North Fort Myers, Fla, girl, 2, dies after
suspected child sexual abuse
A 2-year-old girl, who was taken to a hospital last week, died Friday after an incident of suspected child sexual abuse.
Nicholas Stephen Canfield, 25, of North Fort Myers, and the child's caregiver were charged with sexual assault and aggravated child abuse after deputies found him trying life-saving measures on the girl, according to a Lee County Sheriff's news release.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded to a medical assist call April 29, shortly before 2 p.m. involving an unresponsive 2-year-old girl at a residence on West Mariana Avenue just west of Business 41 in North Fort Myers.
Canfield was arrested shortly after 5:30 a.m. April 30, and remains in Lee County Jail without bond.
Medical staff at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit determined that there were indications of recent sexual abuse, as well as fresh bruises, swelling and other forms of physical trauma.
Marion Co., Fla, child sex abuse suspect
faces new charges
faces new charges
By WCJB Staff
MARION COUNTY, Fla. (WCJB) -- On Tuesday, May 5, 2020, Detective Galler of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office Major crimes unit arrested Jose Pagan, 42.
Pagan has been charged for sexual battery by a custodian on a victim younger than 18 and sexual battery on a child younger than 12.
In late April, Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputies along with the Florida Department of Children and Families responded to a Marion County residence after getting reports of sexual abuse.
A victim told deputies that Pagan started molesting her when she was about eight years old. The girl said it was right before the suspect remodeled the house for the first time and continued during the remodeling.
The victim said the abuse started with oral sex and it escalated to vaginal penetration when she was about 11.
The victim said Pagan made deals with her, like allowing her to go to a friend’s house or drive the car, in exchange for sexual favors. The victim told investigators that she chose to come forward after seeing other sexual abuse reports involving the suspect.
Back in March in another case, Pagan was arrested and charged with two counts of capital sexual battery and two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation.
According to that arrest report, in October of 2019, a detective from the Escambia County Sheriff's Office conducted an interview and report that said that Pagan allegedly sexually assaulted girls of the ages of 3,7,10, and 12.
On Tuesday, Pagan posted a $70,000 bond which was for the March arrest. He was then released. However, Marion County Sheriff’s deputies located Pagan and arrested him within hours for the second case. He currently sits in the Marion County Jail with no bond.
Marion Co., Fla
Fort Worth, Tx, child sex predator sentenced to 80 years
A Fort Worth child sexual predator was sentenced Monday to 80 years in federal prison announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
Tyrone Alexander Taylor, 42, pled guilty in October to two counts of sexual exploitation of a child and possession of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
“This sentence, essentially a life sentence, exemplifies the seriousness of this horrible conduct – one committed against the most vulnerable among us,” stated U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox. “We will continue to dedicate whatever resources necessary to bring to justice to predators who prey on and victimize children.”
“The FBI works with our law enforcement partners every day to ensure that children are protected from predators who seek to exploit them,” said FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno. “Today’s outcome is the result of collaboration and commitment to holding a sexual predator accountable for their actions. We ask that the public continue to remain vigilant and report any suspected child exploitation to the FBI or local law enforcement.”
According to court documents, FBI agents launched their investigation after a computer repair business reported discovering child pornography on a hard drive owned by Taylor. After meeting with a business representative to review the images that depicted child pornography, agents took custody of the hard drive and conducted a forensic review of the device.
Taylor admitted the hard drive belonged to him and that it contained a number of child pornography videos and images – some as young as 9.
Taylor and codefendant, Shannon Nichols, sentenced in February to 50 years in federal prison, sexually victimized children by using them to create child pornography, which Taylor meticulously stored on his computer.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney A. Saleem prosecuted the case.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a Justice Department initiative designed to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse nationwide. The initiative organizes and deploys federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.
Kansas' Butler Community College daycare's
assistant director accused of child sex abuse
assistant director accused of child sex abuse
EduCare Center (Google Maps)
EL DORADO, Kan. (KAKE) -
El Dorado police have arrested the assistant director of the Butler Community College daycare employee following a report of child sex abuse that happened about five years ago.
The department said Thursday in a release that Brent Martin was arrested Sunday and charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a child.
Police said the alleged sexual assault happened at the EduCare Daycare Center on the Butler Community College campus in El Dorado.
"During the course of this investigation an arrest was made of an employee of the daycare facility," the post on the police department's Facebook page says. "The individual arrested was involved in multiple community organization where he came into contact with children."
Anyone with information about the ongoing investigation or if you believe your child is a victim of sexual abuse, contact Detective Kayla Gatz at 316-322-4498 or email at Kgatz@eldoks.com.
