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A 33-year old man from Malmö has been sentenced to ten years in prison by a US court for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old he met online. The man travelled to the city of Corpus Christi in Texas in October 2008 and was arrested ten days later by police in a hotel room. The girl, who had ran away from home, was found in the room partially clothed. Hotel personnel raised the alarm after recognising the girl from a missing persons poster. According to Texas law, the age of consent is 17 years old. The Swede pleaded guilty on eight counts...

Guatemalan girl describes alleged enforced prostitution She testifies in federal court how a group of immigrants duped her into coming to the U.S., forced her to sell herself and kept her captive. By Scott Glover January 9, 2009 When Sandra agreed to make the perilous trek from her native Guatemala to the United States in 2006, she said, she was lured by the prospect of a job as a housekeeper that would enable her to send money to her impoverished family back home. Her father had a hernia that prevented him from working, and money was so tight that she...

As pointed out by this representative of the Florida Attorney General's office, it is impossible to separate national security issues from illegal immigration, and one of the most important illegal immigration issues in Florida is the issue of human trafficking. And as Jake at Freedom Folks notes (thanks for the tip), this story doesn't appear to have been covered by the news wires. Here, a horrifying story is described of a little girl who, after being taken to the Florida panhandle from Mexico, resisted while being raped, and was subsequently made an example of by being beheaded in front of...

Satanic Ritual Sex Crime Leads to Arrest of North Carolina Democratic Activist... "She seemed to be a very open, reasonable, responsible person, but certainly, the allegations that have been made are shocking to everybody who has known her."

TROY -- An attorney for U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow's husband objected to a defense attempt to make his client appear at a preliminary court hearing Tuesday for a former Westland woman charged with prostitution. Prosecutors say the senator's husband, Tom Athans, will appear as a prosecution witness if the case goes to trial; they agreed he shouldn't have to testify before that. Alycia L. Martin, 21, is accused taking $150 from Athans, 47, for sex at the Residence Inn on Livernois in Troy on Feb. 26. Martin's attorney, Frank Cusumano, Jr., attempted to subpoena Athans to appear at an evidentiary...

COLUMBIA, Tenn. -- A Columbia woman is accused of killing her husband in what authorities are calling a sexual fantasy gone wrong. On Saturday, Maury County Sheriff's department was called to a home on Jacobs Lane in Columbia. When they arrived they found James Bargy, 29, dead. Authorities said he had a ball gag stuffed in his mouth with duct tape wrapped around his mouth and eyes. Bargy was also found with an Ace bandage wrapped around his entire head. Maury County Sheriff's department said the victim had his hands and legs bound together behind his back so tightly that...

Those who peer at children in public could find themselves on the wrong side of the law in Maine soon...

<p>A civil rights leader who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been charged with incest.</p> <p>The Rev. James L. Bevel, 70, was arrested late last month in Alabama, where he has been living, after being indicted on one count of unlawfully committing fornication.</p>

Police are searching for a Dublin doctor who they say sexually battered two men at his home and took hundreds of photographs of 19 patients who were unconscious and undressed at his medical clinic. Dr. Tony G. Shiu, who ran a private practice in Dublin, is being sought on a $1 million warrant. He disappeared after the warrant was issued early last month, and police believe he has left the Bay Area. The doctor allegedly drugged two men at his Dublin residence in Augustand then raped one of them, Dublin police Sgt. Herb Walters said. A search of his home...

Candidate indicted in Stark Democrat John Johnson accused of sex crimes CANTON - Associated Press A candidate for state representative has been charged with sexual battery and two counts of sexual imposition in a secret indictment. John Johnson, 41, of Perry Township, is the Democratic candidate for the 50th District. His opponent is state Rep. John Hagan, R-Marlboro. Johnson was indicted and arrested Thursday on charges that he engaged in sexual conduct with a minor female between Jan. 1 and July 1, Stark County Prosecutor John Ferrero said Monday. Johnson was being held in Stark County Jail on $250,000 bond....

The three men arrested for allegedly digging up the grave of a woman who died last week in Grant County are also charged with attempted sexual assault. The three men appeared in Grant County Circuit Court on Tuesday. According to a criminal complaint, the three men were charged with digging up the grave at the St. Charles Catholic Cemetery in Cassville with the intent to have sex with the victim's body, WISC-TV reported. Alexander Grunke, his twin brother Nicholas Grunke and their friend Dustin Radke -- all 20 years old -- have been in a Grant County jail since Saturday....

Gates Enoch admitted in March to gathering more than 150 images of children engaged in sex acts on his computer, and on Thursday he was scheduled to be sentenced for his crime in federal court in Austin. But at the end of an hourlong hearing in which Enoch, the 20-year-old son of a former Texas Supreme Court justice, again admitted to gathering as well as distributing the illegal images, Senior U.S. District Judge James Nowlin said he was unable to declare him guilty. Nowlin adjourned the hearing and invited lawyers in the case to bring him any evidence to show...

