Sex Offender: Vigilantism

NASSAU COUNTY MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO CONSPIRING TO MURDER INMATE AND TO SEXUALLY MUTILATE GIRLFRIEND’S EX-HUSBAND FOR DIVORCED COUPLE’S DAUGHTER’S RAPE

2012-01-26T11:08:00.001-05:00

4-12-2004 New York: Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a Nassau County man has pled guilty to conspiring to murder a state prison inmate who had tipped off authorities about his plan to sexually mutilate his girlfriend’s ex-husband for the rape of the divorced couple’s teenaged daughter. According to the District Attorney, both plots were prevented by separate undercover “sting” operations. District Attorney Brown said, “The defendant has admitted his guilt and waived his right to appeal in two separate plots involving attempted murder and sexual...

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Sex offenders displaced by suspicious fire

2012-01-26T10:40:00.001-05:00

8-26-2011 Pennsylvania: Harrisburg police say someone may have set an apartment fire that displaced eight people. City officials say they plan to cite the building owner for failing to keep his tenants safe. All eight tenants made it out safely around 2:00 a.m. Thursday. But to complicate matters, four are registered sex offenders, and they're now staying in area hotels. Fire investigators returned to the boarding house on the 900 block of North Third Street, and found no structural damage, though evidence that may point to arson. "More matches on the ground than you would...

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Chilliwack 'superheroes' must stop vigilantism: police

2011-11-17T14:52:00.003-05:00

Wannabe vigilantes, but still acts of vigilantism!11-17-2011 Canada: Four young men who lured potential sexual predators online, then confronted them in public say they have retired Four young Chilliwack men who dressed as superheroes to confront potential sex offenders have drawn public kudos but are being criticized by police, who say crime-fighting should be left to the proper authorities. Police say the vigilantes - two are 17, one is 18, and one is 20 - put themselves in danger by posing online as underage girls to lure men for sexual encounters, only to confront the men...

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Home of embattled former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky vandalized

2011-11-13T07:14:00.001-05:00

11-13-2011 Pennsylvania: Cinder block thrown through window of Jerry Sandusky's home Twenty-four hours after Penn State students rioted in the State College streets following the ouster of football coaching legend Joe Paterno, the home of Paterno’s former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, was reportedly vandalized Thursday evening. According to the Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa., two pieces of cinder block were tossed through the windows of Sandusky’s State College home. The 67-year-old disgraced coach has been charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse against minors over a...

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Harpenden mother and sons jailed for brutal attack

2011-10-06T04:16:00.002-04:00

10-6-2011 United Kingdom: A MOTHER from Harpenden lured a man who had been accused of being a sex offender to her home where her son and another man launched a brutal attack. Deborah Chapman along with her sons Jason Chapman and Michael Keep yesterday began long jail sentences for their involvement in the assault which left the victim needing 60 to 80 stitches. He was left with a permanent scar on his chin, three broken ribs, a punctured lung and three broken fingers. which left his hand permanently deformed. The man spent 12 days in hospital following the attack at Deborah...

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Inverness man pleads guilty to attacking man who molested relative

2011-10-03T21:43:00.001-04:00

10-3-2011 California: An Inverness man pleaded guilty today to aggravated battery in an attack on Donald Culver, a former Lake Zurich High School teacher who admitted molesting a relative of the Inverness man. To protect the identity of the molestation victim, the Daily Herald is not naming the defendant, who pleaded guilty to a class 3 felony punishable by two to five years in prison. Probation is also available. Cook County Judge Hyman Riebman sentenced the 49-year-old defendant to 24 months probation and 240 hours of community service. Riebman also ordered the defendant to undergo...

