Source: altoonamirror.com 2/16/23 An opinion handed down by the Pennsylvania Superior Court this week has found that a Bedford County man failed to prove his new minimum sentence of 26.5 years on child abuse charges — more than double his original sentence for the crimes — was based on the “vindictivness” of the judge and district attorney. Mark Allen _____, 53, who is serving his sentence in the State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, sought to show that his new and much tougher sentence was unconstitutional because Bedford County authorities…
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CA Sex Offender Management Board Reaches “General Consensus” on Changes to Tiered Registry Law
Source: ACSOL The CA Sex Offender Management Board today reached a “general consensus” regarding 5 of 7 proposed changes to the Tiered Registry Law during its monthly meeting. All of the changes considered today were included in a presentation to the board made by ACSOL during the board’s meeting last month. Specifically, CASOMB members today gave preliminary approval to the following proposed changes: (1) remove felony child pornography offenses from Tier 3, (2) remove convictions for PC 288(c) from Tier 3, (3) remove attempted offenses from Tier 3, (4) allow…
Read MoreResearch paper: America Has Been Going About Stopping Child Sex Abuse The Wrong Way
Source: time.com 2/15/23 By Elizabeth Letourneau and Luke Malone Letourneau is director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Malone is an award-winning journalist who reports on child sexual abuse and victimization. They are co-writing a book about child sexual abuse prevention and the history of U.S. sex crime laws for Basic Books Most of us would say that you can‘t put a price tag on keeping kids safe from sexual violence. Yet we do. And the…
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