North Dakota man gets 20-yr prison sentence
for sexual abuse of a child
By Jamie Kelly editor@willistonherald.com
A 47-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday, April 23, to serve 20 years in prison for sexually abusing a girl for nearly five years, and will have to spend the rest of his life on probation when he’s released.
Patrick Martinez pleaded guilty to continuous sexual abuse of a child, a class AA felony, in December. He also admitted to a class B felony count of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, a class C felony count of possession of child pornography and two misdemeanor drug charges. As a condition of his probation, he will have to register for life as a sex offender, will not be allowed to have contact with anyone younger than 18 and will not be allowed to contact the girl he admitted abusing or her family members.
At a sentencing hearing Tuesday, Williams County State’s Attorney Marlyce Wilder asked for Martinez to be sentenced to 30 years in prison, with 10 years suspended, and be placed on probation for five years. Donald Sauviac, Martinez’s defense attorney, asked for a sentence of seven years in prison with an order that he get intensive mental health, sex offender and drug and alcohol treatment.
Martinez was arrested in October and accused of sexually assaulting a now 16-year-old girl multiple times between August 2014 and April or May 2018. Police said they found multiple naked or partially naked photos of the girl on Martinez’s phone.
Wilder told Northwest District Judge Kirsten Sjue that this was among the worst crimes she’s ever seen. She said the presentence investigation showed that Martinez was still “obsessed” with the girl and that while he admitted what he’d done by pleaded guilty, he didn’t seem to understand his responsibility in the matter.
“He is of the highest risk level available,” Wilder said.
Sauviac argued that this case was different from many other sexual offenses because Martinez took responsibility from the beginning and pleaded guilty without any kind of plea deal in place. He said the time in prison would allow Martinez to get treatment, and a long period of probation would ensure he complied with that treatment.
Martinez told Sjue that he hoped whatever sentence he got would allow him to get the treatment he needed and to help the girl start the healing process.
“I’m just grateful for this,” he said. “It’s like having a mountain lifted off my shoulders.”
Sjue said she believed Martinez was a danger to the girl and to the community. “It’s difficult for me to imagine what she went through, being abused for so many years,” Sjue said.
She told Martinez that she thought he deserved some credit for pleading guilty, she thought he still was trying to minimize what he’d done.
“You’ve accepted responsibility by pleading guilty, but I don’t think you understand the gravity of what you’ve done,” she said.
Arizona man gets long prison term for child sex trafficking
By: Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) - A Phoenix-area man accused of providing underage girls with heroin in exchange for sex has been sentenced to 20 1/2 years in prison.
Maricopa County Superior Court officials say Ernest Longhini III of Anthem, was sentenced Tuesday for child sex trafficking and involvement of minors in a drug offense.
He pleaded guilty in February to child sex trafficking, sexual abuse and other crimes.
County Sheriff's officials began an investigation in 2016 after receiving a tip about a man trading methamphetamine and heroin for sexual favors.
They say the 33-year-old Longhini admitted to detectives that he had injected heroin into a total of three different under-aged girls on multiple occasions in exchange for sex.
Iowa Mother, daughter awarded $10 million
in sexual assault lawsuit against grandfather
KCCI
DES MOINES, Iowa —
A child and her mother have been awarded $10 million in a civil lawsuit against Dean Hilpipre, of Webster City.
An Iowa District Court judge found Kasey Hilpipre and her 9-year-old daughter entitled to $10 million after the child’s paternal grandfather sexually molested the girl for four years.
Kasey Hilpipre said her daughter was 2 years old when the sexual abuse began and that the abuse continued until she was 7.
"She stated in her testimony that, ‘My grandfather took me into the woods, and he forced my hand on his private ...’” said Deborah Yanna, the child’s maternal grandmother.
Yanna said the child stopped eating and cried easily.
“Our heart broke,” she said. “I can't even explain our heartache for her, and yet we see this little girl almost every day and she's broken."
“Children need to be protected in the state of Iowa
and they're not, the molesters are being protected.”
She said the family was devastated in 2018, when Hilpipre's 10-year prison sentence was suspended as part of a plea deal and he walked away after pleading guilty.
