Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!

3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
Give Thanks. There is more to this prayer here

Please note: All my writings and comments appear in bold italics in this colour

Showing posts with label daycares. Show all posts
Showing posts with label daycares. Show all posts

Monday, 25 August 2025

Upgrading childcare in Australia - Daycare shut down in Wagga Wagga

 

It's amazing that the daycare was allowed to operate for 8 years without meeting safety standards. The efforts to improve are laudable, but daycares will never be safe for little children as long as men, or boys, are present. 

Read the full report, which is behind a paywall on the Sydney Morning Herald



Saturday, 5 July 2025

Child Sexual Abuse in Aussie Daycares > The Employment of Men in Daycares is Madness

 

Opinion

Childcare horrors are shocking,

but they’re no surprise to me


Or to me either. I have long complained about men in daycare centres. It is just unnatural for men or teenage boys to be looking after other people's children. Men must be forbidden from participating in daycares.


It’s the stuff of nightmares. Broken bones. Burnt hands. Children strapped into high chairs for hours and force-fed until they vomit. Toddlers yanked, shaken, dragged along the ground. Kids found unsupervised in car parks or roaming next to busy main roads. Babies left in soiled nappies all day. Ignored, neglected, left to cry.

And then there’s the video – just nine seconds long. A defenceless baby, strapped into a bouncer, crying hysterically as a childcare worker slaps her across the face repeatedly for fun. Her colleague films it, laughing, and uploads it to Snapchat. It’s hard to believe this is happening in Australia’s childcare centres, but it’s been going on for years, all in plain sight.



But there’s even more heinous crimes. It took the announcement of a 26-year-old male educator being charged with more than 70 counts of child sexual abuse at a Melbourne childcare centre before people started asking the question … is childcare safe?

For someone like me, who has been investigating childcare for almost a year now, the news was horrifying but not a surprise. In Victoria, NSW and Western Australia, at least one report of sexual misconduct is made every day. And that’s just what’s tracked and reported. In Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory, there’s no reportable conduct scheme, so we simply don’t know.

The Victorian man facing charges, Joshua Dale Brown, worked at 20 childcare centres, most of them owned by big private operators including private equity-owned Affinity Education, listed ASX giant G8 Education and United States-owned Only About Children. His case is ongoing and remains before the courts.

Scratch the surface, and you find more. On Wednesday, a worker from Affinity childcare group is scheduled to face a NSW court charged with nine counts of sexually touching a child. This case is also ongoing.

In March, Quoc Phu Tong, who worked at a Seaforth centre run by Only About Children, was sentenced to two years in prison for the intentional touching of a child.

Then there’s Ashley Paul Griffith, a childcare worker sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to a series of offences at early learning centres, mostly in Queensland. His crimes, described as “depraved”, included rape and the production of child-exploitation material. Griffith’s abuse went undetected for years. He had held a valid Blue Card – Queensland’s working-with-children check – due to systemic failures in the child-protection systems.

Please continue reading on the Sydney Morning Herald at:

In March, I launched a series of investigations


Tuesday, 6 July 2021

Today's USA Pervs and Pedos List > BSA Agreement; MO Governor Needs To Go; Another Daycare Evil; PA Fugitive; Dirty Old Oakley Man

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Boy Scouts of America reaches $850M agreement with victims

By RANDALL CHASE 
Associated Press 

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2020 file photo, a statue stands outside the Boy Scouts of America headquarters
in Irving, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

DOVER, Del. (AP)The Boy Scouts of America have reached an $850 million agreement with attorneys representing some 60,000 victims of child sex abuse in what could prove to be a pivotal moment in the organization’s bankruptcy case.

The agreement filed in court by BSA attorneys late Thursday would mark one of the largest sums in U.S. history involving cases of sexual abuse. The filing, known as a restructuring support agreement, includes the BSA, abuse victims, local Boy Scouts councils and lawyers appointed to represent victims who might file future claims.

“After months of intensive negotiations, the debtors have reached resolution with every single official and major creditor constituency,” BSA attorneys wrote.

The Boy Scouts of America sought bankruptcy protection in February 2020, moving to halt hundreds of lawsuits by men who were molested as youngsters decades ago by scoutmasters or other leaders. The filing was intended to try to reach a global resolution of abuse claims and create a compensation fund for victims.

