Jury selected in trial of ex-Gilman School teacher
accused of sexually abusing student
A jury was seated Thursday in the trial of a former teacher at the Gilman School who’s accused of sexually abusing a student and recording explicit videos.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Colleen McGuinn and Christopher Nieto, one of Chris Bendann’s attorneys, are set to deliver their opening statements Friday.
McGuinn said she then expects to call a number of witnesses, including the student. He’s now an adult.
Bendann, 40, of Baltimore, is charged in U.S. District Court in Baltimore with sexual exploitation of a child, possession of child pornography and cyberstalking. He worked from 2007 to 2023 at the private, independent all-boys school in Roland Park.
From the beginning, Bendann has maintained his innocence.
Unlike earlier in the week when he refused to leave his cell at the Chesapeake Detention Facility, Bendann showed up in court. He sat between his attorneys wearing a navy sport coat, gray pants and yellow tie. He flipped through binders and took notes.
Bendann has said he will attend parts of his trial but skip other portions.
U.S. Senior District Judge James K. Bredar is presiding over the case, which is expected to last about two weeks.
Retired Prince George school administrator freed on bond after arrest on child sex charges
PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va. -- A retired long-time Prince George County Public Schools administrator is out on bond after spending three weeks in jail on child sex charges.
He made the ruling after hearing arguments from both sides and testimony from the alleged victim’s estranged wife.
The defense called her as a witness for Barnes.
The former assistant superintendent was indicted by a grand jury on July 15, and arrested on felony child sex crime charges including aggravated sexual battery, indecent liberties with a minor and sexual assault by force or threat.
His accuser is his adopted son, Donald Newbold who says the alleged abuse began when he was 14 years old.
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Maine camp counselor charged with possession of
child sex abuse images
By WMTW
Published: Aug. 22, 2024 at 3:42 AM PDT
CONORD, N.H. (WMTW) - A counselor at a camp in Maine is charged with possession of child sex abuse images.
In an affidavit, police said a messaging app filed a report in February about the possible sharing of child sex abuse images. Police said their investigation led them to an IP address at a Concord home where Harrison lives.
Police said they learned that Harrison was working as a camp counselor at an all-boys camp in Maine. When Concord and Maine State Police questioned Harrison at the camp, they say he eventually admitted to downloading the images.
Officials did not immediately say which camp Harrison was working at.
“It’s not like the old days. We had hard images,” Concord Deputy Chief John Thomas said. “This is all data that’s gone through the computers. And because of the way the technology is, it just makes it so much easier for these crimes to take place.”
???? What did the Deputy Chief just admit to?
The Bedford School District in Bedford, New Hampshire, confirmed that Harrison was a substitute teacher in the district, but he was not actively working in a school when police notified the district of the investigation in August.
School officials said Harrison was placed on unpaid leave and will not be returning to work in the district.
Brooklyn soccer coach sentenced for
sexually abusing 10-year-old girl
A Brooklyn soccer coach will spend the next seven years behind bars for sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl who attended his camp, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said Thursday.
“This defendant despicably and unconscionably exploited his position of trust to prey on a young child in his care,” said Gonzalez. “I hope today’s sentence brings some closure to the victim and her family.”
Not likely, she's going to be in her mid teens when he is back out on the streets. That's not closure in any way, shape, or form.
Rozovsky’s sentence also carries 10 years of post-release supervision and requires him to register as a sex offender, prosecutors said.
Rozovsky was the owner and coach at a youth soccer camp in Marine Park when he bought the 10-year-old victim ice cream to lure her into his van on July 18, 2022, prosecutors charged. When the victim tried to flee the vehicle, Rozovsky grabbed her wrist and pushed her into the seat, before kissing her and fondling her chest, according to prosecutors.
“I love you,” Stanislav told his victim as he abused her.
The victim reported the abuse to her parents, who notified police; Rozovsky was cuffed on Aug. 12, 2022.
Stanislav was previously jailed for molesting an 8-year-old girl who attended his soccer camp in 2010, according to the Brooklyn Paper. At the time, the 39-year-old soccer coach allegedly offered the girl a ride home after a soccer game but instead took her to his Ave. Y home in Sheepshead Bay, where he assaulted her, the outlet reported.
A spokesman for the Brooklyn DA’s office could not immediately say whether Stanislav was convicted in the 2010 abuse case.
Convicted or not, he was allowed to start up another child's soccer camp. Someone seems to have missed something somewhere.
California coach sentenced to more than
72 years for child sex crimes
August 22, 2024
Gregory Scott Ray
By JOSH FRIEDMAN
A Santa Barbara County judge this week sentenced a former Central Coast coach and yearbook distributor to more than 72 years in prison for dozens of child sex crimes.
In 2019, responding to a tip from a Santa Ynez Valley High School teacher who overheard an inappropriate conversation, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation into Gregory Scott Ray. Detectives determined Ray, now 57, was using a social media app in order to meet and have sexual contact with young males and that he had been using the app for many years.
Deputies arrested Ray, and prosecutors later charged him with numerous offenses pertaining to crimes in Santa Barbara, Orange and Fresno counties.
In June, a jury convicted Ray of for multiple counts including lewd and lascivious acts on a child, sodomy of a person under 14, oral copulation of a person under 18 and attempted sexual penetration of a person under 18. Ray abused eight victims between 2007 and 2018, according to the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office.
Ray reportedly met some of his victims through his sons, who attended schools in the area. He also coached Little League baseball and was involved with the high school volleyball team.
Prosecutors say Ray used his employment as a yearbook distributor in order to gain additional access to teenage boys. Ray met boys as young as 13 on dating apps like Grindr and Adam4Adam.
Eventually, one of the victims confided to a friend. Ray was then reported to the high school principal, who in turn, contacted law enforcement.
On Monday, a judge sentenced Ray to 22 years and four months in prison, followed by 50 years to life behind bars.
Ray received 22 years and four months for the crimes he committed against six of the victims. The judge sentenced him to two additional 25 years to life terms for the crimes against the other two victims.
One of those two victims met Ray online when he was 12 years old, and then when he was 13, Ray sexually assaulted him in a park bathroom. The other, a 17-year-old victim, met Ray during a high school yearbook conference he organized. Ray forcibly sodomized the 17-year-old.
Ray faced a maximum sentence of 164 years to life.
I'm OK with the 72 years.
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