Former Illinois pastor gets 14 years in prison
for sexual abuse of child
By KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP – A former church pastor pleaded guilty Oct. 5 for sexually abusing a child in the North Aurora church where he was a pastor, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office announced in a news release.
Ralphael J. Robinson, 41, of Aurora, agreed to a sentence of 14 years in prison in exchange for a guilty plea to aggravated criminal sexual abuse, a Class 2 felony. Kane County Circuit Judge Donald Tegeler Jr. accepted the the plea.
Kane County Assistant State's Attorney Lori Schmidt stated in court that on April 18, 2016, Robinson sexually abused the underaged victim. The abuse occurred at Kingdom Church, 121 S. Lincolnway St., North Aurora, where Robinson was the pastor, the release stated.
At the time of the offense, Robinson was also registered as a sexual offender in accordance with the Illinois Sexual Offender Registration Act, the release stated.
"This defendant was this victim's church pastor when he abused her, an appalling violation of a child's trust,” Kane County Assistant State's Attorney Debra Bree stated in the release. Bree is the executive director of the Kane County Child Advocacy Center.
“This victim showed amazing bravery by immediately reporting this defendant's abuse to her parents, who promptly contacted authorities. Everyone who supported this child should be commended," Bree stated in the release.
According to Illinois law, Robinson is eligible for day-for-day sentencing. He receives credit for 896 days served in the Kane County jail, where has had been held since his arrest in lieu of $100,000 bail.
So how did a registered sex offender become pastor of a church in the same state where he is registered?
Upstate New York Man Takes Plea Deal
In Child Sex Abuse Case
A 56 year old Clayton man, who was accused of having sexual contact with a child, has taken a plea deal.
Gregory Morse pleaded guilty Wednesday in Jefferson County Court to endangering the welfare of a child.
Last month, a grand jury indicted him on counts of first-degree sexual abuse, forcible touching, and endangering the welfare of a child.
According to the indictment, Morse had sexual contact with a girl between June 23 and September 4 of last year. The girl was under the age of 13.
State police arrested Morse last November following an investigation prompted by a mandated report from the Thousand Islands Central School District.
Morse is expected to sentenced to probation on December 12.
Kentucky child sex abuse conviction:
Victim was 6 nearly 30 years ago
Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati Enquirer
A Burlington man was convicted by a jury Monday of sexual abuse and sodomy of a 6-year-old girl nearly 30 years after the alleged abuse.
Clyde E. Crawford wasn't charged until last year because the victim believed her abuser had died, said Linda Tally Smith, commonwealth's attorney for Boone and Gallatin counties.
A Boone County jury recommended a sentence of 30 years. The jury took 14 minutes to deliberate and come back with a guilty verdict, said Zach Smith, lead prosecutor on the case. "It was shorter than it took me to make my closing statement," said the assistant commonwealth's attorney.
Crawford faces up to life in prison or a minimum of 20 years incarceration since first-degree sodomy is a Class A felony under Kentucky law.
The 76-year-old man was arrested March 30, 2017, at 6474 Elsinore Court, Burlington – a suburban home listed as his address in court records.
He confessed to oral sodomy and sexual abuse of the girl when he lived in Florence, according to a Boone County Sheriff's Office announcement about the arrest. Court records show the alleged abuse happened between 1990 and 1995.
The defendant was the victim's neighbor when the abuse happened, Tally Smith said. "She (the victim) was under the impression that the defendant had died years ago," the prosecutor said. The victim received information Crawford was alive in March 2017 and reported him to Boone County Sheriff's Office.
The defendant made admissions in a recorded controlled phone call with the victim and when interviewed by (Boone County Sheriff) Detective Melody Parker, Tally Smith said. And Parker helped make the prosecution's case with that recording. "She's an experienced investigator and she nailed it," he said.
Family members of the victim that were unaware of the abuse spotted Crawford eating at a local restaurant with his wife last year. Years earlier, around 2000, members of the Crawford family told the victims' family Clyde Crawford was seriously ill and not expected to recover, Smith said.
The victim previously decided not to prosecute since Crawford was reportedly dying. Smith described the victim's family's reaction to the jury's guilty verdict in subdued terms.
"I’m not sure there is a word that is perfect in the English language," he said. "Perhaps I would say that I think they take some solace from it."