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Nicholas Pinto, Beaten Into Coma, Shows What Life Is Like for a Child Pornographer Behind Bars

2011-09-13T13:09:00.001-04:00

8-31-2010 Pennsylvania: In 2008, Nicolas Pinto was arrested on federal charges of taking explicit photos and videos of children. He subsequently pleaded guilty, and was supposed to be sentenced in October. But due to the glacial wheels of justice, he's spent the last two years in jail... And while everyone knows that child porn offenders aren't treated well by fellow inmates, his case shows exactly how brutal life behind bars can be. He was incarcerated at the Lackawanna County Prison in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From the beginning, he began keeping a diary on his treatment. Fellow...

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Molotov Cocktail Thrown Into Occupied Home where a Registered Sex Offender Lives

2011-08-07T11:22:00.005-04:00

5-18-2011 Massachusetts: Harwich police issue Level 3 Sex Offender notice Individual is not wanted by the authorities ARWICH - The Harwich Police Department has issued a Level 3 Sex Offender community notice for an individual now living at 602 Queen Anne Road in Harwich. Cory N. Whitehead, 33, was convicted of three counts of rape and abuse of a child in 2001, according to police. Whitehead is a white male, 6'01", 208 lbs, with brown hair and hazel eyes. According to the SORB, Whitehead is currently employed in Bourne. Whitehead has been designated a Level 3 Sex Offender...

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Sex Offender Assaulted During Home Invasion

2011-07-23T16:13:00.000-04:00

7-16-2011 Texas: CORPUS CHRISTI - Police are still looking for a second suspect in connection with a early morning home invasion on the southside of Corpus Christi. There is a trail of blood outside the home of 41-year-old Daniel Villarreal in the 3800 block of Los Arroyos. Villarreal, who is a registered sex offender, told police when he got home from work he found two men inside his house who attacked him. Villarreal was taken to the hospital with some facial injuries while police arrested 27-year-old Jay Benavides at the scene. He's been charged with burglary of a habitation...

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Washington state man sentenced for shooting a man he thought was a sex offender

2011-07-23T16:11:00.000-04:00

7-13-2011 Washington: SPOKANE, Wash. — A Washington state man who shot another man in the head because the shooter mistakenly thought the victim was a sex offender has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison on assault and gun convictions. Robert Startin cried in Spokane County Superior Court as he apologized for shooting 26-year-old Shane Reilly at a drinking party in March in Spokane Valley. The prosecutor said someone joked that Reilly was a sex offender. Startin had a relative who was molested. He got a gun and shot Reilly in the head. The Spokesman-Review reports...

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Youth burnt alive by villagers for attempted rape

2011-07-23T16:07:00.001-04:00

5-31-2011 Zafargad mandal: A mob of around 400 women poured kerosene on a youth and burnt him alive on Tuesday afternoon for trying to rape and kill an 18-year-old girl in Raghunathpally village of Zafargad mandal. According to sources, G. Babu, 30, a resident of Perumallagudem of Wardhanapet mandal, had visited adjoining Raghunathpally to sell insecticides for palm trees. When he came across Monica, an intermediate student, who was alone at her house, he attempted to rape her and attacked her with a hammer when she resisted, police said. When Monica opposed Babu's attempt, in a fit...

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Woman charged after damaging security cams at sex offender's house

2011-07-23T16:03:00.000-04:00

5-31-2011 Ohio: HENRIETTA TOWNSHIP, OH (WOIO) - A Lorain County woman arrested after damaging security cameras at the home of a former registered sex offender. Annette Osborn is charged with criminal damaging. Lorain County Sheriff's Deputies tell 19 Action News she ripped the cords off the cameras at Henry Bennett's home on State Route 113. Bennett is a convicted sex offender out of California who no longer has to register with the Sheriff's office. Osborn was convinced his cameras pointed towards her house, which is behind Bennett's. However, when deputies looked at...

