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Boy Scout files reveal long history of child sex abuse cases:

The Scouts are bracing for a wave of increased scrutiny about the past handling of abuse allegations.

NEW YORK/PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A popular Colorado Boy Scout leader named Floyd Slusher allegedly had a strategy when it came to molesting boys: He first plied his victims with alcohol, then abused them and threatened to kill anyone who talked.

On one occasion in 1976, according to police, Slusher told a Scout as he undressed the child that "what I'm going to do now, if I get arrested, after I get out of jail, I'll come after you and your family."

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It wasn't the first time that he had been accused of abusing a Scout - an investigator later concluded there were too many victims to interview - nor was it the first time that Boy Scouts of America leaders had been told about the alleged assaults.

They had placed Slusher on "probation" four years earlier after he was accused of molesting Scouts at a camp in Germany.

Slusher, who was convicted of sexually abusing a child in 1977, is among those named in 1,247 files on suspected and convicted pedophiles that the Boy Scouts kept from public view until Thursday, when they were released under a judge's order.

The roughly 20,000 pages of files lay bare disturbing incidents of child sexual abuse within one of America's most respected organizations between 1965 and 1985 and illustrate its long struggle to keep pedophiles out of its ranks.

"We failed some of our kids and we have to say we're sorry," Boy Scouts of America President Wayne Perry told Reuters. "There are cases where we failed to live up to our standards, failed to properly document cases, and fell short in other ways."

KEEPING INCIDENTS QUIET

Since at least 1919, the Boy Scouts has maintained the internal files to keep suspected pedophiles from re-entering the organization. But in a number of cases, the files show, the organization failed to take proper steps in suspected cases of abuse.

The organization currently requires even suspected cases of child molestation to be reported immediately to law enforcement officials, conducts criminal background checks, and prohibits one-on-one contact between an adult and a Scout. The group now rigorously trains volunteers and leaders to spot signs of abuse.

Local police were involved in nearly two-thirds of the 1965-1985 cases, according to a recently-released analysis by the Boy Scouts.

But in scores of other cases, local Boy Scout leaders urged accused and admitted pedophiles to quietly resign without notifying authorities, or allowed them to return to scouting after being treated by doctors or clergy.

In one case, the files show that after a volunteer in Texas was expelled when he confessed to molesting Scouts in 1965, a local Scouting official wrote to the national office and said a minister that knew the man "is doing his best to protect Boy Scouting and trying to keep this incident as quiet as possible.

"However, if some parents file charges, of course it will come out into the public."

In 1980, the files show, another Colorado Scout leader was accused of sexually molesting three Scout brothers. He was arrested and charged with sex abuse after the boys' father went to police. Months later, the father learned the man - out on bail - had been allowed to return to Scouting.

"I know that you are concerned about (him) filing a defamation of character suit," the father wrote. But "in my opinion, (the abuse arrest) should be evidence enough to remove a man from Scouting."

In the mid-1970s, an Indiana Scout leader admitted to molesting Scouts and agreed to be treated by a psychiatrist, according to the files. He was allowed to return to Scouting after his psychiatrist and minister said he was "cured."

Years later he admitted to molesting two more Scouts and resigned, according to the files.

Boy Scout officials and attorneys have said the files represent only a tiny fraction of the 1.1 million adult volunteers and leaders who mentor more than three million Scouts annually.

Still, they represent a black eye for the Boy Scouts.

They played a key evidentiary role in a 2010 civil case in which an Oregon jury found the organization liable for $18.5 million for failing to protect a Scout from a pedophile in the 1980s.

An Oregon circuit judge ordered the files released. The state's highest court upheld that order in June, over objections by the Boy Scouts. A similar court fight is unfolding in Texas over Boy Scouts files created from 1985 to 2010.

(Reporting By Chris Francescani and Tereesa Carson; Editing by Paul Thomasch)

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Can you help find these missing Florida kids?

Published  9:54 AM EDT Oct 17, 2012

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, there are 149 children missing within the last five years in Florida. Can you help find them?

ORLANDO, Fla. —

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, there are 149 children missing within the last five years in Florida. Can you help find them?

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Louisiana Man Sentenced - Abuse of a Minor Girl:

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Louisiana Man Sentenced in Virginia to 25 Years in Prison for Filming His Sexual Abuse of a Minor Girl

WASHINGTON – A Louisiana man was sentenced to 25 years in prison this morning in Lynchburg, Va., federal court, after previously pleading guilty to recording his sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl and related offenses, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia Timothy J. Heaphy.
Gregory Thomas Miller, 57, of Deville, La., pleaded guilty on April 27, 2012, to a 10-count indictment charging him with seven counts of production of child pornography, one count of transporting child pornography, one count of possessing child pornography and one count of marijuana possession.  Today’s sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon.

