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Joseph Edward Duncan III Sentenced to Death

A federal jury in Boise, Idaho deliberated only three hours before voting to sentence convicted killer and sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan III for the kidnapping, torture, sexual assault and murder of 9-year-old Dylan Groene. The jury's recommendation is binding upon Judge Edward Lodge, who immediately sentenced Duncan to death. Duncan showed no reaction when the verdict was announced.
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Jurors Find For Plaintiff In Belleville Abuse Case

BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- A St. Clair County jury has awarded $5 million to a man who sued the Diocese of Belleville, saying it covered up alleged sexual abuse by a priest in the 1970s. The jury on Wednesday evening found the diocese "fraudulently concealed" James Wisniewski's (wihs-NOO'-skees) claims. Wisniewski, of Champaign, filed a civil lawsuit in 2002. The Belleville News-Democrat says he called Wednesday a "great day" for him and other abuse victims. The 47-year-old Wisniewski says the Reverend Raymond Kownacki allegedly molested him when he was an altar boy.
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Priest Brian Spillane Faces 33 College Sex Charges

FOR years Rev. Brian Spillane presided over a flock of young, impressionable boys at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst. A chaplain and a teacher, he officiated at school Masses, led the pupils in prayer and gave them religious guidance. According to allegations by 13 former students, he also repeatedly raped them.
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Hung Jury In Clergy Sex Abuse Trial

BURLINGTON -- The case of a former altar boy who claimed he was molested by the Rev. Edward Paquette in the late 1970s was declared a mistrial today by Judge Matthew Katz after the jury signaled that it was unable to come up with a verdict after 16 hours of deliberation. Katz, who sent a message to the jury this morning designed to encourage them to keep talking, dismissed the panel shortly after noon after the jury sent him a note saying “We cannot agree and we can no longer proceed.”Jerome O’Neill, an attorney for the former altar boy, said the jury’s inability to reach a decision on monetary damages was disappointing but was encouraged that the jury had told the judge it viewed the diocese as liable for the abuse his client occurred.
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Judge Declares Mistrial In Church Abuse Case
BURLINGTON -- A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after a Chittenden Superior Court jury remained deadlocked on whether Vermont's Catholic Church was negligent in hiring and supervising a pedophile priest. A five-man, seven-woman panel had deliberated for 16 hours over three days when Judge Matthew Katz received a note at noon saying, "We do not agree and can no longer proceed. Question — how do we proceed?" The judge's answer: "I don't have a magic bullet — I'm going to declare a mistrial."

Grand Jury Indicts City Worker On Gay Crimes

SUFFOLK -- A former Suffolk city employee was indicted Wednesday on 30 counts of possession of child pornography. Stephen Edward Matze, 53, of the 2100 block of Holland Road, worked in the city's fleet management department. A city spokeswoman said Matze's employment was terminated Aug. 29, 2007. A boy in 2007 told police Matze had molested him from June 2006 to September 2006, when the boy was 14 years old.
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In NYC, New HIV Infections 3 Times National Rate

NEW YORK -- New data show New York City residents are contracting the virus that causes AIDS at three times the national rate. The city health department said Wednesday that almost 4,800 New Yorkers were infected with HIV in 2006. That number represents 72 of every 100,000 residents, compared to a national rate of 23 per 100,000. The figures pinpoint when people became infected with the virus, not just when they were diagnosed. Health officials attribute the city's relatively high rate of new infections to its large populations of gay men, blacks and other groups on whom HIV has traditionally taken a heavy toll.
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Medical Consequences Of What Homosexuals Do
Throughout history, all civilized societies have condemned homosexuality. Until 1961 homosexual acts were illegal throughout America.

Death For Gay Child Killer Who Kidnapped, Murdered Idaho Boy

BOISE, Idaho -- A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death Wednesday for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old northern Idaho boy after federal jurors who watched video of some of the brutality deliberated just three hours. The jurors' recommendation was binding on U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge, who thanked them, dismissed them and then sentenced Joseph Edward Duncan III. Relatives of the victim, Dylan Groene, remained somber as the jury's decision was announced. Duncan murdered Dylan's mother, older brother and his mother's fiance to kidnap him and his younger sister, who was sexually abused along with her brother but survived.
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Pastor Rodney Boothe's Homosexual Trial Gets Testimony

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- An 18-year-old man testified yesterday in Forsyth Superior Court that he regularly had sex with his pastor over a three-year period, from when he was 15 to 17. The man is the first of two people expected to testify this week that they had sex with Rodney Keith Boothe, 40, a former pastor at Greater Church of Deliverance on North Cherry Street, which also is known as Christ Cathedral Church of Deliverance. Boothe faces 42 sex-related charges. The 18-year-old said that many of the sexual conversations he had with Boothe were through cell-phone text messages. An aunt called Winston-Salem police after reading the text messages stored in the boy's phone. Boothe was arrested and has been in jail since June, 2007.
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Man Sues Catholic Diocese for Sexual Abuse