But attorneys for the Irving, Texas-based BSA had previously been unable to reach agreement with victims, local Boy Scout councils and insurers on how to compensate victims while allowing the 111-year-old organization to continue operating.

Thursday's agreement signals the BSA’s acknowledgment that disagreements remain between attorneys representing abuse victims and those representing the BSA’s insurers.

In an earlier court filing Thursday, attorneys for certain insurance companies accused the BSA of allowing attorneys for abuse victims to rewrite the BSA’s restructuring plan to favor their clients.

“With only the fox guarding the henhouse, the outcome is utterly at odds with what BSA itself asserted was necessary for a confirmable plan and is permissible under the bankruptcy code,” the insurers wrote.

Attorneys for insurers appear to be concerned, among other things, that decisions regarding insurance coverage issues would be made without their input.

Meanwhile, attorneys for the Boy Scouts are also asking for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein to declare that they have no obligation to seek court approval of a previously announced settlement with The Hartford, one of the BSA’s insurers.

The Hartford agreed to pay $650 million into the victims' trust in exchange for being released from any further obligations under policies dating to 1971.

The Hartford settlement was roundly criticized by attorneys for abuse victims, who estimate the insurer’s liability exposure at several billion dollars. They made it clear that victims would not support any plan that includes the Hartford settlement.

The Boy Scouts have said that between $2.4 billion and $7.1 billion, including insurance rights, might be available for abuse victims. Attorneys for a committee that acts as a fiduciary representative of all victims in the bankruptcy case have estimated the value of some 82,500 sexual abuse claims at about $103 billion.

Matthew Sturdevant, a spokesperson for The Hartford, said the company's agreement with the Boy Scouts “is a crucial building block to move this bankruptcy case toward a conclusion.”

“We are disappointed that the Boy Scouts of America have chosen to flout the organization’s tenet of keeping promises by seeking to discard a thoughtfully negotiated and mutually agreed upon deal that appropriately values The Hartford’s obligations," Sturdevant said in an email.

In a joint statement, representatives for the victims as well as future claimants representative said the restructuring support agreement will allow the Boy Scouts to emerge from bankruptcy “while providing meaningful compensation to the victims, and holding the Boy Scouts’ insurers to the terms of the insurance policies purchased by the Boy Scouts and their affiliates over many decades.”

In a revised plan submitted barely two weeks ago, the BSA offered to issue an $80 million promissory note to a trust fund for abuse victims. It also proposed maneuvers to make up to $50 million in additional cash available for abuse survivors. The proposed changes would increase the BSA’s proposed contribution to as much as roughly $250 million, more than doubling a prior plan.

Under a new plan expected to be filed Friday, the BSA’s 250-odd local councils would contribute $600 million into the fund for abuse victims, doubling an offer from earlier this year. Under the plan, the BSA and local councils would be released from liability in return for their contributions to the victims fund.

A hearing in the case is schedule for July 20.




Governor's veto a ‘sucker punch’ to group fighting rise in child sex abuse

Kurt Erickson
Stl Today

JEFFERSON CITY — A state lawmaker and local officials are “baffled” by Gov. Mike Parson’s decision to slash $300,000 from the state budget for a program designed to fight a surge of child sex abuse in Lincoln County.



Rep. Randy Pietzman, R-Troy, said the budget is flush with cash, meaning cutting the money doesn’t make sense from a fiscal management standpoint.

He said he called the governor’s office before the official action took place last week after hearing the money might be in danger. “I begged him. I told them the budget is fat with money. We’ve got a problem here and we have a plan to address it,” Pietzman said.

Cheri Winchester, executive director of the Lincoln County Resource Board, which supported Pietzman’s effort to get the money inserted into the spending plan, said she was shocked at Parson’s action.

“I can’t make sense of it just knowing his background as a law enforcement officer, being a father and a grandfather. These are Missouri kids who are being hurt and abused,” Winchester said. “I feel like it’s a sucker punch. I’m still quite baffled. I don’t understand.”

In signing the budget last week, Parson vetoed $155 million from the $35 billion spending blueprint, including the money for a pilot program designed to help children who may be victims of sex offenders in Lincoln County, which is north of St. Charles County on the edge of the St. Louis metropolitan area.

The $300,000 would have paid for additional investigators, an additional prosecutor and support staff to address a growing number of sex offenders who live in the county.

