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Sexual Offenses

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Frederick Dozier, Mission District Rape Suspect, to Appear in Court

    Frederick A. Dozier Jr. will appear in court Monday for his preliminary hearing connected to three violent rapes that rocked the Mission District community last year. Dozier, a former school district employee, was arrested in January and charged with 26 felony counts, including rape, robbery, and at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Donald Tosti, Marin Psychologist, Sent to Prison for Posession of "Very Graphic" Child Porn

    ​A San Rafael psychologist has been sent to prison for eight years after he was busted having child porn on his computer, which included disturbing depictions of rape scenes with very young children. Donald Tosti, 76, was convicted in San Francisco in September 2011, after he took his computer to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Frederick A. Dozier: Police Release Photo of Accused Mission District Rapist

    Sexual Assault Suspect ​Mission District residents can take some comfort in knowing that the cops have indeed caught a suspect who they believe is responsible for three brutal sexual assaults over the last six months, police said. On Friday, police said they arrested 32-year-old Federick Dozier af ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Oakland Sexual Assault: SFPD Looking for Possible Connection to Mission District Rapes

    Another sexual assault reported, but this one was in Oakland​San Francisco's Mission District has been on edge over two recent brutal rapes, which police believe involve the same suspect. With no real leads, police told SF Weekly they are now "looking into" possible similarities with an early-morn ... More >>

  • News

    December 7, 2011

    The Boy Scouts' Police Problem: Explorers Have Been Sexually Abused by Cops. Should Scouts Share the Blame?

    Another sexual assault reported, but this one was in Oakland​San Francisco's Mission District has been on edge over two recent brutal rapes, which police believe involve the same suspect. With no real leads, police told SF Weekly they are now "looking into" possible similarities with an early-morn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Law Enforcement to Round Up Homeless Sex Offenders Tonight

    Homeless Sex Offenders: smart on crime? ​California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced trick-or-treaters will be safer since cops will keep homeless sex offender parolees indoors tonight in San Francisco. That announcement comes even while Harris' office is defending Jessica's Law -- the bal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Homeless Sex Offenders in San Francisco Move Indoors

    Sex offenders are moving inside.While all homeless sex offenders in San Francisco will have to report to round-up centers on Halloween, there will likely be fewer transients who need to check in this year.​In the last six months, San Francisco's public defender has quietly won temporary stays on J ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    Reddit Child Porn Post Closes Jailbait Section for Good

    Don't worry, there's still jailbait Barbie ​Beloved Internet creeps will be disappointed to learn that the controversial Jailbait section of the website Reddit was shut down Monday after a Reddit user was reportedly busted using the message board to distribute what appeared to be child porn. Accor ... More >>

  • News

    May 25, 2011

    Let Him Prey: High-Ranking Jesuits Helped Keep Pedophile Priest Hidden

    Don't worry, there's still jailbait Barbie ​Beloved Internet creeps will be disappointed to learn that the controversial Jailbait section of the website Reddit was shut down Monday after a Reddit user was reportedly busted using the message board to distribute what appeared to be child porn. Accor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Facebook, Twitter: Are They Enabling Child Pornographers?

    Another kind of social network?​Mexican journalist and activist Lydia Cacho apparently thinks so.In a recent trip to San Francisco, Cacho, who has written about child prostitution in Cancún and tussled with powerful businessmen and politicians in her home country, said that social-media sites suc ... More >>

  • News

    March 2, 2011

    California Family Courts Helping Pedophiles, Batterers Get Child Custody

    Another kind of social network?​Mexican journalist and activist Lydia Cacho apparently thinks so.In a recent trip to San Francisco, Cacho, who has written about child prostitution in Cancún and tussled with powerful businessmen and politicians in her home country, said that social-media sites suc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Bizarre Court Decision: Child Molesters Can Visit Children

    Sure, you can visit the children....​It's rare that the letter of the law undermines common sense so drastically as in a ruling that came down from the California Court of Appeals this month. According to the ruling, convicted child molesters could have visitation rights with their victims as long ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Sex Offender Found Shirtless at Bernal Heights Elementary School

    Stay 2,000 feet away ​State law says registered sex offenders cannot live near a school, playground, or other places where kids gather. But apparently state law doesn't prohibit a sex offender from being shirtless around school campuses.A teacher from Paul Revere Elementary School, located at 555 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Assemblyman Tom Ammiano Questions State's Sex Registration Laws

    This is consensual sex​No two sex offenders are the same, which is why Assemblyman Tom Ammiano wants California to consider a tiered system to categorize those who break the state's sex laws.As he points out, there is a gradation of offenses. It's true that a consensual, sexual relationship betwee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Sex Offender Eugene Melendres Ramos Allegedly Rapes 2-Year-Old In Dollar Store

