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GSTAAD, Switzerland - If only we could all be as lucky as Roman Polanski.

The Oscar-winning director of "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown" and "The Pianist" has moved from cooling his heels in a Swiss jail to home confinement in a swank million-dollar Alpine chalet as he prepares for potential extradition to America for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

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HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. - Jamar Pinkney Sr., the 37-year-old Michigan father who allegedly shot and killed his teenage son because the boy told him he molested a 3-year-old girl, will pursue an insanity defense, his lawyer said Tuesday.

On the same day, a judge in the Detroit enclave of Highland Park ruled that Pinkney Sr. will stand trial on first-degree murder, assault and firearm charges.

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MIAMI – He was a Florida town manager, she was a porn star, and two of them together were a match made in heaven.

Until word got around and Scott Janke was fired from his post because of his marriage to Anabela Mota Janke, also known in the adult film world by the stage name Jazella Moore.

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BOSTON - Denied!

Transgendered killer Michelle Kosilek's request for state-funded electrolysis treatments was shot down by a federal judge last week.

U.S. District Judge Mark said that the pretty-in-pink jailbird failed to prove "irreparable harm" or a "serious medical need" for a hairless body in prison.

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BOSTON - Convicted killer Michelle Kosilek has hairy legs and wants you to pay for the electrolysis treatments needed to make them as smooth as a baby's behind.

Born as Robert Kosilek, Michelle Kosilek has been waiting for years for a judge in Boston to rule on a request for a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation in order to complete the prisoner's transformation into a woman.

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NEW YORK - According to crime statistics from the Department of Justice, 67 percent of sexual assault victims in 2008 were juveniles and an astonishing 93 percent of these victims knew their attackers. When Robin Sax worked as a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County specializing in sex crimes against children, she personally reviewed at least five new cases every day.

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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - If police have it right, 5-year-old Shaniya Davis was raped, strangled to death, then dumped off a rural North Carolina road near a pile of deer carcasses in trash bags.

The man who they say is at the center of the horrible crime is Mario McNeill, who was seen on a hotel video surveillance tape carrying Shaniya, Nov. 10, the day she went missing.

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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (CBS/AP) Incest pornography.

That's what authorities investigating six members of the Mohler family for alleged sex crimes against related children in rural Missouri, say they found in one of the suspect's home, and it was the suspect's wife that led them to it.

The search warrant issued last week after the arrest of Burrell E. Mohler Sr., 77, of Independence, said investigators seized several items from Mohler's home, including four computer towers, several pornographic magazines and books, several DVDs, and cameras.

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LEXINGTON, Mo. - Three alleged victims of what police call a horrible series of familial Missouri sex crimes, say one of the attackers forced them to help stab a man to death and bury him, according to court documents.

A search warrant, filed Nov. 9, but released to The Associated Press on Tuesday, stated three of the alleged child victims observed "several murders" and were forced to help kill and bury a man in April 1988.

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LEXINGTON, Mo. - Dark, sordid, tales of a rural Missouri man and his four adult sons raping, sodomizing, sexually abusing children, and even murdering, in a house of horror, are coming to light two decades later.

As authorities work to piece together exactly what happened, Burrell Mohler Sr., 77, and his four adult sons appeared in court in western Missouri on Tuesday where they were charged with sex crimes including rape and sodomy. A new search warrant claims one of the suspects even forced his victims to help kill and bury a man.

Hell on earth. But is it true?

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