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Oklahoma City man had RAPEST tattooed on forehead by attackers

2011-07-23T15:57:00.002-04:00

5-3-2011 Oklahoma: Four people being held in jail. More arrests possible, police say. An Oklahoma City man had RAPEST tattooed on his forehead during an attack in April and then was left for dead at a Del City lake, police said. Four suspects are being held in the Oklahoma County jail. Del City police said more arrests are possible. Stetson Johnson, 18, was shocked with a stun gun twice in the genitals during the tattooing, police said. He was forcibly restrained at a house in southeast Oklahoma City while a tattoo artist from Texas tattooed RAPEST on his forehead and, “I like...

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Wheelchair-Bound Vigilante Faces Charges

2011-07-22T22:00:00.001-04:00

7-21-2011 Massachusetts: Man Says He Was Protecting Girl From Alleged Abuser BOSTON -- A wheelchair-bound Martha's Vineyard man is fighting to stay out of jail. Frank Hebert, 57, is accused of striking an alleged pedophile with a bat inside a store earlier this year. Even though child protection advocates are hailing Hebert as a hero, prosecutors aren't backing off on charges that could land him in jail for 10 years. Hebert said he was trying to protect his granddaughter when he hit his girlfriend's son-in-law, Joshua Hardy, with a bat in February. Hebert said the girl told him...

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San Jose man faces life sentence for attacking man suspected of molesting his stepdaughter

2011-07-22T21:56:00.003-04:00

It appears the argument here is, should a sentence for a crime be based on the reason a crime was committed? Think about that with respect to all kinds of crimes, sexual and otherwise. 7-21-2011 California: A San Jose man is facing a maximum of life in prison for something many fathers would be tempted to do -- badly beating a Thanksgiving weekend houseguest who molested his 8-year-old stepdaughter. Surely the suspected molester, who has confessed to the sexual attack and even apologized to the child, is in worse trouble than the stepfather? Actually, the stepfather is facing the...

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Herhold: We can't have a society based on vigilantism

2011-07-22T21:38:00.005-04:00

7-19-2011 California: Let's get one thing straight. Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen is not a turn-the-other cheek guy. If someone harmed his family, he would be outraged. He once chased down litterbugs in his neighborhood. But Rosen is no believer in vigilantism. And as he sifted through the photos of the severe beating and whipping suffered by a child molester at the hands of his victim's relatives, he couldn't hide his distaste. "This is a prison case," he said. It's a tale with an ugly set of facts. On Thanksgiving weekend, an 8-year-old San Jose girl woke her...

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Woman shoots handyman making sexual advances, sheriff says

2011-07-18T17:28:00.002-04:00

7-18-2011 North Carolina: LINCOLNTON - A Lincolnton woman was arrested and a man was sent to the hospital following a shooting incident Friday night, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said. The shooting happened at the woman’s home in the 1600 block of Cloudburst Circle north of Lincolnton around 9:18 p.m. Detectives said the call came in to the Communications Center from a woman who stated she had just shot a man outside her home. The suspect, Ida-Monetta Duckworth, 67, of Cloudburst Circle, told detectives that Paul Michael Tucker, 60, was at the woman’s home where he had been...

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Sarah Payne killer Roy Whiting attacked in prison

2011-07-03T03:03:00.002-04:00

7-2-2011 United Kingdom: The man convicted of murdering eight-year-old Sarah Payne in West Sussex has been attacked by a fellow inmate in prison, according to sources. Roy Whiting, 52, was injured in the eye during the assault at Wakefield Prison, in West Yorkshire, on Friday morning. The Ministry of Justice confirmed an attack took place but said it would not discuss specific cases. In a statement, the MoJ said the prisoner was treated in the prison's healthcare wing. "HMP Wakefield manages violent and dangerous prisoners every day and events such as this are rare," it...

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Convicted rapist and kidnapper in Hornbeck case stabbed multiple times in prison

2011-05-11T03:42:00.002-04:00

5-11-2011 Missouri: KMOV) – Officials confirmed on Tuesday that a convicted kidnapper and child rapist was stabbed multiple times at the Crossroads Correctional Facility in Cameron, Missouri in April. Michael Devlin was convicted of kidnapping Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby. Devlin is currently serving a life sentence for the crimes. He was attacked by another inmate on April, 9, 2011, and prison officials say that inmate stabbed Devlin with a weapon made from a prong on a manual typewriter. Devlin was immediately rushed to a hospital where he was treated and returned back to the...