In his veto message, Parson, a Republican who once served as a county sheriff, said the spending was not necessary. “This item was not part of my budget recommendations. Additionally, it is an earmark for the benefit of a single county,” the governor wrote.

It is not uncommon, however, for the Legislature to insert money into the budget that will benefit a specific city or county. The budget he signed, for example, includes money for literacy programs in St. Louis and St. Joseph and a Route 66 festival in Springfield.

A Parson spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.

Pietzman said he believes more sex offenders are coming to Lincoln County because of state laws restricting how close they can live to schools, day cares and parks. In St. Charles and St. Louis counties, denser populations mean there are fewer places for sex offenders to live.

Winchester said Lincoln County had 681 reported incidents of child abuse and neglect in 2019, a 9.3% increase from 2011.

'We've got to start somewhere'

According to the Missouri Department of Social Services, the number of substantiated cases of abuse and neglect increased to include 6.3 substantiated cases for every 1,000 children, which is the highest rate in the state.

Pietzman said his concerns about children being targeted was one of the main reasons he ran for office. “We were trying to come up with some sort of a plan. We’ve got to start somewhere,” he said.

Parson’s veto came as the state ended the fiscal year on June 30 with record revenue. The state budget office shows Missouri topped $11.2 billion in net general revenue, which is up by more than 25% over last year and nearly $2 billion over what was collected in 2019.

Individual income taxes, which comprise the largest share of Missouri’s revenue, were up more than 28% in 2021. Sales tax collections were up 6.7%.

Pietzman said he is not sure if he will press his colleagues in the Legislature to reverse the governor’s action when they reconvene in September for their annual veto session. But he said he thinks he’d be successful if he did. “I think we can override the veto,” Pietzman said.

In the meantime, Winchester said the next steps for the local effort have not been determined. But, she added, “We aren’t going to stop or delay our efforts to protect our kids.”

Like too many other politicians, Parson doesn't get the incredible amount of child sex abuse that occurs and the devastation that it brings upon its victims and their families. It's time for Parson to retire!




Iowa Man Faces Multiple Charges For Allegedly

Sexually Abusing A Child in Daycare

Tue 7-6-2021

(Estherville)-- Estherville police have charged a man in connection with an investigation into a child sex abuse case.

Police say they received a report from a local daycare center on June 22nd of this year regarding a female child who had been sexually abused. The child victim was interviewed at the Child Advocacy Center in Sioux City. Estherville police say that, in turn, resulted in officers interviewing a suspect in the case, Paul Hageman, this past Friday.

Following that interview, police arrested Hageman and charged him with three counts of sexual abuse in the 2nd degree, three counts of lascivious acts with a child, one count of incest and one count of child endangerment.

Police say Hageman was caring for the child at the time the alleged incident occurred.

Hageman was being held in the Emmet county jail on a $200,000 cash only bond.

People, please don't allow men to care for your children. Don't leave your children in a daycare where men are present. There are dozens of stories on this blog of men in daycares and children being victimized. It's not worth it; you can ruin your child's whole life!




State police seek child sex abuse suspect last seen in New Castle


Tyler Alan Bowen, 22, is wanted on charges connected to an incident in May 2020

  WTAE
Updated: 7:31 AM EDT Jul 2, 2021
Nick Matoney 

MERCER, Pa. — 
State police in Mercer County are asking for the public’s help in locating a child sex abuse suspect last seen in New Castle, Lawrence County.

State police said there is an active arrest warrant for Tyler Alan Bowen, 22, on charges including rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, sexual assault, sexual abuse of children, statutory sexual assault and indecent assault.

While details about the alleged incident Bowen is charged in weren’t immediately available, online court records show it occurred in May 2020 in Mercer County.

Anyone with information about Bowen’s whereabouts should contact their local police.




Oakley, Id old man sentenced to prison for child sexual abuse

Laurie Welch 
Jun 29, 2021 

BURLEY — An Oakley man was sentenced Monday to five to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a child multiple times in 2013 while he was babysitting the girl and her siblings.

Randy Eldun Arterburn
, 67, was originally charged in June 2019 with lewd conduct with a child under 16, battery with intent to commit a serious felony and forcible penetration by use of a foreign object.

Arterburn used an Alford plea on the charge of lewd conduct and the other two charges were dismissed by the prosecutor.

