Violent extremist’s sentencing a call to protect kids online, says Catholic legal scholar

Source: osvnews.com 7/22/26 The recent sentencing of a convicted online child predator to a 40-year prison term and renewed safety warnings from federal officials mark a call for parents to double down on protecting their kids in the digital sphere, a Catholic legal scholar told OSV News. “This is yet another recognition of the growing threat” posed by “sadistic online exploitation,” said Mary Graw Leary, professor of law at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in Washington and director of that school’s program in modern prosecution. Leary — a…

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MI Supreme Court: SORA’s “Recapture” Provision Is Unconstitutional for Nonsexual Offenses

Source: Florida Action Committee 7/23/26 In a unanimous decision rendered yesterday, the Michigan Supreme Court struck down a key piece of the state’s Sex Offenders Registration Act — the so-called “recapture” provision, which forced people with old, pre-1995 sex offense convictions back onto the registry decades later if they were later convicted of any unrelated felony, sexual or not. James Ellis Jr. pleaded guilty to attempted rape in Illinois in 1983 and served his sentence — six months in jail, two years of probation. He was never required to register…

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Report exposes alarming number of sex offenders among Trump’s immigration agents

Source: msn.com 7/23/26 Washington DC – A recent report found that a disturbing number of federal agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda have dark pasts.   A report published on Wednesday revealed that an alarming number of federal immigration agents are sex offenders.  On Wednesday, the Ohio Immigrant Alliance published a study titled They Walk Among Us, which detailed how 59 current ICE and Border Patrol officers have been charged or convicted of sexual or violent offenses since 2006. The data revealed what the alliance calls “a disturbing pattern of sexual…

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