The latest federal trend is a mixed bag of offenders, now being drawn into sex offender registries. These crimes are very different than those committed by family, friends and close acquaintances of victims. A goodly portion of these "Sex Trade" type crimes can be termed predatory, as offenders often travel to commit them. Once they draw these offenders into today's registries, it will be even harder to distinguish who are the most dangerous registrants, and who has tinkled in the park or the Romeo & Juliet offender.8-3-2010 Global:
See also: "Department of Justice Releases First National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction" Quote: "U.S. Marshals Service to Launch Nationwide Operation Targeting Top 500 Most Dangerous, Non-compliant Sex Offenders"
Detroit -- A new national strategy to fight child exploitation builds on successes already seen in the Detroit area, officials said at a news conference today.
The Internet and digital photography have emboldened child predators by making it easier for them to manufacture and distribute child pornography and make contact with like-minded people, said U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade. But the Internet has also become a vital tool for law enforcement in catching those same predators, she said.
As Attorney General Eric Holder unveiled a National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction at an event in Alexandria, Va., McQuade and other federal and local officials highlighted recent cases in the Detroit area in which child abusers have received sentences of 30 to 60 years in prison.
Andrew Arena, special agent in charge of the FBI in Detroit, said a multi-jurisdictional Southeast Michigan Crimes Against Children Task Force, formed about three years ago, is the most successful task force of its kind in the nation.
Since formed, the task force has rescued 138 children from the sex trade, Arena said.
Part of Holder's new strategy involves a nationwide hunt for the 500 most dangerous and non-compliant sex offenders.
Five of those worst offenders are sought on warrants from communities inside the eastern district of Michigan, said U.S. Marshal Robert Grubbs.
"We will definitely get these five people," Grubbs said at the news conference in Detroit.
"We are going to mix old-fashioned police work with our new technological advances," he said.
"We never give up. We are relentless." ..Source.. Paul Egan / The Detroit News
3 comments:
Sounds to me like the United States is being overrun by monsters wanting to sex up the world's children. If I lived outside the US, I would not trust an American at all. If their own government admits that the nation is being crippled under the trauma of child sex monsters, then Americans found in any other nation have to be assumed to be child sex predators and should be treated appropriately. Even if it saves just one child from the onslaught of American sex monsters, it is worth it.
In response to the ..... person who posted at 10:50 am, I only have one thing to say. When are you people going to open your eyes and look at the damage these laws do to, yes, innocent children. These laws do not only affect sex offenders... they also affect their parents, their brothers, their sisters, their children. For every one of these laws that is targeted at sex offenders, it also creates collateral victims by affecting the lives of the people around those sex offenders.
So, rather then having 700,000 sex offenders being oppressed, you now have that 700,000 plus the 5+ million people that are indirectly affected by it. And that's only if the SO has only 7 or 8 people close to him. As for me, I can count 17 members of my immediate family in just this one town. And every one of them is affected whenever some new restriction or law comes down the pike that limits my life. Even now, I cannot attend school functions, sporting events, plays, or anything like that. I cannot be alone with my nieces or nephews for fear that someone will make an accusation of wrong-doing on my part. I can't take them to the park or the pool because some Social Services Nazi might consider that endangerment.
It's not only cost me friends, but it has cost my family friendships. People who refuse to associate with my family, simply because I exist.
Now....is it still worth it? Is that one possible future victim worth all the pain and suffering that is currently being caused by these laws?
Is it worth it? You live in Me Me Mine America and you ask a question like that?
Of COURSE it's worth it!!!...until the day it happens to ...me....
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