Theodore Sypnier, 100-years-old was released from prison in the State of New York and is now living in an apartment after having spent some time in transitional housing in Buffalo.
In 1999, he kidnapped and raped two girls 4 and 7 years old.
But authorities say don’t let his age fool you.
“He’s an unrepentant child sexual abuser,” said Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita.
He will always a threat to active children, according to district attorney Frank Sedita, Who wants him to spend the rest of his life in prison. About the eaxcts Frank Sedita is:
Sedita said, “I want him away from society as long as possible. It doesn’t matter to me that he’s 100-years-old. He’s evil. He’s a pedophile. Pedophiles are the worst.”
Lance Vance has kids and lives near Grace House.
“I wouldn’t think [he's a threat], I mean he can barely walk,” said Vance.
But according to Reverend Terry King of Saving Grace Ministries, Sypnier can still walk for miles, and live on his own, and he remains defiant in counseling sessions.
King explained, “He has been adamant that, ‘I’m 100, and I’m not gonna change.’”
Theodore Sypnier will have to register his new address with the State. You can find the addresses of sex offenders on the Department of Justice website .

STORY SOURCE: http://www.ecanadanow.com

The global economic collapse is increasingly taking a heavy toll on the lives of workers and the poor all over the world.
The International Monetary Fund projects the 2009 global economic growth rate at around 0.5%, which is sharply lower than even last year’s anemic rate of 3.4%. The economic crisis is in turn driving a deepening global employment crisis.
Among the harshest effects of increasing global job scarcity is an increase in people entering the global sex industry, an overwhelming majority of whom are women and girls.
Globally, less than half of the world’s working population has salaried jobs. The majority are engaged in informal labor, in which they lack a basic living wage, job security, and occupational safety. Informal labor includes very low-paying jobs in agriculture, the garment industry, and domestic service. Most of the vulnerable jobs are performed by women and children.
Precariously positioned even during the best of capitalist economic periods, women are especially susceptible to the adverse effects of recessions. For example, the waste and scrap recycling sector in India, which has mostly women and children working in hazardous conditions for bare subsistence earnings, is one of the hardest hit by plummeting prices this year.
The number of unemployed women in 2009 may increase by up to 22% relative to 2007 (International Labor Organization, “Global Employment Trends for Women”).
As the downturn deepens and as employment opportunities dwindle, women are increasingly finding themselves desperate for ways to earn a living and forced to enter into prostitution.
Rates of prostitution currently appear to be going up, with more desperately poor women entering the sex trade in order to meet their own and their families’ subsistence needs. Although limited data is available for 2009, general surveys and past recessions can be used as a guide to anticipate how the proportion of women in the sex industry will increase as the current economic free-fall continues globally.
The reasons that compel a woman to enter the sex trade can often be traced to financial vulnerability. In New Zealand, for example, 93% of the sex workers surveyed since 2003 have cited financial reasons for working in the sex industry (www.nzpc.org.nz).
Capitalism a Disaster for Women
Following the transition into free-market capitalism in the late 1980s, Eastern Europe plunged into a deep recession, with unemployment rates of 40% and higher. The sex industry exploded in the region, with Moldova and Ukraine becoming the highest and second highest traffickers of prostitutes to Western Europe.
During the 1990s, a staggering two-thirds of the 500,000 women trafficked globally each year for prostitution came from Eastern Europe (United Nations Global Report on Crime and Justice, 1999).
The collapse of the global capitalist economy is forcing women to capitulate to the sex trade in other ways as well. Women already in the sex industry are being subjected to further exploitation.
As the recession causes more people to restrict their spending, prostitution businesses are experimenting with new incentives. Some German brothel owners are offering a “flat rate” deal. Based on the idea of an all-you-can-eat buffet, it allows customers to have sex with as many prostitutes as they like for a single fee (Telegraph, 7/28/09).
Advocates for sex workers are expressing deep concern that with increasing numbers of women turning to prostitution for a living, the growing competition is compelling workers to practice unsafe sex or to make other compromising choices to keep clients happy. There are also concerns of increased violence as a form of control against prostitutes by pimps and gangs (National Catholic Reporter, 4/17/09).
Unemployment and job crises are constants under capitalism, which only intensify dramatically in recessions. Thus, many women are forced to participate in the sex industry under capitalism.
Women and men have to fight together for a fundamental shift away from this system, towards one that can harness the capabilities of technology and society to allow every person to earn a living and live a fruitful life in dignity.

