Pennsylvania Man Receives Massive Sentence in Child Pornography and Sex Abuse Case
BY KATIE PAULSON
A Philadelphia man received a massive prison sentence on Monday. Lawrence Jamieson pled guilty in September for having more than 14 million images of child pornography. He also pled guilty to sex crimes. On Monday a Federal court judge sentenced Jamieson to 100 years in prison. Authorities say his case is the most extensive collection of child pornography they have seen in the State of Pennsylvania.
Jamieson’s stash of porn was a by-product of his arrest for child sexual abuse. He and a friend lured an underage girl with autism to perform sexual acts on them. During his arrest, they uncovered more than 14.4 (million) images of children and toddlers experiencing sexual abuse. Some of the photos included animals sexually abusing the children.
Prosecutors say he downloaded and collected the images off the internet. During the time he obtained the photos, police arrested him for sex crimes. Part of his sentence for those crimes was taking sex-offender classes. Despite the classes, he continued to download the images.
In a press release from the U.S District Attorney’s office handling the case, they noted the images were the most demented images imaginable. As he collected the pictures, he began to traffick the images across the internet. During this time, he targeted a young girl with autism to assault.
Jamieson used a 23-year-old man he knew from a tire store. He had the accomplice lure the girl into a sexual relationship. His co-defendant, Christopher Brown, eventually lured her to his place of employment. He told her he was in high school and attending an online school like the victim. Over time the co-defendant convinced the girl to have sex with him. Brown videotaped their encounters and sent them to Jamieson.
During the faux relationship Brown created, he convinced the girl to have sex with Jamieson. Brown video-taped as Jamieson assaulted the girl. After the initial assault, he began abusing her on a regular basis.
Eventually, the victim’s mother found out about the abuse, and she reported it to a tipline. A Willistown Detective, Stephen Jones, interviewed the girl. She divulged the details of who raped her along with how long it had been going on.
Jamieson and Brown were both arrested in 2016. Brown also pled guilty and his sentencing is later this month.
Jamieson is 59 years old. His sentence of 100 years assures he will die in prison. An additional condition of his sentence is that he cannot communicate with the victim or her family.
Finally, Prosecutors say the victim is completely broken by the assaults. The District Attorney said she is having a hard time moving on. Hopefully, the end of this case will provide the victim with some sense of closure so her healing can begin.
New Jersey man guilty of sexually assaulting
two girls with consent from their mother
Tom Nobile, North Jersey Record
HACKENSACK — A jury on Thursday convicted Alfredo Rosales of Englewood on several counts of sexual assault for his six-year relationship with two young girls who he abused repeatedly with consent from their mother.
It took the jury roughly 12 hours over two days to return guilty verdicts on 28 of 36 counts for several crimes, including aggravated sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child.
The jury, however, declared mistrials on both counts of human trafficking.
“Mr. Rosales is facing hundreds of years in prison,” Assistant Prosecutor Mark Chiavola told the court during an argument to revoke Rosales' bail. Judge James Guida agreed, proclaiming Rosales a flight risk given that he is not an American citizen. He will be sentenced on Jan. 11.
A handful of prosecutors and victims' advocates rushed into court when a verdict was imminent. Rosales gave no expression as the jury's foreman read off each guilty count.
Outside the courtroom, two jurors said there was unanimous agreement that Rosales sexually abused the two young girls in a series of encounters, and that their mother was aware.
They also accepted that the girls made regular bus trips from Philadelphia to Englewood to sleep over at Rosales' home, and that Rosales was giving financial support to the family.
But the question of whether that amounted to human trafficking was a point of intense debate, the jurors said. On those charges, the jury remained deadlocked from the start and never reached a consensus.
“We hit it from every angle,” said Juror 15, who declined to give his name. “That we were able to do what we did is good." Chiavola said the state will need a few weeks to consider retrying the remaining charges.
The week-long trial started with testimony from two sisters – ages 16 and 13 – who from 2010 to 2016 would ride alone on a bus from Philadelphia to Englewood at the behest of their mother. Rosales would pick them up in front of the Englewood library on a Friday night. Sometimes he would take them out for dinner and then to his apartment.