Think sex offenders can’t live next to parks and schools? That’s not always the case in California
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
mfountain@thetribunenews.com
When an Atascadero sex offender listed on the state’s Megan Law website was charged last month with committing sex crimes against a child, it wasn’t just the disturbing nature of the allegations that stood out. It was the man’s address.
Fred Raymond Knight II, who previously served prison time for lewd acts against a child under 14, was registered as living directly across the street from Colony Park and one block from the Fine Arts Academy.
Atascadero police records indicate that the most recent allegations against Knight are not related to his proximity to the park where young children play softball and soccer, but the scenario raised the question: Are registered sex offenders allowed to live next to parks and schools? In California, the short answer is yes.
State voters passed a ballot initiative in 2006 creating “predator-free zones,” which prohibited all convicted sex offenders whose terms of probation or parole include mandatory registration under Megan’s Law from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park “where children gather.”
Local officials say that while the so-called “2,000-foot rule” is still technically on the books, it’s been unenforceable since 2015, when the state Supreme Court found that the residency requirements as applied evenly to all of California’s convicted sex offenders was unconstitutional. The court found the law created a population of homeless sex offenders, hindering their access to medical treatment, drug and alcohol dependency services, counseling and other rehabilitative services.
And children, don't forget children! The courts have a tendency to do that.
As a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling, state parole and local probation departments no longer enforce a one-size-fits-all standard for where convicted sex offenders may live. Instead, restrictions are now made on a case-by-case basis by the courts, with input from probation and state parole officials.
Once a convicted offender completes their parole or probation, local police departments and Sheriff’s Offices have individual officers or units assigned to the long-term monitoring of “290 registrants” — named after the California Penal Code section — including ensuring they are in compliance with any individual restrictions placed by the state.
Local police chiefs said public misperception of where 290 registrants may live is a frequent source of reports and inquiries from concerned residents, but no one who spoke to The Tribune for this article could recall a recent case where the proximity of a sex offender’s residency to a park or school was linked to additional crimes.
‘Oppressive official action’
The California Megan’s Law website currently lists roughly 340 registered sex offenders living in San Luis Obispo County.
A Tribune review of the online map shows at least 36 of those people are registered within a roughly 2,000-foot radius of a school and/or park, with the highest concentration (between four and six registrants) living near Ramona Park in Grover Beach, Fairgrove Elementary School in Arroyo Grande and Santa Rosa Park in San Luis Obispo.
In 2006, voters overwhelmingly supported Proposition 83 — also known as Jessica’s Law — which added to existing state law making it “unlawful for any person for whom registration is required .... to reside within 2,000 feet of any public or private school, or park where children regularly gather.”
The new restrictions were enforced by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as well as local county-level probation departments depending on whether the offender served a sentence in county jail or state prison.
But it had an unintended consequence: the creation of a population of homeless sex offenders driven to the streets simply because no available housing existed outside the “predator-free zones.” Unlike registrants who maintain stable housing, offenders who register as transient require more supervision by local law enforcement, are found out of compliance more often and are less likely to engage in mental health or substance abuse treatment.
In San Diego County, a petition filed in Superior Court on behalf of four registrants on active parole argued that the restrictions, when applied indiscriminately, was unconstitutional. The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper subsequently reported in 2009 that more than 70 percent of its registered sex offenders were in violation of the law.
The trial court agreed, but also concluded that state parole should retain its statutory authority to impose special conditions on sex offender parolees as long as they are based on the specific circumstances of each individual parolee. The ruling was upheld in appellate court.
When the case made its way through the state Supreme Court, all five justices in 2015 agreed with the trial court that the law was unconstitutional and its enforcement had “unintended and socially deleterious” consequences.
“(The law) has infringed their liberty and privacy interests, however limited, while bearing no rational relationship to advancing the state’s legitimate goal of protecting children from sexual predators, and has violated their basic constitutional right to be free of unreasonable, arbitrary, and oppressive official action,” the court wrote.
Another 2016 appellate ruling found the same for registrants monitored by county probation officials. Since the ruling, agencies in charge of supervising 290 registrants enforce restrictions — some of which still include limitations on housing — only if specified by the courts.
