Safer Sex

'Jessica's Law' used to convict local molester in Yolo court (The Daily Democrat)

23 Jul 2008

Yolo County prosecutors secured a guilty plea against a Woodland man last week on child molestation charges, utilizing for the first time provisions from Jessica's law. Albert Shawn Aubuchon, 27, a registered sex offender in Woodland, pleaded no contest Friday to molesting two young girls in

Sex attackers 'still out there' (The Courier Mail)

23 Jul 2008

THE arrest of an alleged serial sex offender has not made Brisbane bikepaths any safer for women, says a mother who was attacked by another man on Sunday.

Bennett Case Raises Questions About Vermont’s Sex-Offender Treatment (Seven Days)

23 Jul 2008

In the late 1970s, William Pithers, a psychologist with the Vermont Department of Corrections, began studying sex-offender treatment programs around the country. At the time, rapists and child molesters typically underwent individual psychoanalytic therapy in state hospitals and prisons and, in some cases, outpatient clinics. But, as numerous studies concluded, there was virtually no ...