21.  Because the families did not report the crimes to the Hong Kong Police, the Chinese asserted jurisdiction over the case.

22.  Beyond this relatively vague statute, there is no canon that deals directly with the responsibility within the church to report such crimes.

23.  After she reported the crime, vaginal and cervical swabs of semen were collected at a hospital.

24.  After all, he faces no formal charges, since failing to report a crime or refusing to help a victim is not against the law.

25.  But be sure to report the crime so authorities can investigate.

26.  But it provides no practical guidelines for the obligation of superiors to report these crimes, and it does not address whether civil law enforcement officials should be contacted.

27.  But neither state law nor campus rules allow punishment for refusing to report a crime.

28.  But Ms. Hubert disputed the notion that Novato merely reported crimes more assiduously than other towns.

29.  But Reilly and his counterparts may soon have even bigger headaches if a bill passes Congress this year that would add more rules for reporting campus crimes.

30.  But some analysts believe that Colombians simply stopped reporting the crime in order to negotiate ransoms without government interference.