagree with an MSNBC online article, "Porn: Good for America!" by Glenn Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor. Reynolds suggests that pornography reduces rape! As proof, Reynolds quotes a U.S. Department of Justice claim that in 2004 rape of "people" over age 12 radically decreased with an "85 percent decline in the per-capita rape rate since 1979" (DOJ's National Crime Victimization Survey of "thousands of respondents 12 and older"). But the FBI also estimates that "34 percent of female sex assault victims" are "under...

ERUSALEM, July 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Israel's Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar has formally written Pope Benedict XVI asking for help in stopping homosexual activists from staging a "World Pride" parade in the holy city of Jerusalem. Last year the coordinated efforts of Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious leaders successfully put off the gay pride event with homosexual activists claiming that they cancelled the event only because of the Gaza pull-out which was scheduled a few days prior to the event. Once again Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious and even political leaders have put aside their differences and have come together...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US authorities said all 50 states have joined a national web site that lists addresses and other details of convicted sex offenders. The states of South Dakota and Oregon were added last week to the registry, which "provides real-time access to public sex offender data nationwide with a single Internet search," the Department of Justice said in a statement. The online database includes more than 500,000 convicted sex offenders who are required to register their address with local authorities. The government-sponsored site "allows parents and concerned citizens to search existing public state and territory sex offender registries...

Gay couple jailed for abusing their foster children Two homosexual men who sexually abused young children placed in their foster care were jailed yesterday. Ian Wathey, 41, and his partner Craig Faunch, 32, were found guilty of a string of offences against four boys aged between eight and 14. The pair used the boys for sexual gratification within months of being approved as foster carers by Wakefield council. A mother of eight-year-old twins raised concerns about them with social services after finding a photograph of one of the boys as he used the lavatory. The authorities chose to take no...

The governor of Maryland fired one of his appointees to the Washington Metro transit authority board for stating a negative opinion of homosexuality on a cable TV talk show. The board member, Robert Smith, had said: "Homosexual behavior, in my view, is deviant. I'm a Roman Catholic." The governor, Robert Ehrlich, said Smith's remarks were "highly inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable.""Insensitive" sounds like a fair comment. "Deviant" is a harsh word for expressing one's non-approval of homosexuality. The governor is on less firm ground with "inappropriate." Smith's comment certainly was apropos of the talk-show topic, gay marriage. He was explaining why...

More than 1,000 people rally on the south steps of the Capitol on Monday, urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers to veto legislation about homosexuality in schools. Playing Christian music and holding signs that read "Homosexuality is a sin," protesters, many from the local Slavic Christian community, expressed fear about the impact of such "sexual indoctrination bills." "I'm worried about my family," said Yuriy Mukhin, who described himself as a member of the Melkizedeck church in Sacramento. "I have a 3-year-old daughter and I'm worried that some teacher would teach her that it's totally normal."

Oklahoma City (AP) - A bill to allow the death penalty for repeat child molesters is now law. Without comment, Governor Henry signed the legislation into law today. Anyone convicted a second time of rape, forcible sodomy, lewd molestation or rape by instrumentation of a child under 14 could be put to death. Oklahoma joins Florida, Louisiana and Montana with similar legislation. South Carolina's legislature has also passed such a bill and the governor there is expected to sign it into law soon. Defense attorneys and death penalty experts say the law is likely to be found unconstitutional if challenged....

NEPTUNE BEACH, FL -- A First Coast man is behind bars after police say he posed online as a 16-year old girl to lure a teen victim into forced sex. 27-year-old Travus Earl Belden is charged with attempted sexual battery on a minor, false imprisonment, and battery. His alleged victim -- a 14-year old Neptune Beach boy. Police who arrested Belden say he told them he was planning to harm the boy. "He (Belden) said that his intentions were sexual and violent in nature and he intended to do the young boy harm," said Neptune Beach Sergeant Ryan Hall. Police...

Neighbors upset that parolees live in trailer on prison grounds - Twelve registered sex offenders who can't find a place to live moved into a large trailer on the grounds of San Quentin State Prison Thursday, sparking an angry outcry from people who live near the prison and Marin County officials who want the parolees sent somewhere else. The unwelcome parolees had been living in a Vallejo hotel until earlier this week, when the hotel owner kicked them out, prisons officials said. Parole agents have been unable to find anywhere else to put them and settled on San Quentin as...

No company has attracted children more successfully than McDonald's. "They tout their environment as being safe and kid friendly." It's a message delivered through its commercials, its products, even its kid-friendly spokesman. "You always think of Happy Meals, the playground, the golden arch, Ronald McDonald." By some estimates, 96 percent of all American children recognize Ronald McDonald -- second only to Santa Claus. And the company boasts that Ronald's Play Places make it the world's largest operator of children's playgrounds. "And it's a mecca, it's a magnet apparently for child molesters." Customer Thomas Wesley says, "The last thing you expect...

Guess who's "talking to the kids" on "MySpace.com"? Eon McKai produces "alt-porn," and represents one of the biggest porn companies, VCA, now owned by Hustler. McKai says he is talking to the kids and urges the "mainstream industry" to do the same. "Since watching Suicide Girls [the popular alt-chick Web site] grow, I try and promote my product in the same way," says McKai, who is also promoted by his company, VCA. One of the first things I did was create a MySpace profile and start talking to the kids, I just open that channel. We sent buttons to...

Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States, today called on “all responsible Americans and corporate citizens—down to every last parent, teacher, and minister—to educate themselves about the problem” of “child exploitation and pornography and see how they can help out.” Gonzales addressed his comments to a few guests and the staff of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in Alexandria, Virginia. Gonzales began by thanking the NCMEC president, Dr. Ernie Allen, and the staff for their “courageous and noble work” and for the “level of dedication” he could see in their eyes. I was privileged...

Millions of men and boys are falling for the destructive myth that looking at "adult" porn is normal, healthy and harmless for "regular guys." Way too many are finding themselves handcuffed between two cops, under arrest for sexual conduct with a kid. The hook-ups with kids are occurring on the main streets of U.S. cities and the dark alleys of the virtual world. Experts estimate that 50,000 sexual predators prowl the Internet for children every day. As long as myth trumps truth, the next estimate could be 10 times what it is today. Stopping predators before they ravage our...