By using an Alford plea a defendant claims to be innocent or does not admit to all the elements of a charge, but admits prosecutors likely have enough evidence to find them guilty.

Cassia County District Judge Michael Tribe sentenced Arterburn to a minimum of five years in the Idaho State Department of Correction and five years of indeterminate time, which includes the enhancement penalty.

He was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for committing a crime of violence, $100 for a presentence report and $250 for his public defender. He was given credit for serving 33 days in jail.

Arterburn will also be required to register as a sex offender when he is released from prison.



Friday, 25 January 2019

Several Very Disturbing Stories on Today's USA PnP List

New Jersey high school teacher charged
after having sex with her student

and asking them to destroy evidence'


By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER

A high school teacher has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a student and trying to cover up the relationship. 

Jessica Gaeckle, 30, was arrested Friday for having sex with the 18-year-old student on at least two occasions, it is claimed.

Gaeckle who is married, teaches English as a second language at Pleasantville High School in New Jersey. 

She asked the student to destroy evidence once she learned a criminal investigation was launched, prosecutors said. 

Gaeckle is charged with two counts of second degree official misconduct and one count of third degree hindering apprehension, officials say.

She was processed at the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office and released on a summons, according to the release.

Though New Jersey's age of consent is 16, the age becomes 18 when it involves an adult with supervisory authority - in this case, a teacher. 

Recently, New Jersey lawmakers attempted to make it a sex crime for teachers to have sex with students who are 18 and 19.  

Gaeckle is the second staff member from the high school to be arrested within a year. 

In August 2018, the principal of the school Edward Bonek, 48, was arrested at his home (12th story on link)He was charged with possessing and sharing images of child sexual abuse and pleaded not guilty in November.  




Las Vegas man gets 45 years in prison for
rape of a one year old
By Forum Staff Reports

FARGO — A 43-year-old man was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 25, in federal court to 45 years in connection with the sexual abuse of a child.

KVLY
Bryan James Hogle, of Las Vegas, was sentenced on charges of conspiracy to transport a minor and coercion and enticement, according to a Department of Justice news release.

Hogle will be on a lifetime of supervised release following his prison sentence.

He is required to pay about $12,000 in restitution.

According to the news release:

Authorities were made aware of the case after Dustin W. Kewley, of Fargo, began communicating with an undercover officer.

An investigation into Kewley and a forensic examination of his electronic devices revealed a text conversation between Kewley and Hogle where they discussed a “plan to meet for the purpose of sexually abusing a one-year-old child.”

The investigation revealed that in May 2017, Kewley took the one-year-old child to a hotel in Moorhead where Hogle and Kewley allegedly sexually abused the child and subsequently took steps to conceal the crime.

Kewley was sentenced in early January to 35 years in prison on charges of conspiracy to transport a minor, transportation of a minor, distributions of materials containing child pornography and possession of materials containing child pornography.

Hogle has a prior conviction for sexually abusing a child from 2008 in New Hampshire.

The case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse.



Fargo Man Sentenced For Sexual Abuse Of
One-Year-Old Child
TJ Nelson

A Fargo man is sentenced to 35 years in prison after setting up a meeting with a Las Vegas man in Moorhead where they both sexually assaulted a one-year-old child.

36-year-old Dustin Kewley first came to the attention of authorities when he began communicating with an undercover officer in Washington, D.C.

After he sent a child porn video, the local FBI office was notified and a child was rescued from Kewley’s house.

During the investigation they uncovered the meeting with Bryan Hogle of Las Vegas.

The men abused the child together at a hotel in Moorhead on May 22, 2017.

Hogle has pleaded guilty to charges and will be sentenced on January 25.





Alabama court clerk tried for attempted
sexual abuse of 5 y/o child

Huntsville police now say that charge has been changed to attempted sex abuse of a child under 12.
Posted By: Sydney Martin, WAAY31

Huntsville Municipal Court Clerk Jim Clark has been arrested on a charge of sexual abuse of a child less than 12 years old.

Huntsville police now say that charge has been changed to attempted sex abuse of a child under 12.

He was arrested before noon Thursday and released on a $2,500 bond. Huntsville police say the victim was 5 years old when the alleged incident occurred in 2014.

Police are not releasing more information since it is an open investigation.

