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(CBS 3) FLORIDA One woman revealed her darkest secret, so she can help parents and especially their children. At age 12 she was molested by her babysitter. It was so shocking, she barely understood it. She talked about the incident with CBS 3 Anchor Pat Ciarrocchi. When you see a blonde and beautiful Lauren Book walking a Florida beach, you wouldn't know she survived years of sexual abuse. "Do I run and tell my Mom and Dad? I was too embarrassed to tell my Mom and Dad at the time,” she said. At the time, Lauren was 12. It was...

NEPTUNE BEACH, FL -- A First Coast man is behind bars after police say he posed online as a 16-year old girl to lure a teen victim into forced sex. 27-year-old Travus Earl Belden is charged with attempted sexual battery on a minor, false imprisonment, and battery. His alleged victim -- a 14-year old Neptune Beach boy. Police who arrested Belden say he told them he was planning to harm the boy. "He (Belden) said that his intentions were sexual and violent in nature and he intended to do the young boy harm," said Neptune Beach Sergeant Ryan Hall. Police...

The Maryland Jesuit Province has found that a 2003 accusation of sexual abuse against a priest who taught at Georgetown Preparatory School is "substantially true," according to letters sent to parents of students and alumni of the private school in North Bethesda. The Rev. Garrett "Gary" Orr, who was investigated but not charged by Montgomery County police, is on a leave of absence and has been barred from assignments at schools and parishes, the Very Rev. Timothy Brown, the Jesuit provincial head, said in a letter to the Rev. William L. George, president of Georgetown Prep. "It is with a...

CONTACT: Gary Glenn 989-835-7978 Professor David Halperin 734-647-5884 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, brings back “How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality & Initiation” family group renews criticism of tax-funded college class “How to be Gay” U-M catalogue calls class “an experiment in the very process of initiation it hopes to understand.” ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A statewide family values group Monday renewed its criticism of a controversial University of Michigan class — offered this fall for the first time since 2003 — again calling on state lawmakers to pressure university officials to drop the course altogether. The American Family Association...

WASHINGTON -- Justin Berry, who for five years starred in his own Web cam child pornography business, told a House panel Tuesday that the Justice Department is moving too slowly to round up 1,500 pedophiles whose information he surrendered last year. "I believed that the government would protect the children being abused. I believed they would act quickly," Berry, now 19, told the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "I was wrong." Justice Department spokesman Bryan Sierra disputed that, citing a threefold increase in federal prosecutions of child pornography and abuse cases nationally over the past decade. The unit investigating Berry's...

A Boy Scout counselor from Laurel has been charged with using his cell phone to take pictures of an 8-year-old boy in an Arundel Mills bathroom. Andrew Malone Gipson, 32, of the 7000 block of Ashford Boulevard was arrested by Anne Arundel County Police Friday on charges of taking a picture in a private place with prurient intent and being a peeping Tom. He was being held at a county detention center Tuesday on $30,000 bond, police said. A phone list on the Web site for the Baltimore Area Council’s Four Rivers District listed Gipson as one of 38 merit...

Forsyth teacher loses her job After allegation, board decides not to keep her Members of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board voted unanimously last night not to renew an employment contract with a teacher who had been accused of sexual misconduct with a student. The decision effectively ends Susan Wiseman's teaching career in Forsyth County. Wiseman, who was in her fourth year of teaching social studies at East Forsyth High School, will remain on leave of absence without pay through the end of the school year. Wiseman agreed to surrender her teaching license, school-board officials said. The school board will also...

FORT WORTH -- Former church pastor Larry Nuell Neathery was convicted Monday of 25 felony charges involving sexual assault or molestation of five boys -- two neighbors and three relatives -- in his Fort Worth home and church. A Tarrant County jury took barely an hour to find Neathery guilty on each count, including 13 aggravated sexual assault convictions that could send the 56-year-old man to prison for life. The nine-man, three-woman jury also convicted him of seven counts of indecency by sexual contact; two sexual-performance counts that carry 20-year maximum prison terms; and two counts of indecency by exposure...

The Summit Christian School community is praying for its families and cooperating with law enforcement officials after the weekend arrest of a former teacher on sex charges involving a child, headmaster Sam Skelton's office said Monday. Parents are invited to a 7:30 a.m. meeting today at the West Palm Beach campus gymnasium, and counselors are available to talk to students about Chad Joseph Stoffel's recent statement to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. The 29-year-old music teacher from Palm Springs, who resigned from the school in December, told investigators last month that he engaged in sexual activity with a 16-year-old...

(AP) GRANITE CITY, Ill. An associate pastor at a Baptist church in this Metro East city has been charged with sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy who spent the night at his home, authorities said. Anthony K. Muzzarelli, 27, of Granite City, was charged Wednesday with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison. His bond was set at $100,00. Muzzarelli knows the boy through his position as assistant pastor at Mount Zion Baptist Church, according to police Major Jeff Connor. The boy told his parents that Muzzarelli fondled him during a sleepover...

