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Missouri judge sends teenage girl to live with allegedly sexually abusive father after jailing her mother
Matthew Miller
The Post Millennial
February 28, 2021 10:35 AM
Family court judge, Nicole Zellweger, reportedly ordered the minor daughter of Angela Freiner back into the custody of her father, who allegedly sexually abused her, PJ Media reports.
Judge Nicole Zellweger
In the recording, the minor can be heard pleading with the judge, who then threatens that her mother could end up in jail if she does not comply with her order.
“She has free will but her free will can end up putting her in jail,” Zellweger says.
"I don’t want to live with him," the young girl is heard saying.
The judge replies, "When your mom is taken to jail you will have no other parent to live with but dad…I understand you’re not happy with the court’s judgment."
"We can do it the easy way or we can do it the hard way," she continued.
The minor further pleas with the judge, asking how she could be sent to live with an abuser.
"I still don’t understand, I told you that he was touching me [unintelligible] and you’re still going to make me go with him?" she asked.
The judge responded saying there was "no evidence," of the molestation, shutting down the young girl's request.
Sources told PJ Media that Freiner was arrested and was held in criminal contempt and jailed for two days following the hearing. The mother reportedly had no prior criminal record.
The judge also reportedly had the child committed to the behavioral center at the Children’s Hospital of St. Louis. Upon arrival, the young girl immediately told doctors she experienced sexual abuse from her father, triggering a mandatory report of the allegations to authorities.
Court documents show that the girl's father has a criminal record and is on probation for domestic abuse.
"Petitioner and the GAL asked questions of Respondent about his past/current criminal convictions. Respondent testified that he is on probation until July of 2021 for disorderly conduct related to a domestic/family dispute that involved his wife and his step-daughter…Respondent testified that he has a temper and that there have been arguments at his house, although he testified that things have improved and he is working … on this issue. These facts trouble the Court greatly, but the Court finds Respondent credible in his testimony that he is working on his anger issues," the court documents read.
Court documents also show that the father brought the young girl to the home of his father who is reportedly a level-three sex offender. He had been convicted of "rape/fear, force, and sexual battery" according to the registry, PJ Media reports.
Good grief! What a mess!
KY man faces child sex abuse charges
Posted: Mar 2, 2021 / 09:57 PM EST
PIKEVILLE, KY (WOWK) – A Kentucky man is facing child sex abuse charges.
36-year-old Bill Daniel Combs, was arrested after an undercover investigation by the Kentucky State Police Electronic Crime Branch.
The KSP Electronic Crime Branch began the investigation after discovering the suspect was communicating with a juvenile online.
According to state police, the investigation resulted in an interview at a shelter in Pikeville on March 2nd. Equipment used to facilitate the crime was seized and taken to KSP’s forensic laboratory for examination.
Combs is charged with two counts of possessing matter portraying a minor in a sexual performance, and one count of prohibited use of an electronic communication system to procure a minor (Class-D felonies punishable by one to five years in prison).
Combs is in the Pike County Detention Center.
The investigation is ongoing.
‘Dangerous child predator’ tried to lure NJ boy
Updated 9:54 PM;
By Noah Cohen | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
A 67-year-old Montclair man was arrested for trying to lure an underage boy for sex and exchanging sexually explicit online messages with minors, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday.
Keith F. Matheis faces charges, including luring a child, showing obscene materials to a person under 18 and distribution of child sexual abuse materials, according to prosecutors. Matheis remained held at the Essex County jail after being arrested Monday by state detectives at his home, authorities said.
The charges came after investigators received a tip via the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children from an unnamed social media company, which reported that a user, identified as Matheis, allegedly sent child sexual exploitation content to another user using a direct message online, authorities said. Detectives with the state Division of Criminal Justice discovered Matheis had explicit chats with “multiple users” he thought were under 16, authorities said.
No attorney information was listed for Matheis.
The allegations against Matheis include his arranging to meet a suspected minor in Montclair to have sex with him, sending a photo of his genitals to a victim he thought was 15, and sending sexual abuse materials to multiple people, including minors, the Attorney General’s Office said in a release.
“The allegations against Matheis reveal a dangerous child predator and they raise concerns about other potential victims,” Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said in a statement.
“Cases such as this one highlight the need for parents to vigilantly monitor their children’s online activity and educate their children about the potential dangers of social media,” Veronica Allende, director of the state’s Division of Criminal Justice, said. “In addition to pursuing tips from NCMEC, we routinely conduct proactive investigations on social media platforms and peer-to-peer file-sharing networks to identify child predators and offenders distributing child sexual abuse materials.”
Four foster children lived with Colorado Springs father
accused of sexual abuse
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- After being arrested for sexually abusing at least one foster child in his care, Joel Longshore bailed out of El Paso County jail under unusual circumstances.
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office confirms to 13 Investigates Longshore was able to leave jail on a personal recognizance bond, which doesn't require any money or property to be put up for a suspect to bail out.
In El Paso County, those charged with sexual assault crimes such as Longshore are typically required to pay a $10,000 bond.
Longshore touted himself a religious man with a background in biblical studies and youth ministry in his biography on the website for his now defunct adoption non-profit.
His wife interviewed with KRDO News Radio in May 2019 for National Foster Care Month. In that interview, Longshore's wife said they became licensed foster parents in 2018. She told KRDO News Radio that they had two adoptive sons and four foster sons. Back then, she said the foster boys ranged from ages 1 to 12.
Tenn man arrested on child sex exploitation charges
by: Alex Corradetti
Posted: Mar 2, 2021 / 06:12 PM CST
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – A Williamson County man was arrested on child sex exploitation charges according to a release from the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO).
