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The astonishing news in the past couple of weeks out of State College, Pennsylvania has left America reeling. It is not so much that a monster like former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky would do the atrocious things he reportedly did to at least 8 boys, but that it appears a massive cover-up allowed him to continue his detestable treatment of those poor kids who were under his “care.” Sandusky is charged with 40 criminal counts, 21 of them felonies, relating to sexual assault on at least 8 boys, some possibly as young as 7 or 8 years...

The director of Enid’s Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual and Transgender Center was arrested Monday by Enid Police Department detectives on a complaint of lewd molestation of a minor child. Nathan R. Bowen, 32, was arrested Monday after speaking with Detective Nick John, who is investigating the case. Police received a complaint Monday of a 15-year-old boy being molested at the center, 1317 S. Van Buren. John served a search warrant at the center and spoke with Bowen, who said he was the center’s director. No bond has been set for Bowen, and formal charges have not been filed.

People get understandably fatigued by America’s “confessional culture,” but insofar as this encourages abused kids to speak up and aim high, it’s all to the good. It sounds like the molestation took place over a relatively short period of time but the duration of the beatings is less clear. Probably not “relatively short,” though: Brown told also Stahl that he endured brutal physical abuse by more than one stepfather and even considered purchasing a Wakefield home where he’d been battered, “just so I could burn it down.” “I actually called the realtor and went in and took the tour and...

Durham, N.C. — Duke University has fired an employee who faces federal child sex charges. Frank M. Lombard, 42, of 24 Indigo Creek Trail in Durham, was let go from his position as associate director of the Center for Health Policy at Duke, a spokesman said. Duke Vice President for Public Affairs Michael Schoenfeld said Lombard was placed on unpaid leave at the time of his arrest June 24 and was fired Monday. Schoenfeld added that the university was cooperating with the investigation. Lombard faces extradition to Washington, D.C., to face charges that he solicited an adult to have...

Democrat Jim Webb is slightly ahead of Republican incumbent Sen. George Allen with a week to go in a key race that could determine control of the Senate, according to a poll released Tuesday. The poll by Opinion Research Corp. is the first to show Webb with an advantage in the bruising and expensive contest in once reliably Republican Virginia. "Virginians are a lot smarter than that, and he insulted their intelligence," said Webb spokeswoman Kristian Denny Todd. "It was a baseless attack on Jim that didn't make sense." On Oct. 23, a statewide survey by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research...

SARASOTA, Fla. - A Roman Catholic priest said he had an inappropriate two-year relationship with former Rep. Mark Foley in the 1960s that included massaging the boy in the nude, but he did not specifically remember having sex, a newspaper reported Thursday. The Rev. Anthony Mercieca, 72, described several encounters that he said Foley might perceive as sexually inappropriate, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported.

BROADVIEW, Sask. (CP) - A day after his 10-year-old son escaped a convicted pedophile by fleeing from an abandoned farmhouse, an emotional Lyle Miller assured people Wednesday that his son "is a very strong little boy and he will get better." "Zach is doing as well as can be expected," said Miller, fighting back tears as he spoke to reporters outside an RCMP detachment in rural Saskatchewan. He could not continue talking about the ordeal and rushed away, comforted by his brother, Weldon. Zachary Miller had been missing for two days and was the subject of an Amber Alert when...

CLEVELAND -- It was probably not a defense the court had heard before. A suburban Cleveland man accused of sexually assaulting nine disabled boys told a judge Wednesday that his apartment was a religious sanctuary where smoking marijuana and having sex with children are sacred rituals protected by civil rights laws. The admitted pedophile offered a surprising defense Wednesday to 74 charges of rape, drugs and pandering obscenity to minors. Appearing in an Ohio court for a pretrial hearing, Phillip Distasio, 34, of Rocky River, Ohio, said he was a pedophile. He told the judge, "I'm a pedophile. I've been...

A Yuba City Unified School District administrator and career educator was arrested and accused of molesting a teenage boy, police said Wednesday. Derek Earl Link, 46, of the 600 block of Hughes Avenue, Yuba City, was arrested Tuesday night at the Police Department on a Sutter County warrant charging 13 felony counts, including sodomy, oral copulation with a victim under 14 and lewd acts with a victim under 14. He was booked into the Sutter County Jail. Bail was set at $500,000. Link manages the Even Start program, a family literacy program for preschool-aged children. "We find this very disturbing...

Los Altos, Calif. -- A Boy Scout leader was arrested Thursday on accusations that he molested a scout over a five-year period beginning in the 1980s. Gregory Allen Wagner, 42, was arrested Thursday morning in his Los Altos home by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office. He is being held in jail for continuous molestation of a child, lewd acts on a child under 14 and distributing pornography to a child.