A spokesperson for the city of Huntsville says the city is aware of the charge and that Clark's position has limited contact with the public and that he is innocent until proven guilty.





NY State man arraigned on sexual abuse,
child pornography charges
By:  Kaley Lynch 

(WIVB) - A 24-year-old Lancaster man has been arraigned on sex abuse charges, accused of subjecting two underage victims to sexual contact on July 4. 

Jeremy Casey is charged with first degree sexual abuse, second degree sexual abuse, and two counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child. He was arraigned on Thursday.

During the investigation into the sexual abuse allegations, several images of child pornography were found on Casey's cell phone, the Erie County DA's Office said.

If convicted on all charges, Casey faces a maximum of seven years in prison.

He's scheduled to return to court on Feb. 28.





Wyoming man arrested for sexual abuse
of his son and nephew

A 58-year-old registered sex offender was bound over to Laramie County District Court Thursday on six counts of sexual abuse of a minor.

Paul Daniel Hatcher, of Chugwater, is accused of molesting his son and nephew at his home in Laramie County between 2014 and 2015 when the boys were six years old.

Sheriff's Det. Aaron Foy says the department began investigating Hatcher in September 2016 after the boys' mothers reported the alleged sexual abuse.

Foy says Hatcher's nephew told a forensic interviewer that Hatcher made him touch his penis, perform oral sex, and allow Hatcher to sodomize him.

Hatcher is currently being held in the Laramie County jail on a $15,000 cash bond. His arraignment date has not yet been set.

$15,000 is not nearly enough! He should have no possibility of release before those boys are in their 20s.
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$5.5 million suit revived, accuses Oregon Youth Authority of ignoring sex abuse
Whitney Woodworth, Salem Statesman Journal 

A recent Oregon Supreme Court ruling has given new life to a $5.5 million lawsuit accusing the Oregon Youth Authority of ignoring "rampant sexual abuse" of children and teens in state custody. 

The opinion reversed a Marion County Circuit Court's dismissal of the case in 2016. 

The lawsuit stems from the Youth Authority's employment of Frank Milligan, a former Salem and Keizer resident and convicted sex offender. 

The claims provide a window into what attorneys for one of Milligan victims called a "general culture in which the abuse of juveniles was accepted."

Attorneys claim the multi-million dollar lawsuit could have a significant impact on the state's youth correctional system, leading to a sea change in workplace culture and security measures.

The Oregon Youth Authority employs just over 1,100 people throughout Oregon and oversees 1,400 youth as they move through the criminal justice system.

The suit is based on abuse at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility, one of the Youth Authority's nine closed-custody facilities. Located in Woodburn, it has the capacity to serve 271 male juveniles. 

The MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn (Photo: Statesman Journal file)

A teen's abuse behind bars
Milligan began working at MacLaren as a group life coordinator in 1997.

The lawsuit and other court documents show that a year later, a youth identified in the claim as "J.M." was sentenced in juvenile court and sent to MacLaren. The then-15-year-old was one of the youngest inmates at the facility.

Within two weeks of his arrival at MacLaren, the boy was cornered in the laundry room by Milligan, grabbed by his throat and sexually assaulted. 

Milligan then told the teen no one would believe him if he reported the assault and threatened to cut off visitation time with his family if did.

Less than a week later, Milligan approached J.M. in the shower and ordered him to accompany him into the laundry room. 

Once there, the teen resisted but Milligan told him: "This is what happens to kids in places like this."

Milligan sexually assaulted the teen. When he threatened to scream, Milligan told him he'd break his neck and "no one would know what happened."

J.M. later learned that Milligan had also allegedly sexually assaulted another young boy, who was mentally disabled, in his residence at MacLaren.

Throughout his incarceration, J.M said he lived in fear that Milligan would sexually assault him again and did not report his abuse.

He continued to repress all thoughts about the abuse after he was released from detention a year later, returned home to his family and until 2012, when news of the Penn State University child sex abuse scandal triggered memories of his own abuse. 

For the first time ever, J.M. spoke about the abuse, telling his wife about what happened at MacLaren.

He decided to do an internet search for Milligan's name. What he found shocked and sickened him. 

'Very, very sick in mind and soul'
His abuser was a known sexual predator, a man convicted of the sexual assault and attempted murder of a 10-year-old Dallas boy and an inmate serving a 36-year prison sentence. 