A 48-year-old man who claims he was sexually abused by a Memphis Catholic priest when he was a teenager is suing the Catholic Diocese of Memphis. The John Doe lawsuit filed this month in the Circuit Court of Tennessee for the 30th Judicial District at Memphis is the latest of five involving the Rev. Paul W. St. Charles. The other four were settled in the summer of 2007 along with several other sexual abuse lawsuits naming other Memphis priests. St. Charles, who at one time was the head of youth activities for the Diocese, was suspended in 2004 by Memphis Bishop J. Terry Steib. The suspension from all priestly duties came before any lawsuits were filed against him.
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Teacher Autumn Leathers Arrested for Sex Acts With Student

A 24-year-old Maryland woman has become the latest high school teacher to be arrested and charged with having sexual activity with an underage student. Autumn Leathers, of Frostburg, Md., was charged Thursday with child abuse, fourth-degree sex offense, perverted practice and second-degree assault. She is alleged to have been having sexual relations regularly this summer with a 16-year-old boy from Mountain Ride High School in Frostburg. Leathers taught at the school, but it was unclear whether the boy was one of her students.
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Teacher Mark Boster Convicted On Gay Charge Denied Early Release

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A former teacher who was sent to prison for attempting to meet a teenage boy for sex learned Monday that he will not be released from prison early. Mark Boster was sentenced in April to a year in prison. Boster, 46, pleaded guilty to arranging a date over the Internet with a 14-year-old boy. The boy was actually an undercover police officer posing as a teenager. A judge denied Boster's request since he has served only four months of his sentence, 10TV News reported. In addition to serving the rest of his prison sentence, Boster has also had his teaching license revoked.
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Teacher Kelly Sweet Pleads Guilty In Sex Case

A former St. Francis math teacher pleaded guilty Tuesday to having sexual contact with a 14-year-old student, and was sentenced to 25 days in jail and two years’ probation. Kelly Marie Sweet, 27, has also permanently relinquished her Wisconsin teaching license. She was ordered to register as a sex offender for the duration of her probation.
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Teacher Allanah Wells Accused Of Having Sex With 12-Year-Old Boy

FLINT, Michigan -- An elementary school teacher is accused of having sex with a 12-year-old student at her home while she was supposed to be helping him with homework. Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton expects to charge former Flint Williams Elementary teacher Allanah Benton-Wells, 42, today with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person under the age of 13, which is a felony punishable by up to life in prison. Investigators say they believe Benton-Wells had sex with a sixth-grader who was a student in her class on two separate occasions around Halloween of 2007 when she was supposed to be tutoring him.
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Teacher Alex Diaz Gets 6 Months In Jail For Sex With Student

A former Bell High School teacher was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail and five years' probation for having a sexual relationship with a female student that began in 2006, authorities said. Alex Diaz, 37, pleaded guilty in Compton Superior Court to three counts of oral copulation of a person under age 18, three counts of unlawful sex with a minor and no contest to two counts of sodomy. Authorities said Diaz was the girl's health teacher when she was 14 and that the sexual relationship began about two years later.
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Band Teacher Accused of Having Sex with Student

GROESBECK -- A former Groesbeck teacher is accused of having sex with one of his students. The Limestone County Sheriff's Department says 27-year-old Rodney Sexton is charged with Improper Relationship Between an Educator and a Student. The incident allegedly happened February 12. The age of the victim has not been released but Sheriff Dennis Wilson says Sexton was a former teacher at Groesbeck and turned himself in August 1st after the indictment was issued.
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3 Teachers Lose Certification In Sex Scandals

The Arizona Board of Education this week elected to formally revoke or accept the surrender of teaching certifications of three East Valley teachers accused of having inappropriate relationships with students. The process was the state's final step in banishing them from a teaching career in public education. The state board voted during its monthly meeting on Monday to unanimously revoke the teaching certificate of former Paradise Valley High School English teacher Jennifer Mally, who was sentenced to six months in prison in May, and accepted Tom Porras' surrender of his teaching certification. Porras is a former assistant football coach and substitute teacher at Scottsdale Saguaro High School.
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X-Rated Pornography Video Shot In The Playground

BARTLETT, TN -- Bartlett Grove Park sits in the middle of a subdivision. It's a favorite spot for children, and was recently the site of an adult website porno shoot. The video clip we discovered begins innocently enough. "I thought I'd come out for the day," says the "model." She then exposes herself on the playground slide. "She's definitely a tramp -- just nasty," parent Barbara Taylor said in reaction to the video. Taylor had a typical reaction. "I think it's disgusting," she said. "I think I'm not letting my kids go down that slide anymore."
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Official Accused of Using State Funds for Witchcraft

Nigerian Accused of 'Juju' Theft
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The head of a Nigerian government agency has been charged with stealing money to hire a witchdoctor or "juju" sorcerer to bring him success. Sam Edem, chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, is accused of taking $6.8m (£3.4m) of state money. He has been charged with theft and criminal conspiracy by a court who heard he spent millions on black magic. Police allege in one ritual he burned millions of naira and rubbed the ash on his body. Mr Edem denies the charges.
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$2.3M Torched in 'Juju Spell' Witchcraft Ritual
NIGERIA -- A Nigerian official obsessed with witchcraft burned $2.3 million Cdn of stolen public money and smeared the ashes over his naked body in a bizarre ritual, police said. Sam Edem, the chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, is accused of stealing $6.6 million Cdn in public money to pay a witch doctor to cast "juju" spells to secure business contracts and to kill a powerful rival at work.