In 2010, the 13 y/o would have been 5 and the 16 y/o would have been 8. And they traveled over a hundred miles by bus on their own!
Alfredo Rosales, 53, of Englewood is on trial for several crimes, including aggravated sexual assault, criminal sexual contact, human trafficking and endangering the welfare of a child. Closing arguments were given in the case in Bergen County Superior Court on Tuesday, September 18, 2018. Rosales sits with a Spanish language translator. Amy Newman/NorthJersey.com
It was in his bedroom where the girls said he would remove their clothes, touch them and penetrate them. The next day, their mother would arrive.
Esperanza Mani-Cortez, the mother, met Rosales in 2010 and lived in his Englewood apartment for a brief time with her children. The abuse started there, the girls testified, and continued when Mani-Cortez relocated her family to Philadelphia.
Along with testimony from the sisters, Mani-Cortez testified that said she knew her underage daughters were being sexually abused by Rosales, but turned a blind eye because he was the family's financial crutch.
The state bolstered its case with forensic experts, who uncovered DNA evidence linking Rosales to the alleged abuse with a certainty of one in seven trillion. A nurse from Hackensack University Medical Center also testified that she found bruising on one of the girls resembling a hickey.
Defense counsel for Rosales brought forth no witnesses, but stuck by its initial argument till the end: that Mani-Cortez was a manipulator who used Rosales to provide financial help for her family.
“Am I completely happy with the decision? No,” said Ana Tolentino, Rosales' attorney. But, she conceded: "I thought the decision was fair considering the evidence.”
Rosales has remained imprisoned at Bergen County jail since his arrest in 2016, when Englewood police received a tip that he was in the company of a then-14-year-old girl with whom he may have been engaging in sexual activity.
Mani-Cortez was arrested as well. In 2016, she pleaded guilty to human trafficking and received a 20-year prison sentence.
Her children are currently in foster care.
Kansas preschool didn't report suspected abuse
involving suspect in YMCA child rapes
involving suspect in YMCA child rapes
written by KAKE News
WICHITA, Kan.
Kansas officials say a Wichita preschool failed to report suspected sexual abuse involving a man now accused of assaulting two young girls at a local YMCA.
Caleb Gaston was terminated from the Plymouth Preschool Learning Center last October after a complaint of inappropriate touching. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reports that in August of 2017, the preschool's director "did not report suspected abuse of a child by a staff person when the parent shared concerns."
Gaston is charged with assaulting a 3-year-old girl on January 24 and a 4-year-old girl on January 29 of this year. Both alleged assaults happened in the Kid Zone at the downtown YMCA branch where he worked. He remains jailed on $1.1 million bond.
The Greater Wichita YMCA earlier this year announced the following safety improvements:
Updating member photos and requiring a current parent/guardian photo for any child dropped off or picked up in a Kid Zone.
A "Kid Watch" feature which will allow parents and staff to watch a live camera feed.
Adding 100 security cameras to facilities and installing upgraded cameras and recording systems.
Adding half-doors to remaining Kid Zone restrooms.
Listen people: Men should not be looking after other people's children. There is something wrong with a man who wants to do that!!!!
US Olympic women's volleyball star indicted
for murder, child abuse in Puerto Rico
© PEDRO UGARTE / AFPFormer US Olympic volleyball player Kim Willoughby has been indicted for first-degree murder and child abuse as part of an investigation into the death of a toddler in Puerto Rico, according to reports.
Willoughby, who was part of the US team that won silver at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, was indicted over the 2016 death of a three-year-old girl whom she was reportedly seeking to adopt.
The former athlete, 37, had previously argued that the toddler had died in her care after slipping and hitting her head in the shower, according to Fox News.
However, prosecutors presented new evidence in the case which is said to suggest that the girl’s injuries were not consistent with the former athlete’s account of events.
An autopsy on the body showed numerous signs of internal and external trauma, according to Hawaiian news outlet the Star Advertiser.
Dr. Irma Rivera Diez, who conducted the autopsy, testified that some of the injuries were consistent with the child being struck minutes before death, and that others indicated a longer pattern of abuse.
Willoughby’s defense attorney has argued the girl was subject to abuse prior to being in her care, and claimed that improper first aid could have exacerbated her injuries.
