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Ponchatoula man arrested, accused of possessing child sexual abuse materials

PONCHATOULA, La. —

The Louisiana Bureau of Investigations has arrested a Ponchatoula man for allegedly having child sexual abuse material.

Danny Galindo, 51, of Lanier Lane in Ponchatoula, was arrested on Thursday, July 30, on 33 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material under the age of 13.

According to LBI, Galindo was arrested a month earlier on June 30 after NCMEC CyberTip reported that a Cash App sender was purchasing child sexual abuse material using cryptocurrency.

During the investigation, agents learned Galindo is a registered sex offender, and he was unlawfully accessing social media networks, resulting in him being arrested for one count each of unlawful use of a social networking website and failure to register.

He was later released from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail on a $50,000 bond before he was arrested again on July 30.

Galindo was rebooked into the Tangipahoa Parish Jail, and no bond information is available at this time.

This is an ongoing investigation.

Man deported 3 times pleads guilty after returning to Maryland and committing child sex abuse

BELTSVILLE, Md. — A convicted sex offender is now pleading guilty to illegally reentering the United States for at least the fourth time.

In September 2024 federal agents learned that 64-year-old Bayron Leopoldo Perez Batres had returned to Beltsville, Maryland.

At the time he was being arrested for sexually abusing a minor, a crime he pleaded guilty to one year later and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for.

Shortly afterwards, federal prosecutors hit Perez Batres with one count of Illegal Reentry after Previous Deportation.

"He has been previously removed to Guatemala on three separate occasions – in January 1996, September 2009, and May 2010," DOJ said in a press release.

Perez Batres will be sentenced for that offense on October 20, after which he's likely to be deported yet again.

Davenport man pleads guilty in sex abuse and possession of child sex abuse materials cases

A Davenport man who was arrested in 2024 for allegedly sexually abusing two children and possessing child sex abuse materials has entered into a plea agreement with Scott County prosecutors that will cap his prison sentence at 40 years.

Ryan Scott Zamora, 32, had initially been charged in Scott County District Court with two counts of Class B felony second-degree sexual abuse. He was arrested on those charges in November 2024.

Ryan Scott Zamora

Prosecutors later added two counts of Class C felony lascivious acts with a child, and one count each of aggravated misdemeanor indecent contact with a child and serious misdemeanor indecent exposure after new evidence came to light.

Zamora had been accused of sexually abusing two children on Feb. 25, 2024. Both children were under 12, according to the arrest affidavits filed by Davenport police detective Maureen Hammes.

In December 2024, prosecutors filed 20 counts of Class D felony possession of a depiction of a minor in a sex act against Zamora.

Those charges were filed after Davenport police received a tip from the Department of Homeland Security, which had received information that a local person was sending inappropriate messages about children.

According to the arrest affidavits filed by Davenport police detective Sean Johnson, authorities located 15 videos and 44 images of child sex abuse materials on Zamora's cellphone.

Louisville man charged in Portland double homicide indicted on child rape and sexual abuse charges

By Erica Rucker, Marresa Burke and Melissa Ratliff

Published: Aug. 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM PDT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) — A Louisville man accused of murdering his girlfriend and her 

teenage daughter in June is now facing a slew of additional felony charges, including

the rape and sexual abuse of a child under 12 years old. 

Tobias Malone, 28, was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury on July 30.

Malone is scheduled to be arraigned on the new charges on Monday, August 3, at 10:30 a.m.

The original homicide charges

On June 2, Louisville police found 29-year-old Vienna Peoples and her 13-year-old daughter, Labria Miller, dead inside a home in the Portland neighborhood.

Malone was arrested and initially charged with their deaths. He was People’s boyfriend.

The grand jury indictment has charged him with two counts of murder - domestic violence and one count of tampering with physical evidence.

New sexual abuse charges

After a grand jury hearing, Malone was indicted on the original charges, as well as multiple sex crime charges involving juvenile victims.

The new indictment includes:

• One count of First-Degree Rape (victim under 12 years of age)
• One count of First-Degree Sexual Abuse (victim under 12 years of age)
• One count of Promoting a Sexual Performance by a Minor (under 16 years of age)
• 20 counts of Possession of Matter Portraying a Sexual Performance by a Minor (under 12 years of age)

Malone remains in the custody of the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections. The story will be updated as new information is released.

CSA in the USA > EMS worker gets 18 years for CSA, CSAM; Two cruise passengers arrested in Miami for CSAM; Inmate creates CSAM from inside KY prison

 

Former Durham EMS worker sentenced to 18 years in prison for child exploitation offenses

Friday, July 31, 2026 2:03PM

APEX, N.C. (WTVD) -- An Apex man has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to distributing child sexual abuse material and one count related to the production of an animal crush video.

Court records show Andrew Childs possessed and distributed child sexual abuse material and produced a video depicting the sexual abuse of a dog.

At the time of his arrest, Childs worked for Durham Emergency Medical Services. Authorities said the crimes were not connected to his employment.

