Rape suspect, on bail due to virus, kills his accuser then suicides
by Courtney Pomeroy, WJLA
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Update: Ibrahim E. Bouaichi died in the hospital from his gunshot wounds on Saturday, August 8, according to a statement from Alexandria Police.
Earlier:
On Wednesday, July 29, officers found a woman shot to death on S. Greenmount Drive. It was Alexandria's first homicide of the year. The victim was later identified as Karla Elizabeth Dominguez Gonzalez.
Gonzalez had testified against Bouaichi in Alexandria District Court in December. He was indicted on rape charges and jailed without bond.
When the pandemic hit, Bouaichi’s lawyers argued that he should be freed while awaiting trial because the virus endangered both inmates and their attorneys.
Circuit Court Judge Nolan Dawkins released Bouaichi on $25,000 bond, ordering him not to leave his Maryland home unless meeting with his lawyers or court officials, The Washington Post reports. He was freed on April 9. Gonzalez was notified the same day, according to the Alexandria Sheriff's office.
On Wednesday, August 5, one week after Gonzalez was killed, Alexandria police officers with the FBI's regional Violent Crimes Task Force spotted Bouaichi in Prince George's County, Maryland.
When authorities chased him, Bouaichi crashed the car he was driving. He was found inside with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was taken to a hospital for medical treatment.
Where he died and will now stand before his real Judge! It drives me crazy how judges think rapists and other criminals will actually follow bail conditions. How dumb can you be?
Part One: Cover-Up Culture? - WECT Investigates decades of sexual abuse at New Hanover County Schools
By Emily Featherston and Ann McAdams |
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - Peter Frank, the now-former Roland-Grise Middle School Band teacher, is in custody awaiting trial on a series of child sex crime charges.
Michael Earl Kelly pleaded guilty to sex crimes against minor students, and Nicholas Oates died while awaiting trial for alleged crimes he pleaded not guilty to.
Going back over the last two decades, there are additional cases: Jessica Wishnask and Richard Priode both pleaded guilty to crimes they were arrested for after they had moved to other parts of the state, with Priode’s case involving a student in Charlotte.
Frank’s arrest and the addition of new victims to civil suits against the school district led WECT to take a comprehensive look at the history of sexual abuse at New Hanover County Schools. While Frank declined invitations for an interview, as did former administrators, WECT talked with former elected district leaders, parents, and survivors.
For the last two years, many in the community have questioned what school administrators and board members knew, when they knew it, and how abuse was able to go on, unchecked.
“Only two things could have happened ... either they did it on purpose, or they were terribly negligent,” said attorney Jim Lea, who is representing victims and alleged victims of Frank and Kelly in ongoing civil cases against the school system.
For those survivors, those questions take on an even deeper meaning.
Michael Kelly - ‘All of the red flags were there’
For Michael Tomaselli, the news about Frank and the emergence of newly-discovered victims of Kelly has been hard to grapple with.
A yearbook photo shows Michael Kelly in his classroom in 2004. (Source: NHCS Yearbook)
“Seeing more cases come forward ... In the beginning, I’m not going to lie, I felt guilty,” he said. “If I had said something at the time I maybe could’ve done something. It’s taken a lot of active effort for me to come to the realization that it’s not my fault.”
***Warning: The remainder of this story includes graphic details about sex crimes against minors that may not be suitable for all readers***
Tomaselli was a student at Isaac Bear Early College high school from 2006 to 2010, and had Kelly as a science teacher.
He is a survivor of Kelly’s admitted abuse, and came forward to speak at the former teacher’s sentencing.
“He was good at what he did,” Tomaselli said. “I was brought in with that sense of security. I had a difficult home life. He was one of the people that if I had family troubles at home, I can go after class and talk to him.”
He said Kelly’s popularity at the school — he was named as a teacher of the year just prior to his 2018 arrest — and openness toward students drew him in.
“I didn’t have many friends, new to the area. I didn’t have a good support system, so I grappled onto him as a support figure, and other students did the same,” he said.
The abuse, Tomaselli said, started as crude jokes in class or with a small group of students. “[He] made us feel special, that he was doing something else, giving us, treating us just like adults,” he said.