The former Olympian has faced numerous accusations of violent behavior in the past, including over a fight outside a café in 2006 and third-degree assault while a student at the University of Hawaii in 2001.
The start of the trial is scheduled for October 4. If convicted, Willoughby could face up to 99 years in prison, according to reports.
NM fugitive priest Arthur Perrault in custody,
facing child sex abuse charges
By: Rachel Knapp
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - Former Albuquerque priest Arthur J. Perrault, who was on the run for 26 years from child sex abuse charges, is back in the United States where he will finally be prosecuted for his alleged crimes.
That indictment has now been opened and charges him with criminal aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact of a minor at Kirtland Air Force base and the Santa Fe National Cemetery between 1991 and 1992.
Federal authorities are calling his arrest and extradition a major accomplishment.
The FBI says Perrault was stationed at the Shrine of St. Bernadette, Queen of Heaven and Our Lady of Annunciation at St. Pius high school in Albuquerque.
Perrault fled New Mexico in 1992 and headed for Canada before fleeing to Morocco.
Investigators say they were tipped off about Perrault's presence in Morocco, saying he was teaching English at a church there. It has taken investigators decades to try to bring him to justice.
Federal authorities say after they indicted the pastor last year, he was arrested shortly after in Morocco. He's remained behind bars all this time, but at this time we don't know why there's been such a long delay in getting him back.
Perrault is scheduled for a first federal court appearance Friday. He is 80-years-old.
3-D Printed Gun Creator Cody Wilson Arrested
in Taiwan for Child Sexual-Abuse Charges
The right-wing figure, who allegedly paid a 16-year-old girl for sex in Texas, was arrested Friday in a Taiwan hotel
Kelly WeillCody Wilson, the founder of a controversial 3-D gun printing company, has been arrested in Taiwan on child sexual-assault charges.
Authorities say they do not know whether Wilson, who often travels for work, went to Taiwan to avoid arrest. The country does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S.
A statement by Taiwan's National Immigration Agency, translated by BuzzFeed, said Wilson had checked into a luxury hotel in Taipei, but checked out early on September 7. A local news report translated by BuzzFeed claimed Wilson had signed a six-month contract for a small apartment in Taipei on Wednesday, the same day his charges were announced in Texas. The Taiwan News reported that Wilson missed a scheduled meeting to pick up his apartment keys, suggesting he knew police were looking for him.
The real-estate agent Wilson worked with later recognized him from news reports, and called police. An American immigration agency in Taiwan reportedly cancelled Wilson’s passport, giving Taiwanese authorities grounds to arrest him for lack of travel documents.
BuzzFeed reported that Wilson confirmed his identity when confronted by local police. He is expected to be deported back to the U.S.
Wilson’s fame catapulted his case to international news.
Oklahoma wannabe trans & wife facing charges
related to sexual abuse of child
BY KFOR-TV AND K. QUERRY
PONTOTOC COUNTY, Okla. – An Oklahoma couple accused of sexually abusing a boy could be headed to trial.
In March, authorities arrested Jake Few and Twila Few following an investigation into the disturbing allegations. Officials say it all started following a domestic disturbance in Cleveland County.
According to the affidavit obtained by KXII, Twila was upset because she said that her husband, Jake, wanted to become a woman.
While speaking with officers, Twila admitted that Jake made her perform sexual acts on a 9-year-old boy several times. After an investigation into the claims, police arrested the pair (6th story on link).
On Thursday, a judge ruled that there is enough evidence to send the case to trial.
Jake Few is facing three counts of enabling child sexual abuse, while Twila Few is facing three counts of lewd molestation.
Police Arrest Utah Man For Sexual Abuse
of Child at Nursery
On Wednesday, September 19, officers with the Lindon Police Department arrested a Springville man on suspicion of aggravated sexual abuse of a child. According to the police, the arrest was made for an incident that occurred at the Linden Nursery in Lindon.
An 11-year-old girl reportedly told the police that 56-year-old Juan Martinez-Vazquez hugged her and inappropriately touched her while she was in the kitchen area of the nursery. She said that she pushed the man away and left the room.