    California sex registryEugene Ramos, alleged dollar store rapist​Well, it doesn't get much more horrifying than this. Union City police have announced the arrest of a registered sex offender for allegedly raping a 2-year-old girl in a Dollar Tree store Wednesday afternoon. According to news report ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Chelsea's Law Threatens To Force San Francisco Sex Offenders Into Homelessness For Life

    Living like this for 10 years?​Republican Attorney General Candidate Steve Cooley is drawing heat from Kamala Harris' attorney general campaign for remarking that "You know what gets an initiative passed in California? Name it after a female ... Jessica's Law, stuff like that." Call that a sexist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    Grandpa Allegedly Molested 8-Year-Old at School, Saying He Was Bringing Her A Snack

    D.A. Kamala Harris​A 68-year-old man has been charged with felony sexual assault for allegedly attacking his eight-year-old step-granddaughter, the district attorney's office announced today.Erica Derryck, spokeswoman for D.A. Kamala Harris, said in a press release that Pedro Hernandez was caught ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Kamala Harris Takes A Stand on Internet Pedophiles, Coddles Pedophile Catholic Priests

    As long as the pedophile is online, Kamala Harris is there to protect you​Matt Smith's column this week revealed how District Attorney Kamala Harris is essentially protecting Catholic pedophiles in her refusal to turn over the San Francisco Archdiocese files on clergy abuse. Oddly, she's also come ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2010

    A Secrecy Fetish

    District Attorney Kamala Harris is going too far in protecting Catholic pedophiles.

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Contract To Help Sex Offenders Awarded To Non-Profit They're Forbidden to Enter

    Paroled sex offenders are now being told they are no longer welcome at the city site specifically designated to service them​Paroled sex offenders forced into homelessness in San Francisco by Jessica's Law used to have at least one place they could call "home": the day-reporting center for parolee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Man Who Outraced Cops One Of 20 At-Large Sex Offender Parolees

    ​You may have read about the sex offender wanted on a parole violation who played Dukes of Hazzard with the cops this week. A parole agent spotted Matthew Thrasher in his gold Toyota Corolla (hardly the General Lee) around the Great Highway and Lincoln Way on Tuesday afternoon, news accounts repor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Accused Child Porn Prof Kenneth Kyle Facing New Federal Charges

    Kenneth Kyle​Kenneth Kyle, the Cal State East Bay professor previously charged with rape and sodomy in Missouri and child porn-related charges here can toss a new bevy of charges on the pile: Federal felony counts of child porn production. The U.S. District Attorney's office in St. Louis yesterday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    S.F. Man Fails To Register As Sex Offender -- Because He's Dead

    ​According to the state's sex offender registry, Nicholas Chaykovsky has been in violation of registration requirements since Sunday. He has a decent excuse. He's dead.   Chaykovsky died at age 61 last month after suffering a heart attack. And though the San Francisco Police Department s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    State Supreme Court To Homeless Sex Offenders: Tough Luck, For Now

    Same old, same old...​The California Supreme Court dealt a smackdown to the state's sex offenders today, ruling it is constitutional to enforce the residency restrictions of Jessica's Law on sex offenders released on parole. The law passed by voters in November 2006 states sex offenders can't have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Suspected Killer of Transgender Prostitute Given Hefty Sentence for Other Crimes

    Ruby Ordenana was raped and murdered in 2007. DNA evidence collected from her body matches suspect Donzell Francis.​Sitting in Department 10 on Monday afternoon, Donzell Francis, 41, didn't react as the judge sentenced him to the maximum sentence of 17 years and 8 months in state prison ... More >>

  • News

    December 30, 2009

    Perverting Justice

    Jessica's Law prevents paroled sex offenders from residing near schools or parks. That means they can only live one place in S.F.: on the streets.

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Bad Combination: Sex Offender Sitting Outside Toy Store, Aggressively Begging

    ​There are some combinations that can only lead to trouble. Tequila and firearms. Tequila and cutlery. Tequila and white carpeting. The list goes on. Some don't even involve tequila. Some involve sex offenders. San Francisco police recently ran into a man sporting a troublesome combination of his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2009

    S.F. Rape Counselor Paints Bleak Portrait for Women Who Come Forward

    http://www.usfca.edu/rotc/Ryan Caskey, far left, has pleaded not guilty to raping four fellow USF students. Here's a statistic that stops you dead in your tracks: 94 percent of rapists don't spend a day in jail. How's that work? Here's the breakdown from the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network: F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Increase in Reported Tenderloin Sexual Assaults Probably a Good Thing, Says SFPD