The case was investigated by the FBI Charlotte Field Office's Raleigh Resident Agency and the Durham Police Department, with assistance from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Federal officials said the prosecution was part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide Department of Justice initiative aimed at combating child sexual exploitation and abuse and identifying victims.

Second cruise passenger accused of possessing child sex abuse content

Steve Lawson, 45, and Michael Simmons, 40, were searched separately by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after the Norwegian cruise docked on Friday.

Two South Florida men who were taken into custody at PortMiami after coming off a cruise are accused of having child sexual abuse content on their phones.

Steve Lawson, 45, and Michael Simmons, 40, were searched separately by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after the Norwegian cruise docked on Friday.

The two have no apparent connection other than what authorities found on their phones.

Lawson, a well-known wedding photographer, is charged with possessing and transporting child sexual abuse material.

The criminal complaint says Lawson’s phone had 14 videos in an app on his phone, including an hour-long video showing a compilation of more than 100 underage girls performing sexual acts.

The complaint states Lawson admitted to buying the video using cryptocurrency while on the cruise because he was “enticed to do so after he observed female minors in bikinis on the cruise.”

"We recognize the serious nature of the charges and are committed to working diligently through the legal process to achieve a fair and just resolution of this case," his attorneys from Lawson & Simmons, PLLC said in the statement.

Meanwhile, federal documents detail a separate case involving Simmons, who is accused of having videos of underage girls showering between the ages of 9 and 11, who were friends of his daughter.

Documents also show that Simmons admitted to recording the videos himself back in 2014.

He is now facing production of child sexual abuse material. NBC6 is awaiting a response from his attorney.

Both men are in federal custody, with their arraignments set for Aug. 10.

Ky. inmate gets 28 years for producing child sexual abuse material from jail

Prosecutors said Daniel Hoskins used the jail’s monitored communications system to coerce a victim into creating explicit images while incarcerated

August 02, 2026 07:21 AM

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By Christopher Leach
Lexington Herald-Leader

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Kentucky man will spend years in federal prison for producing child pornography while incarcerated, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Daniel Hoskins, 56, was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Thursday, July 23, after pleading guilty to two counts of production of child pornography. The attorney’s office said he used the Madison County jail’s call system to produce child porn from a victim who he knew before his incarceration.

Court documents say the victim ran away from a foster home on June 7, 2024, to be with Hoskins. The victim and Hoskins met a few weeks prior during a camping trip and started a relationship that was believed to be initiated by Hoskins.

The victim was entered into the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children seven days after she ran away.

On April 26, 2025, someone spotted Hoskins and the victim kissing in Hoskins’ vehicle in the Richmond Mall parking lot and called police. Court documents say Hoskins was arrested after investigators found sexually explicit images of the victim on his phone.

Hoskins was charged with possession of a matter of sexual performance by a minor between 12 and 18 years old and tampering with evidence in Madison District Court . He was booked into the Madison County Detention Center.

Court documents say inmates at the Madison County jail have the ability to make phone and video calls through the jail’s call system. Hoskins communicated with the victim on a daily basis through phone calls, video calls and text messages and asked the victim to provide sexually explicit images several times.

Calls on the jail’s video call system are not private and are monitored and/or recorded, according to court documents. His access to the call system was revoked after jail officials discovered his activity, but he continued communicating with the victim through other inmates’ accounts.

Hoskins pleaded guilty to the federal production of child pornography charges April 20. His Madison District Court case remains ongoing with a status hearing scheduled for Sept. 3, according to court records.

CSA Justice in the UK > Man murders child while arrest warrant unserved; Hardly believable UK justice; Burnham wants to keep Child rapists in prison, but can he?

 

Child murderer previously issued with arrest warrant

Harrison Simpson was convicted of murder, child cruelty, and sexual abuse of a child

Cleveland Police failed to detain a man for 18 months after a warrant was issued for his arrest, during which time he murdered his girlfriend's two-year old daughter, it has emerged.

Isabelle Welsh endured a "sadistic" campaign of violent abuse before being murdered at her Thornaby home in September by her mother and new boyfriend Harrison Simpson, who was jailed for life in July.

It has now emerged that after he failed to attend court for breaching a non-molestation order, a warrant was issued in March 2024, but attempts to locate him were unsuccessful.

The force said it immediately carried out a review and has since made a number of changes, including reviewing all outstanding warrants.

The murder trial at Teesside Crown Court heard that Isabelle Welsh was a "happy and thriving" child before her mother, Alexandra Walker, invited Simpson into their lives in June 2025.

On the morning of 13 September she was found fatally injured with Walker not calling 999 until hours later.

It was found she had suffered a fractured skull and an "unsurvivable" brain injury.

It could not be said who inflicted the fatal injury, the court heard, but Walker claimed she was sleeping in after a drink and drugs binge at the time and only found Isabelle injured in her cot later.

Simpson, 22, and Walker, 26, were both found guilty of murder and child cruelty, with Simpson also convicted of sexual abuse of a child.

Both were jailed for life with Simpson ordered to serve a minimum of 28 and a half years and Walker 22 years.