Milligan previously worked for the Oregon State Hospital starting in 1994, when he was hired as a psychiatric aide in the youth ward. He later admitted to sexually abusing at least one 10-year-old boy at the hospital, according to the lawsuit.

The complaint described the hospital as being a "pedophile's dream" at the time and said officials did little to prevent abuse.

Milligan began working at MacLaren in May 1997. The victim's attorney, Dennis Steinman, accused Youth Authority officials of either failing to investigate his work history with the state hospital or learning of the danger he posed to minors and failing to do anything about it. 

Only a few months after starting his new job, Milligan met an 11-year-old Salem boy through an employee at the state hospital and molested him during an outing at the coast in Seaside. 

Youth Authority officials placed Milligan on leave in 1999 when they learned he was under investigation. Later that year, he was arrested and charged with sexually abusing the boy in Seaside. 

He was released on bail and allowed to live with his parents in Keizer. One week before he was scheduled to appear in court, Milligan abducted a 10-year-old boy from a park in Dallas.

He took the boy to a field northeast of Salem, where he sexually assaulted him, shoved his face in the dirt until he lost consciousness, slashed his throat and left him for dead. 

Frank Milligan (right) is escorted by a Marion County Deputy after being sentenced to 30 years in prison for the abduction and neck slashing of a Dallas boy in July 2000. (Photo: Statesman Journal file)

The boy survived, flagged down a passing car and reported the assault to police. 

Milligan was sentenced to six years and three months in prison for the 1997 sexual abuse. 

In 2001, he pleaded guilty to the kidnapping, abuse and attempted murder of the Dallas boy and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. 

During the sentencing, Marion County Judge Joseph Ochoa called Milligan a lying coward.

"The court can only conclude that you are extremely dangerous and very, very sick in mind and soul," Ochoa said. "You belong in prison. The purpose of sending you there is not to rehabilitate you but to protect society from your depraved and murderous behavior."

Milligan, now 50, is serving multiple sentences at the Two Rivers Correctional Facility. His earliest release date is 2071. 

He ought to be pretty harmless by then!

Following Milligan's conviction in 2001, Oregon Youth Authority officials said they had no reason to believe that Milligan victimized youth while he was employed at MacLaren. 

Pattern of abuse revealed
Upon learning about Milligan's history as a sexual predator, J.M. said he realized how much Youth Authority officials had failed in protecting him from abuse.

He reported the abuse to police, and Milligan was indicted on charges of first-degree unlawful sexual penetration and two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. 

In 2015, a Marion County jury found Milligan guilty on all three counts. He maintained his innocence throughout his trial and sentencing.

Marion County Circuit Judge Cheryl Pellegrini sentenced him to 35 years in prison — the maximum sentence allowed for those crimes. 

Steinman said Milligan's crimes were just a symptom of a much larger problem at the youth authority. 

While Milligan was the one who personally abused the teen, "he was only able to do so because he worked within a culture fostered by (the Oregon Youth Authority) and its officials in which the sexual abuse of juveniles was ignored and allowed to be done with impunity," Steinman said.

They did so by failing to respond and investigate reports of abuse, failing to properly supervise employees and failing to institute policies that would have safeguarded against abuse, he added.

He cited the conviction of former youth authority probation officer Michael Boyles as one sign of the widespread and rampant abuse. Boyles was arrested on more than 90 counts of sodomy, abuse and misconduct involving several children under the supervision of the Youth Authority. 

Boyles was accused of sexually abusing children for more than a decade even after a victim's grandmother wrote more than a dozen letters to officials in 1995 expressing fear that her grandson was being abused. Boyles was convicted on dozens of sex abuse counts and sentenced to 80 years in prison in 2005. 

"OYA is committed to the safety of the youth in its care," Youth Authority spokesman Benjamin Chambers said.

He said new employees are screened by checking the state child abuse registry, performing a criminal records check, and sending fingerprints to the FBI via the Oregon State Police for a nationwide background check.

The agency performs a criminal records check on all existing employees annually and rechecks for valid driver’s licenses for relevant positions.

"In addition, we comply with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act standards, which are designed to protect incarcerated youth and adults from sexual abuse," Chambers said. "Every two years, an external contractor visits each of our facilities and conducts an audit that is shared with federal overseers."

