Sunday, January 29, 2012

Jeffrey Epstein Sets the Record Straight


Billionaire financier RSO Jeffrey Epstein has this to say about the Witch Hunt "I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an offender. It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel."


Video Link - FAC President Gail Coletta and FAC Advocate Vicki testifying before the Florida Senate‏

Dear FAC Warriors,
Below is a link for the Florida Senate:
http://www.flsenate.gov/Media/VideoPlayer.cfm?VideoPath=201201/scj_012512.mp4

Great Job to FAC President Gail Coletta and FAC Advocate Vicki testifying before the Florida Senate, Tallahassee!
Florida Action Committee
Phone: (904) 438-8FAC 

Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals ruled today's that it is NOT unconstitutional,

Hello,

More big legal news today -- this time involving juvenile sex offenders and registration.

The Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals ruled today's that it is NOT unconstitutional, and that it does not contravene the confidentiality provisions of the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act, to require the registration of juvenile sex offenders. The case involved two juvenile members of the Fort Peck Tribe in Montana. A colleague in juvenile defense writes that she is struck by: "by the lack of juvenile-centric arguments" in the decision and that there is  "no indication [in the decision] that any record was developed utilizing some of the emerging research in this area."

I'm attaching the decision for those who would like to peruse it.

Alisa

Alisa Klein, MAIPSPublic Policy Consultant
Association
 for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA)
18 Chestnut Avenue
Leeds, MA 01053
 
(Email one.to.see.change@gmail.com if you would like  the decision January 2012 PDF.)

Verbally assertive training- reforming sex offender laws in the United States

Please join us for another episode of verbally assertive training where we verbally practice our talking points in a role-play environment designed to be adversarial and challenging.  Great place to be for new activists who wish to reform sex offender laws in the United States.

8:45pm Eastern:  Molester Mondays Green Room - Learn your talking points (not recorded)
9:05pm Eastern:  Molester Mondays with Bill Blathers (recorded)
10:15pm Eastern: Molester Mondays Green Room post show comments (recorded)

Www.Talkshoe.Com -- Show ID:  113956

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Episode for January 23rd 2012 - The Politics of Sex Offender Laws.  Here is only some of what we will aggressively pursue:
  • Have sexual predator registration and notification laws produced greater public safety?
  • Should we confine a larger number of predatory sexual offenders in civil commitment?
  • Should registered sex offenders have reduced legal rights for the benefit of faster prosecutions?
  • Should registered sex offenders ever be released from the duty to register?
  • Do stiffer prison sentences actually work to protect women and children from rapists and molesters?
Join us in the pre-show green room tomorrow night, January 23rd 2012 at 8:45 pm (Eastern) in preparation for the show start time of 9:05pm (Eastern).


Regards,

Tom Madison
Program Director

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Ben Zander Releases Apologetic Statement

Sad that one is responsible just by any affiliation with for anothers life. In America there once was acceptance, second chance and a pursuit to happiness. Now there is hysteria, judgement and condemnation. All the world is watching us and somehow I am ashamed of what they see and what America has fallen into. ~Moderator of Onetoseechange

On January 11, just over one week ago, I was told I had been dismissed from my position at the New England Conservatory (NEC) where I have worked happily for the past 45 years.


The reason was that I had over many years retained the videographer Peter Benjamin to film classes and concerts, knowing that he was a convicted sex offender who had served a term of imprisonment. I supported him in the sentencing stage of his trial and after his release on the basis of what I saw as his earnest determination to turn his life around, but I did so without inquiring into the exact nature of the charges. This was a grave oversight.


Further, I did not seek the permission of the NEC, based on disclosure of his conviction and imprisonment, to use him as a videographer in the College and the Prep school. I accept that it was not for me to make the decision that it was safe to do so.


For all the upset and anguish my actions have thereby caused in the NEC community and beyond, I profoundly apologize.

Source: benjaminzander.com

NC - Swx offender Arrested For Failure to Report E-mail Adress For On-line USe

http://lincolntribune.com/?p=26263

Press Release Regarding Peter Benjamin from Swomley & Tennen, LLP

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:07 AM PST

This statement is in response to the ill-considered actions of the New England Conservatory in their treatment of Peter Benjamin, a freelance videographer who was commissioned repeatedly by NEC Departments, and professors at NEC to film performances over the past 13 years for no reason other than the exceptional quality of his work.
Mr. Benjamin is a talented artist and musician. As an undergraduate student at Boston University, Mr. Benjamin auditioned for and was personally hired by Sarah Caldwell to sing in her Opera Company of Boston Chorus . He sang professionally there for 25 years with some of the greatest opera stars in recent history such as Beverly Sills, George London and Boris Kristoff. Mr. Benjamin also gained the attention of Johnny Carson in the early 1960’s and was commissioned by him to film his family. He has worked for many celebrities because of his great expertise in photography and videography. Since then, his work has appeared on 60 Minutes, PrimeTime Live, and the cover of the New York Times.

