Another Sexual Assault Aboard a Cruise Ship … This time the P&O cruise ship, Pacific Star

Its happened again. This time a teenager was sexually assaulted aboard the P&O cruise ship Pacific Star. According to reports the teenager who was sexually assaulted tried to jump overboard after the attack. Read the full story here.

Las Vegas Reverend George Chaanine Sought in Assault of Church Worker (UPDATE: Arrested)

Reverend George Chaanine is considered a person of interest in the sexual assault of a church worker at Our Lady of Las Vegas Catholic Church.  Police are presently looking for Chaanine who they believe is driving a cream-colored Buick LeSabre.

LAS VEGAS –   Police were searching for a Catholic priest they believe may have sexually assaulted and struck a woman at a church.

Authorities said they were called to Our Lady of Las Vegas Catholic Church on Friday evening by someone who heard a woman in the church cry for help.

Officers found a church employee who said she had been assaulted and hit in the head with an object by a priest. Investigators consider the Rev. George Chaanine a person of interest, police spokesman Bill Cassell said. (Fox News)

 Vegas priest sought in assault of woman

Police were searching for a Catholic priest they believe may have sexually assaulted and struck a woman at a church.

UPDATE I: Priest Suspected in Attack Arrested

Reverand George Chaanine, 52, was arrested on Thursday in Apache Junction, AZ.

A hearing was set for Tuesday. He is wanted in Las Vegas on charges of attempted murder, sexual assault, kidnapping and battery with a deadly weapon in the Jan. 26 incident.

Chaanine is being held in a Phoenix jail on a $1 million bond on a charge of being a fugitive from justice. FBI Special Agent David Staretz said a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution would be dropped so Chaanine could be extradited to Las Vegas to face the more serious Nevada charges.

The priest had been in Monterey, Calif., on Tuesday, where bank security videotape released Thursday by police showed Chaanine making a withdrawal from a Bank of America branch. Court documents said he withdrew a large amount of money but didn’t specify how much.

MySpace to Send Amber Alerts for Missing Persons to On-line Community

We have heard all of the bad that has come from MySpace.com in providing an environment where predators have access to teenagers. As part of the new MySpace safety upgrades, they have teamed up with The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to provide on-line Amber Alerts to their MySpace members.

Read the full story at Missing & Exploited.

Tampa, FL has the Answer to Sex Offender … Ban them From the City

In Tampa the thought was first to create a barrier between sex offenders and children. The thought was to create a 2500 foot barrier between sex offenders and places where children are such as schools, park, bus stops and day care centers. Children need to be protected from predators. Here’s a simple solution … ban the sex offenders.

The council also voted unanimously to direct the city’s legal department to draft an ordinance that prohibits some sexual offenders and predators from living within 2,500 feet of schools, day care centers and parks. Councilwoman Mary Alvarez insisted that school bus stops also be included, and her colleagues backed her.

That is when the city council decided to take it one step further. Ban sex offenders from the city altogether.  There is one way to make sure they are now around the children, make it illegal for them to be there at all.

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First Lady Laura Bush Takes on the Fight for Missing & Exploited Children

First Lady Laura Bush has always been a proponent for the literacy of children. Now Laura Bush is helping the most  vulnerable among us  again This time it is the  missing and exploited children of the world. This international effort is to help  aide in finding  missing children and stop the exploitation of children. Especially in the battle against child pornography. Bernadette Chirac, the French first lady,  hosted the one-day conference on missing and exploited children.

The conference was a meeting of the honorary board of directors of the International Center for Missing & Exploited Children, based in Alexandria, Va. A study by the group examined all 186 Interpol member countries and found that up to 95 of them had no laws on child pornography, while 136 of them do not consider possession of child pornography a crime. (Houston Chronicle)

Laura Bush is now lending a helping hand  to the Missing and Exploited children of the world  by furthering the US Amber Alert system and forward other initiatives to help the exploited children of the world.

International AMBER Alert Plans

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