Anderson is being charged with four counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and three charges of sexual exploitation of a minor.
WCSO deputies and an electronics detection K-9 executed a search warrant at Anderson’s home after getting information that child sexual abuse material was being distributed online.
The search warrant led them to take several electronic devices and locate more than 3,000 images and/or videos of child sexual abuse material.
Anderson was released from the Williamson County Jail on a $10,000 bond
Williamson Co., Tn
Former Special Education Aide Sentenced to Six Years in Federal Prison for Distribution of Child Pornography
Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett today sentenced Peter Na’Shon Greer, age 42, of Laurel, Maryland, to six years in federal prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for distribution of child pornography. Judge Bennett also ordered that, upon his release from prison, Greer must register as a sex offender in the places where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
The sentence was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner and Special Agent in Charge James R. Mancuso of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore.
According to his guilty plea, Greer has been involved in the receipt and distribution of child pornography, specifically, as a member and then administrator of an online chat group that focused on the sexual exploitation of children. During the time of the offense, Greer was employed as a middle school special education aide.
In August 2018, investigators from the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) began an investigation into a chat group on an online mobile application. The investigation revealed that users in the chat group were distributing child pornography, posting messages or commenting on child pornography images or videos, and expressing a sexual interest in children. Greer was a member of this chat group and posted video files of child pornography on at least four occasions in March and April 2019. Between March and June 10, 2019, Greer also posted comments on sexually explicit videos documenting the sexual abuse of children and responded to comments posted by other members of the chat group.
In June 2019, the chat group was shut down by the application. Shortly thereafter, the chat group started again under a different name and Greer again joined the chat group. On August 1, 2019, a search warrant was executed at Greer’s residence. During the search, investigators seized Greer’s mobile phone, which was subsequently found to have the chat group application in a hidden folder, protected by a password.
As detailed in his plea agreement, Greer admitted that he distributed child pornography and that he was an administrator of the chat group, as well as of other sexually based chat groups, including those dedicated to BDSM and incest. Further, Greer advised that he is part of a group of people who pretend to be minors online, as a form of role playing.
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 the United States Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc. For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.justice.gov/psc and click on the "Resources" tab on the left of the page.
Acting United States Attorney Jonathan F. Lenzner commended HSI for its work in the investigation. Mr. Lenzner thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul E. Budlow, who prosecuted the case.
US: Mom reports 6-year-old son missing after killing him
She was arrested and charged with murder, abuse of a corpse
and tampering with evidence
Published: March 03, 2021 14:42
Washington Post
A mom reported her 6-year-old missing. She'd actually run him over and thrown him in a river, police said.
Just after 10am on Sunday morning, Brittany Gosney and her boyfriend walked into a police station in Middletown, Ohio, with disturbing news: Gosney's 6-year-old son, James Hutchinson, was missing. Middletown police immediately began searching, posting pleas for help and images of the red-haired child in black frame glasses.
But Gosney, 29, and her boyfriend, 42-year-old James Hamilton, were lying, police said on Monday.
In fact, Gosney had run over her son in a park days earlier after trying to abandon him there, according to police. And then she and Hamilton allegedly threw his body into the Ohio River.
Gosney was arrested and charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence, and Hamilton was charged with abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence. Two other children who lived with the couple have been removed from the home by state authorities, police said.
The case has shaken the city of 48,000 people about 35 miles north of Cincinnati, leaving neighbors and teachers to mourn a boy they described as "joyful."
"I just wish more people would reach out when they need help with their babies instead of going this route," Mary Stout, a neighbor, told WKRC. "I just don't understand. I just don't understand when it comes to a child."
Police had few answers on Monday about what allegedly drove Gosney to kill her son.
"The mother is not showing much remorse at this time. But she has confessed to doing this," Middletown Police Chief David Birk said at a news conference. "She's not really saying what the motive was."
On Friday night, two days before Gosney and her boyfriend reported James missing, police said she drove him and her two other children to Rush Run Park in nearby Preble County. In a parking lot near a boat ramp, she allegedly tried to abandon James.
When he tried to get back into the car, she ran him over and left the park, according to court documents reviewed by WKRC. Half an hour later, she allegedly came back, and found James dead. She put him back into the car, and drove to their home in Middletown.
The next night, Birk said, Gosney and Hamilton drove to a bridge over the Ohio River and threw James's body over the edge.
When the couple reported James missing on Sunday morning, police were immediately suspicious, Birk said. "It was a little unusual because usually when you have a missing child, the first thing you do as parents is to contact the police," he said. "They said he was missing since Saturday night."
Detectives were quickly called in, and within hours police and Preble County sheriff's deputies had converged in the park to gather evidence.
By Sunday night, police had called off the search and arrested Hamilton and Gosney, who police said admitted to killing the boy and disposing of his body. Recovery teams began scouring the Ohio River for his remains - work that has been complicated by high water levels and strong currents, Birk said.
On Monday, a judge set a $1 million bond for Gosney, WKRC reported. In court, Gosney told the judge she had a "learning disability" and didn't understand the proceedings. But Birk disputed that claim in his news conference.
"She seemed to be communicating fine. She understood right from wrong. She understood her constitutional rights," he said.
On Monday evening, more than 100 people gathered in Middletown to remember James in a vigil at a neighborhood park. His father, Lewis Hutchinson, told reporters that his son could light up a room with his presence.
"The whole room could be down in the dumps and he could bring joy to all of them," he told the Dayton Daily News. "He was really funny, he loved to gives hugs to everyone, he was a great kid."
Hutchinson said he was still struggling to come to terms with the tragedy.
"I don't know how to process this," he told the Daily News. "I want justice for him, that's what I want."
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