Original Story:  socialistalternative.org

Three Americans accused of traveling to Cambodia to have sex with children are expected to be charged in federal court here, officials said Monday, marking the first prosecutions under a new international initiative intended to combat child-sex tourism.

The initiative, Operation Twisted Traveler, targets Americans who exploit children for sex in Cambodia, which experts describe as a top destination for child predators. U.S. and Cambodian authorities, as well as nongovernmental organizations, were involved in the effort.

“This level of cooperation is unprecedented,” said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, which coordinated the initiative with the Justice Department.

Before arriving in Los Angeles on Monday, the suspects — Ronald Boyajian, 49, Erik Peeters, 41, and Jack Sporich, 75 — were arrested by Cambodian authorities on charges related to child sexual exploitation. They are expected to make their initial appearances in federal court Tuesday afternoon.

The three men are current or former California residents, and all are registered sex offenders, authorities said. An attorney for Boyajian did not respond to a call to comment. The other two men do not yet have attorneys.

Child-sex tourism — whereby minors are sold for sex through brothels or solicited off the street — has long been part of the landscape in Cambodia. Like most countries where the crime occurs, such as Thailand and Mexico, Cambodia is a poor nation, with a $600 annual per capita income, according to the World Bank. In desperation to pay for food or health care, some families sell their children to foreign pedophiles or sex houses.

It is difficult to know how pervasive child-sex tourism is in Cambodia, or in any other country, because of the illicit nature of the crime. Undercover investigators, working with human rights activists, continue to find many brothel owners and traffickers selling minors for sex in Cambodia.

There are increasing reports of men traveling there to have sex with underage girls for as much as $4,000, according to the State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report of 2009. The report designated the Southeast Asian country as among those that should receive special scrutiny because it has not made enough progress in eliminating the problem.

Cambodia has made some efforts. Over the past year, after enacting laws with anti-trafficking provisions, the government convicted a dozen offenders and prosecuted nearly 70. U.S. legislation, including the PROTECT Act of 2003, has also targeted trafficking. The legislation bolstered federal laws targeting predatory crimes against children outside the United States by expanding the range of crimes and increasing penalties.

Officials say Twisted Traveler, launched in October, will help enforce existing laws. Under the initiative, the FBI and ICE trained the Cambodian National Police and local police in Phnom Penh, the nation’s capital.

“Some part of what we’re trying to do here is change attitudes and change acceptance of child-sex tourism as something that’s always been around or can’t be changed,” Carol A. Rodley, the U.S. ambassador to Cambodia, said in a telephone interview. “And I think that’s very much true of the Cambodian police — that their attitudes about the issue have changed in part because of the collaboration.”

Authorities in both countries relied on information provided by Action Pour Les Enfants, a nonprofit group, and the International Justice Mission, a human rights agency. Their involvement, Rodley said, marked a breakthrough for Cambodia, which historically has had an uneasy relationship with such organizations because of their criticism of the government.

In a statement announcing the latest allegations, officials said Boyajian, of Menlo Park, Calif., is accused of having sex with a 10-year-old Vietnamese girl. Peeters, of Norwalk, Calif., is accused of engaging in sexual activity with at least three underage Cambodian boys, paying them $5 to $10. Sporich, of Sedona, Ariz., is accused of sexually abusing at least one Cambodian boy, and of driving through city streets on his motorbike, dropping money as a way to attract children.

