Is LAPD Ignoring DNA Rape Evidence?
The LA Daily News recently reported that more than 7,100 DNA samples from rape victims are backlogged at the Los Angeles Police Department amid funding and staff shortages that officials say are plaguing law enforcement agencies nationwide.
Those accused of rape, as well as victims of rape, are missing an opportunity to see justice served in […]
Feds Arrest 7 in L.A. Child Porn Ring
Federal and local law enforcement officers arrested 7 men in Los Angeles this week for participation in a computer child pornography ring. Charges of alleged possession or production of computer child pornography were filed against a total of 55 L.A. and Southern California individuals as a result of the 8-month investigation. Peer-to-peer computer networks like […]
Date Rape: Officials Are Increasingly Concerned
Rape and date rape are tragedies for those involved. For the victim, it could lead to years of withdrawal over the trauma, for the accused, it could send an innocent person to jail and their life into a tailspin. Key figures in rape accusations and trials are professional and college athletes, in part because they […]
Nationwide Sweep Busts Child Sex Rings
In a nationwide crackdown on child sex trafficking, at least 21 children were recovered and 345 people arrested, 290 of them adult prostitutes. Los Angeles, Oakland and Sacramento were among the 16 major metropolitan areas targeted in the recent 5-day sweep conducted by the FBI, Department of Justice and National Center for Missing and Exploited […]
Sex Offender Clusters Pose Less Threat
There are 90,000 known sex offenders in the state of California. In most communities when a registered sex offender moves in, the neighborhood goes on the warpath. Parents’ fears are understandable. No one wants a sex offender living near their children. So where can they live?
In Fontana, CA, 26 sex offenders live in a cluster […]
Rape and Sexual Offense: A Plague for the Innocent
Rape and sexual offense charges are an incredibly serious matter, and law enforcement officials don’t take them lightly. Take for example the drummer for the band Poison, Rikki Rocket. Rocket was accused of raping a woman at a casino in Mississippi and was arrested. However, Rocket wasn’t even in the state at the time and […]
Animal Abuse, Domestic Violence Cases Linked
There is a link between domestic violence and animal abuse cases say legal experts. In southern Ohio, Butler County Prosecutor Robin Piper has formed a new unit that places felony domestic violence cases and animal cruelty cases under the same assistant prosecutor. Like many prosecutors nationwide, Piper has found a distinct link between domestic violence […]
Singer R. Kelly Acquitted of Sex Crimes
Jurors weren’t 100% sure that the man in the child pornography video was R&B superstar R. Kelly. Kelly was acquitted of child pornography charges today in a case that dragged slowly through the court system, repeatedly snaring headlines. Kelly and his alleged under-aged partner both steadfastly denied that they were the people depicted in the explicit pornographic […]
Hon. Alex Kozinski and the Challenge for Judges
Hon. Alex Kozinski, the 9th Circuit Court Chief Judge, has recently found himself in some serious trouble. He posted some sexual content on the Internet, photos and videos, which were discovered by the prosecuting attorney. The case was an obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court and seeing as how the judge had many images and […]
Internet Providers Fight Child Porn
The nation’s biggest internet providers have agreed to fight online child pornography by shutting down websites and limiting access to internet bulletin boards. The agreement follows an 8-month investigation of internet pornography by the New York attorney general. Time Warner Cable, Verizon Communications and Sprint Nextel made the joint announcement yesterday. They agreed to develop […]
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