Category: Crimes Against Children
Florida science teacher arrested and charged after having sex with 8th grader
A married, female teacher from New Smyrna Beach Middle School in Florida was arrested, “on charges that she had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student and sent him nude […]
FBI paid Best Buy’s Geek Squad employees as undercover informants
Documents recently released after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit show that the FBI and Best Buy’s Geek Squad have been working closely […]
Brain surgery mix-up: Hospital staff performs brain surgery on wrong patient
We’ve all heard jokes about someone going to the ER with the flu and then leaving two days later after having a perfectly good kidney or appendix removed due to […]
Former ‘Teacher of the Year’ facing life in prison for soliciting minor online
A former teacher from Westminster West Middle School in Carroll County, Maryland, has been in custody since his September 13 arrest and being charged with four counts of solicitation of […]
Man who raped dying, overdosing girl and stuffed her body in a crate charged
(Updated November 21, 2018) Yesterday, The Daily Herald reported that Brian Varela “pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, third-degree rape, and unlawful disposal of remains as part of a plea deal […]
Two Delaware men indicted on charges of child sex trafficking
In July 2017, a 15-year-old girl was kidnapped in Elkton, Maryland, but was fortunately found safe not too far away at a Red Roof Inn in Newark, Delaware. Police from […]
Foiled kidnapping: Good Samaritan saves 12-year-old girl from abduction
Claudia Hernandez Diaz, 34, was arrested in Santa Ana, California, on the morning of February 21 after a Good Samaritan successfully stopped Diaz from kidnapping a 12-year-old girl who was […]
Father and daughter get married, have a baby and get arraigned on felony incest charges
In a bizarre tale that culminates in an incestuous marriage between a father and daughter who produced their own love child, Steven Pladl, 42, of Knightdale, North Carolina, and his […]
Ohio man trying to trade girls on Craigslist charged with child rape
Nicholas White, 29, from Cheviot, Ohio, was arrested and charged with raping a young child under his care and accused of trying to trade that child on Craigslist for another […]
School shooter had AR-15, smoke bombs, multiple magazines and was wearing a gas mask
(Updated) On February 14 at approximately 2:40 p.m., Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old disgruntled ex-student with a troubled past, walked into the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. He was […]