Great Moments in Police Work Officers of the Texas City Police Department were conducting a prostitution sting April 4. Things were going well -- eventually six hookers were arrested, no doubt the first step toward forever eradicating the problem of prostitution on the Gulf Coast. Around midnight, according to police, the officers observed a Texas City PD patrol car pull up to one of the women posing as a working girl. TCPD officer Lee Marshall, a two-year veteran of the force, was later charged with the class B misdemeanor of solicitation of prostitution. The department is not talking about the...

DHS Child Sex Sting Official Is A Democrat Earlier today we listed some of the strong reaction to the arrest of Department of Homeland Security deputy press secretary Brian J. Doyle for attempting to arrange sexual relations with what he believed to be a 14-year-old female. Much of the reaction was critical of the Bush administration for not properly vetting one of their appointees. That assessment is dead wrong. Brian Doyle is a career civil servant - NOT a political appointee. Government workers aren't "vetted." Doyle, as a DHS employee probably has a secret or top secret government clearance, but...

Three Rivers aghast at lack of indictment in taped sex on busTHREE RIVERS — Police in this small South Texas town are reeling in disbelief after a grand jury failed to indict a 17-year-old boy who was videotaped having sex with a 12-year-old girl on a school bus. Police Chief Vance Roberts said the case was a "slam dunk," with the videotape serving as indisputable proof. "I don't know what went wrong," Roberts said this week. "I haven't a clue. "I felt like it was a strong case. I felt like it was a case that needed to be indicted,...

“University of Florida employees have to pledge that they’re having sex with their domestic partners before qualifying for benefits under a new health care plan at the university.” That may sound like a joke to you—maybe something from the satirical website “The Onion.” But as a matter of fact, that sentence is straight from an actual news story in the Gainesville Sun. The paper explains, “In addition to declaring financial obligations, prospective enrollees must ‘have been in a non-platonic relationship for the preceding 12 months.’” However, “[University of Florida official Kyle] Cavanaugh said he had no plans to personally enforce...

A male teacher who performed naked cartwheels in front of young female students during a school camp has been jailed for five months. Warren David Schneider, 37 of Brisbane, pleaded guilty in the Queensland District Court to seven counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16 years under care. He was today sentenced to 15 months' jail suspended after five months. The court was told Schneider was an art teacher at a private school in Brisbane's south when he committed a series of sexual offences during 2002 against three girls, all of whom were then in Year 7 and...

(01-24) 10:31 PST Wichita, Kan. (AP) -- A therapist who ran a group home for the mentally ill was sentenced to 30 years in prison for enslaving its residents, forcing them to work naked and making them perform sex acts. His wife received seven years behind bars. Arlan Kaufman, 69, and his wife, Linda, were convicted in November on charges that included health care fraud, forced labor and involuntary servitude. "You are an arrogant individual. You don't recognize what you have done is wrong," U.S. District Judge Monti Belot told Arlan Kaufman on Monday. "You see yourself as a victim...

A transgendered Hurricane Katrina evacuee jailed for five days after showering in the women's bathroom at a local shelter was released Friday after the county attorney declined to press charges. Arpollo Vicks, who was born male but lives as a woman, was arrested Sunday by Texas A&M University Police for criminal trespassing after she exited a women's shower facility at Reed Arena. Vicks, 20, had been staying at the shelter with other evacuees bused in from New Orleans. Brazos County Attorney Jim Kuboviak said he first became aware of the situation Friday. Upon reviewing police reports, he ordered that Vicks...

(06-15) 07:12 PDT Binghamton, N.Y. (AP) -- A group of convicted sex offenders has filed suit claiming a local law making it illegal for them to live or travel almost anywhere within city limits is unconstitutional. The plaintiffs contend the law amounts to a sentence of "banishment" and violates the constitutional rights of all registered sex offenders. The law, passed last month, prohibits moderate- and high-risk registered sex offenders from living or traveling within a quarter-mile of any public or private school, day-care center, playground or park. The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court by Legal Services of Central...

MILWAUKEE (AP) A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor has acknowledged e-mailing naked photos of himself to a 14-year-old boy, according to a criminal complaint filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. Lewis Keith Cohen, 59, was charged Tuesday with one count of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and one count of child enticement with intent to expose a sex organ to a child and cause a child to expose a sex organ. The complaint said police arrested Cohen on March 15 at a Subway restaurant in the Milwaukee suburb of Greendale, where Cohen had arranged to the meet...

The Reynolds story... November 24, 2004 BY MICHAEL SNEED SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds was reportedly a personal guest of former President Bill Clinton at the dedication of his library in Little Rock, Ark., last week. *Background: During his final hours in office, Clinton commuted the jail sentence of Reynolds, who served 2-1/2 years in federal prison on charges of corruption and having sex with an underage girl. Reynolds petitioned for clemency so he could be reunited with his children, who he felt needed him desperately. Clinton concurred. *Foreground: Reynolds was accompanied by his son and namesake, 11-year...

Five Girls Report Attacks At Three Hotels LOS ANGELES -- Anaheim police released a composite sketch Monday of a man wanted for groping five girls at three Disneyland-area hotels.

