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MOBILE, Ala. -- Two men who admitted taking trips to Thailand for sex with young boys face 6½-year prison terms, but could trim the time by testifying against the alleged organizer of the encounters. Burgess Lee Burgess of Mobile and Mitchell Kent Jackson of Pensacola pleaded guilty in November 2008 to traveling to have sex with a minor and conspiracy to do so. The two men once lived together in Mobile.

PAPILLION -- A missionary from Chile has pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy. Sarpy County prosecutors had charged 23-year-old Claudio Gonzalez with forcible first-degree sexual assault, a felony. But after a deal with prosecutors, on Monday Gonzalez pleaded no contest and was found guilty of misdemeanor sexual assault of an incompetent person. Gonzalez faces up to a year in jail at sentencing, which was set for Dec. 17. Authorities say Gonzalez sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy who had passed out on a hotel room bed in La Vista after drinking some alcohol...

Rallying to the defence of director Roman Polanski after his arrest in Switzerland, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand declared the situation "horrifying," and suggested that if the cultural world didn't come to the rapist's defence, "it would mean there is no culture in our country." He may have a case -- if you consider drugging and sodomizing a 13-year-old a manifestation of advanced "culture." Sadly, however, Mr. Mitterrand is hardly the only public figure willing to shrug off sexual crimes and indiscretions. Mr. Mitterrand's own background is illustrative. In a 2005 book he described as "half real and half dream,"...

Detective Diane Webb was determined. The Grim Sleeper, an anonymous killer who’d stopped murdering for 13 years, had resurfaced, and she had a plan for tripping him up. It was the fall of 2008, and she happened to show Detective Lauren Rauch, one of 33 officers who work for Webb monitoring the city’s vast population of registered sex offenders, a recent L.A. Weekly news story headlined, “The Grim Sleeper: The most elusive serial killer west of the Mississippi took a 13-year break. Now he’s back, murdering Angelenos, as cops hunt his DNA.” Webb, a hardcore number-cruncher and sex-crimes expert, floated...

There's an entire unit at the Fort Smith Police Department dedicated to keeping the streets of Fort Smith clean. Their sting operations have netted hundreds of people in the past few years. We're told the unit has made almost 300 arrests at Fort Smith park alone since their start in 2005. The public park has become a hotspot for homosexual activity. Prostitution is also a problem that plagues the city and one that isn't limited to a particular location. "Just when I think I've seen it all there's something that comes along that you know causes me to raise an...

A former Lincoln Public Schools bus driver and pastor of a north Lincoln church has been charged in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with sexually assaulting four people, including a young girl. Lincoln police arrested Efrain Umaña, 53, on June 11 for extradition, said Capt. Anthony Butler. Umaña, 1906 Hartley St., is pastor of El Nuevo Nacimiento Church at 2441 N. Ninth St., according to the church’s Web site. He faces charges in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. According to court documents filed there, police say Umaña forced a 10- to 11-year-old girl to have sex with him in a Council Bluffs church in...

A 29-year-old man accused of raping and suffocating a 3-year-old girl inside the South Sioux City home where her family was sleeping Saturday morning was in an Iowa jail Sunday, awaiting extradition to Nebraska. De Jesus Melisio-Camacho was arrested in Sioux City, Iowa, around 6 a.m. Saturday, less than an hour-and-a-half after South Sioux City police got a call from the hospital where the girl was pronounced dead. She had been taken there by family. Authorities have not released the victim’s name or address, but said both parents and two siblings were in the house at the time of the...

<p>A United Nations probe collected 217 allegations of abuse of girls and women by peacekeepers in eastern Congo, from sex with teenagers in the back room of a liquor store to threats of "hacking" victims for cooperating with investigators.</p> <p>The 2006 investigation found many allegations credible and said evidence suggests "frequent and ongoing" sexual exploitation in the region. But it could only establish proof against one of 75 peacekeepers accused of wrongdoing.</p>

Relations between Russia and Germany have not been good since Vladimir Putin's nationalist sabre-rattling this summer, but they are about to get a whole lot worse. A new film about to be released in Germany will force both countries to re-examine part of their recent history that each would much prefer to forget. Yet it is right that the ghastly truth should finally be acknowledged. The movie, A Woman In Berlin, is based on the diary of the German journalist Marta Hillers and depicts the horror of the Red Army's capture of the capital of the Third Reich in April...