"We believe this is a great reminder to have a conversation with your children regarding sexual abuse," the post says. "For help with starting this conversation with your children please utilize SCARF - Sunlight Children's Advocacy & Rights Foundation which can be reached at 316-313-4107."
PA woman pleads guilty to sexual abuse of children
By Keith Gushard, Meadville Tribune
A Meadville woman has admitted to charges that she sexually abused three young children during a four-year period.
Bronson and co-defendant Adam L. Wagner, 31, were charged by city police with various sexual acts involving several children between September 2014 and September 2018.
Wagner pleaded no contest in county court earlier this year to a total of 11 counts involving three young girls and was sentenced last month.
In Bronson's case, the children involved were two girls who were ages 2 and 6, respectively, when the abuse began, and a boy who was age 4 when it began, according to court documents.
Bronson pleaded guilty Thursday before President Judge John Spataro to two third-degree felony counts of disseminating explicit sexual materials to a minor; two third-degree counts of endangering the welfare of children; and first degree-misdemeanor counts of indecent assault on someone under age 13 and corruption of minors.
Bronson faces up to 38 years in jail and $110,000 in fines when she is sentenced Aug. 13. She also will be required to register as a sexual offender.
Co-defendant Wagner was sentenced April 29 in county court to serve a total of 10 to 20 years in jail followed by 20 years of probation.
Wagner entered no contest pleas to three counts each of child rape, aggravated indecent assault on a child under age 13 and disseminating explicit sexual material to a minor; and one count each of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child and indecent assault on a child under age 13.
In pleading no contest, a person doesn't admit guilt, but agrees there is enough evidence to convict if a trial were held. A no contest plea has the same effect for sentencing purposes as pleading guilty.
Bronson also pleaded guilty Thursday in county court to a second-degree misdemeanor charge of theft for an unrelated case. Meadville Police Department charged Bronson with theft and receiving stolen property for an incident Jan. 25. She faces up to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine in that case, also on Aug. 13.
Bronson remains held in the Crawford County jail in lieu of a total of $45,000 bond awaiting sentencing.
Springfield, Mo, Man Charged with Producing
Child Porn, Abuse of Three Teens
by Don LedfordOzarks Independent
A Springfield, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court with sexually assaulting three teenagers and recording the abuse on his cell phone.
William Shane Berg, 47, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Springfield on Wednesday, May 6, with one count of producing child pornography.
Investigators found images of the sexual abuse on Berg’s cell phone and laptop computer, the affidavit says.
The charge contained in this complaint is simply an accusation, and not evidence of guilt. Evidence supporting the charge must be presented to a federal trial jury, whose duty is to determine guilt or innocence.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ami Harshad Miller. It was investigated by the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force, the FBI and the Springfield, Mo., Police Department.
Texas Man Sentenced to 60 Years in Prison for Sexually Abusing a Child in Hundreds of Videos and Images
(STL.News) – A man from Water Valley, Texas, was sentenced today to serve 60 years in prison for producing hundreds of videos and images of himself sexually abusing a child.
According to court documents, in addition to the hundreds of videos and images he created of himself sexually abusing a minor, he also admitted to sexually abusing at least two additional minors. Groover also admitted to maintaining a large collection of child pornography, which included depictions of the sexual abuse of infants and toddlers, sadism and bestiality.
The case was investigated by HSI’s San Angelo, Texas, office, and the Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office with assistance from the High Technology Investigative Unit within the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. Trial Attorney Kyle P. Reynolds of CEOS and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey R. Haag prosecuted the case along with former Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell H. Lorfing.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.
Two sentenced for child sexual abuse in Ionia County, Mi.
Martin receives 188 days of jail credit. He must pay $1,088 in court costs. He also must register as a sex offender.
He was ordered to have no contact with anyone under the age of 17, with the exception that he can have contact with a minor family member only during incarceration.
Martin must have no contact with the victim and must submit to DNA testing.
Martin raped a 13-year-old girl in October 2019 in Portland Township.
The Michigan State Police investigated the case and they were notified of the offense through Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, where the victim and her mother had gone for treatment initially, said Ionia County Prosecutor Kyle Butler.
Martin made statements to support the allegation, Butler said.
Martin was represented by Ionia County Chief Public Defender Walter Downes.
Daniel P. Ryan, 35, of Ionia, was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for second degree criminal sexual conduct with a person under age 13, and one to four years for possessing child sexually abusive material. The sentences will be served concurrently.
One count of second degree criminal sexual conduct, one count of using a computer to commit a crime and two counts of possessing child sexually abusive material were dismissed.
Ryan receives 72 days jail credit and must pay $676 in court costs.
He must register as a sex offender, have no contact with the victim, have no contact with anyone under the age of 17 and must comply with DNA testing.