Tomaselli said he and others raised concerns to staff members at Isaac Bear about the inappropriate language, but he says they were told not to take Kelly’s behavior seriously — that he was a great teacher and they shouldn’t make an issue out of it.
However, the jokes and inappropriate gestures turned into much more serious interactions, with Kelly showing the boys explicit photos and videos, and then even further.
“It would escalate from the pornographic images to exposing himself. Playing games and having us expose ourselves.”
Tomaselli described the interactions as a “game” where Kelly made it seem like he was just a participant, rather than the instigator. “He was really good at making it seem like it wasn’t his idea,” he said. “Making it seem like it’s our game where we are just letting him play.”
Kelly pleaded guilty to all 59 counts against him on June 25, 2019, and was sentenced to 17.6 - 31.25 years in prison.
During that court appearance, prosecutor Connie Jordan indicated Kelly told officials he was investigated for some of the incidents, but cleared by the school administration.
There is much more to this story. Please go to WECT for more.
NM Mother and boyfriend charged with abuse after
children test positive for drugs
Leah Romero
Las Cruces Sun-News
LAS CRUCES – A woman and her boyfriend have been charged with child abuse after her two young daughters tested positive for methamphetamines and THC in April. Warrants for their arrests were issued Tuesday, Aug. 11.
Las Cruces Police Department officers responded to a welfare check on April 21 in the parking lot of Lowe’s Fiesta Foods on Missouri Avenue. A woman, later identified as Jacleen Henderson, was found unresponsive in her car with her two daughters allegedly improperly restrained in the backseat.
Henderson was taken to Memorial Medical Center for treatment and the children were taken to the LCPD until they could be taken into custody by the Children, Youth and Families Department.
Henderson later told police she and her boyfriend, Quinton Crist, had stayed the night at his friend’s house. She told police she had had shots of Jack Daniels but then started feeling different. After an argument Crist left and Henderson drove to Lowe’s Fiesta Foods with her children. She said she asked a friend to pick her up.
Ruth Juarez, an investigator for Child Protective Services, told police that the two girls were taken for drug testing of hair follicle samples on April 21 due to the state Henderson was in when police found her. The older girl was found with low levels of THC in her system while the 1-year-old girl tested positive for methamphetamines.
Juarez requested Henderson also take a hair follicle test, which can determine if a person has taken drugs in the last three months. Henderson refused, consenting only to a urine test, which came back positive. Henderson told police she used marijuana and methamphetamines and that she had refused the follicle tests because “she didn’t want to ruin her chances of getting her children back.” Crist also told police he used marijuana and methamphetamines.
Police asked both Henderson and Crist to submit another drug test, which they did on May 8, but they consented only to a urine test again. Henderson tested positive for methamphetamines and Crist was negative, but his sample was "abnormally diluted."
Henderson and Crist are each charged with two felony counts of child abuse for negligently putting the two young girls in danger and acting with reckless disregard for their safety. Warrants for Henderson's and Crist’s arrests were signed by Dona Ana County Magistrate Court Judge Alexander Rossario on Tuesday with no bond holds.
Parenting and drug use do not mix and should never happen. Some of the most horrific stories on this blog have to do with parents using drugs, and children being raped and or murdered. If there is sexual abuse or physical harm, the children should be removed from drug-using parents' custody immediately. If no significant harm was done to the children, then the parents should be eligible for a warning whereupon if the drug use continues, the children will be removed and the parent, or parents, will be sterilized. How's that for an incentive to get off drugs.
Boys & Girls Clubs and Sexual Abuse: Richard Gallegos
By Viktoria Sundqvist, ct post
The following is a summary of one of many cases across the country compiled in a Hearst Connecticut Media investigation of sexual abuse connected in some way to local affiliates of Boys & Girls Club of America, their staff, volunteers, members and/or attendees. Boys & Girls Club of America said that it does not keep a public list of sexual abuse incidents connected to clubs. If you have a story to share, or have information related to this or other incidents, contact us here.
A former gym coach at the Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix in Arizona is named as a defendant in a recent lawsuit that alleges he sexually abused a boy at the club in the 1980s, starting when the boy was in sixth grade.
Gallegos is also accused of drugging and intoxicating the boy prior to the assaults, according to the lawsuit. Some of the abuse happened at the club and some happened at Gallegos’ home, the lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit also names one club director at the time for allegedly aiding in the abuse and another club director for her role in allegedly allowing the continued abuse.