According to court documents, Miller repeatedly sexually abused a 14-year-old girl and filmed numerous incidents of the abuse during a several month period in 2008.  In October 2010, the defendant’s car was stopped by National Park Service (NPS) rangers at a DUI checkpoint in Virginia.  The defendant was in the car with the girl he had abused.  NPS Rangers quickly determined that a missing persons/runaway report for her had been recorded with the National Crime Information Center.

A search of the car revealed, among other things, a laptop computer, a digital camera and marijuana.  Forensic examination of the laptop revealed video clips of the 2008 abuse.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Moon sentenced Miller to serve a lifetime of supervised release.  Miller will also be required to register as a sex offender.

This case was investigated by the NPS and the FBI, and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy S. Healey and Trial Attorney Darcy Katzin of the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.

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India’s Missing Children, By the Numbers:

By Shreya Shah

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Street children in Mumbai, Nov.13, 2010.

In India, a child goes missing every eight minutes, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau.

Almost 40% of those children haven’t been found.

That calculation was based on the Aug. 8 response by Jitendra Singh, minister of state for home affairs, to a question posed in the Rajya Sabha, Parliament’s upper house. He said almost 60,000 children in 2011 were reported missing from a total of 28 states and union territories according to the NCRB. Of these more than 22,000 are yet to be located.

West Bengal had the highest number of missing children with more than 12,000 missing in 2011. Madhya Pradesh was next with 7,797 cases while Delhi had 5,111 cases. These are the cases reported. The following states didn’t report any, which experts say is not credible: Maharashtra, Odisha, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Punjab.

Some children are abandoned by families who can’t take care of them because of a lack of money. Some run away to escape abuse or unhappy homes. Some are lost, mostly when families travel, according to research by Childline, a 24-hour national helpline for children in distress.

Rakesh Senger, who helps rescue and rehabilitate missing children through the NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, estimates only 50% of missing children are reported to the NCRB.

One of the main reasons for the high number of missing children is that the law on missing children in India is inadequate, say experts.

There is no legal definition of a missing child, and each state follows its own rules, says Mr. Senger.

Kidnapping is by far the highest reported crime against children. There were a total of 33,098 crimes reported against kids in 2011, up 24% from 2010, according to a reportissued in September by the social statistics division of the Indian government.

In 2011, 15,284 cases of kidnapping were reported; a 43% increase from 2010.  These numbers include kidnapping children for exporting to other countries, abducting kids for ransom or forcing them to beg.

Separately, according to the report, 3,517 incidents of child trafficking were recorded in 2011. This includes buying and selling of girls for prostitution, child marriage and trafficking children for the illegal transplantation of organs.

The report also states that India has the largest number of child laborers under the age of 14 in the world.  Even though Indian law prohibits children below the age of 14 from working, 12.66 million children work as child laborers, according to the data.

Of those, 21% of these children are employed in cigarette and bidi factories, 17% in construction and 15% as domestic workers. Others work as rag pickers, agricultural workers and in industries like fireworks and carpet weaving.

“Nearly 85% of child laborers in India are hard-to-reach, invisible and excluded, as they work largely in the unorganized sector,” the government report states. Also, many missing children are never brought to the notice of the police, especially those in the commercial sex trade, say experts.

Part of the reason India has so many missing children, experts say, is how their cases are treated by law-enforcement authorities.

The police in India, barring a few states, do not register first information reports – the first step to an investigation — for missing children. So no formal case is even filed. They only make an entry into the list of missing persons at the police station where the child is reported missing so in-depth investigations are rare.

In Mumbai, for instance, a photo of the missing child is sent to police stations all over the city and police keep a lookout. But, there is no investigation of a crime unless the person who reports the child missing asks the police to file a case of kidnapping.

In Delhi, the law is slightly more robust: After 24 hours, if a child is not found, a case of kidnapping has to be filed by the police. This change came after a series of murders in Noida, a Delhi suburb, including those of eight children.

The police in some regions have also begun a database for missing children, likezipnet.in.

But experts say it isn’t enough.

There is a “lack of inter-state cooperation” and a need for an “integrated country-wide database” for missing children, says Mr. Senger.

If a child is reported lost in one state but has been trafficked to another state, there is no mechanism to ensure that the child will be searched for countrywide, he explains.

