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	Erika Lyn Smith BellaOnline's Missing and Exploited Children Editor

Age of Consent and Offender Laws
Where this law fails is more apparent since the arrest of Joshua Lunsford, the son of Mark Lunsford and Jessica’s half-brother. Joshua Lunsford is accused of twice fondling a 14-year-old girl. Joshua Lunsford is 18.

Anthony E. Mann Fights Georgia´s Offender Law
After his conviction, the Mann’s wanted to be sure that Anthony would not be violating the sex offender law’s in Georgia, carefully researching the location of their home. Recently, law enforcement told him he would have to move as his home and business were both within 1,000 ft. of a day care.

Child Abductor Eugene Parnell Dies
The world is a bit safer today. Kenneth Eugene Parnell is dead at age 76. He died from natural causes, at the State of California Correctional Facility Officials in Vacaville California Medical Facility. He is perhaps one of California´s most brazen child kidnappers and molesters.

Child Lures Predators Use
As soon as children are able to understand what a stranger is, parents need to begin educating children about strangers. The first most important idea to teach a child is to never go anywhere without first telling mom or dad.

Child Predator Arraignment Held in High School
Recently at the Shadyside High School, an arrangement was held involving a man accused of molesting multiple children. In reality this is probably a wonderful learning experience for many teens to see in person how things work in the land of the law. Yet, I question the impact this had on students.

Convicted Child Molester Becomes Ordained Minister
Mark Hourigan has officially been ordained as a minister for a local church in Louisville, Kentucky. How does a man who is required to register as a lifetime sex offender become ordained as a church as a minister?

Death Penalty For Killer of Pregnant Mom
She is famous in a sick way, Lisa Montgomery, is now only the third woman on death row. Her sentence for the death penalty was given, after the jury found her guilty of the December 16, 2004 murder of Bobbi Jo Stinnett, and the kidnapping or her unborn baby in Skidmore Missouri.

Grooming Behaviors of Predators
Once again, a pedophile uses a God syndrome, in order to place blame on the innocent young girl’s he has violated. The ultimate atrocity is when an adult uses God to gain compliance for sexually abusing a young child.

Grooming Techniques of Predators
When a pedophile takes special care to facilitate a trusting relationship with a child and or the child’s parents, he or she is in the act of grooming. The meticulous grooming pattern begins with a pedophile identifying his or her next victim.

Halloween and State Offender Laws
Missouri has a new law this Halloween requiring registered sex offenders to stay inside between 5 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., turn off house outside lights, and post a sign on their door stating they are not giving out candy.

He Was Nice To My Kids
The mother of a teenage girl recently molested by a neighbor spoke these words, he was nice to my kids, he´d take her to the library, I thought that was all that was going on. A person who is interested in hanging around a child that is not his should send up many red flags for the parent.

Joseph Edward Duncan III Convicted Child Offender
Joseph Edward Duncan III a convicted sex offender admits he began stalking Brenda Groene and her family after posting bail in Washington state.

Joseph Fritzl Keeps Daughter Hostage 24 Years
Joseph Fritzl held his daughter, and six of her children born in captivity in a hidden basement room for 24 years. How can this be possible?

Justice for Jessica´s Killer Gets Death
John Evander Couey was in court this Friday for sentencing on the charges of kidnapping, rape and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford.

Legal Loophole Protects Offenders
The Sex Offender Accountability and Protection of Minors Act of 2006, gives pedophiles a get out of jail free card, failing to protect children.

Lifetime GPS Monitoring for Predators
Electronic or GPS (Global Positioning System) monitoring required for a lifetime for certain child and violent sexual predators, even after they complete sentencing.

Man Spend Hours and Days In JC Penny´s Boys Dressing Room
A man in his mid forties uses the boys fitting rooms in a JC Penny’s Store for hours on end, day after day, week after week and no one questions this behavior. Clearly, the store clerks and store managers are aware that a man has been visiting the boy’s dressing room repeatedly.