The lawsuit, which also names the Boys & Girls Clubs of America as a defendant, claims the local club and national organization were negligent and reckless in hiring Gallegos and that they failed to keep the victim safe. The lawsuit also claims that club officials knew "for a susbstantial period of time that their programs involved an unreasonably high risk of sexual abuse by Adult Leaders and volunteers."
Boys & Girls Clubs of America has said it can’t comment on specific cases.
Cassidy Campana, spokeswoman for what is now called the Arizona Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley, said the club is aware of the recent lawsuit and takes any allegation that might impact the well-being of youth entrusted to its care very seriously.
“Although the alleged incidents took place a long time ago, we understand that time does not take away any pain inflicted on the victim and their family,” Campana said. “We respect those who have brought forward these extremely serious concerns.”
Goose Creek, SC man arrested on child sexual abuse material charges
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Scott Stanley Schemmel, age 48, of Goose Creek, on 10 charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors.
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Mt. Pleasant Police Department made the arrest. Investigators with the S.C. Attorney General’s Office, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, all also members of the state’s ICAC Task Force, assisted with the investigation.
Investigators received a CyberTipline report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) which led them to Schemmel. Investigators state Schemmel possessed multiple files of child sexual abuse material.
Schemmel was arrested on Aug. 11. He is charged with 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, third degree (§16-15-410), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment on each count.
This case will be prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office. Attorney General Wilson stressed all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in a court of law.
Child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, is a more accurate reflection of the material involved in these heinous and abusive crimes. “Pornography” can imply the child was a consenting participant. Globally, the term child pornography is being replaced by CSAM for this reason.
One of 40 offenders arrested in NJ's “Operation Statewide” sting, gets 7 years in prison
TRENTON –Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that a man was sentenced to state prison today after being convicted at trial of using a file-sharing network to distribute images of children being sexually exploited. He was one of 40 offenders arrested in “Operation Statewide,” a child protection operation by the New Jersey Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, which includes the New Jersey State Police, Division of Criminal Justice, U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, and numerous state, county and local law enforcement agencies.
John M. Rudy, 57, of Flemington, N.J., was sentenced today to seven years in state prison, including five years of parole ineligibility, by Superior Court Judge Angela F. Borkowski in Hunterdon County. He will be required to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law and will be subject to parole supervision for life. Rudy was found guilty on Jan. 14 in a jury trial of second-degree charges of distribution of 25 or more items of child pornography and storing or maintaining 25 or more items of child pornography using a file-sharing network, and third-degree possession of 100 or more items of child pornography.
Deputy Attorney General Thomas Huynh and former Deputy Attorney General Supriya Prasad tried the case for the Division of Criminal Justice Financial & Cyber Crimes Bureau, with assistance from the New Jersey State Police Digital Technology Investigations Unit (DTIU) and Technical Assistant Gabrielle Pichler.
“By sharing child sexual abuse materials online, this defendant participated in a criminal network that promotes and perpetuates the brutal sexual exploitation of children,” said Attorney General Grewal. “Our multi-agency efforts to patrol the internet and put these offenders in prison reflect our commitment to protect children and ensure justice for those who have been victimized. I commend our attorneys and trial team, as well as all of the detectives and investigators who helped secure this prison sentence.”
“We will continue to work with the State Police and law enforcement at all levels to disrupt the online market for these vile materials and send those who distribute them to prison,” said Director Veronica Allende of the Division of Criminal Justice. “We are sending a loud and clear message that those who commit these crimes will face serious consequences.”
“The criminals who operate these file-sharing networks online depicting child pornography are no less dangerous than those who peddle narcotics on the street. Their enterprise thrives on the pain and suffering of the victims and their families, and their deplorable behavior is a scourge on society,” said Colonel Patrick J. Callahan, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police. “We will continue to lead the charge against those who target our children by working cooperatively with our federal, state and local partners, whose collective resolve to bring child predators to justice is unwavering.”