He has combined his video skills learned as a child with his music acumen and is unmatched by his expertise in classical music and his ability to capture the sounds and visuals of a first rate classical performance in a professional quality recording. Recently, he videotaped Tony Woodcock, the current president of NEC, teaching an adult master class. At no time has there ever been a complaint or cause for concern occasioned by his videotaping these live events. Contrary to the reporting occasioned thus far, the bulk of the videography he was commissioned to do, involved college or graduate level performances.


A small part of the work Mr. Benjamin has been commissioned to do at the New England Conservatory consisted of documenting rehearsals and performances of the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Benjamin’s work involving the Preparatory School was conducted in group settings, with multiple cameramen that he brought with him and under conditions where it would have been highly unlikely he would have had so much as a conversation with a student.


In 1991, Mr. Benjamin made a serious mistake. For this he was prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned. Thereafter, of his own volition, Mr. Benjamin entered into and engaged in a very successful four-year intensive therapy program specifically designed to treat individuals who had sexually offended against minor-aged adolescents. The recidivism rate for individuals having completed this program is less than 5%. After Mr. Benjamin completed his sentence in 1998, he was released and placed on supervised probation for five years. As part of his probation Mr. Benjamin was required to work. Mr. Benjamin obtained permission from the probation department to return to his long-time profession of videotaping live music events. While on probation, he was asked to have another adult with him when he was filming at schools or churches to negate any possibility or appearance of impropriety. Probation specifically knew he filmed events at the New England Conservatory. Successfully completing probation, Mr. Benjamin nevertheless kept this precaution in place for years afterwards. Mr. Benjamin has never re-offended and deserves credit for this.
It has come to Mr. Benjamin’s attention that the publicity surrounding NEC’s actions against him may also serve to cause new harm to his primary victim by dredging up the details of those past transgressions. Mr. Benjamin apologizes in advance for this. Mr. Benjamin is grateful his victim asked to meet with him upon his release from prison and gave Mr. Benjamin the opportunity to apologize face to face for his crimes. Mr. Benjamin is forever grateful to be graced with that individual’s forgiveness.

Further questions or comment should be directed to:
John Swomley
Swomley & Tennen

227 Lewis Wharf
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 227-9443

jswomley@swomleyandtennen.com

AU - Police to publish details from sex offenders' register for first time

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/police-to-publish-details-from-sex-offenders-register-for-first-time/story-fn7x8me2-1226244465855

Watch Out,, She's Back!!!


STAY AWAY FROM THIS SITE! IT is sheep in wools clothing and she should not be trusted.

http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.com/2011/09/fl-vigilante-barbara-farris-plans-for.html

Conductor Benjamin Zander Fired For Employing Sex Offender With Youth Orchestra

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2012/01/13/benjamin-zander-fired

Iowa lawmakers propose special nursing home for sex offenders

http://www.mcknights.com/iowa-lawmakers-propose-special-nursing-home-for-sex-offenders/article/223557/

Monday, January 16, 2012

The FL State Senate: Free Harold W. Scism from a wrongful conviction

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-governor-of-fl-free-harold-w-scism-from-a-wrongful-conviction

Molester Mondays with Bill Blathers - Live & Recorded Episodes:

Molester Mondays with Bill Blathers - Live & Recorded Episodes:

Massachusetts Sex Offender Resource Blog: Incarceration, Probation, and Life After as an RSO: Why Did Benjamin Zander Hire a Sex Offender and Wa...

Massachusetts Sex Offender Resource Blog: Incarceration, Probation, and Life After as an RSO: Why Did Benjamin Zander Hire a Sex Offender and Wa...: My beloved students of YPO, You now have heard of the terribly sad news that my life at NEC has been terminated. You are probably upset and ...

I Love a Sex Offender: Ending sex crime through awareness, prevention and...

I Love a Sex Offender: Ending sex crime through awareness, prevention and...: Upon collaboration with several passionate and intelligent minds, I present to you the title of this post, which also has an acronym - ESCAP...

