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Sex crimes are particularly harmful and offensive and, for that reason, carry harsh punishments. Generally speaking, a sex crime is an act that involves illegal or coerced sexual contact, such as statutory rape or sexual assault. People convicted of sex crimes generally have to register with the state and face limitations on where they can live and the types of jobs they can hold. FindLaw’s Sex Crimes News section is the leading source of online information concerning legal developments around sex crimes. This section contains new reports and legal analysis from FindLaw authors as well as lawyers and other experts in the field.

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  1. A combination made on November 26, 2011 shows two recent files pictures shows Nafissatou Diallo (R), a 32-year-old Guinean immigrant who accused former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, and Strauss-Kahn (L). Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is countersuing...
  2. The former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn accused of sexual assault and his wife Anne Sinclair arrive at the Manhattan Supreme Court building in New York on August 23, 2011. Dominique Strauss-Kahn was set to walk free Tuesday after New York prosecutors said...
  3. Nafissatou Diallo (L), the hotel maid that accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in a New York City hotel, after meeting with prosecutors in New York on August 22, 2011. Her ttorney, Kenneth Thompson suggested Monday that the...
  4. Nafissatou Diallo (R), a 32-year-old Guinean immigrant who accused former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, at press conference with the Rev. A.R. Bernard (L) on July 28, 2011 at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, New York. Diallo thanked the leaders in the...
  5. Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel maid who accused former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, is pushed into a waiting car as she leaves the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance on July 27, 2011. Diallo revealed her identity Sunday for the first time since the...
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  1. He’ll be on the sex offender registry ... I’m very pleased with the sentence.
    SOURCE: The Times and Democrat 7 hours ago
  2. No one takes the time to know you. They see you on the Internet [sex-offender registry] and they slam the door.
    SOURCE: Sentencing Law and Policy 23 hours ago
  3. Our focus is on those offenders who are considered terminated from parole and probation supervision and aren't accountable to Department of Corrections other than the sex offender registry
    SOURCE: WBAY-TV 1 week ago
  4. The university has become aware that an individual who is listed on Kentucky's sex offender registry has recently been seen in pictures with our student-athletes
    SOURCE: The Lantern 1 week ago
  5. The University has become aware that an individual who is listed on Kentucky's sex offender registry has recently been seen in pictures with our student-athletes
    SOURCE: ESPN 1 week ago
  6. The University has become aware that an individual who is listed on Kentucky's sex offender registry has recently been seen in pictures with our student-athletes
    SOURCE: mgoblog - Michigan football, hockey, basketball 1 week ago
  7. In speaking with our victim, there is an indication of sexual assault or statutory rape. It is still under investigation.
    SOURCE: Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (Georgia) 1 week ago
  8. I went to our sex offender registry site and picked out a couple of random names ... I was amazed.
    SOURCE: The Monroe News Star 2 weeks ago
  9. I went to our sex offender registry site and picked out a couple of random names ... I was amazed.
    SOURCE: The Alexandria Town Talk 2 weeks ago
  10. So, the safety issues for families are much more complicated than checking the sex offender registry
    – Anderson, IN SOURCE: Wisconsin Rapids Tribune 2 weeks ago
  11. Child pornography is the photographic record of the sexual abuse of a child so it is a singular outrage that the highest court in New York State has decriminalized the act of viewing of child pornography by computer.
    SOURCE: The Christian Post 6 days ago
  12. At least a dozen child-molestation and child-pornography prosecutions since 2000 have involved actors, managers, production assistants and others in the entertainment industry.
    SOURCE: Steve Sailer-Articles & Blog on Human Biodiversity, Genetics 6 days ago
  13. This horrible crime is a stark example of how harmful child pornography is, and how its young victims bear not just the physical and emotional scars of violent sexual assault, but lifelong trauma as others repeatedly watch
    SOURCE: MyFOX 8 WGHP 4 days ago
  14. This horrible crime is a stark example of how harmful child pornography is, and how its young victims bear not just the physical and emotional scars of violent sexual assault, but lifelong trauma as others repeatedly watch
    SOURCE: Palm Beach Post 6 days ago
  15. This horrible crime is a stark example of how harmful child pornography is, and how its young victims bear not just the physical and emotional scars of violent sexual assault, but lifelong trauma as others repeatedly watch
    SOURCE: ABC6 Columbus Ohio 6 days ago
  16. This horrible crime is a stark example of how harmful child pornography is, and how its young victims bear not just the physical and emotional scars of violent sexual assault, but lifelong trauma as others repeatedly watch
    SOURCE: The Bellingham Herald 6 days ago
  17. Another one urinated off a school building and got unemployment benefits for that. If a child saw that individual peeing off a school building, he could have been put on a sex offender registry.
    SOURCE: The Huffington Post 4 weeks ago
  18. This will make it illegal, in fact, to award the custody of a child to an individual on the sex offender registry
    SOURCE: WIS 4 weeks ago
  19. Let's see if he's a pedophile, let's see if he's a sexual predator ... Until then, let's be safe.
    SOURCE: The Morning Call 4 days ago
  20. Let's see if he's a pedophile, let's see if he's a sexual predator ... Until then, let's be safe.
    SOURCE: The Morning Call 4 days ago
  21. I pleaded guilty to stripper, a stripper ... Not prostitution. Prostitution is sex. Listen, I'm Sister Theresa over here. Showing your cleavage is indecent exposure. Prostitution is sexual acts. That's prostitution.
    SOURCE: The Denver Channel 1 week ago
  22. We are very sensitive to the burdens that these kinds of restrictions place on offenders and their families. However, sex offender registry requirements are not imposed because of who somebody is, but because of what they've done
    SOURCE: CNN 1 day ago
  23. We are very sensitive to the burdens that these kinds of restrictions place on offenders and their families. However, sex offender registry requirements are not imposed because of who somebody is, but because of what they've done
    SOURCE: CNN 2 days ago
  24. I pleaded guilty to stripper, a stripper. Not prostitution. Prostitution is sex. Listen I'm sister Theresa over here. Showing your cleavage is indecent exposure. Prostitution is sexual acts. That's prostitution
    SOURCE: WABC 1 week ago
  25. Initially these family members said that I had raped my children ... And when the rape kites came back at negative these were lessened to child molestation.
    SOURCE: KTLA.com 4 days ago
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