FREMONT, Calif. - The name on the birth certificate was Edward Araujo Jr., but the teenager preferred the first name Gwen. At age 17, before getting a chance to make the name change official, Araujo was beaten and strangled after the people she thought were her friends found out she was biologically male. This week, Araujo's family asked a court for a posthumous name change to Gwen Amber Rose Araujo. "She's Gwen to me, and I'm her mother," Sylvia Guerrero said outside the courthouse. "This is who she was. She's transgender and she's Gwen." Superior Court Commissioner Thomas Surh called...

TAIPEI, Taiwan, A Buddhist abbot was convicted again of sexually harassing at least 25 novice boys and sentenced to 12 years in prison yesterday. In a written verdict, a Taiwan high court judge upheld the conviction of Hsu Chih-hao, 40, by the Taipei district court and ordered him to be placed under detention for three years in a correction center. The three-year detention precedes Hsu's serving the 12-year sentence. He may appeal to the Supreme Court. The district court sentenced Hsu, known as Tri Chih-hao in his Buddhist name, to 12 years in jail on February 21, 2001. Hsu was...

HOUSTON -- A jury Wednesday convicted a woman of murder for stabbing her husband 193 times, rejecting her claim that she acted in self-defense after years of abuse. Susan Wright, 27, could get up to 99 years in prison. The sentencing phase was to begin in the afternoon. Prosecutors said she killed Jeffrey Wright in 2003 to collect on his $200,000 life insurance policy. Jeffrey Wright, 34, was found buried in the couple's back yard after Susan Wright's attorney reported the body to authorities. Wright, a former topless dancer, testified that her husband beat her repeatedly and that right before...

A Eugene police officer accused of coercing women into sex acts while on duty has been fired from the department. Roger Eugene Magaña, 40, of Eugene, was fired Thursday at the end of a lengthy internal review process, said Lauren Chouinard, the city's human resources director. The criminal investigation into the allegations against the former officer continues, Sgt. Scott McKee said. The case is expected to go before a Lane County grand jury for potential criminal indictment by the end of the month, police said. Neither Magaña nor his attorney Brian Barnes could be reached after business hours Tuesday. Barnes...

Laredoan gets 15 years for sex crime BY LAUREL ALMADA Times staff writer A Laredo man charged with sex crimes against a young child pleaded guilty Friday in the 406th District Court in exchange for a 15-year prison sentence. Omar Lopez-De Leon, 33, was originally charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault, three counts of indecency with a child involving sexual contact and two counts of indecency with a child involving exposure. The incidents were alleged to have occurred on June 1, 2002 and Sept. 1, 2002. Before presiding Judge Andres Reyes, the defendant pleaded guilty to the three...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - There was something wrong with the schoolteacher with the headache — doctors could see that from the start. Though charming and intelligent, the 40-year-old man couldn't stop leering at female nurses. He had been in trouble with the law for sexual advances toward his stepdaughter, and now he was talking about raping his landlady. University of Virginia Medical Center neurologists Dr. Russell Swerdlow and Dr. Jeffrey Burns had never seen a case like this. The man had an egg-sized brain tumor pressing on the right frontal lobe. When surgeons removed it, the lewd behavior and pedophilia faded...

Why would anyone feel more sympathy for Kobe Bryant at this point than for his alleged victim? Why would anyone allege a superstar's innocence simply by intoning hated doctrine from the liberal left? "Hosed by the N.O.W. GANG" in one subject heading implies a scenario where Kobe Bryant becomes a victim of N.O.W, rather than the young woman as the alleged victim of Kobe Bryant. Is there anyone willing to take one small step further which would paint Kobe Bryant as a victim now cramped into Hillary Clinton's crowded "vast right wing conspiracy" corner? After more than a week of...

Investigation stymied until Graton man turns himself in, implicates boy A 9-month-old Sebastopol homicide case that was headed for the unsolved mystery pile apparently was solved Monday after a 28-year-old man turned himself in, saying he wanted to unburden his guilty conscience. Miguel Olvera of Graton walked into the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department asking to speak with a detective about the Oct. 9 stabbing death of Gordon Fowler, 74, who lived just south of Sebastopol. Fowler's slaying had confounded detectives who decided just last week that the case was nearing a dead end. But Olvera told detectives enough to convince...

<p>BRIDGEPORT — After calling former Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano a "sexual predator," a federal judge on Friday sentenced him to 37 years in prison for charges related to the sexual abuse of two young girls.</p> <p>"What you did is indescribable," U.S. District Court Judge Alan Nevas said as Giordano stood before the bench. Giordano stared straight ahead, hands clasped behind him.</p>

GREEN — FBI agents arrested a prominent Atlanta attorney at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport on Friday, accusing him of an Internet sex crime involving a child — and planning to have sex with her and her mother. Lou Litchfield, 56, was arrested by FBI agents when his flight landed at the airport. Agents said he was here to have sex with who he thought were a 12-year-old girl and her mother, but actually were undercover agents. A partner in an Atlanta law firm that handles family law cases and a former state legislative attorney, Litchfield was charged with using the...