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Mo. AG Koster
5:46 pm
Tue November 15, 2011

Koster wants to expand child sex abuse reporting requirement to all Missourians

Credit (Official Portrait, Missouri Attorney General's office)

Attorney General Chris Koster (D) wants Missouri lawmakers to beef up state law regarding child sexual abuse, in light of the scandal currently surrounding Penn State University.

Koster says right now in Missouri, only teachers, doctors, clergy and certain other professions are required to report child sex abuse to the authorities.

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Child porn crackdown
5:18 pm
Thu August 25, 2011

Madigan declares "Operation Glass House" a success

Credit (Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio)
Ill. Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan speaks at a press conference on Aug. 25, 2011 regarding "Operation Glass House," an effort to go after the top 25 child pornography consumers in the state.

Ill. Attorney General Lisa Madigan says a year-long effort to target the top 25 consumers of child pornography in Illinois has been a success.

Two Belleville men - 61-year-old Garold Lee Semelka and Mike G. Telkamp, 48, were the 25th and 26th men arrested under Operation Glass House, the anti-child pornography initiative Madigan launched in August 2010.

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