North Dakota, Minnesota not complying with sex offender law

North Dakota, Minnesota not complying with sex offender law

The False Rape Society: Woman accused of instigating murder by telling rap...

The False Rape Society: Woman accused of instigating murder by telling rap...: A follow-up to our story here . A judge ordered an eight-year prison sentence Tuesday for a San Antonio woman who authorities said insti...

McKenna joins call to reauthorize Violence against Women Act

http://kpbj.com/business_weekly/2012-01-16/mckenna_joins_call_to_reauthorize_violence_against_women_act

Gigantic! Productions Announces Premiere of “True Life: I’m a Sex Offender”

http://casting.gigantic.tv/?page_id=105

Gigantic! Productions Announces Premiere of “True Life: I’m a Sex Offender” on MTV, Wednesday, January 18th, 10PM EST

Jamaica - Sex Offenders’ Registry ready - But courts yet to supply list of perpetrators - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | January 15, 2012

Sex Offenders’ Registry ready - But courts yet to supply list of perpetrators - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Sunday | January 15, 2012

Friday, January 13, 2012

MI - Benton Harbor cop (Jared Graves) charged with sexual assault


Uploaded by on Jan 12, 2012


UPDATE: Former Benton Harbor officer accused of wrongdoing found dead from apparent suicide! See the link below.
 Sex Offender Suicides and Other Deaths: Benton Harbor cop charged with sexual assault: 1-12-2012 Michigan: BENTON HARBOR, Mich. - A former Benton Harbor police officer was arrested today and is now facing prison time if conv...

Article:
http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.com/2012/01/mi-benton-harbor-cop-jared-grav...

A former Benton Harbor police officer was arrested today and is now facing prison time if convicted of sexual assault allegations.

42-year-old Jared Graves, a 14-year veteran employee of the Benton Harbor Department of Public Safety was arrested at his home today by Michigan State Police.

Graves mostly sat in silence Thursday afternoon over a video transmission from the jail while the judge read off charges. Graves faces felonies: two for criminal sexual conduct, one for misconduct in office and another for delivery of marijuana.

According to charging documents, on October 5th, Graves investigated a reported smell of marijuana at the Harbor Towers apartment complex right across the street from the police station. Graves took the weed from a 24-year-old woman but never busted her.

According to the complaint, two days later he called the woman to the department, took her in a storage room and threatened to arrest her if she didn't perform sexual acts on him. He gave the drugs back when it was over.

Outgoing Mississippi governor issues nearly 200 pardons


"We have people out on the streets that are sex offenders that have to register," McAbbe said. "This is a man (who) killed somebody. This man took somebody's life, and it's not going to indicate that on any paperwork."

TX - New Rules for Sex Offenders

New Rules for Sex Offenders

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

New Site found: http://nevadans-for-civil-liberties.org/

New found blog: http://iloveasexoffender.blogspot.com/

Child-on-child sex abuse poses complex challenges; States struggle with policy of putting kids on sex-offender registries

35.6% of child sex abuse cases are committed by other minors

Son of Packers offensive coordinator found dead in Wisconsin river


"Michael previously was in headlines when he was sentenced to six months in jail for misdemeanor sexual assault and battery charges."

It saddens me that this issue has caused such extreme measures in one's life


Sex Offender Suicides and Other Deaths: YouTube star dies in prison

Sex Offender Suicides and Other Deaths: YouTube star dies in prison: 1-10-2012 Florida: An elderly convicted sex offender who became a YouTube sensation by posting zany videos of himself singing, died this ...

Reform Sex Offender Laws in Wisconsin: Missouri Lawmakers - Wisconsin can learn from them...

Reform Sex Offender Laws in Wisconsin: Missouri Lawmakers - Wisconsin can learn from them...: Contrast Nebraska Kissing Bill to Missouri Lawmakers' Work Nebraska State Sen. Bill Avery is dropping his attempt to make unwanted kissi...

Sex Offender Issues: TX - Officer fired for sexually harassing and stal...

Sex Offender Issues: TX - Officer fired for sexually harassing and stal...: Video Link

Sex offenders gather in trailer parks

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-09/sex-offender-clusters/52472008/1

Iowa - Legislative leaders list goals, urge cooperation

"... proposed a law mandating that Iowans be notified when a sex offender is placed in a long-term care facility."

