Articles Posted in Sexual Abuse Cases

People! Do not let the statute of limitations slip past on your personal injury cases in North Carolina.  I’ve had three calls this week from people who did not have lawyers and who waited until the last second, or past the last second, to call for advice. None of these calls ended on a happy…

N.C. COURT OF APPEALS Where the right to intrastate travel is a “right of function,” the right to enter public parks is not encompassed by either the fundamental right of travel or the right to intrastate travel. We affirm the trial court order upholding the defendant-town’s ordinance, which prohibits registered sex offenders from knowingly entering…

I think this is a decent idea, in general terms, though I doubt that it will do much to actually prevent predatory practices. Realistically, if a sexual predator is being “smart” they will have no real identifying information on their MySpace profile. Given the absolute ease of setting up free and virtually untraceable email accounts,…

Cooper unveils upgraded sex offender registry Web site Associated Press SMITHFIELD, N.C. – North Carolina now has an updated sex offender registry Web site for citizens who want more specific information about where child molesters, rapists and other criminals live. View the new website here:  N.C. Sex Offender Registry: http://www.ncfindoffender.gov The upgrades, announced Monday by…

Looks like the Attorney General of NC is revamping the NC Sex Offender online registry. The registry is often out of date, and I suppose some people think it is hard to navigate. This seems like a lot of money to spend on a website revamping, though I suppose the data base work is complicated,…

Sex Offenders Must Register The North Carolina Sex Offender and Public Protection Registry was established in January 1996 due to the General Assembly’s enactment of Article 27A of Chapter 14 of the North Carolina General Statutes (NCGS 14-208.5). This law requires a person who is a resident of North Carolina and who has a reportable…

I stumbled across an old post today on the website of the National Association to Protect Children, which bills itself as “America’s First Political Lobby to Protect Children.” The Association is based out of Asheville, my old stomping grounds. The author of the article, Grier Weeks, details the long path that a NC bill to…

Before I set up my firm in Raleigh, I practiced in the western part of North Carolina and lived in Hendersonville, south of Asheville. I still maintain an office there as part of an “of counsel” relationship with my old law partners. I have family there as well whom I particularly enjoy visting when it…

I received an interesting comment to one of my blog posts from Ron Franscell, the managing editor of the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise, a 60,000-circulation daily newspaper a Beaumont, Texas. His blog post can be found here. Breaking news in Texas Ron’s paper just broke a news story about a “sex ring” involving high school football…

I keep reading about the ever increasing number of reported cases of female teachers have sex with their male (and female) students. Everyone seems shocked by that fact, and I suppose that normally when one thinks of inappropriate teacher student relationships, they think of creepy male teachers and their female students. The website World Net…