Martinez-Vazquez spoke to police through an interpreter and told them that he did give the girl a hug in the kitchen, but denied touching her inappropriately. He is being held on a $25,000 bond at the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.
Police Shoot, Kill Child Sex Assault Suspect
At Colorado Mall
Satur said the officers used a Taser on Thurby to try to subdue him, but he pulled a gun from his waistband. Two officers fired multiple shots and the man died at the scene.
Thurby was facing charges including sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust/pattern of trust, aggravated incest, and sexual exploitation of a child. Investigators say he had more than 20 videos of child pornography on his cell phone and tablet.
No officers or bystanders were hurt in the shooting.
The Boulder County Investigations Team and the Longmont Police Department are investigating the shooting. The involved officers who fired their weapons will be placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, which is standard procedure.
Any witnesses who may have seen this incident are asked to call Detective Sergeant Matt Cage of the Longmont Police Department at (303) 651-8520.
Longtime trainer at Eastern Montana high school groomed,
sexually abused as many as 100 boys
CHRIS JORGENSEN cjorgensen@billingsgazette.com 
Custer County High School in Miles City, photographed in 2012.
The suit, filed in Custer County District Court in Miles City, names Jensen as a defendant, along with the Miles City Unified School District, the high school, and John Does A-Z representing as yet unnamed school and athletic officials who may have known of Jensen’s alleged sexual abuses and failed to stop him.
“This was a structured, sophisticated system of ritual sexual abuse,” said Miles City attorney Daniel Rice, who filed the suit with his partner Bryant Martin and Billings attorney John Heenan.
"At least 18 victims already have been identified, and “that’s just the tip of the iceberg,” Heenan said. “This abuse went on for years, and there are a lot of people out there who think they’re the only one. This is high-level child molester stuff,” Heenan said.
Contacted by phone Friday, Jensen offered an apology to the victims he sexually assaulted, and also a denial. “I did masturbate some of the boys,” he said. “And I’m sorry for that. But, the lawsuit said there was also oral sex and anal probing, and that isn’t true.” The 78-year-old Jensen said he hoped his actions “didn’t do a lot of emotional or other trauma to the boys.”
Miles City Public Schools is "extremely concerned by the allegations set out in the complaint," according to a response provided by the law office of Felt, Martin, Frazier and Weldon P.C.
"The absolutely atrocious acts described in the plaint that took place 20 or more years ago are horrific," according to the district's response. "Each of us currently in the district — our educators, trustees and staff — cares first and foremost about the safety and well-being of our students. We believe that even one child harmed on our watch is not acceptable and will do anything we can to get to the bottom of this situation."
Jensen began working part-time as an athletic trainer for the high school sometime in the early-1970s and continued until the district terminated him for unstated reasons in 1998.
Because the state’s statute of limitations laws regarding sex crimes against minors have evolved in stages over several decades, it isn’t clear how many of the abuses Jensen could potentially be charged with. A few of the younger victims could still fall within the state’s current statute limit of 20 years after the victim is no longer a minor. If victims are within the statute and willing to come forward to law enforcement, criminal charges could be pursued.
According to the suit and Gazette interviews with several of the victims, Jensen developed an elaborate scheme he called “The Program.” It was a system he promised would enhance the athletic performance of the boys, some as young as age 14, by boosting their strength, fitness and testosterone levels.
That Jensen can't be prosecuted for most of the alleged crimes was news to several victims who told The Gazette that among their reasons for speaking now about their abuse is their wish that Jensen die in prison. The victims were also united in their hope that the suit prompts changes in Montana law and changes in school policies that protect children. The Gazette has a policy of not naming the victims of sex crimes.
The grooming regimen began with routine, state mandated annual athletic physical exams in which Jensen touched the boys’ genitals under the guise of a hernia check, although the suit said he has no known medical training. The touching escalated to nude massages, masturbating the boys, measuring their penises, collecting their semen for “testing,” oral sex and digital anal penetration, the suit alleges.
“Jensen used the authority and trust of his position with the district to groom, entice, induce and coerce plaintiffs for the purpose of sexually abusing them on an ongoing basis,” the suit alleges.
Jensen still lives in Miles City, along with many of his alleged victims.