According to the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office, those come in the form of a probation or parole condition based on an individual offender’s record and “a balancing test taking into consideration the burden on the offender and the safety of the community,” according to Chris White, a deputy DA assigned to the office’s 290 caseload.
When convicted sex offenders are released from state prison on parole, they are monitored by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for the life of their court-determined parole supervision.
For offenders who must maintain registration after their successful completion of parole, which generally lasts about three years, supervision becomes the responsibility of the local jurisdiction, namely police departments or the Sheriff’s Office in unincorporated areas of the county.
Convicted sex offenders who do not serve time in prison are typically placed on post-release community supervision, a type of monitoring now handled at the county level by probation departments for people who would have been supervised by parole officials prior to 2011’s Public Safety Realignment, which sought to reduce overcrowding in California’s prisons.
Offenders convicted of violent or “serious” crimes, those paroled from life terms, mentally disordered offenders and sex offenders deemed high-risk are not eligible for post-release county supervision.
Local offenders on post-release supervision are monitored by the San Luis Obispo County Probation Department, which currently has two full-time officers assigned to 290 registrants, according to Assistant Chief Probation Officer Robert Reyes.
Like parole, once a registered offender completes their terms of post-release supervision, the responsibility for enforcing registration compliance and any other restrictions becomes the responsibility of local jurisdictions.
“We put a lot of investment in offenders to make sure they’re not creating a public-safety issue, but once they’re out of (post-release supervision), it’s really incumbent upon local law enforcement agencies to supervise them,” Reyes said.
In doing so, local agencies require registered offenders to physically register their address with the agency within five days of their birthday. If they move, they must re-register with that agency within five days. Offenders registering as transient have to re-register every 30 days.
Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Grace Norris said the department has a Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (SAFE) team, comprised of one full-time detective and one reserve detective, which is responsible for monitoring registered sex offenders throughout the county, as well as investigating internet crimes against children.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, the agency monitored 269 registered offenders, conducted 488 compliance checks and investigated 45 possible registration violations in 2017. As of Sept. 11, 2018, the Sheriff’s Office was supervising a caseload of 261 registered offenders, and just one individual was out of compliance at that time, according to department spokesman Tony Cipolla. A warrant has been issued for that man’s arrest, according to court records.
Grover Beach Police Chief John Peters said his department has a full-time detective also assigned to 290 registrants. That officer conducts compliance checks, and if a sex offender is found in violation, that person may be arrested, Peters said.
But he added that local police also want to help convicted offenders who’ve paid their debt to society to keep in good standing so they may be productive members of the community. “We try to assist them with getting in compliance as much as possible,” Peters said.
Atascadero Police Chief Jerel Haley, whose department also has a detective assigned to tracking the city’s resident and transient offenders, said that when in doubt, residents should feel free to contact the department if they have concerns about a registrant living in their area.
Haley said the department’s detective will review the individual status of the registrant and determine if any criminal violations are present. “In some cases there may be nothing that can, or should, be done,” Haley said. “Just because someone is a registrant, does not mean that they are a threat to public safety.”
The California Megan’s Law sex offender database lists 28 residents currently under post-custody supervision for their offenses, including three that appear to live within 2,000 feet of a school or park.
Jury reaches guilty verdict in child sexual assault trial for former Texas school counselor
By LouAnna Campbell, lcampbell@tylerpaper.com
Former Arp elementary school counselor Barbara Orpineda makes a court appearance with her attorney Bobby Mims, left, at the 114th District Court with Judge Christi Kennedy on Thursday July 5, 2018. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)
The jury retuned a guilty verdict on one charge of sexual assault of a child for the former Arp school counselor accused of having inappropriate relationships with students and sexually assaulting two students while she was employed as an elementary school counselor at Arp ISD.
Barbara Lynn Orpineda, 32, told the jury of five women and seven men that she believes the rumors about the inappropriate relationship got away from the boys and they didn't have an option to recant their stories because they are adults now and scared that they could be held accountable for those actions.
"This is just one-upping locker room talk," she said. "He made this up out of the blue and I'm not sure if they fed themselves these rumors so much that they misconstrued it. I know they are lying."
Orpineda was arrested Oct. 25, 2017, and charged with two counts of having an inappropriate relationship with a student and two counts of sexual assault against a child.