While monitoring a peer-to-peer file-sharing network popular with sex offenders, a detective of the New Jersey State Police DTIU downloaded more than 50 items of child sexual exploitation material from a shared folder at a computer IP address that was subsequently traced to Rudy. Rudy was arrested on June 9, 2016 when members of the DTIU, assisted by the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office and the Raritan Township Police Department, executed a search warrant at his home and seized numerous devices, including a desktop computer, 97 flash drives, and eight SD cards. Forensic examinations revealed the flash drives and SD cards contained child sexual exploitation material, and one contained over 100 items of such material.
Pa's Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Ignores Signs of Repeated Sexual Abuse by Medical Staff Against Patients
Devereux Brandywine campus in Glenmoore, PA
Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health organization is under investigation for ignoring decades of sexual abuse on their patients by medical staff. Allegations of sexual abuse, highlighted by The Inquirer, have surfaced recently, but the abuse dates back to the late 90s.
Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health specializes in treating children with mental disorders, intellectual disabilities, and trauma for over a century, making these findings particularly unsettling. Devereux has over 15 residential centers, serving around 5,000 children yearly across nine different states.
Over the past 25 years, at least 41 children as young as 12 and with IQs as low as 50 have been raped or sexually assaulted by Devereux staff members, reported The Inquirer through their investigation. Reportedly, 10 of these assaults happened at the three Devereux campuses in Pennsylvania, while the others were at facilities in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, and Texas.
Allegations from patients against the medical staff are numerous; below are some allegations from patients who shared their experiences during the Inquirer’s investigation. The following are reports from previous Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health patients from the various facilities:
Edward, a shy 16-year-old boy, diagnosed with autism and developmental delays, went to the Devereux Brandywine campus and reported being sexually abused in 2018. Edward said that Robert Flood, a male staffer, repeatedly sexually assaulted him on campus for months. However, he did not speak up until Flood began abusing his 14-year-old “little brother,” too. Flood easily assaulted Edward and the 14-year-old in a walk-in closet because the room’s layout made it impossible to see the closet from the hallway where the staff was supposed to do their checks.
Three girls at a Devereux campus in Arizona were sexually abused in their bedrooms and a facility laundry room by a male staffer between October 2018 and March 2019. After Devereux leaders said, they increased their safety and reduce risks by implementing safeguards to prevent abuse and hold staff accountable.
In December, a Devereux staffer at a Texas facility was charged with allegedly charged with sexually abusing four children. Of the four, was a 16-year-old girl who he threatened to have beaten up if she told anyone; as well as a 12-year-old girl he allegedly repeatedly molested.
In 1997, a 13-year-old girl began to cry when she was walking to the nurse’s office with a staff member, and she heard the voice of a 30-year-old staff member on the radio that she said had molested her.
On May 17, 2012, a 15-year-old girl was orally raped through her first-floor window by male staffed Jimmy Singleterry. He later entered the girl’s room and raped her again.
C’Kenya Tanksley in 2014 was at Devereux in Malvern, where she created a bond with a 43-year-old staff member, Everol Brackett. He would get her gifts and exchange love letters. When the staff found out, she was reprimanded because her actions could get him in trouble, and she needed to apologize. A month later, when Tanksley was home, he asked for naked photographs of her. The next time she went home, he had her meet him in Southwest Philadelphia, where he took her shopping. Then he drove her to an alley, sexually assaulted her in his car, and dropped her off at a bus station to find a way home.
In 2010, a girl at the Devereux Malvern campus confessed she had a crush on a 26-year-old staffer. He was told to stay away from the girl. However, months later, the girl reported that he kissed and molested her.
In 2019, Zahara Greer reported that a 29-year-old male DSP, Direct Support Professional Shailen Simmons, assaulted her in her bedroom for months. Following each assault, he allegedly forced her to eat an orange to cover up the scent of what he did.
In 2000, a 14-year-old at Devereux Malvern was allegedly molested by a male staffer who would leave used condoms on her window sill. She says she told staff who it was, but they never made a report.
In 2017, 15-year-old Hannah Rivera, forced into prostitution by her mother’s friend, checked herself into the Devereux campus in Viera. A 24-year-old staffer, Michael Cadore, took an interest in her making her uncomfortable. First, he allegedly patted her on her bottom. She reported him to the campus director, but Cador said nothing happened. On another occasion, he allegedly forcibly kissed her and molested her. Then one night, she said he pulled her into the music room on campus and raped her. When she reported this incident to the nurse, Cadore was brought into the campus director’s office. They supposedly told Rivera she must be having a flashback of her previous sexual abuse.