HIV Positive Scout Leader Faces Sex Trial Defendant Is Former Boy Scout Leader PENNDEL, Pa. - Two judges say that a former Boy Scout leader who is HIV positive will go on trial for allegedly having unprotected sex with a 14-year-old boy and trying to arrange for sex with a minor on the Internet. David Mayberry also faces charges for soliciting a child for sex on the Internet. Mayberry, 50, has been charged with eight crimes in two counties. State agents said Mayberry confessed to meeting a teen online and engaging in unprotected sex with a child, even though he...

Two plead guilty in man-boy sex case FBI sting led to several arrests By Onell R. Soto STAFF WRITER February 23, 2006 Two members of a group advocating sexual relationships between men and boys pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court yesterday to sex-tourism charges. Phillip Todd Calvin, 44, a Dallas dentist, and Paul Ernest Zipszer, 40, a personal trainer from Deltona, Fla., were arrested in San Diego a year ago in a sting initiated by an FBI agent who infiltrated the North American Man/Boy Love Association, also known as NAMBLA. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors asked a...

A Baltimore County police officer who lives in Parkville has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 13-year-old student he knew from his work as a school resource officer in Dundalk. James Mark Blankenship Jr., 28, will be sentenced April 18. He was terminated from the police department a few hours after pleading guilty. As part of a plea agreement reached Feb. 14 in Baltimore County Circuit Court, Blankenship pleaded guilty to sex abuse of a minor and misconduct in office. Prosecutors dropped remaining charges of perverted practice and a sex abuse charge involving a second student. However, at sentencing, prosecutors...

Two Buffalo men in their late 40s have come forward to claim that a dentist slain in his Amherst home two weeks ago sought them out for sexual encounters when they were teenagers - three decades ago. Gregory C. Miller claims he was molested by Dr. Joseph D. Matteliano about 20 times inside a Black Rock house that the dentist dubbed the "chicken ranch," where he threw parties and supplied wine and mescaline in 1973 and 1974. Gordon Greiner says he was lured from Delaware Park with a marijuana joint, then given a boat ride and taken back to Matteliano's...

OAKLAND -- An Alameda County judge today sentenced a former high school girls basketball coach who molested three players to one year in a work furlough program in Los Angeles County. Tanda Rucker, the 32-year-old daughter of former Berkeley City Manager Weldon Rucker, could have faced 14 years in state prison after pleading not contest in November to 18 felony counts of penetration with a foreign object and oral copulation with minors. But Superior Court Judge Thomas Reardon opted to sentence her to 12 months at Cornell Corrections Institute in El Monte. Rucker currently lives and works in Southern California,...

Middletown - It's nearly five years since a relationship developed between Middletown School District Superintendent Robert Sigler and the 14-year-old boy he would come to molest. Sigler is serving time in prison for a crime that destroyed lives and rocked Middletown to its core. And the boy has come of age. He's now a young man of 18, who feels he has finally won a long, hideous battle to retrieve his life. He has friends, a job, and he's free of the cocktail of medications that had swallowed him for years.But there are things, he believes, that still need to...

TAMPA, Fla. -- A Tampa man convicted in federal court of drugging and raping nine young men was sentenced to the maximum 200 years in prison Friday. Two of the victims of Steven Lorenzo ended up dead, and he is likely to face murder charges in state court later. "I hope that he never sees the light of day again," said U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara after the sentencing. A jury in November found Lorenzo, 46, guilty of slipping the date rape drug, GHB, into the drinks of all nine victims and then sexually torturing them at his home....

GALLATIN, Tenn. - A man who met a Sumner County teenager through the Internet has been charged with exposing the boy to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, authorities said. According to court records, Tommy Dewayne Smith, 41, of Gallatin used the Internet to arrange a meeting with the 17-year-old at Smith's house. They had unprotected sex on Jan. 3 or 4, records say. If convicted, Smith could be sentenced to up to two years for statutory rape and up to six years for criminal exposure to HIV, Whitley said. Sumner County District Attorney General Ray Whitley said the case...

McMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) — A McMinnville woman faces multiple charges involving the alleged forcing of methamphetamine and sex on a preteen girl over five years. Jennifer Lynn Chasteen, 25, faces charges of sodomy, sexual penetration, and delivery of a controlled substance, all Measure 11 felonies. She also faces charges of sex abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor. Indictments are expected next week. She was arraigned Tuesday. Judge Cal Tichenor set bail at $800,000. Police said charges were brought after the girl confided in her parents this month, triggering an investigation by the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office. She told...

  By Terry VanderheydenBROCKTON, Massachusetts/ ORFORDVILLE, Wisconsin, January 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Judges in two separate cases of rape by homosexual high school teachers have let the rapists off without prison.Brockton Superior Court Judge Suzanne V. Delvecchio handed Gregory Pathiakis, 26, of Brockton, Mass, a suspended, 2 1/2-year sentence, followed by five years probation. He admitted to sexually molesting a 15-year-old student on December 23, 2003. WorldNetDaily reported that in a written statement read in court by his father, the Middleboro High School student told Pathiakis, “I feel you deserve jail. You are a disgrace to all teachers.”“He was in...