Georgia court throws out 10-year teen sex sentence
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A Georgia court on Monday ordered the immediate release of a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a girl when the two were teen-agers.
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Georgia's top court ordered the release on Friday of a youth sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl in a case that sparked a national campaign on his behalf.
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A Georgia judge ordered the release Monday of a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.
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A sex offender was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and burying her alive in a case that led to a crackdown around the country on people convicted of sex crimes. Jurors deliberated about four hours before returning the verdict against John Evander Couey in the slaying of Jessica Lunsford, who was snatched from her bedroom in February 2005 about 150 yards from the trailer where Couey had been living.
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Two more young men have been freed after serving time in jail for a case involving a 17-year-old who had consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl.
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A federal prosecutor wants a district attorney to stop giving out copies of a videotape used as evidence in a teenage sex case that has drawn national attention. The tape shows a 17-year-old Genarlow Wilson having oral sex with a 15-year-old. Now the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia says possession of the tape under an open records law could break child porn laws.
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The High Court on Monday upheld a ban on a teenager from wearing a so-called &quot;purity ring&quot; at school to signal her refusal of sex before marriage.
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An Arkansas circuit judge on Wednesday threw out the state&#39;s ban against foster parenthood by gay couples or by households that include a gay adult.
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New ZAGREB, Croatia, March 6 Croatia's Supreme Court has upheld a 6 1/2-year jail sentence of a 52-year-old janitor convicted of repeatedly raping a mentally retarded 13-year-old boy.Comment
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A serial rapist, who spent 10 years in prison, is sentenced to life in prison for raping a teenager.
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The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review an Air Force lieutenant's criminal conviction for having sex with a 15-year-old boy, which the officer contended was protected by a previous court decision overturning state statues that criminalized gay sex.
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A judge has ruled that Genarlow Wilson should be released from a 10-year prison sentence for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17, a case that has drawn national attention.
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Genarlow Wilson had served two years of a 10 year sentence in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager.
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A registered sex offender who served a four-year prison sentence for distributing child pornography was arrested this week on suspicion of telling an undercover detective online that he would pay for sex with a 10-year-old girl.
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A negligence lawsuit filed by a Texas family after a 13-year-old girl was assaulted by a 19-year-old man after meeting on MySpace was dismissed Wednesday, with a judge saying the site was protected by the Communications Decency Act.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A military jury sentenced Spc.  Charles Graner to 10 years in prison on Saturday for his  leading role in the 2003 Abu Ghraib torture of Iraqi prisoners,  five years less than the maximum sentence possible.
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By Madeline Baro Diaz, Jerome Burdi, Jennifer Gollan and Juan Ortega, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 3--The message was clear: No child molesters allowed.   The 2005 rape and murder of a 9-year-old Central Florida girl at the hands of a convicted sex offender shocked the nation.