Youth Pastor Pleads Not Guilty to Gay Crimes Against Four Boys

EUREKA, Calif. -- A former youth pastor and teacher's aide pleaded not guilty to charges he molested four boys he met working at after-school and church-based youth programs. Andrew Belant, 25, entered his plea Friday in Humboldt County Superior Court. He faces 19 charges. The allegations indicate the boys, aged nine through 13, were molested between January 2007 and March 2008. Belant is being held in Humboldt County jail on $300,000 bail. He could get up to life in prison if convicted.
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Presbyterian Youth Pastor Scheduled for October Jury Trial
EUREKA, Calif. -- A man accused of molesting four boys he knew through his role as a church youth pastor and after-school program aide pleaded not guilty Friday to 18 felony charges. A jury trial for 25-year-old Andrew Belant was scheduled for Oct. 14, with a trial confirmation date of Oct. 1. The counts include four counts of forced oral copulation on a child, which carries a sentence of 15 years to life for each count. Other counts include eight counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a child and six counts of oral copulation of a child. Belant worked in the after-school program at Lafayette Elementary school, at the Eureka First Presbyterian Church as a junior youth pastor and was a student in the teacher credentialing program at Humboldt State University prior to his March 1 arrest.

Organization Will Not Apologize for Gay Anglican Nigerian's Predatory Behavior

At the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, it was revealed that Nigeria's leading homosexual activist, Anglican layman, Davis Mac-Iyalla had sexual relations with two seminarians in the course of a tour all the while telling all who would hear him that he was a victim of the Nigerian Anglican Church's homophobia. Davis heads Changing Attitude Nigeria, though he no longer lives in that country. He so convinced British immigration authorities, with the help of a good lawyer, that if he stayed in Nigeria he would be killed because he was a gay man, that he managed to obtain asylum in the United Kingdom.
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Molested Boy, 7, Still Haunted by Crime, Grandmother Testifies

CLAYTON -- The 7-year-old victim of a convicted child molester has been barred from playing with his cousins because he is still acting out sexual fantasies from the assaults, the boy's grandmother says. The boy was 5 in October 2006 and February 2007 when Jason Hendrickson performed deviate sexual intercourse on the child at an apartment in south St. Louis County, a jury concluded in convicting Hendrickson Wednesday of four counts of statutory sodomy. Then the jury of 10 men and two women heard shocking additional testimony in the punishment phase of the trial.
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Federal Charges Added in Porn, Predator Attack on 6-Year-Old Girl

GROTON, NY -- A 45-year-old Groton man is facing federal child pornography charges on top of state sex-crime charges. Robert Cornwell Jr. is due on federal court in Binghamton to be arraigned on charges of child pornography production and child pornography possession, federal prosecutors said. Federal agents, working with state police, Tompkins County sheriff's deputies and Groton police arrested Cornwell on Sunday. Prosecutors said the new charges were the result of evidence and witness statements taken following Cornwell's June 12 arrest and charges of sexually molesting a 6-year-old girl and taking sexual photographs of her. He was charged with first-degree sexual abuse, a class D felony; use of a child in a sexual performance, a class C felony; and endangering the welfare of a child, a class A misdemeanor, according to court papers.
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More Bigamy Charges Filed in Texas Sect Case

ELDORADO, Texas -- Two new indictments against members of a polygamist sect have added bigamy charges against men already accused of sexual assault of a child. The indictments issued Thursday by a Schleicher County grand jury accuse Michael George Emack, 57, and Raymond Merrill Jessop, 36. Both were served on Friday. The clerk's office has not released the name or charge on a third indictment issued Thursday because it has not yet been served.
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Accused Rapist, Pedophile Hangs Himself

A man accused of raping young girls in their homes a decade ago killed himself in prison this weekend, prosecutors said this afternoon. Charles Joseph Steffani, 55, of St. Charles, tied a bed sheet around his neck and lay down in a way that cut off circulation sometime Saturday, St. Charles County prosecutor Jack Banas said. Steffani was charged in St. Charles County with 17 felonies, including multiple counts of forcible sodomy and sexual abuse and one count each of statutory sodomy and forcible rape. He already was serving a 20-year sentence for several other sexual assaults in St. Louis and St. Charles counties. In the charges he still faced, he was accused of sneaking into houses and assaulting young girls in 1996 and 1998.
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NY Escort Worker Pleads Guilty in Spitzer Case

NEW YORK -- The last of four defendants charged in the prostitution scandal that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer pleaded guilty Monday to a charge related to arranging trysts between high-priced escorts and clients. Tanya Robin Hollander, 36, of Rhinebeck, N.Y., admitted she conspired to violate the travel act, which prohibits crossing state lines to further an illegal business. Hollander, who worked as a booker for the Emperors Club VIP, told the court she began looking for work early last year to supplement her job as a holistic health counselor.
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Ban on Unmarried Adoptions Cleared for Ark. Ballot

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A proposal aimed at effectively banning gays and lesbians from becoming foster or adoptive parents was cleared Monday to appear on this fall's ballot in Arkansas. The measure would prohibit unmarried couples living together from fostering or adopting children, and Arkansas doesn't allow gays to marry or recognize gay marriages conducted elsewhere. Secretary of State Charlie Daniels certified the proposed initiated act for the Nov. 4 ballot after verifying that the Arkansas Family Council Action Committee had submitted 85,389 valid signatures of registered voters. Supporters needed to turn in at least 61,974 valid signatures.
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FBI: Couple Offered Sex With Girl, 5, for Used Car

SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio couple is accused of trying to trying to trade sex with the woman's 5-year-old daughter for an apartment, a used car and child care for her 10-month old daughter. Jennifer Richards, 25, and her married boyfriend, Sean Michael Block, 40, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Stein Nowak on Friday. Richards is charged with using interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor. Block is charged with distributing child pornography.
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Department of Human Services Worker Charged With Sex Crimes

McALESTER -- A former Department of Human Services worker Rocky Wade Johnson, 26, was charged Thursday with three counts of rape by instrumentation, three counts of oral sodomy and two counts of sexual battery. Investigators say the victims were teenage girls involved in the Department of Human Services' independent living program. The program is geared toward foster children 15 and older, who have opted against adoption and would be on their own at 18.
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'Dungeon Rapist' Gets 25 Years on Gun Charge

A South Carolina man who was acquitted last year of charges that he raped two girls in an underground dungeon has been sentenced to 25 years by a federal judge on gun charges. Kenneth Glenn Hinson was charged with being a felon in possession of a weapon. Hinson had a gun when he was arrested last year on the rape charges, authorities said. Two 17-year-old girls told police that Hinson had held them in an underground room and forced them to have sex. The underground room was under a tool shed in Hinson's back yard.
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California Eager to Try Gay Child Killer for 1997 Murder

BOISE, Idaho -- California law enforcement officials are watching the sentencing hearing for convicted killer Joseph Duncan closely in expectation of eventually trying him there for at least one murder there. The Riverside County, Calif., district attorney's office charged Duncan in January 2007 with a Beaumont, Calif., boy's death in April 1997. Ten-year-old Anthony Martinez was forced into a car at knifepoint; his body was found 15 days later.
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Catholic Bishop Released Priest File with Information Missing

Note: Testimony in a clergy sex abuse civil trial in Missouri is confirming what has been long been suspected, that the so-called "review boards' required by the bishops' 2002 Dallas Charter to be set up in every diocese to "independently" review sexual abuse reports by "qualified" lay people are very little more than window dressing so that the bishops could continue with business as usual.
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Methodist Sunday School Teacher Facing Prison in Molestation Case

CHANDLER, Arizona -- A former volunteer Sunday school teacher pleaded guilty Thursday to five counts involving the sexual molestation of young children who were under his care during classes at a Chandler church, the Maricopa County Attorney's office said. Police arrested Terence Greenwood, 63, last December in connection with the molestation of a 5-year-old girl. The abuse occurred during church services in a classroom designated for children's Sunday school sessions at the Chandler United Methodist Church, which at the time was on Chandler Boulevard near Arizona Avenue. The abuse also happened at Greenwood's home.
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Crimes Against Children Continue to Increase

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the exploitation of children has unfortunately become a major "growth industry, but the agency has likewise increased its efforts to crack down on those who prey on children. Robert S. Mueller III outlined the steps that the FBI is taking to protect "the most vulnerable among us." Mueller said the growth of the Internet has been a factor in the increase of crimes against children.
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Diocese Sued for First Time for Homosexual Crimes

Attorneys announced Friday they have filed the first lawsuit against the Diocese of Wilmington for childhood sexual abuse by one of its priests, now deceased, who was stationed at St. Francis de Sales Church in Salisbury, Md. David Dixon, 50, of Peoria, Ariz., claims the Rev. Leonard J. Mackiewicz took him from his Salisbury home, drove him across state lines to the priest's mother's house in Sussex County and sexually abused him when he was 12 years old, according the suit filed Friday in Sussex County Superior Court.
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Lawsuit Claims Abuse By Priest Leonard Mackiewicz

SALISBURY -- An Arizona man has filed a lawsuit against the Diocese of Wilmington, claiming he was molested by a priest assigned to a city church nearly 40 years ago. David Dixon, of Peoria, Ariz., filed the suit Friday in Sussex County Superior Court charging that he was molested in 1970 by Leonard Mackiewicz, a former priest at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church. The lawsuit also claims that Mackiewicz, who died in 1994, was a serial abuser of both boys and girls during his 30 years as a priest in churches throughout the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland and most of Delaware. "By placing a known child molester in a parish full of young innocents, the diocese quietly sealed the fate of so many vulnerable school children and destroyed the lives of numerous families," said Thomas Neuberger, one of the lawyers representing Dixon. Calls and e-mails made to the Wilmington Diocese on Friday were not returned.
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Church Rape Trial Resumes Today

AMITE -- Testimony is scheduled to resume Monday in the aggravated rape trial of the former pastor of Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula. Louis D. Lamonica, 48, of Holden, is being tried on four counts of aggravated rape for allegedly abusing his two young sons when they were 11 years old or younger. Under Louisiana law, an aggravated rape conviction carries an automatic life sentence in prison.
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Opening statements begin in trial for pastor facing rape charges
BATON ROUGE, LA -- Opening statements began Friday in the aggravated rape trial of former Pastor Louis Lamonica. Lamonica is the former pastor of Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula. He's being tried on four counts of aggravated rape for allegedly abusing his two young sons. For the past three days, Lamonica's attorney and prosecutors have interviewed 56 Tangipahoa Parish residents in order to pick a seven-man and five-woman jury.

