An Innocent Man?
Or A Lowlife Degenerate
Texas and several other states have a Law of Parties statute which makes a third-party culpable for murder even if he or she wasn’t part of the actual killing. Hug-a-thug activists despise such laws and they desperately try to find creative ways to make a dangerous hoodlum look like an innocent man.
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No Arrests
Too Many Fugitives Walking Free
Most criminal warrants are for petty crimes like unpaid traffic tickets but an alarming number of them are also for far more serious crimes like drug dealing, armed robbery, and even murder. But to add insult to injury, most fugitives merrily go on with their lives with little to no concern of ever being arrested.
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Audacity of Molesters
Teach Children as their Probation
Richard Martinez, convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year old boy, had the nerve to request teaching children in the classroom about the dangers of inappropriate touching as part of his probation instead of going to prison. Talk about audacity. Fortunately, the judge turned him down.
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Let Me Play
Or My Daddy Will Shoot You
In Philadelphia, Wayne Derkotch was upset that his son did not get enough playing time in a football game that was part of a league for six and seven year olds. After arguing with his son’s coach, Derkotch pulled a gun on him. Sadly, incidents like this are now too commonplace.
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Prison Uniforms
Stripes and Pink Underwear
The common prison garb often includes orange or yellow jumpsuit, khaki pants and shirts, or even the two piece surgical scrub. Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County Arizona was outraged at how prisoners dressed in the uniform of a professional. He wanted his inmates to start looking like prisoners.
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Too Short for Prison
A Criminal Escapes Justice
Richard W. Thompson was facing a long sentence in prison for molesting a 12 year old girl. Instead, Judge Kristine Cecava of Nebraska gave him probation on the grounds that this miscreant was “too short” to endure a prison stay, especially since he might end up getting harassed and beat up by other bigger inmates.
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Non-Lethal Options
Police Using Deadly Force
In the past couple of decades, a plethora of non-lethal weapons have been developed from concussion grenades to rubber bullets to noxious gasses and to the ever increasing popularity of electric stun guns. These non-fatal alternatives are effective although some of them are only useful up to a certain point.
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Young Offenders
The Limits of Parenthood
There are limits to a parent’s influence. A good parent can do everything right in establishing boundaries and offering guidance but their child can still make bad choices. A parent can also turn their house into a prison and place excessive restrictions but that is still no guarantee of what can happen in the future.
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Home Invasions
Robbing Poker Players
Home invasions and robberies are a fact of life in America. However, an alarming new trend is emerging across the country. Armed thugs are brazenly breaking into private residences during cash games of Texas Hold ‘Em poker and stealing the game's cash and emptying out the players' wallets.
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Thugs and the Elderly
This Time Justice was Served
In 1994, Joseph Skipper, a middle-aged hoodlum in Detroit Michigan, committed a crime that shocked a nation. However, after incarceration, his punishment came with a twist. His conscience is now bothering him because he beat and robbed the elderly civil rights icon, Rosa Parks.
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Safe Sex Prisons
Should Inmates Have Condoms?
When Big Bubba starts calling his cellmate Susan or someone drops the soap in the shower, should inmates wear condoms? Prisons are now under increasing pressure distribute condoms to all prisoners and to encourage them to engage in safe sex (and for safer sexual assaults against other inmates).
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Teenage Pimps
And Their Teen Prostitutes
The purpose for having teenagers certified as adults is because there are certain offenses that are so heinous that these young punks need to spend a few decades behind bars for the public’s own safety. Unfortunately, when these lowlife degenerates are sentenced as juveniles, they only get a slap on the wrist.
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Overcrowded Solution
But the Unions Really Hate It
For California to build two additional prisons and expand capacity of other facilities to house an "only" an additional 24,000 prisoners would cost the taxpayers a staggering six billion dollars. However, there is a low cost solution that many states can implement but the unions hate it.
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Shoplifter Dies
And Parent Files Lawsuit
Stacy Clay Driver, high on drugs, was shoplifting in Wal-Mart. After employees spotted him making his own five finger discount, they managed to chase Driver into the parking lot for a lengthy 30 minute struggle that led to his death. Now Driver's father is on a crusade to have Wal-Mart clean up its act.
