San Diego judge rules that sexually violent predator will be placed back into community
BY CITY NEWS SERVICE AND JASON SLOSS
SAN DIEGO -- A San Diego County Superior Court judge ruled Monday that a sexually violent predator known as the "Bolder-Than-Most" rapist will be placed back into the community and continue treatment under a conditional release program.
Following a closed-door evidentiary hearing that lasted several days, Judge David M. Gill ruled that Alvin Ray Quarles, 56, will be released to a home somewhere in San Diego County.
An Aug. 30 status conference was scheduled, at which time the public will be allowed to weigh in and officials with CONREP, the conditional release program run by the California Department of State Hospitals, may present potential housing options.
However, Gill said it typically takes "at least three months" for a suitable home to be located in these cases. Until then, Quarles will remain at Coalinga State Hospital, where he's been undergoing sex offender treatment since 2014.
Quarles was dubbed the "Bolder-Than-Most" rapist because of the way he attacked his victims, at knifepoint, sometimes forcing the women's husbands or boyfriends to watch. He pleaded guilty in 1989 to committing more than a dozen sexual assaults in the mid-to-late 1980s and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
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In September 2016, Quarles petitioned the court to be granted release through the Conditional Release Program for sex offenders. Gill ordered last fall that Quarles could be released to a home in Jacumba Hot Springs, a decision that prosecutors, along with county Supervisor Dianne Jacob, requested that Gill reconsider. Since that time, the agreement to rent the residence has fallen through, and Gill allowed for further argument toward a possible reconsideration of his decision to release Quarles.
Two of Quarles' victims, Cynthia Medina and Mary Taylor, expressed disappointment over the ruling, as well as Gill's order to keep the evidentiary hearings closed to the public due to privacy concerns over the potential disclosure of Quarles' psychiatric reports. .
"We were not even allowed to know who was testifying, let alone be allowed in there to hear the testimony," Taylor said. "So, I want to ask Judge Gill, how am I supposed to accept this decision when I've been completely cut out of it?"
Jacob echoed those sentiments, saying: "He's not safe to be released. And again, we were not privileged to the information that the judge had to make his decision. That's not fair and that's not right."
Jacob said she hopes Quarles is placed somewhere outside of the county, though she had one potential in-county idea.
"If I had my pick, I think we ought to put him right next to Judge Gill's house," Jacob said.
Boy Scouts failed to stop hundreds of previously unreported sexual predators, a lawsuit alleges
(Tony Gutierrez/AP)
A group of lawyers is claiming to have uncovered hundreds of previously unreported cases of sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Pennsylvania. The plaintiff in the case, named only as S.D. to keep his identity private, is alleging that he was assaulted “hundreds” of times by a scout leader in Pennsylvania over the course of about four years in the 1970s.
The lawsuit alleges that S.D.'s abuse would not have been possible had it not been for the negligence of the Boy Scouts, that the organization conspired to keep incidents of sexual assault a secret, and that the organization and other defendants engaged in “reckless misconduct” in failing to protect its young participants. The complaint names the Boy Scouts, the Penn Mountains Council, and S.D.'s alleged abuser,and was filed in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas.
The litigation stems from an attempt to unearth previously unreported cases of child sexual abuse in one of the country’s most prominent youth organizations, spearheaded by Abused in Scouting, a group of law firms that collaborate on bringing such cases to light.
For decades, the Boy Scouts organization has kept detailed files, known as the ineligible volunteer files, that documented thousands of pedophiles known to have preyed on children. In the past decade, a large tranche of the documents became public through lawsuits and investigative reporting. But those records may be incomplete.
Included in S.D.'s lawsuit is a claim that Abused in Scouting has identified more than 350 people who do not appear in the ineligible volunteer files, S.D.'s alleged abuser among them.
“BSA knew for decades that sexual predators of boys had infiltrated scouting,” the complaint says, and claims that the organization “knew or should have known the dangers” that pedophiles within the organization, including S.D.'s alleged abuser, posed to children.
S.D.'s ordeal began in approximately 1974 or 1975, when he was 12 or 13, according to the lawsuit. He was the alleged victim of an assistant scoutmaster who “actively groomed young boys under his charge for later sexual molestation,” the lawsuit claims. S.D. was allegedly subjected to “hundreds of instances of fondling, hundreds of incidents of oral sexual assault and repeated attempts of anal penetration” at Camp Acahela, a Boy Scouts retreat in eastern Pennsylvania, as well as at his abuser’s home, the lawsuit says.
Requests for comment sent to phone numbers and emails associated with the alleged abuser were not immediately returned.
S.D. has “had tremendous affects from the abuse,” Stewart Eisenberg, S.D.'s representative and one of the lead lawyers from Abused in Scouting. “This is the first time he’s ever come forward. He’s held it in for all those years.”
