DNA Links Suspects to Church Fire: Investigators claim DNA evidence has linked one of two suspects to the burning of a church in Smith County, Texas. The torching of this particular church places it among ten that have been set fire to in eastern Texas since the start of 2010. Investigators are looking into the possibility of connecting the two suspects, Jason Robert Bourque, 19, and Daniel George McAllister, 21, to other recent Texas church fires. Bourque and McAllister are looking at life in prison if convicted. This Associated Press story provides more details.
Rapist's Arrest Sparks Call to Expand DNA Database: New York should be adding the DNA of those convicted of misdemeanors to its state database according to this New York Daily News editorial. Over the past several years the New York legislature has refused calls to go beyond the state's current requirement -- that only the most serious offenders, such as murderers or rapists -- provide a DNA sample upon conviction. Efforts to add those convicted of misdemeanors in 2006, were rejected by the Democratic-controlled Assembly. The recent arrest of Mauricio Rosales, an alleged serial rapist, helped New York police officers link him to the nighttime attack of an 11-year-old girl in 2000. Rosales DNA sample has also linked him to the rape of a 19-year-old woman in 2003. Rosales was required to provide DNA after he was convicted for theft. Although DNA evidence is highly effective and accurate, new proposals to expand the database of criminals' DNA to include all felonies and misdemeanors are drawing opposition because of the added costs. But failing to require convicted criminals to provide a DNA sample only enhances the possibility that rapists like Rosales, and other violent offenders, will remain free.
Pedophile Pediatrician: Cris Barrish reports for the Wilmington, Delaware News Journal: "For nearly two months prosecutors have suggested that Dr. Earl B. Bradley, the alleged pedophile pediatrician from Lewes, had molested an untold number of children, far more than the nine he was charged in December with raping. Today, the Attorney General's Office made their suspicions official, with a Sussex County grand jury indicting Bradley in the rapes of 102 girls and one boy he treated, a more-than-tenfold increase in the number of victims originally alleged. Bradley filmed many of his attacks, police have said, and for weeks investigators have been poring over hundreds of videotapes seized from his office and home as they amassed more evidence."
Rapist's Arrest Sparks Call to Expand DNA Database: New York should be adding the DNA of those convicted of misdemeanors to its state database according to this New York Daily News editorial. Over the past several years the New York legislature has refused calls to go beyond the state's current requirement -- that only the most serious offenders, such as murderers or rapists -- provide a DNA sample upon conviction. Efforts to add those convicted of misdemeanors in 2006, were rejected by the Democratic-controlled Assembly. The recent arrest of Mauricio Rosales, an alleged serial rapist, helped New York police officers link him to the nighttime attack of an 11-year-old girl in 2000. Rosales DNA sample has also linked him to the rape of a 19-year-old woman in 2003. Rosales was required to provide DNA after he was convicted for theft. Although DNA evidence is highly effective and accurate, new proposals to expand the database of criminals' DNA to include all felonies and misdemeanors are drawing opposition because of the added costs. But failing to require convicted criminals to provide a DNA sample only enhances the possibility that rapists like Rosales, and other violent offenders, will remain free.
Pedophile Pediatrician: Cris Barrish reports for the Wilmington, Delaware News Journal: "For nearly two months prosecutors have suggested that Dr. Earl B. Bradley, the alleged pedophile pediatrician from Lewes, had molested an untold number of children, far more than the nine he was charged in December with raping. Today, the Attorney General's Office made their suspicions official, with a Sussex County grand jury indicting Bradley in the rapes of 102 girls and one boy he treated, a more-than-tenfold increase in the number of victims originally alleged. Bradley filmed many of his attacks, police have said, and for weeks investigators have been poring over hundreds of videotapes seized from his office and home as they amassed more evidence."
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