Defenders track down missing sex offenders - (possible fear-monger tactics)

Sunday, January 8, 2012

RSOL - January, 2012 Digest

http://www.reformsexoffenderlaws.org/digest.php?id=42

Take Note: Tenth Circuit Issues Opinions in 2 Sex Offender Cases

http://blogs.findlaw.com/tenth_circuit/2012/01/take-note-tenth-circuit-issues-opinions-in-2-sex-offender-cases.html

Many states still resisting federal sex offender mandates

http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2012/01/many-states-still-resisting-federal-sex-offender-mandates.html

Sex-felon residency law vexes everyone

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120108/LOCAL/301089926

Cuomo urges expansion of DNA harvests as anti-crime tool; civil liberties issues raised

http://www.lohud.com/article/20120108/NEWS05/301080038/Cuomo-urges-expansion-DNA-harvests-anti-crime-tool-civil-liberties-issues-raised?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|News

What next!!

Child-on-child sex abuse: a vast and complicated problem that defies stereotypes

http://www.newser.com/article/d9s47u3o0/child-on-child-sex-abuse-a-vast-and-complicated-problem-that-defies-stereotypes.html

Sex Offender Issues: TX - Bandera sex offenders are being watched

Sex Offender Issues: TX - Bandera sex offenders are being watched: Original Article Did you ever think that they may be clustering due to the very residency laws you are passing, or is that too obvious for...

Friday, January 6, 2012

Audio Recording: 'EPISODE1 - THE HUDDLE - TEEN SEX OFFENDERS' From 'THE HUDDLE - TEEN SEX OFFENDERS'


This is an older talkshoe recording but let me tell you the circumstance with this issue have NOT changed but it has and is becoming worse. Let's take our country back, please!

This starts off slow so fast forward a few minutes. 

Rest In Peace, Mary.... and thank you for all you've done to propel that momentum.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

eAdvocate: The Community Room: Technical Question: Related to FEES for Sex Offend...

eAdvocate: The Community Room: Technical Question: Related to FEES for Sex Offend...: eAdvocate Tip: 1-4-2012 National: I've been thinking quite a bit about registration fees because its the start of a new year and registra...

Sex Offenders: Murdered: UPDATED: Attorney Convicted of Child Porn Killed i...

Sex Offenders: Murdered: UPDATED: Attorney Convicted of Child Porn Killed i...: 12-29-2011 California: A 72-year-old retired attorney from Santa Fe was murdered at the California prison where he was serving a federa...

Sex offenders in Utah might be able to get names off registry

Sex offenders in Utah might be able to get names off registry

Sex Offender Issues: FL - Captain's (James Lee Foy) Future With Lake Wa...

Sex Offender Issues: FL - Captain's (James Lee Foy) Future With Lake Wa...: James Lee Foy Original Article So tell me, if his record(s) were expunged, and could not be found, how is it that this article has just re...

Seeking folks for peaceful protest in the NY City area

Actively seeking folks in the NY City area who are able to participate in a peaceful protest outside the studio of The Anderson Show (Anderson Cooper) if what they taped with some registrants in December is aired without being edited. If you have any contacts in this area that might be willing to participate please let us know.  The show is slated for airing sometime this month, but there is no date yet. 


Reported drug use, harassment up at College

http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/article/5131573

CA - Mission Viejo considers sex-offender ban tonight

http://www.ocregister.com/news/city-333834-ban-offenders.html

Content Section What Science Reveals About Pedophilia

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/06/what-science-reveals-about-pedophilia.html#comments

Babysitter Confesses to Ind. Girl Murder


Just a week ago, there was hellacious panic that the 14 sex offenders living in her near vicinity of a trailer park killed this little girl, Aliahna....



Strange how these stories still come back to what others don't understand.
 

Ruling seeks to clarify sex-offender issue

 
"Likewise, efforts to keep track of sex offenders and limit their access to potential victims occasionally have bordered on the absurd, as with one Florida community where restrictions were so tight that the only legal place for sex offenders to reside was beneath a highway overpass."