However, she is on trial for one count of sexual assault of a child. A Smith County grand jury handed up the indictments on the second-degree felony charges on May 17.
The state rested their case after questioning Arp Police Assistant Chief Johnny Vargas.
Orpineda's defense team recalled the alleged victim in the case. They also called a woman who worked with Orpineda, a friend of the boys and a woman who knew the boys and the Orpineda family.
Orpineda pleaded not guilty to the charge. She posted bond the day after she was arrested and remains free on bond.
The Tyler Morning Telegraph is not naming the boys or the mother of one of the boys to avoid identifying the alleged victims of sexual assault.
76-year-old Massachusetts man faces
child sexual assault charges
By Michael Holtzman
Herald News Staff Reporter
FALL RIVER — A pretrial conference is scheduled this week for a 76-year-old Swansea man charged with sexual assaults upon two children.
Paul D. Carvalho is charged with one count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, two counts of attempted indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and one count of open and gross lewdness, according to Fall River District Court records.
Swansea police arrested him on a warrant for the charges on April 13. That was the day after Swansea Detective Keith Chomka issued his report based upon several incidents initiated by the mother of two girls, 13 and 15 years old, according to a redacted police report supplied by the court.
It said Chomka and Swansea Sgt. Patrick Mooney observed a forensic interview at the Children’s Advocacy Center in Fall River conducted by Andrea Souza. One girl said in the interview that Carvalho had invited her into his house and to go four-wheeling in the woods when she was in the fourth grade and approximately 10 years old.
She described Carvalho pulling down his pants and exposing himself and seeking oral sex, according to Chomka’s report. She described being “weirded out.”
The other girl said that the prior week Carvalho had her sit next to him on a couch next to his garage. She said he told her he had a stomachache and asked her to touch his private parts. She “lied to Paul saying that her sister was calling and she had to leave,” the report said.
She said he offered money, she declined it, and felt “violated” and very uncomfortable, according to the report.
Shortly after the warrant, arrest charges were issued, Carvalho was deemed “dangerous” following a hearing, a court official said. He was subsequently released conditionally and on personal recognizance on April 20, the court official said.
Approximately 10 conditions of his pretrial release the court supplied included: not having contact with anyone under the age of 18; having no contact with the victims; staying at least 100 feet from the victims’ address; residing with his nephew, Adam Carvalho, at 1418 Wilbur Ave., Swansea; complying with electronic monitoring; and obeying government and court orders that include abuse and harassment prevention orders.
Carvalho’s next court appearance is scheduled for Friday in Fall River District Court for a pretrial conference. He is represented by attorney Joseph Silvia of Fall River.
Second child tells officials that Idaho man
sexually abused her
LAURIE WELCH lwelch@magicvalley.com
BURLEY — A Burley man charged with seven counts of lewd conduct with a minor is now facing an additional three counts after a second child came forward with similar allegations.
Eric J. Hamblin, 36, was charged on Oct. 4 with one count of lewd conduct with a child under 16 and two counts of child sex abuse with a child under age 16. The charges were filed after a 13-year-old girl told officials that Hamblin sexually touched her at a Burley residence when she was 11 years old, according to court records.
The girl said the sexual conduct occurred when she sat on his lap and he put a blanket around himself and the child. On another occasion, the two were in the basement watching a movie together.
Hamblin was charged Sept. 12 with three counts of lewd conduct with a minor under age 16 and four counts of child sex abuse of a minor under age 16 with a different girl, records said.
In the first case, he is accused of sexually touching a now 16-year-old girl on numerous occasions when she was 9 to 11 years old. The sexual touching occurred, the girl said, while watching movies in the basement and on one occasion when they were cleaning out a recreational vehicle.
Preliminary hearings in both cases are set at 9 a.m. Oct. 26 in Cassia County Magistrate Court.
Former Oregon teacher arrested for
downloading child porn
By: KOIN 6 News Staff
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- A former special education teacher at Aloha High School was arrested on Wednesday after a six month investigation revealed he had downloaded and possessed child pornography, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said.
Geoffrey Germano, 40, was lodged in Washington County jail on seven charges of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree. The charges, according to deputies, aren't related to his job as a teacher. His bail was set at $140,000.