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Preventing teen prostitution a focus of convention:

Preventing teen prostitution a focus of convention:

WICHITA, Kansas -- Hundreds of police, prosecutors, and social workers are looking for ways to prevent teens from being prostituted by pimps at a conference at Century II.

The annual Governor's Conference for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect runs through Wednesday.

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One of the topics they're focusing on this year is human trafficking.

Runaway teenage girls can often find themselves forced into a life of drugs and prostitution.

"Anytime we have one child involved in this is way too many," said Lt. Jeff Weible, a detective who works for the exploited and missing children's unit of the Wichitapolice.

In 2010 under Steve Six, the state Attorney General's office created an advisory board to study the issue with the goal of bringing authorities and social workers together to get teens the help they need.

"They have housing needs, they have mental and emotional health needs, there's also a case that needs to be prosecuted and as a social worker, I can't do all that," said Dr. Karen Countryman-Roswurn.

Experts say girls coming from homes broken by domestic abuse are more likely to be victims of teen trafficking. The majority of girls used by pimps are runaways.

With more training and a better understanding of the warning signs, authorities hope to do more to prevent trafficking.

More than 600 people are expected to attend the three-day conference at Century II.

Among the topics featured at the conference are foster care, internet safety, and law enforcement protocol.

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Missing girls will be topic at child trafficking event:

Missing girls will be topic at child trafficking event

 By JEFF REINITZ, jeff.reinitz@wcfcourier.com

DES MOINES, Iowa --- The parents of Elizabeth Collins will speak at a Des Moines event that wraps child abductions with underground pornography networks and drug cartels.

Drew and Heather Collins of Evansdale are scheduled to appear at the 10th Preventing Abuse Conference at the Embassy Suites on Friday, said Tony Nassif, president of Cedars Cultural and Educational Foundation of Toluca Lake, Calif., who is organizing the conference.

Tickets are $59 in advance; lunch is included.

"It's going to be an interview situation where we will just talk about the background and what's been happening now, and get some insights from them on what people can do, if anything, to help protect other kids," Nassif said.

Elizabeth and her cousin Lyric Cook-Morrissey were last seen riding their bikes in Evansdale the afternoon of July 13. Their bikes and a purse were later found behind Meyers Lake.

Other speakers include officials with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an alleged former CIA operative involved in rescues and Noreen Gosch, mother of 1982 West Des Moines kidnapping victim Johnny Gosch. Topics will include the role of the faith-based community.

Fliers for the event highlight experts on human trafficking and drug smuggling cartels, but Nassif said he isn't claiming that the disappearance of Elizabeth and Lyric are related to those activities.

"I caution everybody, don't come to any conclusions, because there is a myriad of things that could be happening, and to focus one would negate the others," Nassif said. "I just say keep your powder dry and be aware and be open to any eventuality."

Nassif, a Cedar Rapids native, had followed the story of Johnny Gosch's abduction in the 1980s. He said became interested in human trafficking in the 1990s while living in California and writing a fictional screenplay about the occult and pedophile networks. He got involved with the Los Angeles Task Force on Human Trafficking.

"I ended up having an experience with Christ where he revealed to me that there were millions of victims. I didn't know that. About two weeks later, I come to find out the statistics were nearly 30 million trafficking victims worldwide," he said.

He later found Noreen Gosch's book while on a trip back to Iowa. In "Why Johnny Can't Come Home," Noreen Gosch wrote about kidnap-to-order rings and auctions of children.

"When I read it, I said my gosh, she's writing about the things I'm just discovering. She discovered human trafficking 25 years before it had a name, and she was saying things back then that people thought were a little far fetched. But in actuality, she was right on target because I confirmed what she was saying all along, that there's organized pedophile networks, not just lone pedophile abductors," Nassif said.

For the past seven years, Nassif has been organizing Preventing Abuse conferences, which he said are a way for organizations and people to network and to spread awareness.

He said the missing cousins were the catalyst to bring the discussion to Des Moines.

Information about Friday's conference may be obtained at www.preventingabuse.org or (323) 851-3872.

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SJPD Partners with National Group to Find Missing Children:

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(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) The St. Joseph Police Department is working to get the upper hand when it comes to finding missing children.

Missing children reports are nothing new, but the department wants to improve on how they handle the calls.

Dispatchers say it gets hectic, especially when someone is reporting a missing child.

"They're hysterical. All they want is somebody there, and they're screaming, and they're panicked, and they're not listening, and it's very difficult to even get 'What's your child's name? How old are they? What do they look like? How long have they been gone?'" says Jada Thomas, of the communications center.