Marxism in America - A bit off topic but significant nonetheless



Interesting viewpoints from this Lt. Gen. (Ret) ....destroy and tear down our country.
http://www.morningstartv.com/oak-initiative/marxism-america#.TwW9pe6ouUA.gmail

Schools, police vigilant in face of study that points to lower-than-expected sexting problem

Schools, police vigilant in face of study that points to lower-than-expected sexting problem

Wolverton: Punishment should fit the crime | Amarillo Globe-News

Wolverton: Punishment should fit the crime | Amarillo Globe-News

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/26/3335484/dear-abby-sex-offenders-not-all.html

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/26/3335484/dear-abby-sex-offenders-not-all.html

City considers restricting residences of sex offenders - KFDA - NewsChannel 10 / Amarillo News, Weather, Sports

UK - Human Rights Act Human rights chief issues warning to UK over weakening of laws

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/dec/10/human-rights-uk-laws

Beilue: Residence restriction isn't as good as it sounds | Amarillo Globe-News

Beilue: Residence restriction isn't as good as it sounds | Amarillo Globe-News

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"When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."
~Adlia Stevenson U.S. Vice President (1893–1897) and Congressman (1879–1881)

On a Personal Note

Thanks for the opportunity to express my thoughts regarding the issue of citizens’ rights, particularly addressing certain sex offenders’ crimes that do not fit the devastating, inequitable and endless punishment given.


As you know, many young men and women lives across the nation are being destroyed by incarceration, life-time registry and restrictive laws that do more harm than good. For those individuals, there is no second chance.

Below is a personal letter to President Obama:
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“Dear President Obama,

I truly agree with your sentiments that individuals, such as ex-felons, should be able to receive a second chance at life. Since we all know that one can veer off that path of life and travel along rough, rocky terrain, sometimes running off and ending up in some ditch. We all have made our fill of mistakes and sometimes those held a costly consequence that changed life forever. So we lived through it, trying harder to make things right with family, friends and those around us, but what about those who aren’t able to make things right even if they tried…because they’re labeled as too dirty, a leper, a person who is rejected from society and home.


But what if they’re a seventeen year old and had sex with a fifteen year old, consensual at that? Or they’re a teen that had gotten so enraged after a breakup that he sent out naked pictures of his girlfriend on his cell phone or email? Or an individual urinates where someone just happens to see them?


All are wrong and a travesty but do they deserve the life of no second chance with a registry that ends all. They are labeled, no jobs, no where to live…they have been deemed a menace to society, a plague. These certain circumstances, and many other situations similar to these, I believe still deserve a second change.

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution


Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.


After my son’s early release and two years of prison, I thought I had handled that fact graciously knowing after serving his time he would be able to get that fresh start, that second chance. He was an exemplary inmate, GED, college courses and vocational classes. Little did I know that a second chance on the outside was the farthest from the truth? He now struggles and lives in a trailer park sharing a trailer with another and surrounded by others in the same rocking boat, one to float endlessly in shark infested waters. I see him little because of probation requirements (he couldn’t live with us because we were 800 feet near a school). My family is afraid of what would happen to them if he lived with them…vigilantism. My son has no other place to stay since others condemn him of his crime that is screamed from the highest rooftop. Sex offender, sex offender!

Not all sex offenders are pedophiles or predators but some are simply young kids that make one stupid and rash decision that eventually changes everything, and they have no idea what they’ve done until their life is never their own. Exactly, where is that second chance for those sex-offenders who are lumped together with pedophiles and predators? Now, it makes me sick to think of my son’s future and many like him that are on the registry and many with no second chance…ever. I am asking you as a mother and as another concerned citizen of the United States that these laws are looked at again and taken into serious consideration in what they are doing to the Constitution of the United States, not for sex offenders in general but the future rights of every citizen, before anymore are put into effect. They unjustly strip an offender of their rights and place them in a guillotine that can be easily set off by anyone and at anytime. Where is the second chance for ex-sex offenders in the present, pending and future laws?”
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What truly saddens me is the weakness and deterioration of what the sex offense issue is doing to our once, great nation. Across Europe, others are seeing the injustice and disregard of rights, but we ignore this problem and it makes me wonder where humanity is heading….

We have become a hysterical society in which our latest witch-hunt is a sex offender--no matter his/her crime.

Below is a email sent from a foreign advocate to a father of a sex offender:
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“The tragic story of your son's death is just so sad that it's difficult to explain how. It was very hard to read your letters. It seems almost unbelievable that this can take place in a democracy! From our point of view, there is no justice in this. Not in any way: not for you, your son, the former girl friend – or even the state.

It is an abusive legal system. It seems barbaric. And we are so very sorry that this takes place. That's why it's so important for us to try to neutralize the debate with this…, hopefully making some changes. ….. to show the every day life of the sex offenders, trying to show how they keep on being punished, even after served prison time…..But we will for sure tell the story of the injustice that your son has been exposed to.”
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I appreciate everyone's commitment and backing to protect everyone's civil rights, plainly as noted in the Constitution of the United States and is presupposed, giving ALL men are “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.”