Germano, according to the Beaverton School District, taught in the district from 2006 until he resigned on Sept. 20. He was placed on leave on May 2, according to the district. He also taught at Highland Park Middle School before starting at Aloha in 2009.
Deputies said they received information back in April that Germano, a Hillsboro resident, had downloaded multiple child pornography files.
In May, deputies conducted a search warrant at his home in Hillsboro. The Sheriff's Office said they found evidence that he had child pornography.
A grand jury indicted him on seven charges this month before deputies arrested him on Wednesday.
"In a release, the Sheriff’s Office said it "conducts regular, proactive investigations to target people who possess, download, trade, or manufacture child pornography."
Former Oregon High School teacher charged
with encouraging child sexual abuse
by KATU News
PORTLAND, Ore. – A former Portland Public Schools teacher was charged with 13 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree last week.
According to Portland Public Schools, the charges are related to an incident that occurred four years ago. The district says they took immediate action when a student reported 35-year-old Phillip Lancaster.
The district said they notified police who confiscated Lancaster’s phone. The teacher was put on administrative leave that same day and did not return to Roosevelt High School or Portland Public Schools.
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said they received the case in September 2018 from the Portland Police Bureau. As soon as they received it, the district attorney’s office presented it to a grand jury.
The jury indicted Lancaster on the 13 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree on Oct. 3, 2018.
According to the indictment, Lancaster is accused of developing, duplicating, publishing, printing, disseminating, exchanging, displaying, financing, attempting to finance, and selling a recording of “sexually explicit conduct involving a child.”
The indictment says Lancaster was aware, but chose to ignore the fact that the sexually explicit conduct involved child abuse.
Lancaster was booked in the Multnomah County Jail on his charges on Oct. 8, 2018.
Illinois man accused of sex abuse allegedly
showed child pornographic video
By KATIE SMITHE
A McHenry man faces felony sexual abuse and exploitation charges after officials say he inappropriately touched a juvenile relative and showed her a pornographic video.
Gabriel Arlanzon-Pazos, of the 3900 block of Main Street, is charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, grooming and sexual exploitation of a minor.
In a petition seeking an order of protection against Arlanzon-Pazos, the victim's mother wrote that the 32-year-old man drove the girl to a storage unit on July 28 and asked if he could touch her while they were in the car.
The girl, who was younger than 13 at the time, declined and told Arlanzon-Pazos to leave her alone, according to the petition. Arlanzon-Pazos is accused of then driving the girl to the park and showing her a pornographic video on his phone, according to the petition.
One of the charges against Arlanzon-Pazos accuses him of exposing himself to the alleged victim, according to a criminal complaint filed in McHenry County court.
The girl disclosed the alleged abuse to her mother on Aug. 27 and a report was filed with police the same day. Following an investigation into the claims, McHenry police arrested Arlanzon-Pazos on Sept. 10, according to the complaint.
If convicted of the most serious charge, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, Arlanzon-Pazos could serve between three and seven years in prison.
His defense attorney, Edward Donahue could not immediately be reached for comment. Arlanzon-Pazos is due back in court Friday.
Man accused of sexually abusing 3 Florida girls
Alexi C. Cardona, Naples Daily News
Deputies on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of sexually abusing three girls for several years while they were living in Immokalee, according to court documents.
Fidencio M. Leal Collazo, 36, faces two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation, two counts of sexual battery of a child younger than 12 and one count of sexual activity with a child, according to a Collier County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
Leal Collazo was living in LaBelle when he was arrested by Hendry County Sheriff's deputies on three charges of lewd and lascivious molestation in May.
While at the jail, he was served with a Collier County warrant on child sex abuse charges Oct. 2 and was turned over to the Collier authorities Monday, Oct. 8, according to Cpt. Susan Harrelle, a spokeswoman for the Hendry County Sheriff's Office.
Some of the alleged abuses took place in Immokalee and some took place in LaBelle, according to court documents. Leal Collazo may face prosecution in Hendry County after his case is resolved in Collier, according to Harrelle.
The three girls, ages 13, 11 and 8, told investigators Leal Collazo had either forced them to have sex with him or touched them inappropriately, according to a criminal complaint filed in Collier County district court.
The girls said the abuse took place at different times between 2011 and 2017. One of the girls said the last time she was forced to have sex was in April at a home in Hendry County.