Two years after a woman filed a damage suit alleging Bolivar Baptist Church pastor Dale “Dickie” Amyx molested her as a 14-year-old and impregnated her when she was 18, the suit has been settled out of court. Debbie Vasquez, now 47, sued Amyx and the church in June 2006, alleging that he began having sex with her when he was 28 years old, married and the youth pastor of a now-defunct Lewisville church, Calvary Baptist. According to the court documents, he continued having sex with her after he was pastor of the Bolivar church by threatening her with guns and...

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."

Blessed with a nest egg of nearly $1.5 million, a Woodland Hills parish donated almost all of it, leaving just $1,000 in its savings account. An Encino church offered a $100,000 interest-free loan. And a Boyle Heights parish decided it could spare $500 after ruling out the idea of raising money with tamale sales. With gifts large and small, parishes across the sprawling Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles are answering an appeal from Cardinal Roger M. Mahony to help the archdiocese dig out of the financial hole resulting from its multimillion-dollar legal settlements with victims of clergy sexual abuse...

Democratic State Senator Dan Sutton of Flandreau, South Dakota accused of fondling a male page. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012401966.html Carl Stanley McGee, 38, prominent gay activist, assistant secretary for policy and planning and top aid to democrat governor Deval Patrick of Massachuttsettes, accused of sexually assaulting a 15 year old boy in a steam room at a Florida resort. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1072114 Bernard Vincent Ward, former chief legislative aide to Senator Barbara Boxer, self proclaimed "Lion of the Left" on bay area radio, admitted transgressions too numerous to mention. http://prosites-prs.homestead.com/ward_new.pdf Davidson County Democratic Party Chairman Rodney Mullins resigned Thursday morning amid child pornography allegations, according...

As a retired local boxer stands trial for killing an assailant who was caught attempting to rape his adopted child, the city parliament is calling for increased penalties for pedophilia. Moscow City Prosecutor Yury Syomin warned on Friday against “turning the boxer into a heroic figure.” “Whatever the circumstance may have been, nobody gave the man the right to take another person’s life,” Syomin said.

SPRINGDALE, Ark. -- A Springdale day care teacher raped a 4-year-old girl in an incident caught on tape, police said. Cesar Monarrez, 18, had worked at the Royal Children's Academy part-time for about three or four months, officials said. According to an arrest warrant for Monarrez, the alleged victim described how he inappropriately touched her. She told authorities that her privates were burning because "Bubba" touched her with a knife inside his pocket. Police identified Bubba as Monarrez, and investigators said closed-circuit video shows him pushing his hands beneath the girl's waistband while she was asleep. Monarrez has been charged...

After Wednesday's ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals, the city of Lee's Summit could face paying a hefty sum of money to a man wrongfully convicted of child molestation nearly 10 years ago. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has sided with former Lee's Summit businessman Ted White Jr. in his civil rights case against a Lee's Summit police detective and his ex-wife, who is now married to the detective. White, whose 1999 conviction of molesting his step-daughter was overturned in 2005, filed a federal lawsuit against Lee's Summit Detective Richard McKinley and his wife Tina...

CHANDLER, Ariz. -- A Sunday school teacher who was arrested on suspicion of molesting a 5-year-old girl at a church blamed his actions on his “high blood pressure,” according to a police report. Terence James Greenwood, 62, a married father of two children, also cast blame on his “medication,” or the possibility he had “mental problems,” the report said. Greenwood faces six felony charges, including child molestation, sexual conduct with a minor and indecent exposure. Greenwood has been a member of the Chandler United Methodist Church for years, but just started helping in the classrooms in September, according to the...

Editor's note, Sept. 1, 2005: Wayne Dumond, convicted of rape in Arkansas and murder in Missouri, died of apparent natural causes in prison Tuesday. The occasion prompts us to republish Murray Waas' prize-winning article for the Arkansas Times in 2002 about the extraordinary steps Gov. Mike Huckabee took to help win Dumond's freedom. He has since blamed others for Dumond's release to kill again, but his actions over many years demonstrated his support for Dumond and, ultimately, the instrumental role he played in the parole board's decision to free him. Special handling How the Huckabee administration worked to free rapist...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle has been arrested a second time after failing to properly register as a sex offender, sheriff's officials said. The 59-year-old musician, whose real name is Thomas Delmer Pyle, was arrested Tuesday at one of three addresses he gave to authorities, Sgt. Chuck Mulligan said. He was being held Wednesday on $50,000 bond, Mulligan told The Florida Times-Union. Jail records do not show whether he had a lawyer. Pyle had been released on $10,000 bond after being arrested on the same charge Nov. 19. He was arrested again after he still...

Just heard on the radio, Warren Jeffs was sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Nothing further.