And S.D. is not alone.
For more on this story, please visit WAPO.
Greenwood, Ark., Man Accused Of Child Sex Abuse, Rape
BY 5NEWS WEB STAFF
GREENWOOD (KFSM) — A Greenwood man is accused of sexually abusing and raping a girl under 14 years old.
Patrick Crumby was arrested Tuesday (Aug. 6) in connection with second-degree sexual assault and rape — both felonies.
The girl accused Crumby of touching her private areas and forcing a sexual act on her, according to an arrest affidavit.
Crumby denied the charges, but said he may have inadvertently stuck his thumb in the girl’s mouth while moving her, according to the affidavit.
Crumby was being held Wednesday (Aug. 7) at the Sebastian County Detention Center on a $100,000 bond.
Rape is a Class Y felony in Arkansas and punishable by up to life in prison.
Testimony begins in Hudson Valley child sex abuse case
Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media
HUDSON — Defense attorney John Hillman of Valatie appealed to the jurors’ reason, asking them to consider the alleged victim’s story about the circumstances before, during and after the acts as testimony began Wednesday in the child sex abuse trial of John Acklin.
Under cross-examination, the alleged victim testified that he did not report the incidents to the police, nor did he recall seeing a doctor after the incidents.
The alleged victim testified that he had suppressed the memories of the event until he reported them to police in 2017. Initially, the alleged victim had trouble recalling details of the event, such as the time and date, to police, he testified.
“He said he loved me and he wanted to show how much he loved me,” the alleged victim testified.
One of the incidents allegedly occurred on a winter day in 2004, when Acklin took the boy into the garage of his home to show him the recently hunted deer hanging inside, the alleged victim testified. That’s when, with no one else around, Acklin allegedly sodomized the boy. He was 5 years old.
“He said if I told anybody he would make my family disappear,” the boy, now a young adult, testified Wednesday.
Acklin is accused of that assault and several others in Livingston.
The alleged victim testified that Acklin lured him with toys, candy and money. He was allegedly assaulted four times in all. Acklin gave the alleged victim a space ranger action figure that became one of his favorite toys after one of the alleged incidents, the alleged victim testified.
“He said it [the toy] would protect me,” the alleged victim testified.
Hillman asked if a family member had helped him to remember the alleged incidents. “Never,” the alleged victim replied.
Hillman also asked whether the family had an opportunity to view any types of marks or wounds on him after the incident. The alleged victim testified that his parents did not, and that he bathed alone.
Acklin, 55, faces a 32-count indictment that includes three separate charges: 11 counts of predatory sexual assault against a child, a class A-II felony; 12 counts of first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child, a class B felony; and nine counts of aggravated sexual abuse in the second degree, a class C felony.
Two children, a boy and girl under 13 years old, were allegedly sexually assaulted between 2004 and 2006 in Columbia County, according to the March 12 indictment. Another boy, under 11 years old, was allegedly assaulted between 1992 and 1996. The Register-Star does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault.
Acklin was babysitting the alleged victims for the periods of time that the alleged offenses were committed in Livingston, according to police.
Good grief! Male babysitters. Please don't ever use male babysitters!
State police began an investigation in 2017 into reports of sexual assaults that allegedly occurred more than a decade ago in Livingston. Acklin was initially arraigned Nov. 9, 2018, on one count of first-degree criminal sex act, a class B felony, according to state police. Since Acklin’s arrest, other alleged victims have come forward, according to the indictment.
The trial began Monday and jury selection of eight men and six women took place Tuesday. Two jurors will serve as alternates. On Wednesday, the day began with opening statements.
The trial resumes Thursday at 9 a.m.
Acklin has been held in Columbia County Jail since his arraignment March 25.
Chief Assistant District Attorney James Carlucci is prosecuting the case.
Town of Chenango, NY Man Charged With
Child Sex Abuse
By Briana Supardi CONNECTTOWN OF CHENANGO, N.Y. -
A Town of Chenango man has been arrested and charged with child sexual abuse on Wednesday.
The Broome County Sheriff's Office Detective Division arrested Larry Birt, 69, following accusations of him engaging in multiple acts of sexual conduct with a juvenile over the course of several years.
An investigation into Birt was initiated after the Broome County Sheriff's Office received a complaint that was filed with an out of state agency.
During the investigation detectives were able to identify an additional victim who alleged abuse.
As a result of the investigation, Birt faces the following charges:
one count of Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the First Degree
one count of Sexual Abuse in the First Degree
one count of Criminal Sexual Act in the Second Degree
one count of Endangering the Welfare of a Child
The 69-year old was processed on the charges and subsequently arraigned. He was remanded to the custody of the Broome County Sheriff’s Correctional Facility.