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Convicted child killer slashed in attack at WCI

2011-05-09T04:22:00.000-04:00

5-9-2011 Maryland: A convicted child killer serving life sentences at the Western Correctional Institution is recovering from slash wounds, apparently inflicted by another inmate, according to published reports. Thomas J. Legge Jr., 31, of Salisbury, was injured in the May 1 attack in a prison dining hall and was treated by medical personnel at the prison. He did not require hospitalization, officials said. Legge was convicted of kidnapping and murder of 11-year-old Sarah Haley Foxwell, who was killed Dec. 23, 2009. The victim’s body was found three days later in a wooded area of...

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Year's jail for assaulting molester

2011-04-25T04:53:00.001-04:00

4-25-2001 New Zealand: A man who beat a former neighbour for raping two girls has been sentenced to a year in prison. Frank Oscar Anderson, 53, was sentenced in the New Plymouth District Court on Thursday for attacking David Lee Rawiri. Rawiri was recently jailed for eight years after teaming up with his younger brothers to molest and rape two girls aged four and five, as well as sexually assaulting the girl's eight-year-old brother. Those offences occurred in 1997. But before Rawiri was sentenced, Anderson had gone to his father's house to confront Rawiri about what he...

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Father Accused of Murder For Hire Plot

2011-03-26T11:51:00.006-04:00

Police will go to any extent to protect the registry! Its hard to believe the police saying "they do not know if the fact that the boyfriend is a registrant, is the reason" when that is specifically stated in the flyer... SEE UPDATE below:3-26-2011 California: SPRING VALLEY - A Spring Valley father is behind bars for a murder for hire plot. The target - - his daughter's boyfriend. La Mesa police say 50-year old Dominigos Oliveira somehow posted flyers at Grossmont College. The flyer reads 3-thousand dollar reward for the body of convicted sex offender. Oliveira's 19-year old...

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'Vigilante' Attack in New Jersey Is Linked to Sex-Offenders Law

2010-12-04T15:10:00.001-05:00

UPDATED:1-11-1995 New Jersey: PHILLIPSBURG, N.J., Jan. 10— Two men who knew that a recently paroled sex offender was living here because of the community notification provision in "Megan's Law" have been charged with assault in a case that prosecutors are calling the first instance of vigilantism under the new law. The two men, a father and son, broke into the house where the parolee, Michael Groff, 25, was asleep on a living room floor at 2:47 A.M. Sunday, Warren County authorities said. But several people were staying at the house, at 318 Lincoln Street, and one of the intruders...

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Police: Sex offender beaten, dog killed during attack

2010-12-01T11:55:00.000-05:00

11-30-2010 Florida: Orlando police are looking for three men accused of beating up a registered sex offender and killing his dog. Orlando police are looking for three teens who beat up a registered sex offender and killed his dog late Monday. The victim told police he was exercising his dog Daisy, a Pomeranian-Chihuahua mix, in front of a group home for sex offenders on West Concord Street when he was confronted by three men in their late teens. One suspect told the victim they knew he was a sex offender and they didn't want him in the neighborhood, according to a police...

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Hopewell teen charged with harassing registered sex offender

2010-11-09T01:30:00.005-05:00

UPDATED 10-17-2011 Unbelievable resolve for using the registry to perform an attack on a registrant. see below... 11-8-2010 Virginia: A Hopewell teen has been charged with intentionally misusing information from Virginia's Sex Offender Registry in an October incident in which police said the teen harassed, followed and then struck a registered sex offender with his vehicle. Daniel R. Narron, 19, was arrested Friday and charged with attempted murder, attempted malicious wounding by mob, hit-and-run driving and misuse of the sex offender registry, said state police Sgt. Thomas...

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