Some of those victims say that six to eight weeks ago, Jensen began contacting them through Facebook by sending friend requests. Jensen has also posted an apology to a “Custer County Grads” Facebook group. A copy of the post is included in the lawsuit.
“I want to ask for forgiveness from anyone I may have hurt emotionally or physically during my 28 years as a Cowboy trainer,” the post states.
It was those friend requests that for several victims triggered long-repressed memories of the sexual abuse and fueled their desire for justice and healing.
KENTUCKY MAN ARRESTED FOR EIGHT COUNTS OF
SEX ABUSE AGAINST A CHILD UNDER 12
By Seth Colgan 
According to police, Marcelino Camacho-Lopez abused at least five different children, resulting in eight counts of sexual abuse.
He is due in court Friday.
Alabama man charged with sexual abuse of 3-year-old
accused of trying to take the child
Kirsten Fiscus, Montgomery AdvertiserA Montgomery man charged with sexual abuse of a 3-year-old allegedly tried to take the child after being released on bond, according to court records.
The sexual assault was reported to police Sept. 11 and Ross was arrested the same day, Montgomery police Capt. Regina Duckett said. The victim and Ross know each other, Duckett said.
Two days after his arrest, Ross was released on a $30,000 bond but since then has allegedly had contact with the victim, according to two motions Deputy District Attorney Madelyn Mauldin filed Wednesday and Thursday morning.
According to the motions, prosecutors were notified by the victim's mother that Ross allegedly went to the home of the 3-year-old and tried to leave with him.
"Further details are unavailable at this time but the State was informed that some of this incident may have been captured on a patrol officer's body camera. The State is making efforts to obtain this body camera footage at this time," Mauldin wrote in the second motion filed Thursday.
Mauldin argued Ross should not be free on bond. "The defendant represents a danger to the community. The defendant represents an extreme danger to the victim," according to the motion.
District attorney Daryl Bailey said Thursday morning that prosecutors initially requested Ross' bond be increased from the $30,000. "We filed to increase his bond soon after he was arrested. We thought it was too low," he said.
No motion appears in Ross' court record, but District Judge Pamela Higgins filed an order that appears to be in response to prosecutors' request. "The issue of bond is reserved," she wrote in the motion, meaning the court would not consider the motion at that time but could in the future.
So, does that mean the pervert is walking around free?
No new charges had been filed against Ross and Bailey said he was unsure if any more would be. "That would be up to the Montgomery Police Department," he said.
Capt. Regina Duckett said police have continued investigating Ross' case, but she was not aware of any additional charges. Efforts to reach Ross' attorney were unsuccessful.
Jury finds NY man guilty of 5 years of
sexual assault against a 5 y/o child
Anthony Borrelli, Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
A jury pronounced a Lisle man guilty Thursday in the sexual abuse of a child that spanned about five years, until the girl was 10 years old.
Prosecutors accused May of sexual acts against the child going back to April 2012, when she would have been 5 years old, and through the summer of 2015.
May was also accused of engaging in two or more acts of sexual conduct with the girl between the summer of 2015 and October 2017 in Lisle.
The jury's verdict was reached after nearly seven hours of deliberations Thursday, including several read-backs of specific portions from witness testimony that included statements from May's now 11-year-old accuser and the girl's mother.
Following the verdict, Acting Public Defender Michael Baker said he was thankful for the work the jury put in to reach their decision. He said, "They gave it a tremendous amount of thought."
Wednesday, the defense and prosecution summarized dueling theories about the evidence before putting the case in the jury's hands. "The defendant's guilt is consistent with common sense," Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Milks had argued.
The prosecution's case was built around statements and graphic details about the sexual abuses disclosed by May's accuser, when she testified in the trial. The child told a friend during a school bus ride that she was being "sexually harassed," the friend told her mother, who alerted a school principal.
New York State Police were brought in, and the victim was interviewed.
With a case short on physical evidence, Milks contended expert witnesses proved that's not unusual in sex abuse cases like this one — testimony from the victim left little to the imagination.
During the trial, Baker argued accusing words alone from the child alone shouldn't be enough to prove May guilty, and there were inconsistencies in testimony by prosecution witnesses that left room for reasonable doubt as to his client's guilt.
