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Argued January 8, 2009; decided February 17, 2009
People v Knox, 45 AD3d 274, affirmed.
People v Cintron, 46 AD3d 353, affirmed.
People v Jackson, 46 AD3d 324, affirmed.
{**12 NY3d at 64} OPINION OF THE COURT
Smith, J.
Defendants in these three cases committed, or attempted to commit, kidnapping [*2]and unlawful imprisonment. Their victims were children, and defendants were not their victims' parents. We hold that the State did not violate defendants' constitutional rights by compelling them to register as "sex offenders," even though there was no proof that their crimes involved any sexual act or sexual motive.
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Judy Knox approached a group of children in a park, grabbed the arm of an eight- year-old girl and tried to pull her away; her motive, as far as it can be inferred from the record, was to replace one of her own children, of whom she had lost custody. Knox pleaded guilty to attempted kidnapping.
Eliezer Cintron became angry when his girlfriend asked him to leave her apartment, and locked the girlfriend in that apartment, with her one- and two-year-old children, for several days. Cintron was convicted, among other things, of the unlawful imprisonment of each of the children.
Francis Jackson was the employer of a prostitute who tried to quit her job; he reacted by abducting the woman's son and telling her he would kill the child if she did not continue to work for him. Jackson pleaded guilty to attempted kidnapping.{**12 NY3d at 65}
Supreme Court required all three defendants to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) (Correction Law

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