Sex offender guilty in rape, murder of Florida child
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A Florida jury convicted a registered sex offender on Wednesday of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl who was snatched from her bed and buried alive in a plastic garbage bag.
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A convicted sex offender was killed and a 14-year-old boy injured when a sport utility vehicle the man was driving slammed into an 18-wheeler following a high speed police chase, authorities said Friday.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found guilty of being an accomplice to rape by using his religious authority to push a 14-year-old girl into marriage. Elissa Wall, who testified about being a child wife, said after the verdict: "This has not been about religion or a vendetta. It was simply about child abuse."
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SYDNEY - One of seven men facing trial for sex crimes against underage girls on the remote British territory of Pitcairn in the South Pacific has pleaded guilty to three charges of sexual assault, the Australian newspaper reported Tuesday.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ 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.
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Jurors on Friday sentenced a convicted sex offender to death for killing University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin, whose body was found in a Minnesota ravine nearly five months after she disappeared.
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A sex offender now in prison was charged Friday with first-degree murder in the deaths of his neighbor and her two teenage children.
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The former roommate of one of the nation's most prolific child molesters was sentenced Friday to at least 800 years in prison for sexually abusing three boys
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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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Five of the seven Pitcairn Islanders charged with multiple sex abuse crimes were reported to have been found guilty on Monday, while a sixth man pleaded guilty during the trial which exposed the dark side of the remote community.
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By Tony Bridges, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Dec. 19--Deputies arrested a Bay County woman Monday after finding three of her children alone with a sex offender in a home with no food, Bay County Sheriff's Office officials reported.
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A Florida judge on Friday sentenced a man to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl who was snatched from her bed and buried alive in a plastic garbage bag.
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A man who raped a baby and sexually assaulted another girl over a number of years is sent to prison.
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ATLANTA, June 11 â A Georgia Superior Court judge today ordered the release of Genarlow Wilson, who has served two years of 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with another teenager at a party when he was 17. Prosecutors said they would appeal the order.
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THE mayor of Pitcairn Island and his son were among five men found guilty yesterday of a series of rapes and sexual assaults against young girls on the island stretching back more than four decades.
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Murphy will go to trial Nov. 4 on charges he molested his daughters, a state district judge said Tuesday. Murphy is charged with three counts of indecency with a child and three counts of aggravated sexual assault, punishable by up to life in prison.