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Romancing Inmates
The Proliferation of Personal Ads
Personal ads on the Internet from inmates have grown by leaps and bounds. These convicts are looking for just about anything ranging from simple friendship to romance to marriage. But it is this ease of access to the outside world that has worried the public and outraged the families of victims.
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Bogus Doctor
Offering Free Breast Exams
A retired doctor embarked on a mission to increase awareness for breast cancer. But instead of using the traditional outlets to promote this cause, he utilized a highly limited but personal approach. He went door-to-door offering free breast exams. Does this sound fishy? It should be because this old man isn’t a doctor.
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Entrapment
Tempting Ordinary People
The NYPD of New York City snagged almost 300 people in Operation Lucky Bag in which an Xbox or an iPod were left in a subway station. Cops then arrested anyone who walked away with those items. However, a number of those arrested happened to be people who had absolutely no criminal record.
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Inmate Suicide
The Effects of Depression
One dilemma that prisons face is that of prisoners attempting to commit suicide. In maximum security facilities, the most violent inmates are temporarily housed in segregation units apart from the rest of the prison population. It is here that some convicts try to take their own life when they are first placed there.
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Polygraph Exams
Can It Really Detect Lies?
Do lie detectors really work? The scientific community has never been convinced of their validity and most courts do not allow the test results to be admitted as evidence. Even so, lie detectors are still widely used in law enforcement although many seasoned police veterans would never voluntarily submit to one.
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Hidden In Plain Sight
Do Sex Offenders Live Nearby?
Most people are not aware that convicted sexual predators of all types actually live in close proximity to them, perhaps as a next-door neighbor! Many convicted sex offenders do not look weird or have poor hygiene. In fact, a lot of them are nice looking, seemingly respectable people who can fool you.
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Lack of Evidence
Sloppiness of Police and the DA
Manuel Eric Herrera of San Antonio Texas was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for a stabbing in a bar. This arrest took him by surprise because as an army reservist, he was in harm’s way serving our country in Iraq during the time that this crime took place.
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Missing Persons
Police Reluctant to Investigate
Law enforcement is often caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to finding missing people. Most voluntarily disappear on their own accord and many of these individuals show up within a few days or within a few weeks although there are others who can take months or even years to resurface.
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Gang Peace?
Community Activists Just Don’t Get It
There are community activists who try to cobble together a truce between rival gangs or even attempt to establish a gang summit in hopes that gangs will end conflict. These activists have good intentions but such work is nothing more than a farce because these solutions are for the wrong problems.
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Love Gone Too Far
Boyfriend Mails Severed Finger
A woman who was constantly harassed by an ex-boyfriend received a severed finger in the mail along with an ominous note about his love for her. The police are unsure which finger the boyfriend cut off or how he did it. They just know that it was a clean slice and that it was also washed before it was mailed.
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Reckless Guard
Illicit New Year’s Eve Party
On the evening of December 31, much of the country was ringing in the New Year with rancorous celebrations except for Billie Pelley. This 20 year old female guard was on duty at her job in the Okfuskee County Jail in Oklahoma. So she decided to have a New Year’s Eve party of her own inside an inmate’s jail cell.
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Younger Punks
Pre-teens Committing Felonies
Pre-teen children and teenagers under the age of 15 are responsible for only a tiny portion of crime. For violent crime, it hovers at five percent. It inches up to seven percent for robberies and peaks at nine percent for burglaries. Those are national figures but there are some municipalities where it is out of control.
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A New Tool
License Plate Recognition
License plate recognition technology has the potential to revolutionize law enforcement by scanning and identifying the license plates of cars on public roads. However, critics contend that such tools violate the Fourth Amendment from unreasonable searches and seizures while eroding our privacy.
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No Frills Prisons
Low Cost Prison Solution
Inmates who are incarcerated in "tent cities" can save state governments a fortune. Facilities constructed of reinforced concrete is expensive to build and maintain but housing prisoners in tents is ridiculously cheap. Yes, it is hot and during the summer but if inmates don't like it, then they shouldn't come back.