    At last night's sparsely attended special Police Commission Meeting, held under the excessively bright lights of the Tenderloin Elementary School cafeteria, Commanding Officer Captain Gary Jimenez had a lot of positive things to report about the Tenderloin Station. Impressively, all four homic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2008

    SFPD Puts Positive Spin on Higher Rape Stats

    At last night's sparsely attended special Police Commission Meeting, held under the excessively bright lights of the Tenderloin Elementary School cafeteria, Commanding Officer Captain Gary Jimenez had a lot of positive things to report about the Tenderloin Station. Impressively, all four homic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2008

    Jessica's Law Knocks Sex Offenders Off the Grid

    At last night's sparsely attended special Police Commission Meeting, held under the excessively bright lights of the Tenderloin Elementary School cafeteria, Commanding Officer Captain Gary Jimenez had a lot of positive things to report about the Tenderloin Station. Impressively, all four homic ... More >>

  • News

    August 15, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    At last night's sparsely attended special Police Commission Meeting, held under the excessively bright lights of the Tenderloin Elementary School cafeteria, Commanding Officer Captain Gary Jimenez had a lot of positive things to report about the Tenderloin Station. Impressively, all four homic ... More >>

  • News

    August 8, 2007

    A Cuddly Rapist

    My rapist wasn't a "great guy": A Castro man challenges a recent anti-gay-rape campaign

  • News

    December 13, 2006

    Allegation 101

    When there is a suspected date rape, you don't want the accusation looked into by administrators at New College

  • News

    January 4, 2006

    Levada's Secret

    As he prepares to be deposed in San Francisco next week, former S.F. Archbishop William Levada may have to come clean about a priestly child molester he protected in Portland.

  • News

    January 4, 2006

    House of the Accused

    When priests within the Salesian order based in San Francisco were accused of sex abuse, the leaders chose to keep quiet.

  • News

    July 13, 2005

    Blind Eye Unto the Holy See

    Pope Benedict XVI named him Roman Catholicism's top doctrinal watchdog -- even though, as San Francisco archbishop, William J. Levada resolutely looked away from sex-abuse complaints against a renowned priest and legal scholar

  • News

    January 14, 2004

    Settling Things Quietly

    In newly unsealed court documents, S.F.'s archbishop makes an eyebrow-raising comment in the case of a pedo-priest

  • News

    September 24, 2003

    Kamala's Karma

    She's smart, she's experienced, and she's running for DA. But she's Willie Brown's ex-girlfriend, and her opponents are trying to crucify her for that.

  • News

    June 25, 2003

    Prosecutors' Patience Wears Thin With Levada, Mahony

    She's smart, she's experienced, and she's running for DA. But she's Willie Brown's ex-girlfriend, and her opponents are trying to crucify her for that.

  • News

    June 25, 2003

    Nailed?

    Lawyers for hundreds of sex-abuse victims have California's Catholic dioceses in a dire financial bind. Can church leaders finagle an escape, or are they ...

  • News

    June 4, 2003

    'Scuse Us, Folks

    Sex-abuse victims may be no-shows at Archbishop Levada's upcoming public apology to them.

  • News

    April 30, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of April 30, 2003

  • News

    March 19, 2003

    Bishop Bad Boy

    Santa Rosa's charismatic Catholic bishop got busted shaking down a priest for sex. But he had friends in high places -- and they served him well.

  • News

    May 22, 2002

    Un-Orthodox Behavior

    Catholicism isn't the only religion with sexual abuse scandals. Three S.F. women are working to expose cases within the Orthodox Church.

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Law and Borders

    Prosecutors, judges, governors, a sex offender, and a woman with a penchant for poor judgement entangle California and Texas in an epic child custody war with two sure losers -- aged 7 and 9.

  • Calendar

    October 7, 1998

    Cothran

    Prosecutors, judges, governors, a sex offender, and a woman with a penchant for poor judgement entangle California and Texas in an epic child custody war with two sure losers -- aged 7 and 9.

  • News

    June 3, 1998

    Perverted Justice?

    Or is a new law that puts sexual predators in long-term psychiatric lock-up really -- and finally -- justice for perverts?

  • News

    October 29, 1997

    Megan's Law Goes to Class

    Schools plan to tell parents where sex offenders live; is it caution or hysteria?

  • News

    March 15, 1995

    Cyperpornocopia

    Milpitas residents Carleen and Robert Thomas found a lucrative way to sell the hardest of hardcorepornography to smut fans all over the country: by computer bulletin board. Then their little Silicon Valley startup attracted the interest of a U.S. Postal S

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