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83 UMKC L. Rev. 687 (2014-2015)
Catching American Sex Offenders Overseas: A Proposal for a Federal International Mandated Reporting Law

handle is hein.journals/umkc83 and id is 705 raw text is: CATCHING AMERICAN SEX OFFENDERS OVERSEAS: A PROPOSAL FOR A FEDERAL INTERNATIONAL MANDATED REPORTING LAW Basyle J. Tchividjian* I. INTRODUCTION Good News for All (GNA) is a large American missionary organization that sends missionaries into remote parts of the world to provide basic medical and educational services.' One of its largest missions is on Buton Island, Indonesia. In the main city of Bau-Bau, GNA operates a hospital and an elementary school that service the surrounding population. The hospital is named the Stewart Coop Memorial Hospital in honor of the retired GNA missionary who started the hospital many years ago. Dr. Mark Coop is the son of Stewart Coop and had been the chief physician of the mission hospital for many years. Dr. Coop was a thirty-five year old married father of three children who was a very well liked and influential member of the mission field. Though he had a reputation as the most brilliant physician serving with GNA, Dr. Coop was also known for intimidating those around him who were less educated. Mary and Lewis Swanson are an elderly couple who served on the GNA Bau-Bau mission. Mr. Swanson was assigned to be the caretaker of the hospital. Ms. Swanson served as a teacher's aide in the GNA elementary school. Lewis and Mary had little formal education, but were passionate about serving the people of Buton Island. All the GNA missionaries in Bau-Bau live in a residential compound that adjoins the hospital and elementary school. At the time, Mr. and Ms. Swanson lived in a small house located next door to the larger house occupied by Dr. Coop and his family. Though the two families got along, the Coop family spent most of their time socializing with the other missionary physicians and their families. One day as Ms. Swanson was walking back to the house after school, she observed Dr. Coop walking away from his house with a ten-year-old missionary girl named Tabitha. Tabitha's father was also a physician and worked with Dr. Coop at the hospital. At the time, Ms. Swanson didn't think much of it, as she Professor Tchividjian is a former child abuse prosecutor from Florida who currently teaches Child Abuse and the Law and several other criminal law related courses at Liberty University School of Law. Professor Tchividjian also serves as Executive Director of GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment), www.netgrace.org. This article would not have been possible without the invaluable assistance of Ellen Milacci Centore and especially, Elizabeth Morgan Kendrick. ' The following case study is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. This case study is copyrighted 0 2014 by Basyle J. Tchividjian. All rights reserved. No part of this Article may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the author.

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