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Dubious Intentions
And Lying to the Police
Legions of poverty warriors and do-gooders are often frustrated by local statutes and court rulings whenever they embark on controversial ventures. However, a small group of people decided that they couldn't wait for the green light about needle a exchange program so they did one anyways.
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Mistaken Identity
Irresponsible Arrests by the Police
Sheriff’s deputies searching for their suspect found a woman who shared the same birth date and same first and middle name of the person they were looking for. However, this woman didn't have the same last name of their suspect but apparently that was good enough to make an arrest.
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Woman Flips Off Sheriff
And She Also Had A Warrant
Mary Ann Sweeney, who had an outstanding warrant for her arrest, “flipped off” the car she was passing. As luck would have it (or perhaps Murphy’s Law), the driver of that other vehicle happened to be the Vanderburgh County Chief Deputy and his passenger was also the county sheriff.
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Locked Up
Prison Population Keeps Rising
According to a report from the Justice Department, there are seven million people are incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. Critics insist that there are too many people in prison in this nation. However, people are in jail for a reason yet part of society still refuses to come to grips with that harsh reality.
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Baited Cars
Catching Thieves Red Handed
The latest trend in law enforcement is the use of bait cars on unsuspecting criminals. These vehicles are equipped with silent alarms, hidden cameras, and remotely activated kill switches and locks. And they are now catching car thieves red handed in the act and providing open and shut cases in the courtroom.
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Ridiculous Remedy
Filing Lawsuits on Gangs
Perhaps the most ridiculous tactic that some cities have employed against gangs is to sue them. These cities are filing lawsuits against these thugs to prevent them from associating with each other while they are roaming our streets. What is wrong with this approach is that it tackles the wrong problems.
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Masseur Arrested
Secretly Videotaped Clients
A masseur committed what is probably the worst nightmare to his clients, outside of physical assault. He rigged up hidden cameras to covertly videotape his female customers while they were taking their clothes off. He accumulated video footage of over 100 women, including minors under the age of 14.
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Stupid Managers
Strip Searching Employees At Work
Employers ought to be responsible enough not to hire lowlife degenerates whose actions can lead to tragedy; but what about stupid people? Unfortunately, this planet is filled with plenty of morons and McDonalds paid a heavy price in a lawsuit when an idiot manager fell prey to a crank caller.
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Is This Entrapment?
Police Use Topless Women
A police sting operation to ensnare perverts in Columbus Ohio has generated a lot of controversy. The way it works is that police use an undercover female officer to sunbathe topless in a local park. In Columbus, being topless in a park is legal but anything else is not. She then asks men to do something illegal.
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12 Year Old Stripper
And the Strip Club Wasn’t Punished
It was pretty outrageous when a 12 year old girl danced nude at a strip club in Dallas Texas. But what was truly disturbing was that the sexually oriented business did not automatically lose its license because the city didn’t have an ordinance that prevents minors from stripping so the club was unscathed.
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Broken Process
Reform The Confirmation Process
The confirmation process of a Supreme Court justice is a circus. The role of the Senate has become nothing more than a theater stage to showcase useless drama and pointless passion. The entire procedure needs to be streamlined so that debate is limited and that a direct “up and down” vote taken.
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Huge Ruling Overturned
Justice Prevails in the Big Apple
Darryl Barnes made history when a New York City jury awarded him the gargantuan amount of $76 million for pain and suffering even though he shot at police officers with a submachine gun. Fortunately, the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division rejected the lawsuit and now he won't get a dime.
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Unruly Boys
But How To Punish Them
Two seventh graders played a game called "Slap Butt Day" in which they ran around slapping the rear-ends of girls. They got suspended from school but the local DA charged them with a sex crime where they would have to register as sex offenders. They should be punished but where do we draw the line?
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Perverts Walk Free
DA Refuses to Prosecute
Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator, humiliates child molesters on national television. However, one pedophile was a assistant prosecutor who shot himself when police knocked on his door. Now the city fired the city manager who set up the sting operation and their District Attorney refuses to prosecute the perverts.