“Children need to be protected in the state of Iowa and they're not,” Yanna said. “The molesters are being protected.”
Kasey Hilpipre and daughter filed a civil suit for damages after Dean Hilpipre won $100,000 in the lottery.
The lawsuit alleged sexual assault, false imprisonment, assault and battery and emotional distress.
There should never be a plea deal for molesting a child
In April, Hilpipre and her daughter won their case, but she and Yanna say the money won't fix what happened to the child. “Our granddaughter won the $10 million, but that $10 million will never replace what this man took away from her,” Yanna said.
If that's Dean Hilpipre's home, it doesn't look worth $9.9m to me
Now that the case is over, Kasey Hilpipre said she plans to push for changes in Iowa law.
“If you touch a child, you go to jail. You’ll go to prison. Period,” she said. “No plea deals. There should never be a plea deal for molesting a child.”
Dean Hilpipre received 5 years of probation and a 5-year no-contact order.
In 5 years, the girl will still be just 14 years old. That sentence had no consideration of the victim whatsoever.
If he spends money without paying the judgment awarded to the family, he can be held in civil contempt.
And then what? Slap him with another 6 months of probation?
16-y/o Texas runaway spent a week with child sex traffickers
By Michelle Iracheta, Chron
Four men — including a Katy resident — have been charged by authorities in connection with a case involving child sex trafficking, according to deputies from Harris County Constable Precinct 5 Ted Heap’s office.
Twenty-six year-old Frank Roberts III, of Katy, is wanted on charges of trafficking of persons, after authorities said he and three other men forced a 16-year-old runaway “to have sexual intercourse with other men for money” even after the girl “declined to engage in prostitution,” according to court records.
Adrien Montrel Louis, 26; Coby Dewayne Daniels, 26; and Donavan Javonte Knight, 26, have all been charged with trafficking of persons. Louis has been charged in another case with compelling prostitution and is being held on a $40,000 bond.
Roberts, Louis and Daniels are all listed as Louisiana natives, according to Harris County District Court records.
Authorities said the men provided the 16-year-old girl with narcotics, alcohol and marijuana to the point where she “got highly intoxicated” and “passed out” only to find one of the suspects having “sexual intercourse with her” on separate occasions.
The events are said to taken place for at least a week before investigators found her in Roberts’ apartment off South Mason Road on Feb. 1, records show. During that time, the 16-year-old was drugged and transported between suspects’ locations, including various hotels across Harris County, records show.
Roberts was originally arrested in February for sexual assault of a child but was able to post $50,000 bond, deputies said. Investigators were later able to connect the men to sex trafficking, deputies said.
If you recognize Roberts or have any information on his whereabouts, Constable Heap asks you to call Sgt. O. Martinez at 281-463-6666 or let them know through their online crime tips webpage.
Former Texas sub teacher’s child sex abuse trial
begins Tuesday
By Field Walsh TXK Today
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday morning at the Bowie County courthouse for a former substitute teacher accused of sexual misconduct with New Boston, Texas, middle school girls.
Dylan Reed Simpson, 22, is charged with two counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact and three counts of online solicitation of a minor involving four girls who were New Boston middle school students in 2017. Each count is punishable by two to 20 years in prison.
Before jury selection begins Tuesday, 202nd District Judge John Tidwell is scheduled to hear arguments on a motion from First Assistant District Attorney Kelley Crisp and Assistant District Attorney Lauren Richards seeking to have other alleged victims testify for the state at Simpson’s trial. Defense attorneys Shorty Barrett and Joe Tyler of Texarkana are opposed to the motion.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Simpson allegedly sought out girls he knew from the school on social media and sent them sexually suggestive messages and graphic photos of himself. Simpson is also accused of touching a student’s breast and of rubbing himself on a student seated at a desk.
Opening statements and testimony are expected to begin following jury selection Tuesday. Simpson is currently free on bond.
Oregon babysitter accused of child sex abuse
facing 43 new charges
FOX 12 StaffPORTLAND, OR (KPTV) - A 33-year-old man who has worked as a babysitter in the Portland area and is accused of child sex abuse is now facing more charges.