The communications department knows how to handle all types of calls, but striving to be the best, they've volunteered to partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

"It puts you into a position to adjust your policies and your procedures and your call taking techniques, so you're in line with the best practices that have been proven across the country," says Capt.Jeff Wilson, St. Joseph Police Department.

With the NCMEC, the department has received new training. When responders take a call, it starts with keeping a parent calm, and assessing the situation.

This is nothing new for dispatchers, but small policy changes will make a big difference when time is of the essence.

"Where are you? How old is this child? What does this child look like? Where were they last seen? If there's suspect information, we need that information quickly," says Thomas.

"The operator is now trained to recognize the situation that they're dealing with, and maybe rule out some questions that take out valuable time and go straight to the other ones," Wilson says.

The new partnership is also changing the way the center looks at runaways.

"It may not be an abduction situation, but that's still a child that we don't know where they are, so immensely important that we follow these best practices even in situations may have left on their own," Thomas says.

Now after taking a missing child report, responders are being graded.

"In any type of mission that you perform, it's always important to do an after actions review, and go over the things that went right and the things that went wrong, and try to improve yourself," Wilson says.

The communications center takes about 20 calls a month related to missing children or runaways. They say calling right away is key. They can always cancel if needed.

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Metro Police Seek Help Locating 2 Missing Girls:

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Are the Gospels Reliable?

Are the Gospels Reliable?

the ESV Study Bible

In comparison with the remaining manuscripts of any other ancient Greek or Latin literature, the NT suffers from an embarrassment of riches. It is almost incomprehensible to think about the disparity. When it comes to quantity of copies, the NT has no peer. More than 5,700 Greek NT manuscripts are still in existence, ranging in date from the early second century to the sixteenth century. To be sure, the earliest ones (i.e., through the 3rd century) are all fragmentary, but they cover a substantial amount of the NT. And Greek manuscripts do not tell the whole story. The NT was translated early on into a variety of languages, including Latin, Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Gothic, and Arabic. All told, there are between 20,000 and 25,000 handwritten copies of the NT in various languages. Yet if all of these were destroyed, the NT text could be reproduced almost in its entirety by quotations of it in sermons, tracts, and commentaries written by ancient teachers of the church (known as church fathers or Patristic writers). To date, over a million quotations from the NT by the church fathers have been cataloged.

How does this compare with the average classical author? The copies of the average ancient Greek or Latin author's writings number fewer than 20 manuscripts! Thus, the NT has well over 1,000 times as many manuscripts as the works of the average classical author.

When it comes to the temporal distance of the earliest copies of the NT from the original, NT textual critics again enjoy an abundance of materials. From 10 to 15 NT manuscripts were written within the first 100 years of the completion of the NT. To be sure, they are all fragmentary, but some of them are fairly sizable fragments, covering large portions of the Gospels or Paul's letters, for example. Within two centuries, the numbers increase to at least four dozen manuscripts. Of manuscripts produced before A.D. 400, an astounding 99 still exist—including the oldest complete NT, Codex Sinaiticus.

The gap, then, between the originals and the early manuscripts is relatively slim. By comparison, the average classical author has no copies for more than half a millennium.

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The Justice Blog - Keeping Students Safe on Campus:

Keeping Students Safe on Campus

October 9th, 2012 Posted by Tracy Russo

The following post appears courtesy of Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs, Mary Lou Leary

Last week, I was privileged to speak at the Clery Center for Security on Campus’s 25^th anniversary gathering.  Founded by Connie Clery – who was moved to action by the brutal rape and murder of her daughter, Jeanne – the Clery Center has made a tremendous impact on campus culture by raising awareness of sexual assaults on campus to help make schools safer and provide support and resources for victims.

There was a time when we didn’t talk about campus violence.  We took for granted that our institutions of higher education were peaceful havens for learning.  Meanwhile, victims were often left without support or services. That changed significantly with the passage of the Clery Act in 1990.
That landmark piece of legislation helped university officials understand the importance of disclosing crimes and security risks.  Thanks to the Clery Act – and to the education and awareness the Clery Center has provided over the years – colleges and universities now are much more focused on solving a problem than on admitting one exists.

But we’re far from meeting all our challenges – especially the problem of sexual assault.  Several studies sponsored by our National Institute of Justice indicate that between 14 and 30 percent of college students experience some type of sexual violence during their college careers.

In one study, close to 12 percent of students reported being a victim of rape.  And current research suggests that as many as 85 to 90 percent of sexual assaults are perpetrated by someone known to the victim.  Often, alcohol is involved.  Victims in these cases often feel they bear some responsibility for the rape, and fail to report it, fearing they’ll be poorly treated by the police or other parts of the system.  As long as this fear of reporting prevails, we have more to do.