In May, the Florida Department of Children and Families received a report that Leal Collazo was verbally abusing the girls and keeping them locked in a home in Hendry, the criminal complaint states. A DCF investigator interviewed the girls at a family friend's home, where they disclosed the abuse.
According to the complaint, the girls told investigators they told Leal Collazo to stop, but he would get upset when they said no and threaten to hurt them and their mother.
Each of the girls at some point talked to their mom about the abuse. The girls told investigators their mom didn't believe them, called them liars or said they were crazy, the complaint states.
Obviously, there was some sort of relationship between mom and Leal Collazo. Unfortunately, a relationship that was more important than the welfare of her own daughters. How sad.
The girls were placed with a family member because of the allegations, according to the complaint.
When detectives talked to Leal Collazo, he first denied any touching or sexual contact took place with the girls. He later said it happened with two of the girls, the complaint states.
Leal Collazo was booked at the Naples Jail Center on $3.15 million bail and remains in custody.
Arizona shelter shut in latest case of migrant child abuse
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHOENIX (AP) — Staff members at a Phoenix-area shelter for unaccompanied migrant children physically abused three children, leading to the closure of the shelter, federal officials said. It was the latest in a series of incidents of alleged abuse involving staff members at shelters and children.
Southwest Key’s Hacienda del Sol shelter was shut down last Friday, but federal officials did not reveal the reason behind the closure until Tuesday.
The Texas-based federal contractor has fired the staffers involved in the Sept. 18 incident, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement. The agency did not release additional details about the incident or how many staff members were involved.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond Wednesday to a request to locate the incident in its files. It was not immediately clear how many staff members were involved, or if any face possible criminal charges.
The Health and Human Service Department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement oversees children who crossed the border without their parents or have been separate from their parents due to the Trump administration’s previous zero-tolerance border policy.
“ORR has a zero-tolerance policy for all forms of abuse or inappropriate behavior at (migrant) care provider facilities and acts quickly to address any alleged violations of policy, including initiating employee disciplinary action, termination, or reporting to law enforcement agencies and all relevant licensing bodies,” the agency said.
And, obviously, it works so well! Good grief! I'm sick of organizations where children are being sexually abused stating that they have zero-tolerance policy. If they did, there would be no child sex abuse in their organizations.
The children were all relocated to the company’s other shelters within 10 days, The Arizona Republic reported. Southwest Key is working to retrain staff, said Jeff Eller, a Southwest Key spokesman.
The closure comes after Arizona officials moved to revoke the licenses for Southwest Key after it missed a deadline to show that all employees passed background checks.
Zero-tolerance policy! Right!
Arizona has seen numerous allegations of sexual abuse at its many shelters for immigrant children, including one made by the government of El Salvador, which said it received reports of three children, 12 to 17, who were sexually abused at unnamed shelters in Arizona.
Last month, a former youth care worker was convicted of sexually abusing seven teenage boys at a Phoenix-area shelter for immigrant children.
In August, authorities arrested a 32-year-old man on allegations that he had molested a 14-year-old girl at a Southwest Key facility the previous month.
Hacienda del Sol, AZ
Tennessee men accused of raping
and recording 9-month-old
BY ERYN TAYLOR, WREG
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two men have been indicted by a Shelby County Grand Jury after being accused of raping a nine-month-old child and recording it.
According to officials, the child’s mother reported the incident to police after she found videos of the crime on a cellphone. In one of those videos the suspect could reportedly be seen exposing and touching himself with the child, who was nude from the waist down, still in view.
In another, the man was seen performing sex acts on the child, police said.
A WREG article from February 2018 stated the mother was able to identify one of the suspects using social media. She then took all the information she had gathered to police.
The suspects were later identified by police as Isiah Hayes, 19, and Daireus Ice, 22.
Hayes was indicted on aggravated rape of a child and especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. Ice was indicted on aggravated rape of a child/ criminal responsibility for conduct of another and especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor.
Iowa man charged with sexually abusing teen
after DNA shows he is likely child's father
Luke Nozicka, Des Moines Register
A Des Moines man has been charged with sexually abusing a teenage girl after DNA tests showed he is likely the father of her child, authorities said.
