Community leaders are calling for more aggressive efforts to crack down on illegal rentals in Mission Bay of recreational water vehicles commonly known by the brand name Jet Ski, after a 12-year-old girl on a paddle board was run over and killed three weeks ago by a person driving one.
Neighborhood leaders and owners of Mission Bay businesses say lifeguards and police have dramatically reduced illegal JetSki activity since it ramped up during the pandemic, but they also say more aggressive efforts would be welcome.
Through Thursday, 139 vessels had been impounded this year, and eight citations had been issued for illegal sales or rental of merchandise on Mission Bay, according to statistics provided by the city. Of the 139 impounds, 53 were for failure to have proper documentation and 20 were for illegal rentals.
Lifeguards and police have declined to comment on whether the driver who killed the 12-year-old girl July 31 owned the Jet Ski, rented it from a licensed operator or rented it from a unlicensed operator.
McCoy stressed that lifeguards have had remarkable success reducing the number of unlicensed rentals since the height of the pandemic. He estimates that about 70 percent of watercraft rentals were illegal earlier in the pandemic, but that only about 20 percent are today.
WASHGINTON, D.C. -- Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) sent a letter to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other Homeland Security officials expressing outrage over the recent sexual assault of one eleven-year-old girl, and potentially two more, in a home in Bemidji, Minnesota. When police conducted a search warrant of the home, 11 illegal immigrants were found at the scene.
The letter reads in part, I write to express my concern and outrage over the recent events in Bemidji, Minnesota, a beautiful northern town in the congressional district I represent. The news stories and police report highlight the deplorable consequences of the Biden Administration's recklessly lax border and failing immigration policies. Nearly a dozen illegal immigrants were found at a home where, according to the local police department press release, a sexual assault of a minor occurred. I demand immediate action from your agencies and answers to several questions myself and the communities I represent have regarding this horrific incident. It is your duty to fully protect all citizens from this ongoing onslaught of illegal immigrant criminal activity, which is a direct result of your failure to secure our border and fully track illegal immigrants and their whereabouts.
Some teens have not matured socially and do not fit in with their age group. They may tend to spend time with younger children as they are more comfortable with this age group. Other youth may have significant developmental delays that affect their knowledge about appropriate sexual behavior and decision making ability.
Some teens have a history of consistently breaking rules of behavior at home, at school, or in the community as they repeatedly engage in delinquent behaviors. Their illegal sexual behavior is one more delinquent act in a pattern of highly problematic behaviors.
Teenagers today have easy access to highly sexualized materials through movies, television, music, the Internet, and magazines. Sex is used to sell almost everything, and ordinary media content is more highly sexualized than ever. Some boys report that they were viewing sexually explicit materials prior to their illegal behavior and that this material influenced their actions. Some teens live in a highly sexualized home with frequent, open sexual behavior between adults. This environment, too, can affect their choices and behaviors.
Some adolescents have themselves been sexually abused. The abuse might have been recent, might be ongoing, or could be something that happened when they were much younger. The majority of teens with illegal sexual behavior, however, have not been sexually abused.
A small number of adolescents may be sexually attracted to children rather than to age-appropriate peers. They may be developing a mental disorder known as pedophilia. Pedophilia involves intense sexual arousal to children 13 or younger. To be diagnosed, the person must be at least 16 years old and at least five years older than the child they are attracted to. This is a rare condition in adolescents and only a qualified professional should make a diagnosis.
Understanding teens with illegal sexual behavior is a complex challenge. Even the experts who provide treatment according to the best available evidence know that they are working with just that, the best evidence currently available. Our knowledge of adolescents who engage in illegal sexual behavior is constantly changing and expanding.
One important thing to know is that youth under age 18 commit a substantial number of the sex offenses committed in the United States. At least one-third of all sexual abuse of children is committed by boys and girls under 18. And according to the U.S. Department of Justice, adolescents account for about 17 percent of all arrests for sex offenses. Boys commit the majority of these offenses, an estimated 90 percent, and girls commit about 10 percent of the offenses.