Pedophile or puppet? Trial begins
AMITE -- Louis D. Lamonica confessed to raping his two young sons because he was manipulated by a self-proclaimed prophet who had visions of Lamonica's sins and insisted he admit them to be cleansed by God, defense counsel said in opening statements Friday morning. Assistant District Attorney Don Wall, however, told the jury in his opening statements that Lamonica is a pedophile who began having sex with his sons starting when they were 5 years old. Lamonica not only confessed these crimes to law enforcement authorities but also wrote about them “to a nauseating extent,” Wall told the jury.

Jury: Gay Child Killer Eligible For The Death Penalty

A federal jury in Idaho deliberated for two hours before voting convicted sex offender and killer Joseph Edward Duncan III eligible for the death penalty in the 2005 kidnapping, torture, sexual assault and murder of Dylan Groene. Now prosecutors must convince jurors that he should be executed. Acting as his own attorney, Duncan will be able to address the jury directly in an effort to make his case for a life sentence without parole when the hearing continues next week.
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Jury: Confessed killer of Idaho boy can get death
BOISE, Idaho -- A man who kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered a 9-year-old Idaho boy was deemed eligible for the death penalty by a jury on Friday, soon after the killer himself came close to thanking prosecutors for showing the panel sickening videos of him abusing the child. The jury deliberated for two hours before issuing its unanimous ruling. When the hearing resumes next week, jurors must decide whether Joseph Edward Duncan III should be put to death for killing Dylan Groene in 2005. Friday's verdict was not surprising after Duncan's closing argument, in which he told the jurors they didn't yet "have a clue" about the depths of his "heinousness."

Hallmark Rolls Out Sodomite 'Marriage' Cards

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Most states don't recognize gay marriage - but now Hallmark does. The nation's largest greeting card company is rolling out same-sex wedding cards - featuring two tuxedos, overlapping hearts or intertwined flowers, with best wishes inside. "Two hearts. One promise," one says. Hallmark added the cards after California joined Massachusetts as the only U.S. states with legal gay "marriage." A handful of other states have recognized same-sex civil unions.
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Survey: Christian Women Report Sexual Misconduct at Church

More than a quarter of Christian women have experienced sexual harassment and of those, one fourth said it happened in a church or ministry setting, a new study shows. Self-described "active Christian women" who were surveyed last fall reported personally encountering sexually inappropriate behavior mainly in a non-ministry setting, but up to 25 percent of the employed women said they experienced such behavior in a ministry setting. NationalChristianPoll.com surveyed the women on such inappropriate behavior as sexual advances, touching or sexual contact, suggestive jokes, glances with sexual overtones and demeaning comments.
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Lawsuit Against Diocese Involving Dover Priest Dismissed

A lawsuit against the Diocese of Manchester, claiming a former Dover priest raped and infected a man with HIV, has been dismissed. Officials at Hillsborough County Superior Court confirmed the case's dismissal on Thursday afternoon but could give no further information because the dismissal is under seal. The diocese's attorney, Brian Quirk, declined to comment about any aspect of the case.
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Sex Offender Gets 25 Years for Gun Charge

FLORENCE, S.C. -- A man acquitted last year of charges he raped two girls in an underground dungeon has been sentenced to 25 years on a federal gun charge. A U.S. District Court judge in South Carolina said Kenneth Glenn Hinson's criminal history led to the lengthy sentence on a charge of being a felon in possession of a weapon. Authorities said they found the 49-year-old man with a gun when he was arrested in 2006.
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Man Convicted in Texas Child Sex Club Case

A Texas jury deliberated 15 minutes before returning a guilty verdict for Patrick "Booger Red" Kelly in the Mineola Swinger's Club case. Kelly was convicted of grooming children as young as 5 to perform sex shows for adults at the club. The jury then voted to sentence the 41-year-old auto body shop employee to life in prison. During the trial prosecutors claimed that Kelly helped others set up a "kindergarten" where young children were given what they called "silly pills" and taught to dance provocatively. The pills were really powerful pain killers like Vicodin.
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Jurors Cry At Graphic Videos in Gay Child Killer's Murder Case

BOISE, Idaho -- Jurors cringed, cried and some desperately looked away as they were shown a series of deeply disturbing and graphic videos taken by a convicted child killer as he tortured, sexually abused and nearly killed a 9-year-old boy. Joseph Edward Duncan III, acting as his own attorney, had argued against playing the videos, saying it would turn jurors "into my victims" as they decide whether he should be executed. Duncan kidnapped the boy, Dylan Groene, and his sister, Shasta, in May 2005 after murdering their older brother, their mother and her fiance in the Coeur d'Alene area. The two young children were taken deep into the Lolo National Forest, where they endured weeks of horrendous abuse at Duncan's hands.
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Mother of Abuse Victim Calls for Cardinal's Resignation

Reading her Chicago Sun-Times last week, Diane Houston lingered over a prison photo of the Rev. Norbert Maday, his mug shot showing the convicted sex abuser with a black eye and a swollen lip. Though the Homewood woman is the mother of one of the dozens of boys believed to have been raped by Maday, the picture of the jailed Chicago priest didn't bring her any solace. Her reaction: "He was beaten up but not beaten up enough for me.''