Mississippi man jailed after failing to appear in
Alabama court on child sex abuse charges
BY WHNT NEWS 19
Deputies took Mark Oliver into custody earlier this week. His arrest stems from a failure to appear in court for a charge of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12.
Sheriff’s investigators say Oliver victimized a young girl who was an acquaintance at the time of the incident.
He is being held in the Franklin County Jail without bond.
Franklin Co., Ala
Illinois man arrested for criminal sexual abuse
of child under 5 y/o
by: Matt Sheehan, WMBD
The man, 67-year-old Benjamin Barajas-Silva, was arrested at 3 a.m. Tuesday. His alleged victim was less than five years old.
No formal charges have been filed. Barajas-Silva was released after posting a $100 bond.
His court date is set for Sept. 18.
There is no other information at this time.
Burley, Idaho man charged with sexual abuse of a child
in 1st or 2nd grade
LAURIE WELCH, ISJBURLEY — A Burley man has been charged with multiple felonies after a 12-year-old girl reported he sexually abused her.
On May 19, court documents say, the girl’s mother and the child went to the sheriff’s office to report that Morales had touched her in a sexual way multiple times, some when she was in first or second grade.
The girl told officials she had not told anyone because he had told her not to. She reported he would send other children outside to play and not let her go outside with them, then on several occasions touched her inappropriately. Other times, she said he forced her to watch pornography and raped her.
A preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 19 in Cassia County Magistrate Court.
Former pastor of Baltimore-area Baptist church arrested on child sex abuse charges
By Jonathan PittsBALTIMORE SUN |
Baltimore County police have arrested a former pastor of a fundamentalist Baptist church in Dundalk on charges he sexually abused a teenager on the church’s grounds and elsewhere in the Baltimore area more than 10 years ago.
Authorities charged him with sexual abuse of a minor, perverted practice and a fourth-degree sexual offense in 2007 involving the girl, who was part of the congregation.
A warrant for Giovanelli’s arrest was issued Monday, and he traveled to Maryland to turn himself in Tuesday to county police under an agreement made through his attorney, county State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger said. Giovanelli was released on his own recognizance.
Giovanelli’s accuser, Sarah Jackson, has publicly described several times what she called sexual abuse by the pastor when she was 16, a member at Calvary Baptist, the granddaughter of an associate pastor, and a babysitter of Giovanelli’s children. The Baltimore Sun does not typically identify people who say they are sex abuse victims, but Jackson gave permission for her name to be used.
The 29-year-old Harford County resident first made her accusations in May 2018 in a Facebook post and repeated them in a personal blog, in YouTube videos, and as a guest in June on a podcast called “Not Your Mother’s Podcast."
Giavonelli could not immediately be reached for comment.
On Tuesday night, Jackson tweeted her reaction.
“I have cried. I have prayed. I have watched my character, integrity and my family being shredded for speaking up,” she wrote. “Today, God’s timing was revealed. Today, Cameron Giovanelli was arrested for sexually abusing me in high school.”
Jackson said Wednesday that she preferred not comment further.
Giovanelli has denied the allegations, including in a 2,400-word posting that appeared on his website in June, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which ran an investigative series in December on sexual misconduct by preachers in the independent fundamentalist Baptist church. That is a loose affiliation of conservative congregations within the Baptist tradition.
Jackson “is a liar and her day of dragging my name through the mud is done!" he wrote in the statement, according to the Star-Telegram article. "For over one year, I have allowed her to smear my name, seek to destroy my reputation, and harass my family through social media.” The statement is no longer on Giovanelli’s website.
Not exactly what I would call a godly response!
Giovanelli left Calvary Baptist in 2014 to accept the position of president at his alma mater, Golden State Baptist College in Santa Clara, California, according to the his successor at the church, the Rev. Stacey Shiflett.
Calvary Baptist has a membership of about 350 people, said Shiflett, whom Giovanelli supported as his replacement five years ago.
When reports of the alleged abuse reached Shiflett in May 2018, he said, he called Jackson and asked whether the allegations were true. Shiflett said Jackson described what happened in a lengthy conference call with Shiflett and church deacons as her husband, Thomas Jackson, a Harford sheriff’s deputy, listened in.
Shiflett said the story was so detailed that he and the other church leaders decided to investigate further. He said he quickly found numerous witnesses who corroborated many elements of Jackson’s story, and other evidence supported it as well.
“There were a lot of things she said that I knew she couldn’t have been making up,” Shiflett said.
Jackson posted her account of the alleged abuse on Facebook, and shortly after the allegations went viral, Giovanelli, a married father of three, left his position at the California school to accept an associate pastor’s position at Immanuel Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida.
Shiflett said one reason he took Jackson’s allegations seriously is that he was twice the victim of attempted sexual abuse within churches and one of his abusers went on to take a prominent position at a Christian school in another state, even though he warned administrators about the man.