Several years ago, our National Institute of Justice issued a report recommending schools have written response protocols to campus crime, provide prevention education to the general student population, and make sure adequate services are available for the victims.

More recently, our Bureau of Justice Assistance supported a review of campus crime prevention efforts with a national survey of universities on evidence-based crime prevention practices, and held focus groups to discuss where to target campus crime prevention efforts.

The Justice Department’s Office on Violence Against Women has awarded $132 million to 360 institutions of higher education since 1999 to help schools develop standards and create programs to address violence against women on campus.  Information gathered from these and other efforts has helped produce useful tools, like a mobile app that provides students and parents access to campus crime statistics and resources on campus safety.  This is a terrific tool, given students’ historic lack of access to information about campus crime.

Through OJP’s work and partnerships with organizations like the Clery Center, we have raised the profile of campus crime victims and made student safety a top priority of our system of higher education.
Let’s continue to build on that momentum, working to put systems in place that protect students, help victims, and ensure that our colleges and universities are safe communities for learning and growth.

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Amber Child Safety System™ - Because every child is worth protecting:

Amber Child Safety System™

Donna Norris, Mother of Amber Hagerman (of Amber Alert)

I am the Mother of Amber Hagerman (of Amber Alert). In 2009 I lost my father and my husband. My son also moved away to college and I am left with more time to dedicate to the recovery of missing children. No parent should ever know the pain of losing a child the way I did, that's why I am so proud to be a part of this, I know it will help save children… This is the one thing no parent should be without. I know there are a lot of companies out there using my child's name to market their products, but this is the only one that has my permission to use Amber's name, it's the only one I BELIEVE IN…..

I worked very hard to fight for tougher laws regarding sex offenders and testified before Congress in order for a nationwide sex offender database and registry to be formed shortly Amber was abducted and murdered

Donna's daughter, Amber Hagerman (November 25, 1986 - January 17, 1996) was a victim of an abduction and murder On January 13, 1996, she was riding her bike near her grandparents' home in Arlington, Texas, and was kidnapped soon thereafter. Her murder would later inspire the creation of the AMBER ALERT system and the "Amber Hagerman Child Protection Act". Among the sections of the bill was one that would create a national sex offender registry. Donna was present when President Bill Clinton signed into law the bill creating the national sex offender register.

Because every child is worth protecting...

FACT: 2100 children are reported missing every day in the US, that’s about 800,000 every year.
"Parents need much more than just a Child ID kit. The average ID kit parents have for their child will not help Law Enforcement find that child if he or she becomes missing or is abducted. That type of kit gives parents a false sense of security. The information in those kits (finger prints, DNA, ect.) are useful for identifying a body, but not for locating a missing child."
Tad Camp – CEO Amber Child Safety

Now you can access the most powerful tool available for the protection of your loved ones!

What is the Amber Child Safety System™? This system collects your child's information, starting with his/her description (height, weight, hair color, eye color, marks etc.) We also record and store fingerprints, dental records, and medical information.

You may be thinking: that's nice, but other firms do that too. What makes your company a better choice for my family? The answer is simple; we don't stop with just the basic information listed above. We are just getting started.

We collect information on your child's relationships, specifically, adults your child has contact with. This includes family members, family friends, teachers, sports coach, piano teacher, karate instructor, and friend's parents just to name a few.

Our goal is to collect the information needed to conduct a complete and thorough investigation into abduction or missing child cases. The time saved by police in the first few hours could mean the difference between safe recoveries and..well, you get the point.

Naturally, we recommend you keep the information updated and as complete as possible.

Join the ever growing list of parents taking a proactive stance to protect their children!

Ask yourself:
What would you do if your child went missing? Would you have all the needed information immediately available?

Do you have a list of your child’s friends, their address and phone numbers?

Do you know if a registered sexual offender lives nearby?

Do you know who your child has been talking to online?

Do you have his or her internet passwords?

Would you have current poster quality photos to distribute?

If you were traveling, on vacation or visiting friends would you be able to retrieve vital information to aid in search efforts for your child?

In a moment of panic and stress, could you recall the names of all the adults your child comes in contact with, such as the pool or lawn man? How about the bus driver, ball coach, teachers, friendly guy down the street, Sunday School teacher, or the guy that drives the ice cream truck?

Of course you would not remember all that, but, that information could be very helpful to law enforcement in the search for your child.

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