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Asked if this policy would be introduced into all missions, Guehenno said it should be left up to the leadership of each mission.

"In Congo we had a very bad situation that needed to be addressed by very drastic measures," he said. "In general this is a policy that needs to be looked at on a case-by-case basis."

Asked after the meeting what areas the United Nations was concerned about, Guehenno said it would "have to watch with particular attention" Liberia and Haiti, places where troops were in "broken societies."

He added there was "no mystery" in guessing where the problem would next surface. "When you have a big deployment, the risks are higher than when you have a small deployment," he said.

The head of U.N. peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guehenno, warned the Security Council on Tuesday that "the number of allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse will probably increase, not decrease" as the United Nations started to take greater action on the problem.

The warning that things will get worse before they get better has become a common theme among U.N. officials addressing the problem of sexual abuse among peacekeepers.

A report in March based on analysis by Jordan's U.N. ambassador, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein, spelled out for the first time ways to combat the problem of sexual abuse in peacekeeping missions.

The recommendations included:

-- Setting uniform standards of conduct for all national contingents;

-- Publishing peacekeeping rules in the languages of the troops;

-- Investigating allegations by professionals using modern forensic methods such as fingerprinting, blood testing and DNA testing;

-- And a permanent professional investigative capacity, including professionals with experience in investigating sex crimes, "especially those involving children," and courts-martial conducted in the countries where the crimes are alleged to have occurred.

The letters detailed his past actions and pleaded that he remain incarcerated.

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"I feel that if he is released it is only a matter of time before he commits another crime and fear that he will not leave a witness to testify against him the next time," one victim wrote. She described how DuMond had raped her at knifepoint.

Huckabee said Wednesday his discussion with the parole board in 1996 was a general discussion about clemency, not about the DuMond case.

But a former Huckabee aide, Butch Reeves, tells CNN that the DuMond case was discussed during the meeting with the parole board, but that it was the board members who asked Huckabee about the case.

Abusers also commonly try to lessen a victim's sexual inhibitions by making lewd comments or showing sexually explicit material, Urquiza said.

"What starts as innocuous gradually increases, desensitizing the child to sexuality," he said.

He also acknowledged that he twice told a dean at his school that nothing sexual happened between him and Jackson. He explained that he lied because he was embarrassed and was being teased by other students, who saw him holding hands with Jackson in a television documentary.

Urquiza said such denials would not be unusual, adding that male sexual assault victims face the added problem of being exposed to ridicule because of the perception that they might be gay.

Urquiza, a psychologist from the University of California-Davis who said he has evaluated more than 1,000 child sexual assault victims, said they are likely to disclose details in a series of statements that are "not likely to be consistent."

"It's better to think about it as a process," Urquiza testified. A victim's disclosure about what happened is often delayed, then starts out vague and changes over time.

Urquiza said children aren't consistent with times and dates because they are not attentive to such information in the same way adults are.

The legislation also comes less than three days after authorities in Ruskin, Florida, found the body of 13-year-old Sarah Michelle Lunde in a pond Saturday.

Sex offender David Onstott, who previously dated the girl's mother, told authorities he choked the teen and dumped her body in the pond on April 10, Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said.

Currently, states are supposed to send sex offenders an annual mailer with an address verification form.

Under the Jessica Lunsford Act, states would be required to send the mailers semiannually and at random times, so offenders don't know when to expect them.

For those who do not answer the mailers, the legislation would increase penalties to imprisonment and a $100,000 fine. Any offender who fails twice to register with a state or fails more than once to answer a mailer would be required to wear an electronic ankle monitor.

Wisconsin's law requires police chiefs and sheriffs to assess the public risk of each person on the registry whose offenses occurred as juveniles and notify the community about those considered likely to re-offend.

Rep. Mark Green, R-Wisconsin, plans to introduce federal legislation similar to Wisconsin's law.

Wall agreed to be identified publicly as the trial ended in hopes of encouraging other women who feel trapped by polygamy to come forward. Watch Wall urge other girls to be brave »

She testified that she told Steed she was not ready and that her first sexual encounter made her feel dirty, used and trapped.

Her pleas to church leaders to end the marriage were ignored, and Jeffs told her to submit "mind, body and soul" to her new husband, Wall told the jury.

Her sisters testified that most of the women in the family also opposed the marriage but were powerless to stop it.

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Investigators are also questioning the 100 people who rented rooms in the house from Fritzl over the years.

The daughter of a former employer of Fritzl backed up the reports.

"He was hired even though he had a record," said Sigrid Reisinger, who heads the Amstetten construction material firm Zehetner and whose father employed Fritzl there from 1969-71.

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4) why are the same folks who were screaming about a new ice age 30 years ago all of a sudden crying about global warming?

Every once in a while you should turn off Jerry Springer and tune into the Discovery Channel. Some scientists believe that when global warming melts the polar ice caps in sufficient amounts, the massive fresh water infusion into the North Atlantic will interfere with the flow of salt water in the Gulf Stream. This would cause a cooling of the planet at some point, and some believe this was one of the root causes of the last ice age.

John Ashcroft said that history would judge the Bush administration harshly for this discussion of torture. Look at Bush’s position on turture: just how close can we get to torture and still get away with it???

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