In 2001, a 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a male staffer. The 35-year-old pulled her into a staff room and raped her. Although she was half-asleep and heavily medicated, she took his cell phone and ran outside to call 911. Less than two weeks later, a 42-year-old male staffer, Steven Kelty, allegedly brought her to the same staff room and raped her. She did not report the second assault.
After numerous alleged reports surfaced, various Devereux staff members came forward about the safety measures and accountability for staff members at Devereux locations. The following are responses are from entry-level staff members to the CEO during the Inquirer’s investigation, as well as findings from reporters:
Eric Heinbach, a staff member at Devereux Brandywine from 2017 to 2019, said that staff would bring sleeping bags, blankets, pillows, and a beach chair, and instead of doing their nightly checks, they would get paid to sleep.
A reporter found that the person reported that following assaults, Devereux would identify risk factors that led to the abuse and potential solutions, such as training or employment screenings, but would abandon said initiatives for years.
Devereux leaders said that since late 2019, they had taken aggressive steps to prevent sexual abuse. They claim to have implemented the following to lower risks: reduced opportunities for staff to be alone with children, trained employees to detect grooming and potential abuse, use a new psychological test to screen applications, increased pay to attract more qualified staffers, and added a video technology to monitor the employees better.
However, Devereux’s top executives, vehemently denied that any campus had supervision or staffing issues. Leah Yaw, the Senior vice president and chief strategy officer claimed fewer children were assaulted by staff at Devereux than at similar facilities without any statistical support from data.
Gwendolyn Skinner, the vice president of operations for Devereux and executive director of the Georgia campus, stated in front of a jury she was unaware of new training for staff on sexual reactivity. She also stated she saw no training video about supervision laps. Additionally, former Devereux DSPs testified they had never seen this video and did not receive said training.
Yaw also said that cameras were added to areas like laundry rooms and porches, in addition to new technology, to allow supervisors to ensure staff is on task at all hours.
A former Chester County prosecutor, Chad Maloney who brought numerous abuse cases against Devereux staff, said to the reporter at The Inquirer, “Too often, when a child is physically or sexually abused at Devereux, the individual responsible for the abuse is prosecuted, and the story just ends — Devereux doesn’t change. They don’t change how they hire, how they train, or how they supervise their staff or the children in their care. The victims change, the offenders change, but Devereux’s actions never do, and that’s why the abuse continues. It’s heartbreaking, and it has to stop.”
The man reported for sexually abusing the 13-year-old girl in 1997 was later indicted on charges of fondling or engaging in sex acts with nine different girls at Devereux Deerhaven. Later, police arrested another staff member, accused of sexually assaulting four more Deerhaven residents. Both men received convictions. In 2000, a third Devereux Deerhaven staff member was charged with sexually assaulting three girls. Police reported 16 girls were sexually abused by staff at Deerhaven between 1996 and 1999.
Reporters found it was easy for predators to find ways to be alone with children because the facilities were understaffed with low-paid employees. Interviews and documents show that Devereux staff knew they could take unapproved breaks, clock out early, or sleep through their shifts and face little or no consequence.
A former student reported watching a DSP bring in a PlayStation and computer monitor in 2017. He reportedly played video games for hours instead of checking in on the residents.
However, Clark, the CEO, claimed that Devereux staffers caught sleeping through their shifts were fired. He said they use a new camera system to identify staff who haven’t moved for a while and have someone verify if they’re asleep.
Devereux officials reported that staff members are now trained to flag when a coworker spends too much time with a particular resident, gives gifts, or shows up after hours to visit specific residents. However, in virtually all of the cases examined, staff failed to identify that children were sexually abused on campus. Instead, the residents were left to report the abuse of another resident or their abuse.
Reporters found that the walk-in closet, where Edward and the 14-year-old boy were abused, was a hot spot for sexual abuse. Devereux staff knew for years that these closets could not be supervised easily and were used for sexual abuse. Some closets were later blocked off, but some were left accessible anyway.
Lastly, the Inquirer found that Devereux’s programs were hunting grounds for predators. The interviews and documents show that, despite bringing in $467 million in annual revenues, Devereux campuses were indeed understaffed and failed to adequately supervise its patients and staff members, who all too often disappeared for hours and slept through shifts.
