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Another DarkNet CSA Porn administrator jailed - USA
Pervert sodomizes 4 y/o, 2nd story fm Oregon City in 2 wks - Oregon
18 y/o get 26 yrs for sex with 13 y/o - Texas
Female dance teacher guilty of abusing 6 y/o relative - New York
Father fails to report son's sex abuse of children - Arizona

Child sex abuse site operator jailed for 20 years

 From BBC Technology

Browning helped keep the site running and oversaw day-to-day operations  SVETLANA_ANGELUS

An American man who ran a site that traded images of child sexual abuse has been jailed for 20 years.

David Lynn Browning was the central controller of the Playpen site, which was hosted on the dark web.

Browning will also be subject to a life-time of supervision when he eventually leaves prison.

He is the second key Playpen operator to be jailed. In January another administrator received a similar sentence.

Browning was a senior member of the group that had operated Playpen, said the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in a statement.

Shut down

He had been responsible for the day-to-day running of the site, moderating discussions and managing membership lists.

The DoJ said the members-only website had been run via The Onion Router (Tor) anonymising network.

Tor bounces data requests through lots of different nodes, encrypting at every step to conceal who and where users are.

A long-running FBI operation led to Playpen being shut down in 2015.

Prior to it being closed, the FBI ran the site for two weeks, gathering data on its users.

Playpen is believed to have had about 150,000 members who shared tens of thousands of postings about the sexual abuse of children.

The DoJ said the FBI action had led to the arrest of 51 people connected to the site and to the rescue of 55 children who were being abused.

Browning's co-administrator Steven W Chase, from Florida, who was also arrested as a result of the FBI investigation, is expected to be sentenced soon.

Portland man gets 8 years behind bars for child sex abuse

This is the 2nd awful story out of Oregon City in less than 2 weeks

Associated Press 

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland man found guilty of sexually abusing a 4-year-old child has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison.

KPTV-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2kQRbeq) that James Edward Zwaschka was sentenced after being convicted of sexual abuse and sodomy charges Wednesday.

Police say the 43-year-old man abused the young victim in Oregon City.

Authorities had been alerted to the abuse in 2015 by the child's family.

Oregon City, OR

Brady Man Gets 26 Years in Prison for
Continuous Sexual Abuse of Child

By Ed Hernandez 

Judge Rob Hoffman, presiding over the 452nd District Court in McCulloch County, heard a plea of guilty from Gary Flores to a lessor charge of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child with a victim under the age of 14. Flores was originally  indicted on a charge of Continuous Aggravated Assault of A Child Under 14. Under this charge, he faced a penalty of up to life in prison.

The plea was a continuation of a recessed hearing from a January 27th court date. On that date, several witnesses for the State, including the victim’s parents, were heard.

On Tuesday, the Defense called two witnesses. First on the stand was Dr. Anna Shursen, a registered/certified Sexual Offender Treatment Provider. Giving a detailed outline of her testing and methodology procedures, she described the need for de-registration of low-risk re-offenders. She stated that, in her evaluations of Flores, she had found him to be very low risk for re-offending. With probation and sexual offender treatment, she felt Flores could become a productive member of society.

Taking the stand on his own behalf, Flores detailed his troubled childhood. He said he grew up in a home where both his parents abused drugs and alcohol and that his mother had been arrested and sentenced to three years in prison.

He came to Brady with his father and graduated high school in Brady. In the summer of 2015, he was introduced to the victim’s father who helped him with employment on a horse ranch where Flores helped with the race horses raised there. It was during that summer, when Flores, who was 18, began a sexual relationship with the 13-year-old victim.

In his testimony, the defendant expressed remorse at having betrayed the trust of his benefactor, the church, a church youth group, and the victim. He did attempt to partly shift blame, however. He said that the victim had lied by telling him she was 15, which would still be under the legal age of consent.

In closing, defense attorney Todd Steele asked the court for leniency, stating that when the offense began, “It was two kids; he was 18 [and] she was 13, and they made bad choices.”

Steele went on to say that with probation and treatment his client would face a hard road, but that he could become a useful member of society. Going to prison at age 20 and getting out to be shackled to the chains of a lifetime of registration as a sex offender could, in fact, turn him toward a life of crime.

For the State, Assistant District Attorney Steve Lupton urged the court to proceed with a punishment fitting the crime.

Lupton said, “As an 18 year-old man who urged his victim to keep it a secret, he knew what he was doing was wrong.”

When the dust settled, Judge Hoffman ordered the defendant be incarcerated in the Texas Department of Corrections for a period of 26 years along with a $1,000 fine.

Brady, TX

Binghamton Dance Teacher Found Guilty,

Again, of Child Sex Abuse

By Vince Briga

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- A Binghamton dance teacher was found guilty of sexual abuse for a second time Thursday morning in a bench trial.

Samantha Werkheiser, 37, had been accused of abusing a 6-year-old child relative between 2003 and 2007. The victim is now 18 years old.

In testimony in the trial last month., the main dueling point has been the credibility of Werkheiser's accuser.

Werkheiser had previously been found guilty, but that verdict was thrown out on appeal.

Special Prosecutor Tom Jackson called this one of the most difficult cases he's ever handled.

"I can't imagine a more difficult set of facts and for that reason we're very happy with the verdict but the scars that are left on a child through a life of abuse stay,” said Tom Jackson, the special prosecutor.


Werkheiser was initially out on bail but has now been sent to the Broome County Jail. Her sentencing is set for March 10.

Arrests made in connection with

child sexual abuse case

Christian Swank (left) and his father, Brandon Swank (right), were both arrested in connection with alleged incidents of molestation involving two underage victims.

Officials with the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday that two people have been arrested, in connection with incidents of sexual abuse involving minors.

According to a statement, Christian Swank, 18, was arrested on the night of February 2 for five counts of alleged Sexual Conduct with a Minor. Swank's father, 42-year-old Brandon Swank, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of alleged Failure to Report Child Abuse.

According to Sheriff's officials, deputies received information regarding sexual molestation allegations in late January. One of the alleged victims is reportedly under the age of 10, and the other alleged victim is reportedly under the age of 13.

Both alleged victims, according to the statement, are known to Swank, and according to officials, Swank was allegedly involved in sexual activity with each victim, on several occasions in 2015 within Yavapai County.

According to investigators, Swank's father became aware of the sexual abuse incidents that were allegedly committed by Swank in December 2016, and Swank's father allegedly chose not to report the incidents to law enforcement, and allegedly requested that family members also not report the crime.

Swank, according to the statement, is being held at the Camp Verde Detention Center without bond, while Swank's father, who was also booked at the Camp Verde Detention Center, was released on a $3,500 bond on Thursday.

Yavapai Co., AZ