两名在案性犯罪者在缅因州被杀
(AP) - AUGUSTA, Maine-Two registered sex offenders were fatally shot in their homes Sunday morning, prompting the state to take down the Maine Sex Offender Registry Web site.
State police said the site, which contains the photos, names and addresses of more than 2,200 registered sex offenders, was taken off-line as a precaution.
Investigators were searching for a Canadian man described as "a person of interest" in the case.
The shooting victims were identified as Joseph L. Gray, 57, of Milo, and William Elliott, 24, of Corinth.
2006-04-17T01:24:31Z， (Source: http://news.findlaw.com/)
[美联社讯] 奥古斯塔，缅因州——两名在案性犯罪者于星期天早晨在家中遭受致命枪击。这促使州当局关闭了缅因州性犯罪登记网页。
州警察局声称，这个载有超过2200名在案性犯罪者图片、姓名和地址的网站，已经被作为预防措施给关掉。
调查人员正在寻找一名与此案有关的被称为“感兴趣的人”的加拿大男子。
枪击案的受害者中，一名是约瑟夫·L·格雷，57岁，米洛人；另一名是威廉·艾里奥特，24岁，科林斯人。
（资料来源：http://news.findlaw.com/）
译者注：
sex offender：性犯罪者。
A sex offender is a person who has been criminally charged and convicted of a sexual offense, or has plead guilty but not convicted. The word is also widely used in public discourse to describe persons accused of participating in sexually offensive behavior, irrespective of whether or not they were actually charged and convicted. As a label of identity it is used in criminal psychology. Especially in the United States and the United Kingdom, the person, if convicted, is most likely required to register with the respective jurisdiction's sex offender registry.
性犯罪者：是那些在刑法上被指控或证明犯有性侵害罪的人，或者是虽未证明有性侵害罪但已服罪的人。此词广泛用于公众话题，并被用来描述那些实施性侵害行为的人，不管其是否已被指控或证明有罪。它已经被犯罪心理学用作一个身份标签，特别是在美国和英国，一个人，如果被证明有罪，极有可能被要求向各自的管辖权当局登记在册。