Butler said Ryan had sexual contact with an 11-year-old girl in October 2019 in Boston Township. The victim told her mother the next morning what happened.
“The (Ionia County Sheriff’s Office) did a great job in interviewing and investigating the case,” Butler said.
Ryan also possessed child pornography. Ryan was represented by attorney Heath Lynch.
Martin and Ryan had no prior criminal history, Butler said.
Owen J. Roberts High School Teacher Charged with Institutional Sexual Assault of a Minor in Pa
by MyChesCo 
SOUTH COVENTRY TOWNSHIP, PA — The Chester County District Attorney’s Office and Pennsylvania State Police recently announced the arrest Stephen Eric Raught, for institutional sexual assault, corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of children and related offenses for an assault that occurred on March 16, 2020. The defendant is a teacher at Owen J. Roberts High School in South Coventry Township, Chester County. The Owen J. Roberts School District has placed the suspect on administrative leave.
District Attorney Deb Ryan stated, “A teacher who violates his duty of care and protection of a minor will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We expect our children will be safe at school. The District Attorney’s Office, along with law enforcement, will remain vigilant in protecting children. We thank the Pennsylvania State Police for their swift response and the Owen J. Roberts School District for their full cooperation.”
In a media release, the Owen J. Roberts School District stated, “The District learned of the investigation on April 6, 2020, and placed Mr. Raught on administrative leave on that very day to ensure there was no student contact during the investigation. Everyone in the District is shocked and saddened by these developments.”
The allegations from the criminal complaint are as follows:
On March 24, 2020, the Pennsylvania State Police were contacted in reference to a ChildLine report involving a sexual assault by a teacher of a 17-year-old student at the Owen J. Roberts High School at 981 Ridge Road, South Coventry Township.
The victim was interviewed on March 26, 2020. She stated that she is a student at the high school and that she would spend time with the defendant after school in his classroom. She also reported that she would discuss personal matters with him and he would often hug her.
She related that she went to school on March 16, 2020, to retrieve items at school with permission. She later observed the defendant on school grounds and they went to his classroom together. Once inside the defendant’s classroom she stated that the defendant hugged her and kissed her on the lips. She indicated that he took her to another location in the room that was out of view from the door where he engaged in further sexual conduct.
The victim stated that the defendant briefly stopped and told her, “I really wish I could take you home with me. But we both know that would be very bad and I wouldn’t be able to help myself.” The defendant then proceeded to perform additional sexual acts. He later told her, “Too bad we have quarantine, or else you’d be in my classroom every day after school. But I’d be late to baseball practice every day and chances are someone would walk in and see something.” Video surveillance footage shows the defendant and victim together at the school.
The defendant is 53 years old. The defendant was arrested on May 7, 2020, and arraigned via video before Magisterial District Judge John Hipple, District Court 15-3-01. Bail was set at $50,000 cash. Raught was remanded to Chester County Prison unable to post bail.
This case was investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police and assigned to Assistant District Attorney Emily Provencher from the Chester County District Attorney’s Child Abuse Unit. Anyone with information regarding these or other incidents involving the defendant should contact the Pennsylvania State Police, Embreeville Station at (610) 486-6280 and ask to speak to a Criminal Investigator.
There seem to be a few stories of inappropriate student/teacher relationships at this school. Unfortunately, I don't have time to run them down.
So Coventry Twnshp, Pa
A Western Alaska school district repeatedly dismissed allegations against a principal.
..
Then an FBI agent pretended to be a 13-y/o girl
The principal for one of Alaska’s largest rural elementary schools, in a region with some of the highest sex-crime rates in the nation and a state with a history of failing to protect students, was allowed to remain on the job until the FBI got involved.
Author: Kyle Hopkins, Greg Kim, KYUK Public Media
For some parents, it was the gifts from the principal to young girls and their families that gave them pause. A few too many presents that cost a little too much money. Then began the late-night Facebook messages.
Through most of it, the principal of one of the largest elementary schools in rural Alaska remained on the job and in close contact with students. Then, in December, Gladys Jung Elementary Principal Christopher Carmichael was arrested by the FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force and later charged with possession of child pornography, attempted coercion of a child and sexual abuse of a minor.
In a state with a history of failing to protect children, and in a region with a sexual assault rate more than six times the national average, parents of girls are asking the same question: How was this allowed to happen?
An investigation by the Anchorage Daily News, KYUK Public Media and ProPublica found that at least twice over the previous four years, parents had complained to police about Carmichael. In 2016, Carmichael admitted behavior to his supervisors that, under Alaska ethics laws for educators, could have cost him his teaching certificate.
After those earlier investigations, which ended without charges, Carmichael’s employer, the Lower Kuskokwim School District, allowed him to remain at school. The district fired Carmichael after his arrest.
