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Bill Cosby Charged In Alleged 2004 Sexual Assault

More than 50 women have accused Cosby of sexual assault or unwanted advances, but these are the first criminal charges filed against him.(Michael McLaughlin, The Huffington Post, US)

Fearing More Victims, Police Release Name of Teen YouTube Sensation Accused of Sexual Deviance

Steven Fernandez, a 15-year-old YouTube star, is charged with two counts of procuring a child to engage in a lewd act and two counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14. ( Polly Mosendz, Newsweek, US)

RSOL Chair to Mass lawmakers: registration is government-sanctioned prejudice, segregation of citizens

State House News Service . . . A host of bills dealing with sex offender registration encountered pushback Tuesday from advocates and offenders who urged lawmakers to consider whether the measures were meant to prevent recidivism or to serve as additional punishments. (Katie Lannan, RSOL, US)

VIP child sex charity loses its NHS funds over concerns that controversial therapy they use may cause 'false memories'

The Lantern Project charity has been stripped of financial support.Two alleged victims claim to have suffered abuse at the hands of VIPs. But police have been unable to corroborate any of their allegations. Concerns have since been raised over Lantern Project's methods. ( Stephen Wright, The Daily Mail, UK)

• Colorado’s Sexting Nightmare

Colorado teenagers might face child pornography charges for sending each other nude photos. Wherever smartphones and sex hormones coexist, there will be sexting. To stop it, you would have to confiscate every camera in the country, dismantle all cell towers, and shut down the Internet. (Samantha Allen, The Daily Beast, US)

• Sexting scandal: Colorado high school faces felony investigation

Students at a Colorado high school exchanged hundreds of naked photos of themselves, prompting a felony investigation by police and the forfeiture of a football game because many players have been implicated in the sexting scandal, officials said. (Michael Martinez, CNN, US)

• Brattleboro photographer accused of producing child sex abuse images (ModelTeenz)

According to documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Richard Emerich, who has lived on Western Avenue in Brattleboro since late 2014, took pictures of a sexual nature of underaged boys. (Robert Audette, the Berkshire Eagle, US)

• Sexting investigation leads to arrest of Pa. middle school students

TREDYFFRIN Twp., Pa. -- Police say they have filed charges against three Philadelphia-area middle school students for allegedly distributing intimate photos of other students, according to CBS Philly. (CBS News, US)

• Sex offenders not required to post signs on Halloween

• California Reform Sex Offender Laws Organization won a victory on October 26 when a compromise was reached to halt one of the restrictions enforced by the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation during “Operation Boo”. Sex offender parolees will no longer have to place a sign on their door saying, “We Do Not Participate in Trick or Treating" on Halloween night. (SAN DIEGO (CBS 8), US)

• This 19-Year-Old Will Spend the Next 25 Years as a Registered Sex Offender

Zach Anderson’s freedom has been severely restricted because at just 19 years old, Zach is a convicted sex offender. Zach was arrested last winter after having sex with a girl he met on the dating app “Hot or Not,” who claimed she was 17. But she admitted to police that was a lie. She was really 14. (ABC News, US)

Follow Up:

Zach Anderson, 19-Year-Old Registered Sex Offender, Has Sentence Vacated (CHRIS JAMES and Lauren Effron, ABC News, US)