The agency's Professional Standards Office also runs a complaint hotline and shares it widely with youth, families and staff.

"PSO investigates reports of abuse in our close custody facilities, residential providers, and foster homes, and work closely with the Oregon State Police when criminal investigations are warranted," he said. "Their work is aided by the fact that all of our living areas in our close custody facilities are covered by video cameras."

The $5.5 million lawsuit
In 2014, on behalf of his client, Steinman filed a complaint against Milligan, the Oregon Youth Authority and its leaders alleging that Milligan's abuse — and the agency's complacency — violated J.M.'s federal constitutional rights to be free from abuse and cruel and unusual punishment.

He requested $5 million for "severe and debilitating emotional injury," pain, suffering, trauma and permanent psychological damage and an additional $500,000 for counseling, psychiatric treatment and lost earning capacity. 

Attorneys for the youth authority argued that J.M.'s claim was time-barred by the statute of limitations requiring him to file a complaint within two years of "discovery" of the abuse, which they claimed was when the sexual assault took place.

But Steinman argued that the true discovery took place in 2012 when news events triggered J.M.'s memories and his research made him realize how complacent the Youth Authority was in his abuse.

Marion County Judge Claudia Burton dismissed the case in 2016. J.M. appealed the case, and after the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed the lower court's decision, the state's attorneys asked the Oregon Supreme Court to overturn this decision. 

The Supreme Court sided again with Steinman's interpretation of the discovery rule — that the clock started ticking on the statute of limitations not when the abuse occurred but when J.M. realized the Youth Authority's alleged role in his abuse.

Steinman told the Statesman Journal Wednesday the ruling could have a huge impact on other cases involving the violation of constitutional rights, including freedom of speech and police brutality cases. It makes the road map for filing civil rights complaints and the timeline for when they can be filed much clearer.

"It's really a landmark decision," he said.

Steinman said his client felt vindicated by the ruling. "He was thrilled with the outcome because we believed we were right all along," he said.

Oregon Youth Authority officials declined to comment on the pending litigation.

The case will now return to circuit court for further proceedings.

"We believe (J.M.) has a significant case against the Oregon Youth Authority," Steinman said.  "If we win at trial, it would certainly have an impact on the day-to-day operations at the Oregon Youth Authority because it's our belief that their practices, at least at the time the plaintiff was there at MacLaren, were not protective enough of the rights of the boys in their custody."

A jury ruling in J.M.'s favor would send a "pretty loud message" to the youth authority that their practices need to change, he added.





20 sex crimes against a child send North Carolina man to prison for a maximum 150 years

By Michael Hewlett Winston-Salem Journal  

A Winston-Salem man was sentenced to more than 100 years in prison after a Forsyth County jury found him guilty of molesting a young girl for months while he drove her to and from a school bus stop next to her grandmother's house.

At the time, the girl was between 8 and 9 and the man was dating the girl's mother. The girl and mother had moved into the man's house, and the girl alleged the man also sexually abused her numerous times in the house.

Typical predator! He probably couldn't have cared less for the mother; he was after the child the whole time. That's how predators work.

Gabriel Lynn Burns, 45, of Alton Street, was convicted Friday of four counts of statutory sex offense by an adult offender and 16 counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor. A jury of 12 people took about two and a half hours Friday before coming back with an unanimous verdict of guilty on all counts. 

Judge Eric Morgan of Forsyth Superior Court consolidated some the charges and sentenced Burns to serve between approximately 105 years and 150 years in prison.

Burns will likely die in prison.

But by law, Morgan also had to determine whether Burns would have to register as a sex offender and for how long, if he is ever released from prison. Morgan determined that Burns would have to register as a sex offender and be under satellite-based monitoring for the rest of his life.

Dan Anthony, Burns' attorney, objected to the ruling on satellite-based monitoring. He argued that such monitoring violated Burns' constitutional rights and right to privacy. Anthony also argued that there was no evidence that Burns was a threat to society or likely to re-offend. He said in court that he would appeal Morgan's ruling on satellite-based monitoring.

The trial started Jan. 14 in Forsyth Superior Court. The victim and Burns both testified during the trial.

Assistant District Attorney Pansy Glanton said in closing arguments Thursday that the girl is now 11 and had been through a series of traumas, including having her father die and dealing with her mother almost dying in a car wreck. 