A bill that could make it illegal to glance at a naked neighbor is moving forward in the City Council, despite objections from the New York Civil Liberties Union and some council members, who say it is overly broad and could criminalize innocent behavior. Council Member Peter Vallone Jr. said he introduced the bill to fight back against perverts, such as people who stand at the bottom of a flight of stairs and look up women's skirts. Mr. Vallone said he has met with Speaker Christine Quinn about the legislation and said that although she told him she has reservations...

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — The young man’s testimony read like a made-for-television movie script. For about three hours on Nov. 8, an 18-year-old male confidently told those present in Judge Sebastian Lucido’s courtroom of his alleged sexual relationship with former Roseville High School French teacher Janelle Batkins. He said the two were involved with one another during his senior year in 2006-07 where he was a student aide for Batkins, 42. The two had sex at her Harrison Township home over several months, he testified, and penetration was involved. The teen’s mother found out, the Macomb County Sheriff’s Department conducted an...

Calling him “a demon,” a Bucks County judge Monday sentenced a former Boy Scout troop leader to 10 to 20 years in a state prison for attempting to arrange a sexual encounter with a 12-year-old boy. County Judge Albert Cepparulo said 52-year-old David Mayberry, who is HIV-positive, knew his actions could have been a “death sentence” to the child. “A predator you are, in the surest sense of the word,” Cepparulo said. “You are a danger to our youth and need to be removed from society.” (snip) Mayberry was arrested in November 2005 when he showed up at a Bensalem...

<p>NEW YORK -- Federal investigators have arrested the chief operating officer of the National Children's Museum on child pornography charges, authorities said.</p> <p>Museum executive Robert Singer, 49, allegedly sent 18 pictures of child pornography to an undercover NYPD detective posing as both a 33-year-old mother and 12-year-old daughter after the two met on an Internet chat room, investigators said.</p>

According to the NYPD, teenage boys at Pace High School were recently targeted as customers at a nearby brothel, located on 39 Eldridge St. Building owners Benjie Zheng and Ming Liuchang allegedly passed out game cards to male students as they left the High School building. The playing cards had explicit pictures of naked women with a contact number and the word "good" printed across it. The ping-pong hall served as a storefront while the undercover operation was held behind closed doors. "I think that the standards of the way people live are going down," freshman Steven Collins said. "This...

An arrest warrant has been issued for another Canadian man in Thailand, wanted on pedophilia charges. Foreign Affairs spokesperson Marina Wilson told CTV.ca that officials are closely monitoring the situation. "The department is aware of reports that Thai police have issued an arrest warrant for a Canadian citizen," she said from Ottawa. "Due to the Privacy Act, no further information can be released at this time." The allegations stem from the abduction of an 8-year-old boy from the Carrefour Shopping Center in South Pattaya on Oct. 28, reports Thailand's Pattaya City News. The boy was then allegedly taken into the...

<p>A man was arrested after a government agent allegedly found him in an office building restroom lying next to an inflatable, anatomically correct doll with his pants down.</p> <p>Craig S. McCullough, 47, was charged Wednesday with indecent exposure, a misdemeanor.</p>

Are Some Men Predisposed To Pedophilia? ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2007) — Height may point to a biological basis for pedophilia, according to new research released by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). The study found that pedophilic males were shorter on average than males without a sexual attraction to children. The study, published in Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, suggests that pedophiles may have been exposed to pre-birth conditions that affected their physical development. The researchers observed this height difference by analyzing the files of over 1,000 men who were assessed for pedophilia or other...

Man sentenced for raping girl By BRIAN SCHEID A 30-year-old illegal immigrant was sentenced to at least five years in state prison in Bucks County court Friday, five months after he admitted to repeatedly raping an adolescent girl. Carlos Salustio, a Mexican immigrant who was living illegally in Warminster, pleaded guilty in April to rape of a child and related charges for as many as 25 sexual incidents with the girl over a two-year period, starting when the girl was 10. In a tearful speech in front of Judge Albert Cepparulo, the girl, who is now 13, said her family...

AN assistant US attorney from Florida has been arrested for allegedly flying to Michigan to have sex with a five-year-old girl. John D.R. Atchison, 53, was arrested after he participated in internet conversatons with a detective posing as a mother who was interested in letting men have sex with her young daughter, Associated Press reported. According to court documents, Atchison initiated the online chat on August 29. His correspondence with the detective lasted several weeks. At one point, Atchison allegedly said: "I'm always gentle and loving; not to worry; no damage ever; no rough stuff ever ever". He has been...