According to court documents, Curtiss abused a child under the age of 12 between the years of 2014 and 2019. Court documents also allege that Curtiss "unlawfully and knowingly compelled the child to engage in sexually explicit conduct that was recorded."
The district attorney's office said investigators learned that Curtiss was the victim's babysitter at the time of the abuse.
Men should never be hired to babysit children! This scenario
appears on this blog almost daily. Men who seek employment as,
or volunteer as babysitters, ought to be held in extreme suspicion.
The victim and Curtiss are not related.
In January, Curtiss was indicted (7th story on link) on 10 counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse, 14 counts of second-degree encouraging child sexual abuse, and one count of encouraging the sexual assault of an animal.
According to court documents filed in January, Curtiss said he worked as a nanny until May 2018, and "was a nanny for many, many years."
Investigators believe that he may have been the babysitter of other children in Multnomah County.
Curtiss' next court date is scheduled for June 4.
16 alleged child predators used social media to lure kids for sex throughout New Jersey
By AARON KATERSKY Sixteen men were arrested on Wednesday in New Jersey where a statewide crackdown by multiple state law enforcement agencies on child sexual exploitation was called, "Operation Home Alone."
The men — including a Ridgewood, New Jersey, police officer, a high school teacher at the High School of Computers and Technology in the Bronx, New York, and drivers for Uber and Lyft — were charged with luring and attempted sexual assault for allegedly using popular social media sites to identify children to groom for assault.
The men were really communicating with undercover investigators posing as children as part of a sting operation that New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said highlighted “a new breed” of child predator.
“In the past child predators used to stalk children at playgrounds, at school yards, at shopping malls. Now they lurk on social media,” Grewal said a news conference announcing the charges.
Prosecutors said the men — ages between 28 to 55 — used social media websites, chat apps and gaming apps including Kik, Skout, Grindr, Tinder, MeetMe, Adam4Adam, Fortnite, Minecraft and Hot or Not to engage with underage boys and girls.
PHOTO: Men arrested in a multi-state sting operation aimed at child sexual predators called Operation Home Alone are pictured on a poster released by law enforcement officials, April 24, 2019. NJ Office of the Attorney General
Once chatting began, the undercover officers identified themselves as underage girls or boys that were 14- or 15-years-old. Despite that information, the men allegedly continued the conversations about sex and made arrangements to meet the “children” for sex.
“One of the unfortunate consequences of the internet is the potential opportunities created for the depraved members of our society to prey on vulnerable victims,” said FBI Newark Special Agent-in-Charge Gregory W. Ehrie.
The accused sexual predators, like Police Officer Peter Tuchol Jr., teacher Kevin Roth, traveling minister Roger Arroyo and dental hygienist Dariush Ghamarnezhad, were variously charged with second-degree luring and attempted sexual assault on a minor, third-degree debauching morals of a child. Prosecutor said, if convicted of the second-degree charges, they face between five to 10 years in prison with a fine of up to $150,000.
Other successful operations in New Jersey netted 79 perverts in Dec 2017, and 24 in Sept 2018.
Great work AG Grewal!
East Boston man in court on child sex abuse,
child porn charges
WCVB BOSTON —
An East Boston man accused of sexually assaulting a child, enticing another to create child pornography and transmitting dozens of graphic sexual images of minors through a smartphone application was in Suffolk Superior Court Wednesday.
"These charges are disturbing and represent some of the worst crimes against children," District Attorney Rachael Rollins said after the indictment. "Survivors who have been exploited through child pornography may never be fully able to put these offenses in the past, because the images of their abuse live on. They bear the pain of knowing that individuals across the globe – and possibly even in their own community – are viewing photos and videos of the most painful and degrading moments of their lives."
The charges stem from an investigation that began in December when workers at a Revere pawn shop notified police that they found images of child pornography on a phone that D’Amore sold at the business, investigators said. An examination of the contents of that phone and a second phone belonging to D’Amore revealed hundreds of graphic images and videos of children being sexually abused or posed in a sexual manner, investigators said.
Prosecutors said D’Amore shared and received similar graphic images through the Kik app on multiple occasions, including a single day in November during which he allegedly shared at least 75 files containing child pornography. Detectives also became aware that an email service provider filed two CyberTips with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that each report separate instances of images identified as child pornography being uploaded to an email account, later determined to belong to D’Amore, investigators said.
