NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Social-networking Web sites Facebook and MySpace have identified and disabled accounts used by more than 3,500 registered sex offenders in New York State using a law passed last year that requires sex offenders to register their emails and online aliases with the state, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.

At a press conference, Cuomo said Facebook has disabled accounts held by 2,782 registered sex offenders and News Corp.’s MySpace has disabled accounts linked to 1,796 registered sex offenders. Some of the sex offenders were on both Web sites.

Cuomo said many of the offenders were violating their parole by being on social-networking sites and are prohibited from interacting with young people.

“Whether it’s a playground on the street corner or a playground in cyberspace, it doesn’t matter,” Cuomo said.

Under the state’s Electronic Securing and Targeting of Online Predators Act passed last year, registered sex offenders are required to register their emails and other online identifiers with the state.

The law sets mandatory restrictions on a sex offender’s access to the Internet where the offender’s victim was a minor, the Internet was used to commit the offense or they are among the highest-level offenders.

Cuomo said Facebook and MySpace are the online social-networking sites who have sought access to the information compiled under the e-Stop law.

His office is sending letters to 17 other social-networking sites encouraging them to take advantage of the data gathered under the law, including classmates.com and Friendster, Cuomo said.

A spokesman for United Online Inc. (UNTD), which operates classmates.com, didn’t immediately have a comment Tuesday. A spokesman for Friendster didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Joe Sullivan, Facebook’s assistant general counsel, said the Web site voluntarily adopted a policy to not allow registered sex offenders on the site. He called New York’s law the model for other states and the nation.

In a statement, MySpace Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam said, “We applaud and support Attorney General Cuomo’s leadership in his ground breaking use of e-STOP to make the Internet a safer place. MySpace utilized e-STOP to complement technology we had already put in place to remove registered sex offenders from our community as part of a comprehensive approach to protecting Internet users from predators.”

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LOS ANGELES — Three men charged with traveling to Cambodia to engage in sex acts with children have pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles.

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A staff member at an East Yorkshire school who had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old pupil has said he was shocked when he found out her age.
Christopher Reen, who was a class supervisor at Headlands School in Bridlington, denies six counts of sexual activity with a child under 16

Mr Reen was a member of non-teaching staff
A staff member at an East Yorkshire school who had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old pupil has said he was shocked when he found out her age.
Christopher Reen, who was a class supervisor at Headlands School in Bridlington, denies six counts of sexual activity with a child under 16.
Mr Reen, 31, of the town’s Carlton Street, told Hull Crown Court he had no idea the girl was underage.
However, he does not deny having a sexual relationship with the girl.
The jury heard Mr Reen only discovered her real age a few days before her 16th birthday.

I was in complete and utter shock. I was panicking, I was scared
Christopher Reen, defendant
The defendant had been working as a class supervisor at the school, which has been “blighted” by a series of criminal cases involving staff having relationships with students, the court has been told.
Class supervisors are non-teaching staff who are employed to oversee pupils’ work and take classes in the short-term absence of teachers.
Mr Reen does not deny having a full sexual relationship with the pupil, but claims she led him to believe she was 16.
He has admitted an offence of breach of trust in relation to the affair.
Mr Reen told the court he “could not believe it” when he found out the girl’s age.
“I was in complete and utter shock,” he said. “I was scared, I was panicking.”
He said he tried to end the relationship then, but the girl told him “she held all the strings”.
‘Playing with fire’
“Basically I had to carry on as long as she did because I was frightened to death she would tell the school,” he said.
Mr Reen denied the girl had told him her date of birth earlier in the relationship and said “anybody in their right minds wouldn’t sleep with a child”.
Prosecutor Helen Hendry said Mr Reen had been warned about the previous problems at the school during an induction programme.
She told him: “You knew she was 15, in the same way you knew she was a pupil and you weren’t bothered. You were playing with fire.”
The trial continues.

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ORANGE, Conn. — A Connecticut police officer has resigned after being accused of posing as his twin brother to have sex with a woman.

Jared Rohrig, 25, was charged last month with first- degree sexual assault and criminal impersonation after he allegedly restrained a woman and continued a sexual encounter against her will once she realized he was not his brother and tried to leave.

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A SHAMED teacher who had sex with a 15-year-old pupil yesterday banned HERSELF from the classroom.
Alison Smith, 29, slept with the lad after inviting him and two other teenagers to her flat.

The devout Christian confessed to fellow church members before handing herself in to the police.

Yesterday her solicitor told a General Teaching Council panel she “no longer viewed” herself as a teacher considering what she had done.

And in a statement she said: “As in keeping with the general rules of conduct within my profession, I wish to be removed from the register.”

Smith – could now be banned from working with children after her details were passed to Scottish Government officials.

She had narrowly escaped jail after admitting sleeping with the boy in Aberdeen in June last year.

The ex-special needs teacher at the city’s Bankhead Academy was handed 18 months probation and put on the sex offenders register in January.

Smith’s statement yesterday said she had taken into account “the relevance of the offence, in terms of my behaviour and conduct”.

She added: “As such, I will not attend the hearing as I no longer view myself a member of the teaching profession”.

The disciplinary panel at the GTC Scotland – teaching’s governing body – removed her name from the teaching register.

They said her “integrity and competence” had been questioned.

A spokesman added: “They decided her name should be referred to the Scottish Ministers for consideration in connection with inclusion on the list of those disqualified from working with children.”

Sub-committee legal assessor Frank McConnell said: “Young people should be protected from this behaviour.”

Smith will now have to wait at least 12 months until she can re-apply to the register.

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A domestic battery case against porn star and potential Louisiana U.S. Senate contender Stormy Daniels has been dropped after the alleged victim chose not to prosecute.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Gregory Clifford, was arrested in Florida in July and charged after her husband told Tampa police that she hit him several times in a dispute about laundry and unpaid bills.
A spokeswoman with the state attorney’s office in Hillsborough County says prosecutors could not determine who was the aggressor in that situation. The alleged victim also signed a waiver of prosecution.
Daniels announced her interest in a 2010 run for a Senate seat in Louisiana in May. She launched a “listening tour” through that state in July. Her attorney could not be reached for comment.

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