Throughout the decades of abuse, many staff members that were accused of sexual assault were charged and prosecuted, now serving time. However, Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health has faced no charges and remains functioning as normal.
Consequently, there is no incentive to fix the problems. Not that incentive should be necessary, but, apparently, it is.
73-y/o charged with sex abuse of child in Lane Co., Ore
By Jordyn Brown, Register-Guard
A 73-year-old man was charged Tuesday with multiple felony counts of sexual abuse of a child.
Humes was arrested Monday by the Lane County Sheriff’s Office on suspicion of these crimes, which, according to court documents, happened in early March.
Court documents allege that on March 1, Humes inappropriately touched a girl who was younger than 14 years old.
On the same day, the documents state Humes did “unlawfully and knowingly employ authorize, permit, compel or induce (the child) to participate in or engage in sexually explicit conduct,” for someone to watch, take a photo of, “record in a motion picture, record in a videotape or record in a visual recording.”
The next day March 2 court documents allege Humes inappropriately touched the girl again and subjected her to the same sexually explicit conduct, in a “separate recorded photograph.”
On March 3, Humes attempted to subject the girl to sexual conduct by causing her to touch him inappropriately, the documents state.
Sexual abuse in the first degree and using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct are both Measure 11 crimes in Oregon. First-degree sex abuse has a minimum sentence of six years and three months imprisonment. The explicit conduct charge has a minimum sentence of five years and 10 months.
Humes is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing on Sept. 16.
Rolling Meadows, Ill Sex Offender Loses Coronavirus Contract: Report
Ezekiel Lopez received $700,000 in federal contracts to provide cleaning, janitorial services at
Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital near Chicago.
By Eric DeGrechie, Patch Staff
Because Lopez, listed as president of the company, was convicted of the crimes in 2007, he did not need to indicate them on the application for the contract as it only asks for felony convictions within the past two years. The first contract was scheduled to continue through Sept. 30, and was signed with no competition from other vendors. The hospital canceled the contract within days of receiving questions from USA Today about Lopez's background on July 23, according to the report.
Lopez served three years of his five-year prison sentence for criminal sexual assault and criminal sexual abuse. Court records indicate he pled guilty in 2007 to sexual relations in the summer of 2005 with a 16-year-old girl. He also molested a girl between the ages of 13 and 17, and was arrested in March 2006 after the girls told relatives. He was 34 at the time of the offenses, according to the Illinois State Police Sex Offender Registry.
Rolling Meadows, Ill
Girl tells Decatur, Ill authorities she tried to tape evidence of being sexually assaulted, police say
Tony Reid, Herald-Review
DECATUR — Police reports said a Decatur girl under the age of 13 tried to use her school-issued iPad to record evidence to show her mother that 43-year-old Deoane A. Stone was sexually assaulting her.
The affidavit said he smashed the iPad but police were still able to extract a recording which shows Stone in the bedroom where he asked the girl “Is this yours? And then repeatedly asks her “On record?”
The affidavit said the girl had replied “Yep, I’m telling my Mom.”
The affidavit said the 36-year-old mother reported Stone to police on May 28 but already had her own eye-witness evidence of the aftermath of a sexual assault from another incident she had accidentally walked in on earlier in May.
The mother is quoted as telling police she discovered Stone in bed with the girl, who was only wearing a T-shirt, sitting on top of him. The girl would later tell police that she had been repeatedly sexually assaulted but Stone had tried to convince her mother that nothing was going on and said he told her mother “Oh, it’s not what it looks like.”
The girl said she had been determined to try and get video evidence of a crime if Stone tried to assault her again and that is why she had tried to record with her iPad when he invited her to his bedroom.
Stone, who repeatedly denied the child’s allegations, was booked on a preliminary charge of predatory criminal sexual assault Tuesday morning. All preliminary charges are subject to review by the state's attorney’s office.
A check of Macon County Jail records Wednesday night showed that Stone is being held with bail set at $300,000, which means he must post $30,000 to be released. If he makes bail, he is forbidden to have contact with anyone under the age of 18.
Former Boston Police Union Head Arrested
on Child Rape Charges
BY DANIEL VILLARREAL
Pat Rose, a retired Boston Police officer and former president of a city police union, has been arrested on multiple charges associated with child rape including indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of 14.
