Category: Crimes Against Children
Former church leader with ties to three states charged with almost 100 counts of child sex abuse
On September 28, Maryland State Police reported that a former Cecil County church youth group leader was taken into custody after being indicted for child sexual abuse offenses. Those offenses […]
Family members of 13-year-old found naked and chained in home charged with torture and child abuse
Three immediate family members of a 13-year-old boy found naked and chained to a door in a central Alabama home have been arrested and are now looking at charges of […]
Man charged with murdering wife on high seas honeymoon so he could inherit her Florida home
Isabella Hellmann was in the Caribbean celebrating her honeymoon with hubbie Lewis Bennett when she mysteriously vanished in May 2017. The couple had left St. Maarten in a catamaran and […]
Missing 10-year-old Alaska girl found dead, arrest made
Ten-year-old Ashley Johnson-Barr who has been missing from a remote Inupiat Eskimo town on Alaska’s northwestern coast since September 6 was found dead yesterday afternoon. Late last night, Alaska State […]
FBI sting nabs 30-year-old Florida man meeting up with 9-year-old girl for sex
On September 10, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida reported that U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron sentenced Thomas Dean Peron to 17 years and 5 […]
North Carolina man gets life behind bars for stabbing 6-year-old daughter in the heart
On August 31, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina reported that Seth Willis Pickering, 38, of Leicester, North Carolina, was ordered to serve life in […]
Man charged in involuntary manslaughter shooting death of 2-year-old Baltimore County boy
Baltimore County Police have arrested and charged a man in the shooting death of a 2-year-old boy after an autopsy by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner revealed the […]
Joint police effort busts Tampa man trying to entice minor online for sex
On August 28, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced that 37-year-old Richard Plummer of Tampa, Florida, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for […]
Broward County teacher arrested for performing oral sex on one of his students
Authorities in Broward County, Florida, reported today that one of their substitute teachers stands accused of performing oral sex on one of his teen male students. The teacher, 30-year-old Vernell […]
Mollie Tibbetts’ preliminary autopsy reveals cause of death
Mollie Tibbetts’ 2018 murderer sentenced to life in prison without parole . . .