On Thursday, Houston, whose son John committed suicide years after he was abused by Maday, called on Cardinal Francis George to resign. Houston cited documents showing how George and other Chicago archdiocesan officials tried to ease Maday's stay in prison, including advising him on how he could be released early from his 20-year sentence.
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Baptist Youth Pastor Charged With Another Sexual Assault

EAST ST. LOUIS, MO -- A former O'Fallon church youth minister charged last month with assaulting an 8-year-old girl has been charged again with sexually assaulting another youngster. Terrence Jenkins, 36, of 542 N. 14th St. in East St. Louis, was charged Thursday by St. Clair County prosecutors with aggravated criminal sexual abuse and criminal sexual assault. The girl was 14 when assaulted on Aug. 11, 2006, the charges state. He is accused of molesting both girls while he served as a youth minister with Faith United Baptist Church in O'Fallon, according to the court documents. Jenkins is no longer with the church. He was out on bond awaiting trial on charges of criminal predatory sexual assault of the 8-year-old when St. Clair County Sheriff's Department Investigator Desmond Williams took him into custody Wednesday night on a warrant for the newest charges.
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Gay Priest Sex Abuse Victim Wins $600,000 Appeal

A California appeals court has upheld a lower court's finding that a Catholic priest molested a boy and his church colleagues and bosses were responsible for the crimes. Joey Piscitelli charged, in a civil case, that he was molested by a Salesian cleric in the Bay Area and that the priest's supervisors could and should have prevented the abuse. He was awarded a six figure verdict. The Salesians appealed the case, claiming there wasn't a fair trial. The 13 page order, in favor of Piscitelli, was apparently issued late yesterday. (PDF) ``In July 2006 a jury awarded Joseph Piscitelli $600,000 for sexual abuse he suffered from 1969 through 1971 at the hands of Joseph Whelan, who was the vice-principal of the Society-run high school Piscitelli attended at that time. The only issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred by letting Piscitelli impeach a former Salesian brother, Salvatore Billante, with evidence that Billante had been convicted of child molestation.''
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Ex-Altar Boy Shows Signs of Homo-Priest Abuse

BURLINGTON, Vermont -- A Burlington altar boy allegedly molested between 20 and 50 times by the Rev. Edward Paquette in the 1970s continues to suffer low-grade depression and post-traumatic stress 30 years later, a psychologist testified in court Thursday. "His claim of experiencing anxiety and depression is borne out not only in his verbal report but in his test results," Dr. Joseph Hasazi of Burlington told the jury during the sixth day of a clergy sex abuse trial at Chittenden Superior Court. The alleged victim was a 9-year-old fourth-grader when he says the incidents occurred at Christ the King Church. The man, now 40 and a resident of Waitsfield, has sued the diocese, claiming it knew Paquette had a history of molesting boys in the years leading up to his abuse. The Burlington Free Press does not identify the alleged victims of sexual abuse without their consent.
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Priest: Gay Sex Allegations Were Hushed Up

BELLEVILLE, IL. -- Alleged sexual abuse by a priest within the Belleville Diocese was hushed and treated as dirty laundry, a former high-ranking diocesan official testified in court on Thursday. "Like any family, you don't go hanging your dirty laundry all over the line," the Rev. Joseph Schwaegel, a former vice chancellor in the diocese, testified on Thursday. A former altar boy is suing the Belleville Diocese, alleging that it covered up sexual abuse involving the Rev. Raymond Kownacki. The altar boy, now 47, says in the suit that Kownacki repeatedly molested him throughout the 1970s.
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Molestation Suspect Nabbed at Oakland Airport Heads Ugandan Megachurch

OAKLAND CA -- A man arrested Saturday on suspicion of molesting a 13-year-old East Bay girl on a flight from Denver to Oakland is the minister of a Ugandan megachurch and is known internationally as a poverty-relief advocate. Jackson Senyonga, 41, of Uganda was arrested by sheriff's deputies at Oakland International Airport on suspicion of fondling a girl seated next to him on the flight, sheriff's deputies said. Senyonga frequently preaches at churches in Southern Alameda County, said Pastor Sherman Williams of Fremont Community Church, who said he has known Senyonga for at least a half-dozen years.
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Bishop Signs Priest Abuse Settlement

KANSAS CITY, MO. -- A settlement is now official for 47 victims who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of their own priests. The abuse spanned decades in the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese of the Catholic Church. All parties agreed on the global settlement earlier this week. But, late Thursday, it became final when Bishop Robert Finn signed it. It's been six years since the victims started filing lawsuits naming 11 Catholic priests and one brother. The settlement worth $10 million is the first of its kind in the state of Missouri.
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Missouri Diocese Agrees To $10 Million Payment On Sex Abuse Lawsuits

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Roman Catholic diocese has tentatively agreed to pay $10 million to settle nearly 50 sexual abuse claims against the diocese and its priests. In a letter sent to priests with the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese late Tuesday, Bishop Robert W. Finn said the deal is subject to his approval after he consults with two diocese boards. Along with the money for the 47 claims, the tentative deal calls for the diocese to meet 19 other conditions, including publicly announcing and acknowledgin4g the wrongfulness of sexual abuse by its priests. Attorneys for the plaintiffs say it is the nonmonetary conditions that make the proposed settlement so important. The deal will settle all current sexual abuse lawsuits pending in Jackson County against the diocese and 12 current or former priests for incidents alleged to have occurred between 1951 and 1992.
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Sex Abuse Priest Was Placed Near School

