Sunshine Marie McEwen, Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, Florida 2015

Florida Woman Faces Up to 10 Years for Failing to Register as a Sex Offender

Jacksonville, Florida - In a recent indictment, Sunshine Marie McEwen, a 41-year-old woman from Atlantic Beach, Florida, has been charged with failing to register as a sex offender after traveling from Florida to California.

According to the indictment, McEwen was convicted of two counts of lewd and lascivious act (sexual battery) in Jacksonville, Florida on August 20, 1998. Subsequent to her conviction, and between May 15, 2015, and November 28, 2015, she traveled from Florida to California and failed to register as a sex offender, as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.

The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act is part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, which provides for the use of federal law enforcement resources, including the United States Marshals Service, to assist state and local authorities in locating and apprehending non-compliant sex offenders.

McEwen was arrested in Palm Springs, California on November 28, 2015, and is currently in state custody in Jacksonville.

An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed innocent until, and unless, proven guilty.

This case is another example of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/atlantic-beach-woman-indicted-federal-charge-failure-register-sex-offender