Current research shows that the majority of adolescents with illegal sexual behavior do not go on to become adult sex offenders. Moreover, if a boy with illegal sexual behavior receives treatment, he is far less likely to reoffend. Research shows for adolescents who receive treatment rates of committing another sexual offense is low, from 3 to 14 percent.
All types of families. The families of boys with illegal sexual behavior are as diverse as the boys themselves. The families may have biological parents, step-parents, grandparents, foster or adoptive parents, or kinship parents. The families have many different levels of income and education and they represent all ethnicities. Many of these families are functioning well and have typical family problems. Other families experience high levels of stress along with a history of problems with maltreatment, substance abuse, domestic violence, and/ or unstable employment.
Yes, many do. The rate of future delinquent behavior in these teens, such as shoplifting, using illegal drugs, or possessing stolen property and even nonsexual aggression, is significantly higher than the rate of future illegal sexual behavior. Parents need to be aware of the risk for other possible delinquent behavior with these teens and provide close supervision of their friends and activities.
The use of a cell phone should be decided based on whether the adolescent needs a phone, whether there are concerns that the adolescent may use the phone inappropriately or illegally, and whether alternatives exist. For example, how often is a phone necessary to check on a ride home, contact parents at work, check in with parents, etc.? Parents may be concerned that the phone is used inappropriately, i.e., sending sexual messages or accessing sexual information. Parents should carefully monitor the use of a phone and remove it immediately if they have any concerns about how the adolescent is using it.
Some were; many were not. Anywhere from 20 to 50 percent of teenage boys with illegal sexual behavior report being sexually abused as children. Several studies have shown that previous physical and/or psychological abuse or neglect may also play an important role. But many of these boys have not experienced any past maltreatment.
No. Most adolescents with illegal sexual behavior are quite different from adult sex offenders. Adolescents engage in fewer illegal acts over shorter periods of time, their behavior is less aggressive, and they are much less likely to be exclusively sexually attracted to young children. Most importantly their rate of future illegal sexual behavior is lower than adult sex offenders.
The campaign was reacting to a story out of Bemidji, Minnesota, where Oscar Ernesto Luna, 22, and three other men were arrested after police say they tied up and raped an 11-year-old girl, Fox 9 Minneapolis reported.
A report from KARE 11, an NBC affiliate in Minneapolis, stated that the young girl suffered "severe injuries" and said a person she referred to as "auntie" forced her into a car, and she was brought to a home where several men tied her up and raped her.
DeSantis, the current Republican governor of Florida, has made combating illegal immigration a central part of his campaign and recently pledged to work to deport every illegal immigrant who entered the country under President Biden's watch, a number he estimates is around 6 or 7 million.
The Department of Labor is committed to helping young workers find those positive and early employment experiences that can be so important to their development, but the work must be safe. The youth employment provisions of the FLSA were enacted to ensure that when young people work, the work does not jeopardize their health, well-being or educational opportunities. Employers are subject to the youth employment provisions generally under the same coverage criteria as established for the other provisions of the FLSA.
The federal child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) were enacted to ensure that when young people work, the work is safe and does not jeopardize their health, well-being or educational opportunities. These provisions also provide limited exemptions.
The study found that 77% of west-central Nepali girls and young women actively practice menstrual exile, based on a survey of 400 14-to-19-year-olds. And while 60% of them were aware that chhaupadi is illegal, that knowledge made them no less likely to practice it.
In a separate 2018 study of 107 adolescent girls on the prevalence of chhaupadi in far-western Nepal, Ghimire cites a previous "well-intentioned" attempt earlier in the decade by government and nongovernment agencies to solve the problem by demolishing the huts. The result, the study found, was that "sheds were either rebuilt or menstruating women and girls were exiled to even more unhygienic and dangerous structures," such as sheds shared with livestock.
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