http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/childmolestor/ en-us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:19:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282407/posts The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whose officials in the past have been convicted for being associated with Muslim terrorist groups, said it will announce at a news conference Tuesday that it is launching an “education campaign” and will distribute 100,000 copies of the Koran to local, state and national leaders. The books will provide an English translation and commentary. CAIR said the distribution is prompted by U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent speech in Cairo, in which he said he wants to reach out to Muslims throughout the world. He praised the Muslim community in the U.S, whose values he... Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282407/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:19:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2214378/posts A former middle school teacher accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student took her own life, police said. The chief deputy coroner said Angela Simmons Lindle was found at her Donalds home with a single gunshot wound on Saturday. Her death is being ruled a suicide. Lindle was arrested in February and charged with seven counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor. WYFF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2214378/posts#comment Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:04:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832612/posts A Contra Costa Superior Court judge on Friday sentenced a former Richmond man to death for raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl three decades ago. Joseph Cordova, 63, leaned on his elbows in a Martinez courtroom and showed no emotion as the judge condemned him to die for the 1979 killing of Cannie "Candy" Bullock. "At no point has Mr. Cordova evinced any remorse for the crime, not only denying that he perpetrated it in the face of all-but-conclusive DNA evidence to the contrary, but not even showing any sympathy for what happened to the child," Judge Peter Spinetta said... Contra Costa Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832612/posts#comment Sat, 12 May 2007 21:37:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1791477/posts Sentencing Postponed For South S.F. Child Molester Family members of a 42-year-old computer technician who pleaded no contest to molesting his niece asked for leniency from a San Mateo County Superior Court judge Monday morning, saying his behavior had been very "out of character." The sentencing of John Olp, a computer administrator at a South San Francisco business, was rescheduled this morning, until next week, in order to allow defense attorney John Runfola time to review a probation report. According to prosecutors, Olp molested his sister's daughter over a five-year-period, beginning when the girl was 9 years old. Olp was... cbs5.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1791477/posts#comment Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:49:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769326/posts Devlin also is under investigation in the 1991 disappearance of another Missouri boy who still has not been found, The Associated Press has learned. Michael Devlin is the "most viable lead" in the case of Charles Arlin Henderson, who was 11 when he disappeared in 1991 and has never been found, Lincoln County sheriff's deputies said. ... Investigators began re-examining the 1991 case after Devlin's arrest. Detective Chris Bartlett said a witness saw a man snapping photos of Arlin before the Moscow Mills boy vanished. Arlin's uncle, James McWilliams, said the boy came home from school a few months before... http://www.foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769326/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:33:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760590/posts Michael Jackson (L) reaches to hug the Reverand Al Sharpton after arriving for the public funeral service for singer James Brown at the James Brown Arena in Augusta, Georgia December 30, 2006. REUTERS/Tami Chappell (UNITED STATES) Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760590/posts#comment Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:49:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728958/posts Daniel Ortega, the former leader of the Left-wing Sandinistas in Nicaragua and one of the United States' most reviled Cold War enemies, appears to be on the brink of making a spectacular comeback.Twenty years after his Sandinista government fought a bitter civil war against American-funded ''Contra" rebels, he is leading in the polls for the presidential elections on Sunday. But now he has ''found God" and talks of ''peace and love" not Marxist-Leninist ideals. In a final frenzy of campaigning, the podgy, balding 60-year-old, is spreading what he calls a "spiritual revolution", "full of love and hope" around this country,... The Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728958/posts#comment Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:57:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1720834/posts October 17, 2006 -- THE death over the weekend of former Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay member of Congress, is a stark reminder of how much all those howls of Democratic outrage over the Mark Foley scandal ring so hollow. The Massachusetts Democrat is being hailed by national political leaders, including Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, as a "role model" who "gave a lot of people courage" by coming out of the closet. Yet Studds openly declared his homosexuality only after an investigation revealed he'd had a sexual relationship with a male teenage congressional page and propositioned two... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1720834/posts#comment Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:01:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688764/posts The former mayor of Waterbury, Conn., who is serving decades in prison for having sex with little girls, is demanding thousands of dollars in back pay. Ex-Mayor Philip Giordano wants the city to pay $61,000 to cover 13 weeks of unused vacation, 99 sick days and 27 personal days from the years before he was busted in 2001, the Republican-American newspaper reported. "Kindly consider this correspondence a formal demand for payment," Giordano, 43, wrote from the Garner Correctional Facility in Newtown, where he is inmate No. 292935. The pervert's payoff demand got a cool reception from Sheila O'Malley, chief of... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688764/posts#comment Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:48:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684090/posts Yes, he has a penchant for sexual liaisons with teenage boys. Sure, he fled the country. Absolutely, he was nabbed in Mexico in the company of a teenage companion. But give Kevin Bruce Cooper, 42, props for being a realist. Cooper, a well-known Blount County contractor, could have put off for at least a few weeks a decision on his fate in U.S. District Court. He skipped out to Mexico last year rather than report to prison for an earlier taboo trip to Thailand to meet a young male paramour. But defense attorney Joe Costner told U.S. Magistrate Judge Clifford... Knoxville News Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684090/posts#comment Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:41:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642619/posts TAVARES, Fla. — A couple tried to hire a hit man to kill their three grandchildren and daughter-in-law to stop them from testifying against their son in his rape trial, authorities said. The couple, ages 60 and 59, were charged with four counts each of criminal conspiracy to commit murder. They were being held without bond. Police said they initially offered $100 to an undercover sheriff's deputy to kill their son's wife, their 10-year-old granddaughter, two step-grandchildren, ages 14 and 16, and the family dog. More money was promised after the killings, said Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Christie Mysinger. The... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642619/posts#comment Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:01:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1621913/posts McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — A former teacher who went to jail for having sex with a 13-year-old boy was arrested for the second time in two weeks, accused of again contacting the victim and sending him sexually explicit videos. Warren County Sheriff Jackie Matheny said Pamela Rogers, 28, was arrested Monday on probation violation charges and was being held in jail awaiting a court appearance. Neither Rogers' attorney or the district attorney could be reached for comment. But prosecutors told the Southern Standard newspaper in a story published Wednesday that Rogers contacted the 14-year-old student electronically just hours after an April... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1621913/posts#comment Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:20:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1621820/posts SEVIERVILLE - His mother suspected something "weird" was going on when she caught her son on the computer at 1 a.m. chatting with his teacher. When asked what they were doing, the boy said he and Kristi Dance Oakes were "studying." During the summer of 2004, Oakes drove the boy to and from his job at a Pigeon Forge amusement park, where she also was employed, because his car had broken down, the mother said. On June 23, 2004, a police officer at 11:30 p.m. found a topless Oakes performing oral sex on the 16-year-old boy in her parked car... Knoxville News Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1621820/posts#comment Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:58:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1615667/posts Police arrested a 56-year-old elementary school teacher Friday afternoon for allegedly fondling at least five girls under the age of 10 during classes. Kenneth Anderson, 56, of Vacaville, a teacher at Callison Elementary School, was arrested at his home, said Sgt. Charlie Spruill, on 15 counts of committing lewd and lascivious acts on a minor. Spruill did not know what grade Anderson teaches, but the school's Web site lists him as a fourth-grade teacher. Anderson, who has been with the district 18 years, allegedly fondled the girls either on top of or underneath their clothing "on what we would term... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1615667/posts#comment Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:22:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564894/posts Tampa -- A father marched into a classroom and punched a teacher's assistant in the face after his teenage daughter accused the man of inappropriately touching her. "I'm not real proud of what I did," Dave F. Swafford, 42, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "You have to protect your children, and my daughter does not lie to me." Swafford was charged with felony battery on a school employee after he hit the 35-year-old aide in front of a full class at Lakewood Ranch High near Bradenton on Tuesday, authorities said. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564894/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:53:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1562252/posts SANTA ANA, Calif. - A 26-year-old drama teacher has pleaded not guilty to allegations she engaged in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old male student. After Liliana Pennington's plea on Friday, Orange County Superior Court Judge David Hoffer ordered her to stay away from the boy and set bail at $100,000. Pennington, arrested on Wednesday, was charged with statutory rape and oral copulation of a minor. If convicted, her sentence could range from probation to five years in prison. Pennington's attorney, Laurie Walton, declined to comment. Pennington met the boy when he was 12, said Deputy District Attorney Heidi Garrel.... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1562252/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:59:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561572/posts A Salinas pastor accused of sexually molesting his adopted daughter and a handicapped girl pleaded guilty less than two months after authorities began investigating him. Donald Domelle, 65, pastor of the Baptist Temple of Salinas, admitted to two felony counts of lewd conduct with a child and agreed to a minimum of 15 years in prison Thursday in a remarkably swift case that kept one young woman and a teenager from recounting in court their stories of repeated sexual abuse at the pastor's hands. Monterey Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561572/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:02:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1558153/posts RICHMOND - The adult film actress whom police say had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old De Anza High School student was booked into County Jail in Martinez on Friday evening after her extradition from Oklahoma, Richmond police said. Genevieve Elise Silva, 20, was arrested last month by Kiowa County sheriff's deputies in Roosevelt, Okla., on suspicion of rape using a controlled substance, statutory rape, and detaining or concealing a child in connection with a warrant filed by Richmond police. She was booked on several charges which include unlawful sexual intercourse with person under 18 and concealment of a child... Contra Costa Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1558153/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:53:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1551985/posts Santa Rosa, Calif. - A 26-year-old man was arrested on charges he molested a teenage boy he met through Microsoft Corp.'s popular Xbox Live online video game community, authorities said. Ronnie Brendan Watts, of Placerville, delayed entering a plea Wednesday to charges that include using the Internet to solicit a minor, said Donna Edwards, a spokeswoman for the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office. He is due back in court Jan. 20. Santa Rosa police arrested Watts on Dec. 15 after the 14-year-old boy revealed details of the alleged relationship to his mother. Detectives said Watts contacted the boy in October... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1551985/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jan 2006 23:57:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1541527/posts SAN JOSE -- Curtis Dean Anderson surprised a San Jose courtroom today by pleading guilty to the kidnapping, molestation and murder of 7-year-old Xiana Fairchild. The Vallejo girl disappeared on her way to school in December 1999. Anderson had earlier pleaded not guilty to charges that he sexually assaulted and killed her as she was held captive at his San Jose boardinghouse room San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1541527/posts#comment Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:30:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1537270/posts HANOI, Vietnam -- Former British rocker Gary Glitter admitted to police that an 11-year-old girl slept in his bed, but denied sexually abusing her, his attorney said Thursday. During interrogations by police, Glitter said he allowed the girl to sleep in his bed after she claimed she was afraid of ghosts, attorney Le Thanh Kinh told The Associated Press. Glitter, 61, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, is being held in Phuoc Co prison outside coastal Vung Tau city on suspicion of engaging in obscene acts with a child — a charge punishable by up to 12 years in... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1537270/posts#comment Fri, 9 Dec 2005 19:04:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1528635/posts VUNG TAU, Vietnam -- On warm nights in this seaside resort, neighbors say the British foreigner would sing in his backyard — sometimes for friends, sometimes alone, but always very loudly. Once upon a time, Gary Glitter sang to millions as he pranced and strutted in his metallic jumpsuits as one of the shining stars during Britain's glam rock era in the 1970s. But Glitter, 61, has fallen a long way since his days on top of the charts, dogged by rumors of his predilection for very young girls since his conviction in London in 1999 for possessing child pornography.... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1528635/posts#comment Sat, 26 Nov 2005 02:02:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524782/posts OAKLAND - Tanda Rucker, a former Berkeley High School basketball star who was once named the state's top prep player, pleaded no contest this week to 18 felony charges for having unlawful sexual relationships with high school girls she met while coaching in Alameda. Rucker, 32, faces up to a year in County Jail and five years of felony probation when she is sentenced in February. She also will have to register for the rest of her life as a convicted sex offender, which all but ensures she will never coach again. The charges involve two former students Rucker coached... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524782/posts#comment Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:44:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520309/posts MARTINEZ -- A 22-year-old Martinez woman is in police custody after allegedly having Internet correspondence with someone who solicited sex from her and her 4-year-old daughter in exchange for $500, police said. Shannon Nicole Woods, of the 200 block of Thistle Circle, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of offering a minor under 16 for lewd and lascivious acts. She is being held on $50,000 bail, said Martinez police detective Sgt. Gary Peterson. Police are reviewing videotapes and the contents of Woods' laptop while determining whether they have enough evidence to charge her with a crime. Peterson said police received tips... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520309/posts#comment Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:39:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1511234/posts Pasadena -- A Superior Court judge has ruled that a renowned University of Southern California geneticist accused of molesting the daughter of a colleague must face trial. William French Anderson, known as the father of gene therapy, has been charged with one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under age 14 and three counts of committing a lewd act upon a child. Superior Court Judge Teri Schwartz concluded a preliminary hearing Thursday by ruling that the prosecution had enough evidence to proceed with a trial. The judge scheduled the trial to begin Dec. 7. Anderson, who has been... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1511234/posts#comment Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:46:39 GMT