According to a new
study from the University of New Hampshire, an increase in the arrests of online predators
in recent years is the result of more enforcement, not a rise in the number of
offenders.
Defense
attorneys are resisting legal changes proposed by prosecutors in the wake of
the Brooke Bennett kidnapping and murder. The
defense lawyers say that the changes to court procedures and the rules of
evidence could result in innocent people being wrongly convicted.
VPR’s
John Dillon reports.