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Man shot by Tampa airport police registered as sex offender in August

10-29-2013 Florida:

TAMPA — A man shot by police Monday at Tampa International Airport before jumping to his death from a parking garage recently had registered as a sex offender.

Allen Piano, 46, of Palm Harbor, registered after being sentenced to probation in August for providing obscene materials to a minor.

Piano was shot late Monday afternoon when he lunged at TIA Police Officer Jason Virt on the fourth floor of the airport's long-term parking garage, authorities said.

Airport officials said an airport police officer approached Piano about 4:30 p.m. on the eighth floor of the short-term parking garage.

Piano said he was watching planes. A background check revealed he was a sex offender for whom Pinellas officials were about to issue an arrest warrant, according to his probation officer.

The probation officer also said a shotgun was missing from the home of Piano's mother, with whom he lived.

Troopers identify two bodies found in the Valley

10-22-2013 Alaska:

WASILLA -- Alaska State Troopers have identified two men found dead earlier this month in the Valley as a Palmer man wanted on a felony warrant for pornography charges and a Wasilla man who left the home of a court-ordered custodian.

The bodies -- and two more found earlier this month -- are not connected in any way, authorities say.

A body found near Moose Creek on Oct. 11 was identified as Palmer resident Brendon Twitchell, according to troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters. Twitchell would have turned 24 at the end of September.

Twitchell, who was wanted on a felony warrant for charges of possession and distribution of child pornography, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Peters said. Troopers had already tentatively identified the body because Twitchell's vehicle was found nearby in mid-August, but waited for confirmation from the state medical examiner before releasing his name.

A different body found by a squirrel hunter Sunday morning on an ATV trail near Vine Road outside Wasilla was identified as ... ..Source.. by ZAZ HOLLANDER

Man facing child porn charges commits suicide

10-17-2013 Ohio:

CIRCLEVILLE — A man arrested on charges of pandering obscenities involving a minor in July was found dead at his East Mound Street home Thursday, the victim of an apparent suicide.

Jack D. Hensley Jr., 28, was pronounced dead at 3:59 p.m. Thursday at Berger Hospital after attempts to resuscitate him failed, according to Chief Wayne Gray, Circleville Police.

Gray said a member of Hensley’s family notified police Thursday that they feared he would harm himself and were looking for him. When they returned home, they found Hensley unresponsive in the garage.

Gray said he had rigged a charcoal grill inside his vehicle inside the closed garage, and investigators believe he died from inhaling the fumes, similar to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Hensley was arrested July 12 after reportedly being discovered with child pornography downloaded onto his computer. He was indicted by the Pickaway County Grand Jury in September and pleaded not guilty to pandering obscenity involving a minor.

A pretrial hearing was held Oct. 11 in Pickaway County Common Pleas Court, but no further details on the status of his case were available Thursday. ..Source.. by Trish Bennett Editor

Zearing council member commits suicide after police find child pornography in his home

10-12-2013 Iowa:

Authorities say a city councilman in central Iowa killed himself only hours after detectives found child pornography on his home computer.

Story County Sheriff's Capt. Barry Thomas confirmed today that Zearing City Councilman Scott Frank shot himself in the basement of his home on Sept. 17. Only hours earlier, sheriff's officials searched Frank's home and confiscated his computer.

Thomas says investigators also questioned the 51-year-old councilman that day about several images of nude boys found on the computer.

Thomas says Frank was not arrested or charged and was released after questioning. Frank was found dead in his home later that evening.

Thomas says the criminal investigation has been closed because of Frank's death, but that investigators are still looking into whether any of the images are those of local victims. ..Source.. by DemoineRegister

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The death of Christian Adamek and zero tolerance insanity

10-2-2013 Alabama:

Christian Adamek, 15, hanged himself after getting in trouble for doing something that wasn't evil, wasn't a threat to anyone's safety, and wasn't a big deal to any rational person. Christian landed himself in big trouble for streaking across the field during a football game at his high school.

Before Christian's death, the school's principal said the teen's stunt could warrant legal charges atop school discipline. "There's the legal complications," the principal told a news station. "Public lewdness and court consequences outside of school with the legal system, as well as the school consequences that the school system has set up."

Adolescent Brain Development
and Legal Culpability


Christian's death is tragic. Was it prompted by the prospect of an overblown reaction to his schoolboy prank? We don't know for sure. Regardless, Christian deserved detention, not to have his name slapped on a sex offender registry along with rapists. If Christian took his life over the prospect of having his life destroyed by vindictive adults who think streaking is on a continuum with rape, then we've all got blood on our hands.

Portland police investigating suspected pedophile dentist find his corpse

9-10-2013 Oregon:

A dentist suspected of sexually assaulting children has apparently killed himself in Portland, police reported today.

A police tactical team preparing to search a home in the 1400 block of Southeast 46th Avenue on Monday discovered the corpse of 35-year-old Joshua Luke Moffitt. He appeared to have shot himself, authorities said.

Moffitt was under investigation for multiple sexual assaults of two youths -- both are now adults -- but police have not identified when they were allegedly assaulted, but did say the alleged assaults on both victims were outside his work as a dentist.

Detectives have learned that Moffitt also lived and worked in the Browning, Mont., area in the late 2000s and may have performed dental work on children at nearby Native American reservations," according to a news release.

The police bureau's Sex Crimes Unit learned that Moffitt worked as a dentist for the Tooth Taxi, a nonprofit agency that provided dental work for children across Oregon.

The 38-foot long motor home, a rolling dental clinic, is a partnership between the Dental Foundation of Oregon (the charitable arm of the Oregon Dental Association), OEA Choice Trust and ODS.

Since September 2008, the Tooth Taxi has visited nearly 200 sites in Oregon and staff and volunteers have screened more than 10,000 students. More than $2.7 million in dental services has been provided.

Katie Paullin, a spokeswoman for the ODS Health, said Moffitt joined the staff of the Dental Foundation of Oregon in July 2012 and was employed as dentist for the Tooth Taxi.

"It is our policy that no adult is ever left alone with a child,'' Paullin said.

Paullin said Tooth Taxi officials are cooperating with the investigation. ..Source.. by Bryan Denson