If convicted, the men face sentences of up to 30 years for each victim.

Officials said they hope the arrests will deter would-be sex tourists. Over the past six years, ICE has arrested more than 70 suspects nationwide on charges of child-sex tourism.

“The appeal of a place like this is that it’s very far away, and pedophiles feel like they can come here and be anonymous and be outside the reach of U.S. law enforcement,” Rodley said. “I hope the message that it sends is one of deterrence.”

Original Story:  washingtonpost.com

A sex trade ring in which young girls were allegedly pistol-whipped and forced from their homes into sexual slavery was broken up in Houston this week and several suspects are in custody.

Five people, including a former Houston police officer, were arrested in the largest sex trafficking case in Texas’ southern district, MyFOXHouston.com reported. A sixth remains on the run.

John Butler, 47, William Hornbeak, 34, Jamine Lake, 27, Andre McDaniels, 39, and Kristen Land, 28, all of Houston, as well as Tulsa, Okla., resident Ronnie Presley, 35, are named as suspects in the case.

All are charged with conspiracy to traffic women and children for the purposes of commercialized sex; sex trafficking of children; sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion; and other offenses, according to the station.

The five Houston residents were arrested Monday and Tuesday; Presley is still at large, MyFOXHouston.com reported.

Butler was a Houston police officer for a brief period in the 1980s, sources told the station.

The sting was the result of a joint investigation by local and federal authorities.

“It is a horrible reflection on our society when adults prey on the vulnerabilities of children and reduce them to indentured sex slaves,” U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson said in a prepared statement.

The suspects allegedly used businesses like massage parlors, modeling studios and health spas to disguise their sex trade business, according to the 16-count indictment unsealed on Tuesday.

Women and teens as young as 16 were among the victims allegedly coerced into prostitution and regularly beaten and threatened, according to the U.S. attorney’s statement.

Original Story:   foxnews.com

A man who threatened to report a high school band teacher suspected of having sex with students unless she handed over cash and nude photos of herself pleaded guilty today to extortion.

According to prosecutors, Miguel Lopez, 23, of Anaheim learned of the El Modena High School teacher’s suspected acts in early 2008 and sent her messages via e-mail and a phony MySpace page demanding thousands of dollars in exchange for his silence.

The band teacher, Carlie Rose Attebury, 30, of Orange reported the threats to police but was subsequently arrested on suspicion of having sex with a minor. She is scheduled to be arraigned in September.

“He clearly should have just turned her over to law enforcement or school authorities,” said prosecutor Todd Spitzer.

Lopez was sentenced to three years of informal probation and faces six months in jail if he does not successfully complete the term.

“It was as a result of that criminal investigation against him that led us to [Attebury’s] unlawful acts,” Spitzer said. “Does [Lopez] have to be held responsible? Yes. But he has a great opportunity to put his life together, and he needs to do that.”

Original Story:  latimesblogs.latimes.com

A pair of eagle-eyed cops on Thursday collared a man wanted for masturbating on a subway after recognizing him from cell phone pictures taken by his victim, police said.
The two officers – who had seen wanted posters featuring the cell phone images – spotted Kevin Bishop, 44, as he entered a Manhattan subway station around 4 p.m., police said.
Bishop, of the Bronx, whose rap sheet includes 64 arrests, pleasured himself in front of Cileane White on a northbound No. 3 train Friday, she said.
But White, 41, was the wrong woman to mess with.
The Harlem resident, who works as an administrative specialist for the FBI, used her cell phone to snap multiple pictures when Bishop exposed himself.
She initially took the cell phone images to the NYPD’s 32nd Precinct station house at 250 W. 135th St. But a uniformed female officer told her the incident “was not a police matter” and instructed her to call 311, police said.
The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating the female officer, who is expected to be questioned today.
Bishop was charged with public lewdness last night, police said. His record includes 24 convictions, including charges of loitering for prostitution and drug possession.

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