Oscar Alvarez-Flores, 25, was charged this month with third-degree sexual abuse after the girl, then 14, gave birth to the child in January 2017, police said. The charge is a class C felony and penalizes sexual contact with a person age 14 or 15 by an adult four or more years older.
The child was conceived between March and May 2016 at Alvarez-Flores' residence in the 1600 block of East 23rd Street in the city's Fairmont Park neighborhood, court records show. He was 22 at the time, authorities said.
In a DNA test conducted by the Iowa Department of Human Services, officials determined there was a 99.9999 percent probability Alvarez-Flores was the child's father, according to a criminal complaint.
Alvarez-Flores told a Des Moines detective he had sex with the teenager and knew he was the father, records show. He claimed to have had sex with her once.
More charges likely in Michigan
child sexual assault case
Bob Gross, Port Huron Times
MARINE CITY - The probable cause conference for a suspected child rapist was closed Wednesday in St. Clair County District Court in Marine City.
James Carleton Reilly, 62, of Columbus Township appeared briefly in front of Judge Michael Hulewicz Wednesday. Reilly, who uses a cane, shuffled slowly to a lectern and spoke only to acknowledge he understand what was happening and that he agreed to it.
Reilly is being represented by Port Huron lawyer Joseph Kanan. "Procedurally, it was what we expected," said Paul Soderberg, St. Clair County assistant prosecuting attorney.
Reilly, who goes by the nickname J.C., had been arraigned on two counts of criminal sexual conduct first-degree with a child under 13 years old and one count each of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping, child sexually abusive activity, using computers to commit a crime and distributing obscene material to children.
Soderberg said the prosecutor's office is adding two more charges to the original seven and likely will add at least one more charge before Reilly's preliminary examination, scheduled before Hulewicz at 9 a.m. Oct. 17.
Reilly is alleged to have sexually assaulted an 8-year-old girl while she was at his home. The offense date is listed as Sept. 28, according to court records. Police said Reilly knew the 8-year-old girl.
The investigation is continuing, Soderberg said. "I can't say anything about the investigation," he said, adding that he could not comment about possible other victims.
Reilly was convicted in 1989 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a child under 13 years of age after an investigation by detectives from the Michigan State Police Marshall Post, according to a news release. He was released from prison in 1999.
Reilly is listed on the Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry as a Tier 3 offender. That means he has been convicted of a serious offense.
He is described as 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 250 pounds. Reilly lived in Warren before moving to Columbus Township, according to the news release. Detectives believe he might have engaged in sexually abusive activity in that city.
Detectives are asking that anyone who might have been sexually assaulted in the past by Reilly or who knows someone who he might have sexually assaulted, to contact Detective Kelsey Wade at (810) 987-1738.
Reilly is being held without bond at the St. Clair County jail.
Wisconsin man sentenced to 10 years in
federal prison for child porn
MADISON — A 37-year-old Holmen man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.
Paul Doucet had pleaded guilty to the charge July 2. He was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson in Madison.
After serving the prison sentence, Doucet faces 25 years of supervised release.
FBI agents executed a search warrant at Doucet’s home May 17 and found numerous thumb drives and a computer hard drive that were analyzed and found to contain child pornography. Doucet had depictions of minors — including at least one younger than 12 — on various computer devices.
Doucet was sentenced in 2010 to three years in prison and another five on supervision after pleading guilty to four counts of possession child pornography. Monroe County authorities found thousands of images on computers at his Sparta home in 2008. According to court records, Doucet traded images and videos while accessing unsecured wireless networks in Melrose and West Salem neighborhoods.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Doucet was released from prison in 2015 but returned in July for violating the terms of his release.
Doucet was subject to a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence, but Judge Peterson indicated he would impose the same sentence even if it were not required because Doucet had prior offenses involving the exploitation of children, was on supervision for his prior offenses when he committed the crime in this case, and circumvented protections that were in place as conditions of his supervision by the state Department of Corrections to keep him from accessing a computer.
Scott C. Blader, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, said the charge against Doucet was the result of an investigation conducted by members of the Coulee Region Children’s Internet Protection Task Force and the FBI. Members of the task force include the town of Campbell, village of Holmen, city of La Crosse and town of Shelby police, and the La Crosse County Sheriff’s Department. The state Department of Corrections also assisted.
Blader said the investigation was a part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.
Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute people who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.
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