BELLEVILLE -- When it came time to finally decide what to do with a priest who was the subject of complaints over 15 years that he raped and sexually molested minors, diocese officials sent him to live next door to hundreds of Belleville elementary and high school students. "You put him right in the heart of a grade school and a high school?" attorney Steve Wigginton loudly asked the Rev. Joseph Schwaegel, a witness Thursday in a civil trial stemming from a 2002 lawsuit. In a barely audible voice, Schwaegel, who was removed from ministry in 1994 because of sexual addiction not involving a minor, said "yes." The lawsuit alleges that James Wisniewski, 47, of Champaign, was sexually assaulted by the Rev. Raymond Kownacki for five years beginning in 1973 when Wisniewski was a 13-year-old altar boy in Salem. The diocese is the sole defendant.
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Grand Jury Issues 3 Indictments in Polygamist Case

ELDORADO, Texas -- A grand jury issued three new felony indictments Thursday against members of a polygamist sect raided here in April. Schleicher County Clerk Peggy Williams confirmed the grand jury issued indictments against three individuals. She would not say who was indicted or what the indictments allege, other than that they are felonies. A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, which is handling the prosecution of the case, also declined to comment on what the indictments allege or who the accused are.
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Judge Rules In Favor of Breakaway Groups from Episcopal Abomination

A Fairfax County judge dealt the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Virginia a third defeat in their efforts to retain millions of dollars of church property being held by 11 breakaway congregations. On Tuesday, Circuit Judge Randy I. Bellows ruled on whether the U.S. Constitution's contracts clause applies to the case and whether the breakaway churches had the right to invoke what's been termed the "division statute," an 1867 law that allows a majority of a breakaway church to retain the property. Tuesday's ruling is the latest chapter of a multi-trial battle pitting the diocese against the 11 conservative churches who broke away from the denomination over issues of biblical authority and the 2003 election of the sodomite Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire.
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Belleville Diocese Leaders Failed To Investigate Priest Sex Abuse, Former Vicar General Testifies

BELLEVILLE -- While reports that the Rev. Raymond Kownacki was sexually molesting minors were piling up, Belleville Diocese bishops and other top church officials failed to investigate and routinely reassigned the priest six times to unsuspecting parishes, former vicar general Monsignor James Margason testified Wednesday. Margason, now pastor of Corpus Christi Church in Shiloh, was on the witness stand for more than three hours during a civil trial in St. Clair County Circuit Court stemming from a 2002 lawsuit brought by James Wisniewski, 47, of Champaign. Wisniewski claims that beginning in the early 1970s, when he was an altar boy at St. Theresa's Parish in Salem, Kownacki sexually molested him for five years.
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Family of Alleged McCormack Victim Sues Archdiocese

CHICAGO, IL -- The family of a boy who allegedly was molested by former Catholic priest and convicted sexual abuser Daniel McCormack filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Archdiocese on Wednesday. The family's attorney, Kenneth Cunniff, said he expects the lawsuit will be resolved in a "substantial settlement" next week. Cunniff declined to elaborate. The lawsuit claims McCormack molested the unnamed boy at Our Lady of the Westside School in September 2004 and again at a White Sox game in August 2005.
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Realty Owner Arrested In Child Porn

MERCED -- The prominent owner of a real estate business was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of possessing child pornography -- and he now faces federal charges. Merced County sheriff's deputies arrested 52-year-old Robin Blake, owner of Atwater-Merced Realty, after federal investigators issued a warrant for his arrest, according to Mike Prado, a senior special agent with the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Tentative $10m Settlement in K.C. Church Abuse Cases

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Roman Catholic diocese has tentatively agreed to pay $10 million to settle nearly 50 sexual abuse claims against the diocese and 12 of its priests. Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese Bishop Robert W. Finn on Wednesday apologized for the abuse that occurred at the hands of current and former clergy members, and promised that steps are being taken to make sure such abuse never happens again. "A priest is ordained with the privilege of celebrating the church's sacraments by nothing less than a holy order," Finn said at a news conference. "The behaviors attributable to certain priests involved in this matter not only betray those holy orders, but diminish the stature of the faithful and responsible priests who dispatch their ministry effectively and faithfully day in, day out."
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FBI: Student Hoped To Breed Sex Slave Society

PITTSBURGH -- A Pennsylvania medical student told a classmate he was trying to recruit a New Zealand woman and her 4-year-old daughter to start a society of sex slaves that would live on a farm or island, the FBI said. The FBI said in an affidavit filed Aug. 13 that it began investigating Jeremy Noyes, 30, of Erie, after someone tipped them off about his efforts to recruit the New Zealand woman and girl to come to the United States. They said he also possessed child pornography.
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UN Bans Criticism Of Islam

The Human Rights Council at the United Nations has now banned any criticism regarding Sharia Law and human rights in the Islamic World. According to President Doru Romulus Costea - and following the efforts of delegates from Egypt, Pakistan and Iran - the Council will no longer tolerate criticism of either Sharia or specific fatwas in the name of human rights.
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Convicted Sex Offender Pleads Guilty to Bikini Murder