Shiflett said he has kept his parishioners apprised of developments in the case, and the congregants have been supportive.
“These kinds of cover-ups have to stop,” he said. “It’s not going to happen this time.”
If convicted, Giovanelli faces up to 25 years in prison on the charge of sexual abuse of a minor, 10 years on the perverted practice charge, and one year on the fourth-degree sex offense charge.
Giovanelli recently announced plans to open and serve as president of the North Florida Baptist College starting in 2020. As of Wednesday, his name was not listed on the school’s website.
A preliminary hearing on the case is scheduled for Aug. 30 in county District Court in Towson.
Kansas girl found child sex abuse images of her sister, 7, on pedophile’s phone
Jimmy McCloskey, Metro
Pedophile Dennis Lamonte Everett was jailed at the Robert J Dole Courthouse on Tuesday after his seven year-old victim’s sister found child sex abuse images on his phone (Pictures: FBI/Google Maps)
A pedophile was caught after his seven year-old victim’s older sister found child sex abuse images on the pervert’s phone.
Dennis Lamont Everette, 46, was jailed for 15 years Tuesday after admitting taking pornographic images of a child victim. He made the youngster take off her clothes, then instructed her on how to pose for photos and a videos in return for chewing gum.
WDAF reported that in one clip Everette can be heard telling the naked girl to ‘move it up and down’ – a reference to her backside.
Everette’s abusive behavior was uncovered after the girl’s sister borrowed his phone and found at least 10 images of her sibling on its camera and video roll. She told her mother what she had seen, prompting the woman to call police.
During a subsequent interview, Everette’s victim used an anatomical drawing to indicate to police which parts of her body he had touched clothed and unclothed.
Another eyewitness told how the creep would buy drinks and snacks to butter-up children in his neighborhood, then play seemingly harmless games with them.
Lamonte faces a lifetime of supervised release when he is freed from jail in 2035.
Child sex abuse investigation results in charges
against Rowan, NC, man
By David WhisenantROWAN COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - A man faces charges after a sex abuse investigation by the Rowan Sheriff’s Office.
Casper, 34, of the 2200 block of Stirewalt Road, was charged on Tuesday with one count of felony statutory sex offense with a child by an adult, four counts of felony indecent liberties with a child, three counts of statutory sex offense with a child less than 15 and two counts of statutory rape of a child less than 15.
The investigation began on July 11. The victim, who is known to Casper, talked with representatives at the Terrie Hess Child Advocacy Center at Prevent Child Abuse Rowan.
Detectives with the Rowan Sheriff’s Office and Rowan County Department of Social Services conducted the investigation.
Casper was arrested Tuesday and is in the Rowan County Detention Center under a $250,000 secured bond.
Rowan Co., NC
Graham, NC, man charged with child sex abuse
The investigation began in December, when the Sheriff’s Office got a report of sexual abuse involving a 15-year-old. The report said the child had been sexually assaulted multiple times over “an extended period of time,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Wednesday.
“The child was interviewed and disclosed sexual abuse,” and investigators conducted “multiple interviews and follow-ups” during the investigation, the Sheriff’s Office said.
In June, Rice was arrested and ordered to serve 75 days in jail for violating a domestic violence protective order after he contacted the child and the child’s mother, the Sheriff’s Office said. He was in jail when Tuesday’s charges were brought.
Rice has a first District Court appearance at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
More charges are possible as the investigation continues, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit at 336-570-6300.
Duncan, Okla. man pleads not guilty to child sexual abuse
DUNCAN, Okla. (TNN) - A Duncan man has pleaded not guilty in connection to alleged sexual abuse of a child.
According to a police report, when police interviewed Biby he stated that he did commit various sexual acts to the victim on at least two occasions. He also told police that the incidents all occurred in the apartment in a bedroom shared by other children.
Biby was placed under arrest and was taken to the Stephens County Jail. He faces one count of Child Sexual Abuse with a Child Under 12 in Stephens County.
He appeared at the Stephens County courthouse this week where he pleaded not guilty to the child sexual abuse charge. His trial is set for January in Stephens County.
He also faces four counts of Lewd or Indecent Acts to a Child Under 16 out of Grady County for assaulting the same child at a home in Chickasha. Those acts allegedly took place starting in November of 2017.
Biby has a preliminary hearing set for Wednesday in Grady County.
Utica, NY, man charged with child sex abuse
Tashawn Gilmore was charged with second-degree sex abuse and endangering the welfare of a child, both misdemeanors, deputies said Tuesday. Authorities said the 28-year-old was processed at the Utica Police Department and was later arraigned.
An order of protection was requested on the victim’s behalf, deputies said, while the victim has also been offered counseling services through the Child Advocacy Center.
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