Steven Craig Bulleit's admission spares three teens from testifying publicly about the molestation Thursday, August 18, 2005 SUZANNE PARDINGTON OREGON CITY -- A Clackamas man admitted this week that he sexually abused three Clackamas High School students, including one in his care, and will serve 18 years in prison. Under an agreement approved Monday in Clackamas County Circuit Court, 42 of 47 counts against Steven Craig Bulleit will be dismissed Friday, when he is scheduled to be sentenced. The settlement spares the teenage victims from testifying in a trial, prosecutor Christine Landers said. Advertisement "The three young men involved were...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police have arrested a 56-year-old American teacher after 500 photographs of naked teenagers were allegedly found during a raid of his Bangkok apartment, police said on Tuesday. Police said the man, who they named as Steven Erik Prowler, had lived in Thailand for six years and taught English at a government school in Bangkok. "During the raid, we found two teenagers who said they just had oral sex with him," Colonel Surat Udomrat told Reuters. The two were aged 15 and 17, police said. In the apartment police said they found 500 postcard-sized photos of naked...

<p>For a quarter century, the man who is now Spokane's mayor has used positions of public trust – as a sheriff's deputy, Boy Scout leader and powerful politician – to develop sexual relationships with boys and young men.</p> <p>In addition, an investigation by The Spokesman-Review has revealed that 17 months after leaving the state Legislature, West has used the trappings of the mayor's office to entice and influence young men he met on a gay Web site.</p>

A new movie about pedophilia opening today in New York is being accused of violating U.S. laws against child pornography. "Mysterious Skin," which traces the story of two 8-year-old boys abused by a homosexual predator into adulthood and a life of homosexual prostitution, is directed by Gregg Araki. Ted Baehr, a film critic who has a degree from the New York University School of Law and who worked for the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York, said the movie violates U.S. law and those of most states. "This film clearly violates the child pornography statutes written by Congress and most...

Man gets 35 years for murdering 15-year-old lover May 4, 2005 BY STEFANO ESPOSITO Staff Reporter A Chicago man who murdered a teenage boy he was having sex with was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday. Cook County Judge Rickey Jones handed down the sentence the same day William Gaston, 34, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of 15-year-old Marquie Davis. In September 2001, Gaston had been having a relationship with Davis for several months, prosecutors said. At some point, Davis said he wanted to date other people, and the two argued about it. Shot in face...

The PRISON PROGRAM "Our prisoner program seeks to provide moral support to incarcerated boy-lovers. These people experience a harsh and exceptionally hostile environment which undermines their self-concepts and self-respect. We keep in touch with prisoners, primarily through a monthly Prisoners' Letter..."

Teacher Charged With Molesting Student Nearly 100 Times POSTED: 6:47 am EDT April 25, 2005 UPDATED: 8:11 am EDT April 25, 2005 COCOA, Fla. -- Hundreds of students and teachers at Endeavour Elementary School in Brevard County are walking on campus Monday for the first time since learning of disturbing allegations against an instructor. Cocoa police arrested a veteran teacher over the weekend and charged him with molesting a student nearly 100 times. Daniel Cliatt, 29, is accused of a crime so heinous, for his first appearance deputies dressed him in a bulletproof vest. Wearing the vest with his hands...

"Scouts' Honor" tells the story that the Boy Scouts did not want you to read: How the Grand Teton Council leaders ignored multiple warnings and hired a pedophile to help lead a summer camp. The whistle-blower His first week of Boy Scout camp, 14-year-old junior counselor Adam Steed marched into the director's office and said: "Brad Stowell is molesting Scouts." Brad wouldn't do that, said the man behind the desk. Adam Steed "How can it be right that Brad goes into boys' tents alone, gives them massages and touches them where he shouldn't?" the Pocatello teenager asked. "We've talked to...

Federal law enforcement officials call a Nutley man a ``dangerous predator.'' Kevin Hildreth has admitted sexually assaulting nine children and videotaping at least two having sex in the basement of a church where he was an assistant scoutmaster. The 33-year-old pleaded guilty to federal charges of crossing state lines to sexually assault a child and possession of child pornography. Hildreth was arrested in June as part of an international child porn Internet investigation. He told investigators that he had fondled or raped nine boys in the past 16 years. The victims ranged in age from four to 13. One was...

Child-sex sting by FBI results in 8 arrests A.ptnavbar:link, A.ptnavbar:visited, A.ptnavbar:hover, ptnavbar {FONT-SIZE:11px; FONT-FAMILY:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:000099;}       | |       Child-sex sting by FBI results in 8 arrests Agent infiltrated man/boy love groupBy Onell R. Soto UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERFebruary 15, 2005Seven men whom authorities link to a national group advocating sexual relationships between men and boys were arrested Saturday as they headed to Ensenada in hopes of molesting children, the FBI said yesterday.Three of the men were arrested at Harbor Island in a sting orchestrated by an undercover agent who infiltrated the North American Man/Boy Love Association,...