In messages sent on Kik, D’Amore made statements that he had sexually abused a young child who was known to him, investigators said. The child was interviewed and disclosed the abuse, investigators said.
D’Amore is also charged with trafficking in persons for sexual servitude for allegedly enticing a 15-year-old teenage girl from North Carolina to create pornography. In a text exchange discovered on a second phone belonging to D’Amore, he made statements offering to pay the girl in return for sexual images and acts and instructed her to pose nude in photos, investigators said. In addition to receiving those photographs from the victim, D’Amore is also accused of sending sexual images to the child, and discussing traveling to North Carolina to meet the girl in person for sex.
Kentucky woman, 63, charged with rape, sodomy, incest and sex abuse of child
By BEN CARLSONA Lawrenceburg woman scheduled to go to trial this summer for the alleged sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12 was arrested overnight on a slew of new charges that include rape, sodomy, incest and sexual abuse, according to documents on file in Anderson Circuit Court.
Bond has been set at $25,000 cash.
Franklin was taken into custody late last night by the Kentucky State police after a warrant for her arrested was signed yesterday morning by a judge.
The new charges list the abuse of a child under the age of 12 dating back to October 2013 and continuing through January 2017. Each of the charges appear to involve the same child, based on initials included in each count of the indictment.
The first-degree rape charges stem from allegations from March to May 2016, and from August 2016 through January of 2017, when Franklin “committed the offense of rape in the first degree by engaging in sexual intercourse with [initials omitted], a person less than 12 years of age,” according to the April 19 indictment.
The alleged sodomy of the child began in January 2017 and lasted through March 2017, and is characterized in the indictment as Franklin “engaging in [deviant] sexual intercourse” with the child.
The incest charge is for allegations between March and May of 2016, according to the indictment.
The alleged first-degree sexual abuse began in October 2013 and continued through April 2015, according to the April 19 indictment.
Franklin was out of jail on a $10,000 cash bond at the time of her arrest and scheduled to stand trial Aug. 6 on previous charges that include two counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12, and one count of second-degree criminal abuse, also of a child under the age of 12.
Texas child sex abuse trial ends in a hung jury
By Bluebonnet News By Vanesa Brashier
A Liberty County jury on April 15 could not settle on the guilt or innocence of a 56-year-old Tarkington man, Samuel Glenn Templeton, ending his week-long trial with a hung jury and leaving open the possibility that he will be retried later this year on multiple counts of Indecency With a Child.
The accusations against Templeton were made by two people to whom he was related for a number of years. His accusers testified during trial that the abuse began 20 years ago and continued for a number of years.
The trial was complicated by a lack of physical evidence to support their claims as they made a delayed outcry years after the alleged abuse ended.
Because of a conflict with the case, Liberty County District Attorney Logan Pickett stepped aside and Templeton’s prosecution was handled by Liberty County Attorney Matthew Poston. The trial was held in the 253rd State District Courtroom of the Honorable Judge Chap Cain.
There is no word yet on when or if Templeton will be retried.
Texas Couple Sentenced to 60 Years in Prison After Filming Child Sexual Abuse
Cheryl Ravelo-Gagalac/Reuters
A Texas couple was sentenced to 60 years in prison after they filmed themselves sexually abusing over two dozen children, including babies.
According to the Associated Press, Christopher and Sarah Rashelle Almaguer pleaded guilty to “one count each of sexual exploitation of children and production of child pornography” in October and were given the maximum prison sentences by U.S. District Judge Alan Albright.
Christopher’s brother, Paul Perez Jr., was also sentenced to 20 years in prison for two counts of receiving child porn.
The judge sentenced all three to a lifetime of supervised release and ordered each to pay $10,000 toward a victims’ compensation fund.
The Waco couple filmed themselves abusing at least 25 children between the ages of 8 months and 14 years old, including children they babysat and their own family.
Another report indicates the couple are from Killeen, Texas.
The Almaguers were arrested after getting an anonymous tip from a child exploitation hotline. The AP reports it is unclear how many people received the child porn the Almaguers produced.
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