Diocese to pay $198 million to settle abuse claims See updated breaking news story, with comments from church officials. Also, here's a link to the bishop's statement. The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego has reached a $198.125 million settlement with 144 people who were sexually abused by Catholic priests and church workers. Story coming momentarily. The announcement capped marathon discussions (See story from this morning's U-T) between lawyers for the diocese and the victims, who are to receive $1.37 million each. Church officials had filed for bankruptcy reorganization, but recent court rulings pressured them to settle the case.

Waukesha, WI - Troubles keep adding up for Ronald E. Schroeder, who performed professionally as Silly the Clown but has been sitting in the Waukesha County Jail since May on charges of sexual assault, domestic violence and possession of child pornography. On Aug. 10, he was granted work-release privileges and was supposed to be transferred to the county's Huber facility so he could leave for work. It never happened. Here's why: Schroeder is $4,000 behind on his child support payments resulting from a 1995 divorce in Milwaukee County. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Mary Kuhnmuench found him in contempt in June...

3-year-old raped by uncle, officials say August 30, 2007 - 11:14PM KATHERINE ROSENBERG VICTORVILLE — A 3-year-old girl was found abused and bleeding Thursday night, and officials have arrested her uncle, an illegal alien, for child molestation. Salvador Luna, 29, who was previously deported, was arrested on suspicion of sexual abuse of a child and was taken to the Victorville sheriff’s station where he underwent a physical examination, said Detective Ryan Collins. The victim was originally admitted to Victor Valley Community Hospital around 7 p.m. after her mother found the girl bleeding inside their home on Rockrose Street, said Detective...

Contrary to what President Bush claims, family values do stop at the Rio Grande for many illegal aliens. In fact since 1999, there have been more than 1,000,000 sex crimes committed in the United States by illegal aliens. In addition to suppressing wages, driving drunk, bankrupting our hospitals, and over-crowding our jails and public schools, illegal aliens are preying upon our children. Using U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration, as well as state and local law enforcement data, the Violent Crimes Institute has determined that there are no less than 240,000 illegal alien sex offenders currently inside the U.S. In Operation...

The many victims of illegal aliens. Is it worth it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpomTIkv0V8

Prolific paedophile jailed for life Updated 19.23 Thu Aug 30 2007 Keywords: Oxford Crown Court, Anthony Barron, Paedophile A grandfather who kept a video record of a campaign of sex attacks on girls aged as young as three has been jailed for life. Anthony Barron, 54, was found guilty of the rape and attempted rape of a 12-year-old girl having already pleaded guilty to 87 offences against 11 children in a catalogue of abuse spanning nine years. Anthony Barron had already pleaded guilty to 87 offences against 11 children in a catalogue of abuse spanning nine yearsThe 89 crimes included...

The Washington state supreme court has forced the Boy Scouts of America to turn over "ineligible volunteer" files that revealed a sexual abuse problem among Scout leaders far greater than the organization previously admitted. Although justices ruled that the files themselves would not be made public, attorneys said the Boy Scouts "have ejected at least 5,100 adult leaders nationwide for sexual abuse allegations since 1946," according to the Seattle Times. In the past 15 years, the organization has kicked out leaders for abuse allegations at a rate of one every other day. The ruling stemmed from a 2003 suit filed...

ROCKVILLE, Md. - A Rockville man previously accused of sexually assaulting two little girls, one just 18-months-old, would have left court a free man Monday if federal officials didn't step in. Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy says 23-year-old Mahamu Kanneh was being held on a federal detainer by ICE despite the fact that a Montgomery County judge ordered Kanneh released on his own recognizance after a bond hearing Monday. During the hearing, Deputy State's Attorney Laura Chase argued that Kanneh still presents a danger to the community. Prosecutors are asking that the charges against Kanneh, nine counts of child...

When children get lost in a mall, they're supposed to find a "low-risk adult" to help them. Guidelines issued by police departments and child-safety groups often encourage them to look for "a pregnant woman," "a mother pushing a stroller" or "a grandmother." The implied message: Men, even dads pushing strollers, are "high-risk." Are we teaching children that men are out to hurt them? The answer, on many fronts, is yes. Child advocate John Walsh advises parents to never hire a male babysitter. Airlines are placing unaccompanied minors with female passengers rather than male passengers. Soccer leagues are telling male coaches...