Convicted sex offender Jerry Buck Inman has pleaded guilty to robbery, kidnapping, rape and murder in connection with the death of a Clemson University student in May 2006. Inman admitted in court that he strangled the 20-year-old Tiffany Marie Souers with her own bikini top. Under South Carolina law, Inman can still receive the death penalty even though he entered a guilty plea. The body of Souers was found May 26, 2006 in her off-campus apartment by a former roommate. Her bikini top was still around her neck.
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Jury Sees Tape of Sole Survivor in Gay Child Killer Slayings

A young girl who is the sole survivor of a murderous 2005 attack on her family told detectives that Joseph Edward Duncan III raped her, tried to kill her and forced her to watch him torture, molest and kill her brother. Federal court jurors on Tuesday watched an interview that sheriff's officers videotaped with then-8-year-old Shasta Groene soon after her rescue from the convicted pedophile. Appearing composed and wrapped in a quilt decorated with teddy bears, she described her 9-year-old brother Dylan's death at a remote campsite in western Montana as beginning with an accidental shooting and ending with Duncan firing point-blank at the boy's head as he begged for his life.
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Authorities: Freezer Preacher 'Bible Inspired Sex Acts'

ALABAMA -- Anthony Hopkins may have built a reputation as a preacher, but it's how he's accused of using his faith, that will now determine his fate. "The (unidentified) stated that when he first had sexual contact with her he explained that it was normal and he described to her and told her in detail the story of Lot from the Bible," Said Ashley Rich, Assistant Mobile County District Attorney. A story from the Old Testament that Dr. Cecil Taylor with the University of Mobile says, is a tale about a good man who gives in to evil and ends up committing incest with his two daughters. Something that Hopkins allegedly did and Clinical Psychologist Michael Rosenbaum says it is characteristic of a sexual predator, to manipulate their victims.
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Bizarre Murder, Incest Case Sent to Grand Jury in Mobile
MOBILE, Ala. -- A Mobile judge has ruled there is enough evidence for a grand jury to consider the case against a part-time evangelist charged with killing his wife, whose body was stuffed in a freezer. The judge ruled Wednesday at a preliminary hearing that there is probable cause to charge 37-year-old Anthony Hopkins with murder in the death of his wife, Arletha Hopkins. The 36-year-old wife had not been seen for at least three years before her body was found July 28 in a freezer at their home in north Mobile.

$10M Settlement Made In Clergy Sex Abuse

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph on Tuesday agreed to a $10 million settlement in a clergy sex abuse case. The $10 million will settle 47 claims of child sexual abuse against 12 priests. KMBC's Martin Augustine reported that it will settle everything on file in Jackson County District Court. Some of the claims date back 50 years. In addition to the $10 million payment, the settlement includes 19 noneconomic points, including that the bishop write letters of apology to the victims and their families.
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Reform Group Urges Cardinal George To Resign

CHICAGO IL -- A lay reform group on Tuesday called on Cardinal Francis George to leave his post as Chicago's Catholic archbishop, saying recent revelations about his handling of sexual abuse allegations against priests were intolerable. Leaders of the Boston-based Voice of the Faithful said they can't understand why the cardinal ignored advice to remove from ministry two priests accused of abusing minors or why he worked to reduce the prison sentence of a convicted child molester—actions the cardinal disclosed last week as part of a $12.7 million settlement involving 16 abuse victims and 11 accused priests.
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Priest Facing Criminal Charges Placed In Monastery

CALIFORNIA -- A Roman Catholic priest facing criminal charges for taking an unaccompanied youth to a motel room was removed from his Santa Ana parish and placed in an area monastery pending his sentencing today in the case. The Rev. Luis Eduardo Ramirez, a member of the Augustinian Recollects order who has worked at Our Lady of the Pillar parish since 2003, was arrested by Anaheim police Jan. 8 on suspicion of child annoyance or molestation and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The case has not been publicized, other than a diocese announcement in the church bulletin.
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Priest Admits 27 Sexual Assaults

A priest who sexually abused boys at a Manchester Catholic school in the 1970s and 1980s has admitted 27 assaults on children at Manchester Crown Court. Father William Green, 67, of Cale Lane, Aspull, Wigan, admitted the assaults on children aged between eight and 16. Green took physical education classes at St Bede's College in Alexandra Park, Manchester, when the assaults happened and has also worked at other schools.
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Another Clergy Sex Abuse & Cover Up Lawsuit Is Filed

DENVER, CO -- At a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters will announce another child molestation lawsuit against the Denver archdiocese. They will also urge local Catholic officials to -- disclose whether they have or are trying to get any convicted predators out of prison early, and -- ask a recently convicted Colorado sex offender priest to voluntarily give the bishop his passport, so he won't have a chance to flee the country (as several pedophile priests have done recently).
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55 Men Charged In 8-Month Calif. Child Porn Probe

LOS ANGELES -- Authorities say a California sheriff's deputy and an attorney were among 55 men charged with possessing child pornography after an eight-month investigation. The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles says the suspects used peer-to-peer networks to exchange graphic images and videos, then stored the files. U.S. attorney's office spokesman Thom Mrozek (tom MROH'-zek) says San Luis Obispo County Deputy Bryan Jon Goossens and attorney Thomas Merdzinski of San Bernardino are among those charged.
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