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» A Question of Abuse
   What followed for the Diamonds was a nightmare, executed by a system so zealous to protect children from perceived sexual abuse that it may fracture their families and crush their spirits in the process.
   http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1996/07/levine.html

» Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape
   Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape by Michael Martin.
   http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/rape.html

» Central Park attacks
   This site is to denounce the spree of sexual attacks that happened in Central Park during the Puerto Rican Day Parade 2000.
   http://pagesperso-orange.fr/centralparkattacks/

» Child Pornography Articles and Media Reports
   Articles and media reports related to Child Pornography investigations, trials and related issues in the U.S. and internationally.
   http://www.vachss.com/help_text/child_porn.html

» Clergy, Abuse, and Jail Time
   Christian Science Monitor article on the percentage of offenders that see jailtime and why they're hard to convict.
   http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0321/p01s04-ussc.html

» Considerations for Assessing Family Reunification in Cases Involving Incest-Type Sex Offenders
   These considerations are presented as a general framework for therapists, human resource workers, guardians and legal professionals when family reunification becomes a goal after an incest child sex offense has been committed.
   http://www.pace-custody.org/newsletter11.html

» Ensuring Notification
   It is an unfortunate quirk in Nevada's sex offender notification law that in most cases only certain groups -not individuals - may be informed when a sex offender moves into the community.
   http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1997/Dec-09-Tue-1997/opinion/6563825.html

» Governor Wilson of California Proposes New Wing
   Two 250-bed units for sexually violent predators are budgeted for Atascadero State Hospital.
   http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8117

» Lawmaker Slows Sex Offender Commitment Bill
   Despite a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling authorizing involuntary civil commitment for violent sex offenders, Assembly Judiciary Chairman Bernie Anderson is going slow on a bill to enact such laws in Nevada.
   http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1997/Jun-27-Fri-1997/news/5622086.html

» Legislation Denying Convicted Sex Offenders Access to the Internet
   Sexual degenerates seem a strange group to protect. Most have been irremediably warped by exposure to the Internet's fields of psychic rupture, and electronic brain rot.
   http://www.merlin.org/legal/faircloth.html

» No Safe Place
   This is a companion site to the PBS documentary film which tells the stories of women who have been battered, assaulted, and raped, as well as the stories of the men who commit these crimes.
   http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/

» Probation Isn't Just Probation Anymore
   Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association, Brief.
   http://www.dcba.org/brief/janissue/1998/art30198.htm

» Psych Techs Injured in Altercations With Sexually Violent Predators
   Small groups of Atascadero State Hospital patients in the relatively new category of "sexually violent predator" recently caused two altercations with Psych Techs and other staff, raising concerns that they may be testing the hospital's security and safet
   http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8099

» Rape Coverage: Shifting the Blame
   Rape, and in particular acquaintance rape, has become something of a human interest story-of-choice for mainstream newspaper editors recently.
   http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1558

» ResearchWire:  Megan's Law
   The Web's impact on information occasionally sparks controversy. Privacy advocates, for example, challenge existing public records laws that fail to address, or clearly allow, making personal data available via Web sites.
   http://www.llrx.com/columns/megan.htm

» Scotland rules out Sarah's Law
   Violent sex offenders in Scotland face lifelong supervision by the police and social services in an overhaul of the country's criminal justice system unveiled today.
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2001/dec/13/childrensservices1

» Sex Predators Can't Be Saved
   There can be no dispute that monsters live among us. The only question is what to do with them once they become known to us.
   http://www.vachss.com/av_dispatches/disp_9301_a.html

» Sex, Sacrilege and Sublimity
   No one person epitomized sexual debauchery more so than the Marquis de Sade, read about his life and fitting end.
   http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics/marquis/index.html

» Sexual Predator Program to Expand At Atascadero State Hospital
   Atascadero State Hospital will receive nearly $33 million to build a 250-bed addition designed specifically for men convicted of multiple sexual assaults.
   http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8121

» Sexually Violent Predators: What Happens After They've Served Time?
   Atascadero Psych Techs are willing to start treatment, but SVPs hold out for court appeals.
   http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8096

» Stovall Backs 'Castration' Bill
   Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall urged a Senate committee Friday to approve legislation that would allow the state to use "chemical castration" in an effort to prevent sex offenders from repeating their crimes.
   http://www.cjonline.com/stories/022198/cyb_stovall.html

» Take Back The News - Break The Silence
   A project of stories collected from survivors of sexual violence to expose how rape is under-represented and mis-represented in mainstream media.
   http://www.takebackthenews.org

» Tales From the Dark Side
   New controversies over rape counseling in Tennessee.
   http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/09-28-98/nash_cover.html

» Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery
   An intimate memoir, full of light and hope, about a woman's journey toward overcoming the effects of a violent rape.
   http://www.tellingofrape.com

» Tougher
   Requires states to inform the public when a convicted sex offender considered a danger to the public is released from prison and settles in the neighborhood.
   http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9605/08/sex.offenders/index.shtml

» U.S. Supreme Court Decision May Affect SVPs in California Facilities
   The U.S. Supreme Court says violent sexual predators - such as those at Atascadero State Hospital - can be kept in custody even after they have served their prison terms.
   http://www.psych-health.com/pages/indexes.cgi?idxcatid=&idxid=8095

» Uncivil Liberties
   While electronic freedom fighters wage battles to protect our access to information on the Internet, who is watching to protect us from harassment by information on the Internet? by Frank Catalano.
   http://www.seattleweekly.com/1998-03-11/news/uncivil-liberties/

» Victim's Rights Abuse Protest
   Initiated by Raelyn Campbell in an effort to raise awareness of and improve the treatment of victims of sex crime in Japan.
   http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Denei/3053/home.html

» Victor Salva - Child Molestor and Disney
   Three articles related to Disney's hiring of convicted child molestor, Victor Salva.
   http://www.vachss.com/mission/disney.html

» Victor Salva Update - Jeepers Creepers, 2000
   Read articles related to convicted child molester, Victor Salva's new film project, "Jeepers Creepers." Covers the controversy surrounding the use of Florida schools for filming of the movie.
   http://www.vachss.com/mission/salva2.html

» Witch Hunt State Claims Another Victim
   Background information about false accusations of child sexual abuse.
   http://www.justicedenied.org/bruce.htm