According to the FBI, the principal sent a series of explicit texts to a phone number that he believed belonged to a 13-year-old girl, asking the girl to masturbate, send him photos and call him “daddy.” At the time of his arrest he’d been planning to meet a child for sex in Bethel, the federal charges say.
“The relationship between a teacher and child or a principal and a child should be one above reproach,” said Susan Murphy, who served as school board president in 2016 when state troopers first investigated Carmichael.
Murphy said the board was not informed about the complaint or the investigation. “I’d like to know why the hell he wasn’t fired,” she said.
The case of the charismatic Bethel school principal is the latest in a string of rural Alaska educators accused of sexually abusing students. Prior generations of children in the region suffered abuse at the hands of visiting Catholic priests, many of whom worked in village and regional schoolhouses. Separately, Alaska Native students from the region were plucked from their homes and shipped to boarding schools, where some were abused and many punished for speaking their indigenous language.
Western Alaska accounts for just 10% of the state population but 40% of all educators sanctioned for sexual misconduct with students over the past decade, an analysis by the Daily News, ProPublica and KYUK has found.
Other offenders go undetected or, like Carmichael, are given chance after chance despite Alaska laws and ethics codes that allow a state regulatory board to suspend or remove any teacher who shows signs of viewing students as sexual targets.
On Dec. 20, Carmichael pleaded not guilty to federal charges of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor, possession of child pornography and attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor. In April, he pleaded not guilty to separate state charges of sexual abuse of a minor. Carmichael’s defense attorney said he had no comment for this story.
The parents of two girls who allege the principal molested them have filed a lawsuit against the district in state court in Bethel. In a legal response to the suit, the school district wrote that no sexual abuse of the girls by Carmichael occurred.
Back in December, hours after the FBI handcuffed Carmichael, Lower Kuskokwim School District Superintendent Dan Walker told a reporter that he had no knowledge of any concerns about Carmichael.
Asked how he could have said that given the prior accusations against Carmichael, Walker said in a statement last week: “Twice LKSD reviewed the facts and saw nothing that put a child at risk. Not only did I not see it coming, I do not believe that the people who worked directly with Carmichael saw it coming either.”
I think there may be a problem with differing definitions of child sexual abuse here.
‘An incredibly popular principal’
Now 55, Carmichael arrived in Bethel in 2014 after working for 16 years in two nearby villages at the edge of the Bering Sea.
Parents say he was a big, gregarious man. Energetic, loud and outgoing.
Pedophiles often present themselves as loud, gregarious and very popular.
“Please be aware that Carmichael had been an incredibly popular principal with students, staff and parents and had a solid reputation as a principal,” Walker wrote in a statement for this story. “He was the kind of person who had the reputation of bending over backwards to help people. Carmichael was well-respected by students, staff and parents.”
In Bethel, villagers from dozens of surrounding communities arrive year-round by small plane, boat or, in the winter, drive the frozen river to shop for groceries or visit the regional hospital. Carmichael oversaw students and staff at Gladys Jung Elementary, with an enrollment of 330 children from third to sixth grade. That’s about as many students as the entire population of the village where he worked before changing jobs.
There is much more to this disturbing story at the Anchorage Daily News.
Grandmother ‘filmed teenage son-in-law sexually abusing her baby granddaughter’
MetroA grandmother filmed her teenage ex-son-in-law sexually abusing her one year-old granddaughter, then uploaded the assaults to the internet, police say.
Lisa Williamson, 41, reportedly recorded Steven Jackson, 19, performing abusive sex acts on the infant at a property in Dothan, Alabama, then shared them on a subscription website.
Speaking after Williamson and Jackson’s homes were raided over the weekend, Geneva County Sheriff Tony Helms said: ‘The evil of this magnitude exists in the world, especially for those of us who have children and grandchildren and how precious they are. ‘We do everything we can to protect them, and in this case, the (people) that were supposed to keep an eye on them are the ones that were the problem. This is some of the worst behavior you’ll find.’
Williamson and Jackson’s alleged abuse was uncovered after an out-of-state tipster alerted the FBI to the clips. They were then forward to local law enforcement officials, according to WDHN.
Neighbors were shocked and appalled to hear of the allegations against the pair, and said they were the worst claims ever made against someone who lived in their area.
Further details on how the pair are related by marriage, or whether Jackson is related to the victim have not yet been shared. The Alabama Bureau of Investigation set to release more information in the coming days.
Jackson has been charged with first-degree sodomy and production of child pornography, and being held at the Geneva County Jail on $2.5 million bond. Williamson was charged with production, dissemination and possession of child pornography, child sexual abuse and allowing a child to engage in production of obscene material. Her bond was set at $750,000.
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