Day: April 3, 2023

ID: The Idaho Children’s Trust Fund says prevention is more important than focusing on penalties for offenders

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Source: idahonews.com 4/3/23 BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — Many children in Idaho will be the victims of abuse and/or neglect. The Idaho Children’s Trust Fund says one in eight Idaho children will be the victim of sex abuse. Rather than focusing on penalties for offenders, Idaho Children’s Trust Fund Executive Director Roger Sherman says the focus should be on prevention. He says, “we as a community need to get behind all of the parents to provide positive work to provide the kind of skills folks need to give people the kind…

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AZ Action Alert: GOP bill would add all low-risk sex offenders to Arizona’s online registry

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Source: azmirror.com 4/3/23 All low-risk sex offenders would be required to be listed on the sex offender registry under a Republican proposal that critics say is retroactive and would take away the discretion of law enforcement to review risk assessments.  Currently, the sex offender registry website must include any offender whose risk assessment has been determined to be a Level Two or Level Three, or any person assessed to be a Level One offender and whose victim was under 12 years old.  The proposed law, Senate Bill 1583 would punish…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene shocks Lesley Stahl by saying Joe Biden supports pedophilia

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Source: lgbtqnation.com 4/3/23 During an appearance on CBS’s television magazine 60 Minutes, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called Democrats – and even President Joe Biden – supporters of pedophilia. “Greene complains that the news media harp on things she did in the past,” Stahl says in a voiceover. “Like, as in this video, chasing after a survivor of the Parkland, Florida school shooting… and things she says that are over the top, like…” “‘The Democrats are a party of pedophiles,’” Stahl says, quoting Greene from an April 2022 interview. “I…

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Working with sex offenders in your congregation Zoom Seminar 4/27/23

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Source: gcsynod.org 3/31/23 Barbara Keller, Consultant for the Prevention of Sexual Misconduct at ELCA, is leading a one hour zoom seminar for rostered ministers on “How to Work with Sex Offenders in Your Congregation.” Thursday, 4/27/23, 1pm MST/PDT, noon MDT. Register by emailing  kate.schnaath@elca.org.   Participants who have additional questions can remain on zoom to ask questions. They will receive handouts and zoom information, the call will be recorded for future use. Read the full page  

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