Michael Devlin Pleads Guilty
Shawn Hornbeck missing four and a half years, and William "Ben" Ownby was missing for four days when the two boys were discovered alive in the apartment of their kidnapper Michael Devlin. Their miraculous rescue was deemed the Missouri Miracle. Devlin this week pleaded guilty on all charges.

Miss America Helps Police Nab Child Predators
Miss America Laura Nelson is a beautiful twenty-year-old woman who can pass for a teenager, and she is doing just that to help the Suffolk County Police Department seize sex offenders. This beauty queen posed online as a 14-year-old girl, helping Police arrest eleven alleged sexual predators.

Missouri Supreme Court Ruling Favors Offenders
The Missouri’s Supreme Court voted to allow registered sex offenders already residing within 1000 feet of Missouri schools or daycares to stay in their place of residence.

New Jersey Bans Death Penalty - Megan´s Law Killer Commuted to Life
Jesse Timmendequas is one of eight inmates whose life, or rather his death, is now significantly affected, by New Jersey abolishing the death penalty. In 1997, Jesse Timmendequas received a conviction and death sentence for the brutal rape, beating, and strangulation murder of Megan Nicole Kanka.

Offender Registry and the Law
There is much controversy about listing sex offender registries online. The controversy is the offender has served his or her time and paid retribution for the crime and by listing them on a “sex offender registry” violates their right to privacy.

Paul Martin Andrews - Pedophilia Victim Warns of Common Child Lure
Paul Martin Andrews was thirteen when a seasoned pedophile used a common lure to convince the boy to get into his van on January 10, 1973. Pedophilia victim warns parents of a common lure that may have helped his abductor kidnap him.

Pedophilia - a Paraphilia an Abnormal Attraction
Pedophilia coined in 1886, by a German psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing comes from the Greek words, “pais” meaning child, and “philia” meaning friendship or love. Pedophilia is an abnormal attraction, a paraphilia, or someone sexually excited by a child.

Protecting Children from Predators
Pedophiles have fantasies, reoccurring thoughts, and behaviors that involve sexual activities with a child usually younger than 14 years. Are your children safe?

Registered Offenders Missing in Action
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, there are 664,731 registered sex offenders in the United States, and 100,000 missing.

Richard Steve Goldberg Captured - FBI´s Top Ten Fugitive
Today, thanks to the hard work of one Canadian citizen children in our world are safer. One person smelled a rat, and helped get Richard Steve Goldberg one of the FBI´s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and a bad Child Molesters off the street!

Samuel Burnett Sentenced Sixty Years
Circuit Judge Melvyn Wiesman asked the now 8 year old on September 25 to think about what she felt would be appropriate for her attacker to receive as punishment, and to write him a letter. She did. She asked, “That he go away for 60 years…because when he gets out he won´t hurt any other person.”

School Policy Regarding Parent Offenders
Many schools mandate all volunteers, including parents, and all employees have to submit to a background check prior to any contact with students. However, just as many schools do not require this back ground check. How schools deal with parents who are registered sex offenders varies greatly.

Sherman Burkett - Missouri´s Youngest Adult Inmate
He was 13, she was six, and they were neighbors in the Saint Louis County Neighborhood the lived in. Something happened November 11, 2005 that changed both their lives forever. That night Sherman Burkett kidnapped his six-year-old neighbor from in front of her home.

The Newest Tool of Child Predators - Cellphones
Cell phones are what most parents will buy a child in order to feel that their child is safe. Cell phones have become a pedophiles new tool to groom a child for a meeting. A parent may never realize a sex offender is contacting their child for a physical meeting until it is too late. Find out why.

The Secrets of Skidmore Missouri
Lisa Montgomery confessed to strangling Bobbi Jo Stinnett, and then cutting her unborn baby girl from her mother’s womb.

Zero Tolerance for Child Offenders on Halloween
Zero tolerance means sex offenders cannot decorate their homes with Halloween lights or decorations. On Halloween, offenders cannot turn on their porch light or pass out Halloween candy to children who are trick or treating.