May was interrogated Oct. 27, 2017 by a New York State Police investigator before being charged, and in that interview, he denied the accusations.
But the investigator countered the accusations were "pretty extreme," and then questioned why the girl would make any of it up.
NC man held on charges of child sex abuse,
threats of violence
richmondcountydailyjournal
By Gavin Stone - Staff WriterROCKINGHAM — A Burlington man has been arrested on child sex charges after a two-month search.
The acts are alleged to have occurred between Sept. 6, 2016, and Dec. 29, 2017.
Frye also allegedly threatened a woman in June by saying that he would kill her, her daughter and then himself, the warrants say.
Frye is charged with three felony counts of indecent liberties with a child and one misdemeanor count of communicating threats. The warrants for the threat charge were issued in June; the warrants for the indecent-liberties charges were issued in July. Frye was arrested Sept. 10. It is unclear why a delay occurred between warrants being issued and Frye’s ultimate arrest.
Frye is being held at the Richmond County Jail under a $250,000 secure bond and is to appear in court Sept. 27.
Records with the N.C. Department of Public Safety show that Frye served 14 months in prison for a felony child-abuse conviction in 1993. He has no convictions since then, state records show.
California man pleads guilty to child sex abuse
By JULIO MORALES,
EL CENTRO — Accused child molester Ray Valenzuela Jr. pleaded guilty to one felony count of sexual abuse of a minor on Wednesday as part of a plea agreement.
Specifically, Valenzuela pleaded guilty to one felony count of having sodomized a person under the age of 14 who is more than 10 years younger than the defendant.
Ex-wives speak out in court against convicted bigamist,
now charged with child sex abuse in SC
by Anne EmersonNORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — It was an emotional day in court as a Dorchester County man charged with sex crimes involving a child, appeared for his bond hearing.
Duncan was arrested by North Charleston Police and U.S. Marshals on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Boeing North Charleston facility.
Two women who attended court Wednesday said they were Michael Duncan’s ex-wives. They both described him as their own Prince Charming. They both met him online, and they both say their relationships ended badly.
A woman who says she is Michael Duncan's third ex-wife, says he changed after they were married. “He became physical with me. I also started noticing changes in my child’s behavior she started to become withdrawn, very skinny,” she says.
Her daughter, the alleged victim, spoke to the judge in court today.
“When the abuse started, I was a happy 7-year-old girl. But that didn’t last long. The abuse started out physical, the abuse progressed. I remember trying to tell about all the stuff that this disgusting man was doing to me but he would threaten me,” said his young accuser.
Duncan is accused of sex acts with the girl in a closet.
This story is also complicated by yet another marriage.
His third wife says, “(I was )going through a nasty divorce and randomly a woman called my attorney and said she was Mrs. Duncan."
Michael Duncan was convicted of felony bigamy in North Carolina in 2014.
We spoke with the woman who claims to be his fifth ex-wife. She said she knew she was marrying a convicted bigamist, but says, “He knew exactly how to be my Prince Charming.”
She came to court to a give a victim's impact statement about her relationship with Michael Duncan. “It wasn’t about me anymore it was about protecting future little girls,” says this woman.
Both Michael Duncan's mother and sister were at the hearing defending him. Duncan denied the charges telling the judge, “These charges are brought about by a vindictive, vengeful woman.”
The judge set Duncan’s bond at $200,000 dollars. Duncan was only bonded on the pornography charge which if convicted, he could receive up to 15 years in prison. He will remain in jail until a circuit court judge decides if he will be granted any bond for the child sexual abuse charge.
On that charge, if convicted, he faces 25 years to life. Michael Duncan's next court date is set for November 13 at the Dorchester County Courthouse.
Dorchester Co., SC
Oklahoma man arrested on 3 counts
of child sex abuse
by Kipp Jones
TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — A Collinsville man was arrested this week after police say he sexually abused a child for at least a year.
John Charles Buckiln, 67, was arrested on Friday Sept. 21 on three counts of sexually abusing a child under the age of 12.
Police say the abuse took place between May 2016 and May 2017.
Bucklin was arrested Friday morning and released after posting bail hours later. He is due back in court on Sept. 28.
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