HURON -- A man suspected of being an illegal alien was charged with gross sexual imposition after he was accused of entering an apartment and lying down next to and touching the thigh of a sleeping 8-year-old girl, according to Huron police. Lucio Sanchez-Martinez, 32, also was charged with entering the apartment where the girl lived with her father and two other children, said Huron police Chief Randy Glovinsky. Huron police began investigating the morning of Aug. 8, when they received a call for a sex offense investigation, according to the police report. When officers arrived at an apartment building...

The show was an instant success. It lured would-be child-sex predators to a public shaming, delivered by a handsome host. Ratings, awards and even praise from members of Congress followed. But now Dateline NBC's "To Catch a Predator" series is taking heat. And so is the police chief of the Collin County town that hosted it eight months ago. The troubles stem from the show's visit to Murphy, where more than 20 people were arrested but escaped prosecution because of evidence problems. Also a former district attorney ensnared in the sting shot himself.

A Monterey County Superior Court judge Thursday sentenced former youth sports coach David Martin to five years of felony probation for molesting an 8-year-old girl. “If you violate your probation at all … you’re on your way to prison for eight years,” Judge Richard Curtis told Martin as half a dozen people listened closely from the audience.Martin, 43, a longtime Pop Warner football and Atlantic Little League coach in Salinas, was arrested Aug. 18, 2006, after the girl’s parents told police he had inappropriately touched her seven to nine times beginning in late May of that year. On Feb. 15,...

Authorities had several chances to get José Carranza off the streets. They didn't...... and so three innocent college kids were brutally murdered .....How was an illegal immigrant arrested for felony assault and twice on 31 counts involving the repeated sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl - on the street in the first place?

EVIL GLARE: Jose Carranza is arraigned yesterday on charges he executed three people in Newark. NJ authorities twice allowed a suspected child rapist to slip out of custody without reporting his illegal immigrant status...Carranza came from Peru in 1991....was first arrested last October after a bar fight......A municipal court judge set bail at $50,000...later reduced to $20,000. He posted 10 percent and walked free. That allowed Carranza to return to what prosecutors said was four years of sexual torment he inflicted on a child that began in 2003 when she was just 5.

NEWARK SLAY SUSPECT PLEADS NOT GUILTY By JEANE McINTOSH and AUSTIN FENNER August 10, 2007 -- A third suspect was arrested today in connection with the execution-style, schoolyard shootings last week in Newark, WNBC.com reported. The newest suspect in custody is also a juvenile, authorities told the news station. The arrest came the same day that the 'principal' suspect pleaded not guilty to murder charges. José Carranza, 28, was held on $1 million bond. Carranza turned himself in to Newark Mayor Cory Booker yesterday after a televised press conference listed the immigrant as a suspect in the execution-style shootings that...

LOS ANGELES - Nine Guatemalans were indicted for their roles in an alleged sex trafficking ring that lured young women to the United States with promises of good jobs and then forced them into prostitution, according to federal court records. ADVERTISEMENT Four of the defendants pleaded not guilty in January to sex trafficking charges in the case. A superseding indictment, unsealed Thursday, includes more serious allegations that five of the 12 victims were minors. According to the new 50-count indictment, the defendants at times sold Guatemalan women and girls to one another like slaves and allegedly brought the victims to...

Santos Was Trusted Member Of The Community; Illegal Alien; Alleged Child Rapist William Santos was a trusted member of his community, until a young boy came forward with a scary story. William Roberto Santos worked as a laborer at a horse farm in Owensboro, Ky. Nobody seemed to know much about his past, but his behavior and personality quickly made him a trusted member of the community. He attended church regularly, and parents felt safe leaving their young children in his care. One child in particular, who spent time at the same horse farm where Santos worked, spent four or...

FORT WORTH -- A convicted sex offender who was deported to Mexico in 2003 was arrested Wednesday in Fort Worth after authorities learned he had returned to Tarrant County. Hilario Soto-Hernandez, 41, was living in the 1700 block of Denver Avenue and working at a restaurant in Justin, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Convicted felons who re-enter the United States after being deported can be sentenced to as much as 20 years in prison. Soto-Hernandez was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child in 1995. He molested a 7-year-old girl for more than six months while she...

Border agents arrest illegal entrant convicted in Colorado of sexual assault Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.26.2007 Border Patrol agents arrested a 31-year-old illegal entrant from Mexico late Wednesday night who was convicted of sexual assault in Colorado and had been deported last week in Douglas. Agents captured the man overnight and discovered his sexual assault conviction Thursday morning while running his fingerprints through an electronic database system at a processing center in Nogales, said Jim Hawkins, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman. The man, whose name was not released Thursday, was convicted of sexual assault on July 26,...