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Psychic Detectives
Part 2: How Do They Do It?
When a psychic detective is investigating tough cases like unsolved murders and missing children they use their supernatural insight to see horrific events that have already happened in the past. So what is it that these psychics exactly do that allows them to gain information from crime scene?
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Psychic Detectives
Part 1: How Do They Help Police?
In cracking tough cases like unsolved murders and missing children, psychics often offer to use their extraordinary powers to converse with the dead, probe heaven and hell, and predict future events as well as seeing what has happened in the past. So what kind of value do psychics have for law enforcement?
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Sex Offenders
Getting Tough on Perverts
Hug-a-thug advocate organizations and their sympathizers have always stymied and thwarted the crusade for tougher laws for sex predators. They do not object to the fact that sexual assault is a vicious crime. They just don’t see it as being as pervasive of a problem that represents a big threat to society.
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Inmate Mistakenly Freed
Flaws in the Prison System
Cedric Thomas experienced exactly what every victim of a violent crime fears the most; unexpectedly meeting the lowlife who inflicted bodily harm to you, especially when that person intentionally sought you out. Naturally, Thomas was stunned when that moment occurred. A prison had mistakenly released his assailant.
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No Opting Out
Unwanted Sex Education
The students at Douglass Academy, which covers grades pre-K through sixth, are required to have sex education and there is no way to opt out of it. But the sex education doesn’t come from a curriculum or a textbook. It comes from the hookers who sell cheap sex to eager customers’ right in front of the school.
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Lovesick Prison Guard
And She Helped Inmate Escape
Amber Lynn Goff, age 24, was a prison guard for the El Dorado Correctional Facility. Regrettably, she fell in love with inmate Steven Ford. Unfortunately, this romantic relationship could never truly blossom as long as Ford was locked up so the young guard helped him escape. Goff is now going to prison.
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Overcrowded Prisons
Allowing Criminals to Walk Free
When prisons are overcrowded, there is a tremendous reluctance to mete out harsh sentences for many criminals because there is not enough space in our prison system. Thugs and hoodlums are then embolden to commit more serious crimes because they know that they are hardly going to be punished for it.
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Rising Shrinkage
Shoplifting at Wal-Mart
Shrinkage is the loss of inventory due to employee theft, shoplifting, vendor fraud, and even paperwork errors. And not surprisingly, it is also the bane of just about every big box retailer. At one time, Wal-Mart maintained the lowest shrinkage in the industry until they relaxed their aggressive zero tolerance policy.
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Inmate Contraband
Jail Employees Give It to Them
So how do inmates end up with stuff that they are not supposed to have, such as cell phones and drugs? Correctional institutions across the nation are notorious for having contraband amply available to prisoners. Unfortunately, there are too many jail employees that give it (or sell it) to them.
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MySpace Woes
Sex Offenders in Cyberspace
MySpace.com announced that 29,000 registered sex offenders created profiles on their immensely popular social networking site. They originally identified 7,000 profiles of sexual predators but there are already tens of thousands additional sex offenders who are covertly using MySpace.
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Old Inmates
Elderly Prison Population Soaring
The number of aging inmates in our nation’s prisons is soaring. The country experienced an explosive growth of prison construction in the 1990’s in order to accommodate much tougher sentencing laws that would permanently get thugs and lowlife degenerates off the streets and into prison cells.
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Wasted Adulthood
Does Prison Deter Crime at 18?
Recent research indicates that stiff prison sentences doesn't really deter juvenile delinquents from committing more serious crimes when they turn 18. But so what. If these punks cannot obey the law, then a jail cell is still a far better place for a dangerous hoodlum to be instead of roaming the streets.
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Creative Sentencing
A New Way to Punish Shoplifters
Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. tried a novel approach to punishment. To avoid jail time, he offered the option to stand in front of the very same store where shoplifters pulled off their five-finger discounts for two consecutive Saturday afternoons. But there is a catch to this generous alternative.