Glanton said that from Nov. 1, 2016 to March 9, 2017, Burns repeatedly sexually abused the girl. Much of the sexual abuse happened when Burns drove the girl to and from the bus stop next to her grandmother's house. Burns had volunteered to take the girl to the bus stop so that the girl would not have switch schools in the middle of the year. 

Glanton said Burns touched the girl inappropriately numerous times during those trips, starting almost immediately from the time he drove out of his driveway. Glanton said Burns would molest the girl everyday during those trips to and from the school bus stop and in the house, either in her bedroom or his bedroom.

In closing arguments, Anthony raised questions about the girl's credibility. He told jurors that it would be hard to believe Burns molested the girl while he was driving to the bus stop in the morning on a highway during rush-hour traffic. Anthony also said it would be hard to believe the girl was being molested in the house while the mother was there.

Burns denied the allegations in his testimony.

Glanton said Friday that the girl showed courage in coming into the courtroom, facing Burns and testifying about what happened to her. The abuse has affected the entire family, she said.

"It has caused all kinds of harm to the entire family and the punishment should reflect that," Glanton said.





Texas man guilty of sexually assaulting two children
sentenced to 2 concurrent 20 yr terms

John Tufts, San Angelo Standard-Times 

SAN ANGELO — It took a Tom Green County jury roughly 90 minutes Thursday to render a sentence to Jimmy Urista Navarro after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting two children in December 2017.

During the punishment phase of the trial, victims told the jury about how the assaults impacted them, according to a news release by the District Attorney's office.

Navarro's ex-wife also testified that he had assaulted and strangled her on numerous occasions, according to the release.

The defense did not present evidence on Navarro's behalf, according to the release.

The jury deliberated punishment from about 10:25 a.m. until right before noon Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019 after closing statements when they reached a unanimous decision that Navarro's actions warranted the maximum sentence allowed by law. He was sentenced to 20 years on two counts, which will be served concurrently. 

Why? Why concurrently? The girls weren't raped concurrently! 

Navarro was indicted in February 2018 on one count of indecency with a child by sexual contact and one count of child sexual assault, both second degree felonies. The indecency with a child by sexual contact charge was dismissed due to insufficient evidence, records state.

In March 2018, a grand jury indicted Navarro on a third charge: prohibited sexual conduct against a family member, another second degree felony. 

The charges against Navarro state he sexually assaulted two females younger than 17, according to each indictment.

The district attorney's office release the following statement regarding Navarro's trial:



STATE OF TEXAS vs. NAVARRO
In December 2017, officers with the San Angelo Police Department arrived at an apartment complex in the 2400 block of North Lillie Street, court documents state.

Officers spoke with a female who accused Navarro of sexually assaulting her when she was 16-years-old.

The female told police she decided to contact them after another female confided to her Navarro had sexually assaulted her several times, according to an arrest affidavit.

Navarro was arrested in December 2017 where he remained in custody at the Tom Green County Jail with a bond set at $215,000, according to online jail records. Navarro will get credit for the year he served in jail.




Former Oregon daycare worker convicted
in child sex abuse investigation
FOX 12 Staff

BEAVERTON, OR (KPTV)A former Beaverton daycare worker was convicted Thursday in a child sex abuse investigation that started in 2016.

John Patrick Gilbreath appeared in court Thursday and was found guilty on one count of first degree unlawful sexual penetration, according to the Washington County District Attorney’s Office.

Gilbreath ran Partridge House Day Care with his wife at their Beaverton home and was arrested in connection to the investigation in June 2018. State records show Gilbreath’s wife held the license and he was listed as an employee.

Putting your children in a daycare where men are regularly present is a really bad idea.

Investigators launched an investigation into Gilbreath in 2016 after a three-year-old girl who was attending the daycare at the time made disclosures of abuse to her parents, the attorney’s office says.

Beaverton police investigated the case, but didn’t have enough evidence to file charges.

Another child made similar claims of abuse nearly two years later; Beaverton police again investigated the allegations and the attorney’s office filed charges a short time later.

Gilbreath was suspended back in 2016 when those first allegations were made, but he was reinstated two months later. He remains in custody and is expected to appear in court again for sentencing in March.

He was suspended by his wife? Seriously? Is there no government agency in Oregon that monitors day cares?