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Teesside Crown Court was told Isabelle was a happy and healthy child before Harrison Simpson came into her life

Cleveland Police has now admitted after Simpson was issued with a warrant for failing to attend court on a charge of breaching a non-molestation order - an injunction designed to protect victims of domestic abuse - multiple enquiries were carried out to try to locate and arrest him but without success.

Isabelle's family had been informed of the circumstances early on in the investigation, it said.

The statement added: "We recognise the time Simpson had an outstanding arrest warrant is far from adequate.

"A review of this was immediately conducted upon his arrest for murder."

It said the review had led to a number of recent changes, such as "a comprehensive data system" which tracked all outstanding warrants, and stringent oversight including a governance group led by a superintendent.

The force added: "Those outstanding warrants posing the highest risk are reviewed daily by senior management."

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Burnham to focus on keeping child rapists in prison as release scheme talks enter final day

Review goes down to the wire after ministers speak with victims’ representatives and support services

Andy Burnham is focused on preventing the release of child sexual abuse perpetrators as part of the government’s early release scheme, as urgent talks on which serious criminals could be exempted go down to the wire.

Government ministers are understood to have 24 hours to assess which criminals can be released early to free up prison space, with every exemption weighed up against the threat of the criminal justice system’s collapse.

The prime minister halted controversial plans to release thousands of killers, rapists and sex offenders from prison in September, intended to ease critical prison overcrowding, during his second week in the role.

He is keen to make as many exceptions as the small headroom in the prison estate will allow, the Guardian understands.

Burnham wants to keep child rapists and other perpetrators of serious sexual abuse from being released early after ministers heard the concerns of victims’ representatives and support services who warned that a failure to put in place safeguards for abuse victims would put them at particular risk.

A review of the scheme is expected to conclude by the end of Monday to give the Prison Service time to prepare, with a final decision on exemptions still to be made.

But ministers are keenly aware that if no action is taken, prisons will run out of space, while exempting some criminals is likely to lead to further calls for others to also be kept behind bars, sources told the Guardian.

The former justice secretary David Lammy, who brought forward the act that paved the way for the releases, previously warned that failing to implement it could leave no capacity across jails in England and Wales in November.

The new justice secretary, appointed by Burnham on 20 July, is Alex Norris.

The early release scheme – accompanied by a significant expansion in electronic tagging of offenders – is still expected to take place this autumn with an initial group of about 700, despite warnings by probation officers of potential chaos.

It is likely to cause a headache for the new prime minister as he faces the Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, in the House of Commons for the first time. A government source said: “If we don’t take any action, we will run out of room – it’s not sustainable at all.”

It comes after the family of PC Andrew Harper expressed outrage that his killers may be eligible for early release. His mother, Debbie Adlam, said the proposed inclusion of two of her son’s killers – Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers – was “another letdown” for their family.

PC Andrew Harper sustained fatal injuries while responding to a reported burglary in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, in August 2019. Photograph: Thames Valley police/PA

New sentencing laws were passed under Keir Starmer’s government to ease a looming prison overcrowding crisis that ministers said could seize up the criminal justice system. Victims’ advocates are concerned that high prisoner numbers will limit the number of serious criminals who could be exempted.

The former safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, a vocal critic of the scheme, said it was right that exemptions were being considered but there needed to be “a whole system change with how victims and risk is managed as the sentencing review goes forward”, which had to be carried out with victims’ agencies, probation officers and police.

Under the Sentencing Act 2026, which passed in January, from September some serious offenders will be eligible for release halfway through their sentences rather than two-thirds of the way through. Those convicted of less serious crimes can be freed after serving a third of their sentence instead of 40%.

The new law also restricts the use of short-term prison stays, which will be replaced with probation and community orders – a move that some critics have said will put pressure on an already overburdened probation service.

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Phillips said any review needed to examine not only the early release scheme but the presumption against short sentences. “Exemptions are an immediate safety crisis, but real in-depth work to make the situation better forever and be one based on risk and rehabilitation must be done,” she said.

Claire Waxman, the victims’ commissioner for England and Wales, met Norris on Wednesday, and she told the Telegraph she welcomed his acknowledgment that victims had been let down and she was “cautiously more hopeful” about progress on answering her concerns.

But prison reform groups, government officials and politicians reacted angrily to Burnham’s decision to pause the scheme, warning that abandoning measures to ease jail overcrowding could lead to the criminal justice system “collapsing under its own weight”.

Ciara Bergman, the chief executive of Rape Crisis England and Wales, said centres had been supporting scores of victims through the “distress and terror of finding out that their rapists and abusers were due to be released … or in some cases already had been”.

She said: “Victim-survivors should never have been put in this situation, not least because so little is known about the factors which make some more like to offend than others, and how sexual violence offenders can effectively be managed and monitored in the community.”

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said it was taking action to fix the prisons crisis, “caused by 14 years of Conservative neglect”.

“We are pulling every lever to protect the public and cut crime,” they said, pointing to the building of new prisons, expanding tagging, strengthening community punishment and giving victims a say in offenders’ licence conditions.

“We have paused changes due to start in September to conduct an urgent review to make sure we get this policy right for victims without running out of prison spaces.”

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