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Judge Upholds Ban
No R Rated Movies in Prison
U.S. District Court Judge Patti Saris reaffirmed that inmates incarcerated in the state of Massachusetts will not be able to watch R, NC-17, X, or XXX rated movies. This ban imposed by the state’s Department of Corrections was challenged as being unconstitutional and an infringement of prisoner rights.
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Voodoo Panties
Ex-Boyfriend Creates Voodoo Shrine
Pierre Carrenard was an emotional wreck after his girlfriend broke up with him and she continued to rebuff nearly all of his attempts to get back together. Then the upset ex-boyfriend decided to cast a spell on her using a voodoo shrine consisting of a number of her panties. This voodoo spell eventually led to murder.
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Adult Magazines
Should Inmate Have Girly Magazines?
Should inmates be allowed to have adult magazines? One state has decided to prohibit that privilege because they felt that a jail ought to be a place of punishment. Not surprisingly, the ACLU has taken up the plight of deprived prisoners in Indiana to overturn the ban on publications containing porn.
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Flasher’s Remorse
Wrongly Expecting Privacy
Does a woman have a reasonable expectation of privacy (to prevent anyone snapping pictures without her consent) even though she voluntarily pulls up her shirt and bra to flash her bare breasts in a crowded public outdoor event? After reviewing the evidence, a judge says no because it was done in public venue.
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Parental Insanity
Do Six Year Olds Need Padded Bras?
Children clothing manufacturers and chain department stores like Target have begun to quietly market lingerie sets of lacy padded bras and sexy panties to girls as young as six years old. Why do elementary school age kids need lingerie and what are these parents who buy them thinking of?
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Nutraloaf
Prison Food That Inmates Hate!
When inmates use their feces and urine  to assault prison staff, many state prisons across the country mete out a novel form of punishment. They substitute the prisoner’s meals with something called nutraloaf. The inmates hate eating it (some go hungry for days) but it is very effective in curbing bad behavior.
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Juvenile Delinquency
Kids Roaming the Streets
With so many teenagers and even pre-teens roaming the streets at all hours of the night even on school days, juvenile delinquency has gotten out of control .  But even if law enforcement were to round all of them up, there really is no place to put them, unless cites begin to get a little creative.
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Seven Time Felon
And Loose on the Streets
A seven time felon romanced a prison secretary where he was serving time. Upon his release, he moved in with this woman. They then hit the road on a crime spree and this repeat offender eventually got this woman's 13 year old daughter pregnant and even took lewd photographs of the young teenager.
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Warren Jeffs Arrested
Marrying 14 Year Old Girls
Sect leader Warren Jeffs, who has been arranging marriages of girls as young 14 years old with much older adult men, has finally been arrested which caused quite a stir throughout polygamist circles. State governments have been quietly ignoring the polygamist problem since the 1953 "Short Creek Raid” in Arizona.
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Home Invasion
Man Steals Teenage Girl’s Panties
A man broke into a house but ran off when the residents confronted him. He did it again a few hours later but this time the cops arrested him and they found a pair of panties from the homeowner's 14 year old daughter. On a hunch, the police searched this pervert's house and found another pair of her underwear.
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Video Voyeurism
Modern Day Peeping Toms
Modern day peeping toms have added a new twist to voyeurism with the miniaturization of low cost high technology. And what is shocking is that some peeping toms are professionals and public servants like police officers, high school teachers, principals, lawyers, etc, have been arrested.
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Football Game Pictures
Teenage Girl Discovers Pervert
13-year-old Jocelyn was enjoying a high school football game when noticed something odd. While seated in the stands, she observed a man in his mid thirties who was concentrating on something else other than on the game. With his digital camera, he was taking pictures of everything except the game.
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Front Yard Nudist
Woman Exposes Herself to Neighbor
Alexis was upset because her neighbor’s 14 year old son was playing basketball too loud in his parent’s front yard. She asked him to stop playing but the boy continued with his basketball practice. Alexis then took off her clothes and lounged around naked on her sun deck. The teenager's parents called the cops.
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