He was taken into custody on Wednesday and will be arraigned on Thursday in the West Roxbury Municipal court, according to WCVB 5. It's unclear how he will plead.
Rose joined the Boston Police Department in 1994 and retired in 2018. He was voted in as president of the city's police union, the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, in December 2014.
The union's president reportedly had no statement in response to the arrest, but noted that Rose is retired and no longer associated with the organization, according to NBC 10 Boston. Newsweek contacted the union for comment.
"I am deeply disturbed by these horrific allegations, which must be investigated to the fullest extent of the law," Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said of the accusations, according to WCVB Boston reporter Kathy Curran.
According to the news website MassLive.com, Rose began his career by working at Boston College while studying as a junior at Northeastern University. He reportedly also worked on the Boston College campus as an emergency medical technician for over and under six different police chiefs as an officer with the Boston Police Department.
Sex offender, wife charged after infant found dead in bucket of tar, sheriff says
by: WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A couple is behind bars in Texas after the body of a week-old baby was found in a bucket of tar, WFAA reported.
According to arrest warrants obtained by the station, deputies conducted a welfare check on the Princeton home of Roland Grabowski, 42, and Donna Grabowski, 41, on July 29 following a report of the infant’s death.
Deputies said the couple refused to cooperate with the investigation, telling detectives “numerous lies,” including that the boy was staying at a friend’s home. They even texted one friend, asking them to (say) it was their child, the warrant said.
“I need you to say your baby is ours. Quick in and out. They just need to see,” the text read, according to deputies.
“There was an attempt to deceive us as to what had happened and the whereabouts of their child Micah,” Sheriff Jim Skinner told WFAA.
According to the warrant, the couple told their friends their baby had died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Then why hide the body and lie about it?
Deputies obtained a search warrant and found the boy’s body submerged in a bucket of tar in a shed behind the home, according to the arrest report.
“They took the child and wrapped him in a blanket and submerged him into a five gallon bucket of tar and put him in a shed behind the residence,” Skinner said.
Roland Grabowski, who is listed as a registered sex offender, has been charged with child endangerment, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence with an intent to impair a human corpse. He is being held in the Collin County Detention Facility on an $925,000 bond.
Donna Grabowski is charged with the same offenses as well as tampering with physical evidence. She is also being held in the Collin County Detention Facility on a $1,075,000 bond.
More felony charges are pending against the couple, officials said.
A medical examiner is working to determine the boy’s official cause of death.
“I’ve been in this business over 30 years and I’ve seen a lot of crazy things but this is the first time I’ve found a dead infant in a bucket of tar,” Skinner said. “And hopefully the last.”
Google, Twitter alert authorities to 76-year-old man sharing
child porn images
Sara Karnes
Springfield News-Leader
A man is in jail after investigators say he knowingly received and distributed child pornography.
James Walter Crowder, of Marionville, allegedly uploaded at least two files depicting sexual abuse of a child to the internet, according to federal court documents.
Google identified the account name as "Jim Crowder" with an email address of "crowderjim1@gmail.com. Two files were uploaded June 3, according to an affidavit.
The investigator found that files were identical, but with different titles. They depicted sexual abuse of a child with an adult male.
On June 12, Twitter alerted the crisis center of a user with the name "crowder_jim1" and email address of "crowder_jim1@hotmail.com" uploading child porn images between June 2 and 4, the affidavit stated. The images again depicted children being abused by an adult male.
The investigator subpoenaed Suddenlink to identify the IP address and found it belonged to 76-year-old Crowder.
Law enforcement officials executed a search warrant at Crowder's residence along the 200 block of South Mills Street in Marionville on Aug. 6.
After advised of his Miranda rights, Crowder admitted to officers that he had exchanged images and videos with others that depicted child pornography involving children as young as 5 for at least four years.
"Crowder further acknowledged to engaging in chat sessions with other like-minded individuals regarding the sexual abuse of children," the affidavit stated.
Crowder admitted to placing a hidden camera in a bathroom to obtain videos and images of children under 18. He said he distributed the files using online websites like Kik, Twitter and Telegram.
During the search, investigators found and seized several digital storage devices which contained multiple images of child pornography.
Crowder is currently listed as an inmate at Greene County Jail.
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