Woman, 6th person arrested for 'furry pedophile parties' - Pennsylvania
41 y/o man guilty of making & possessing child porn - New Jersey
52 y/o man gets 50 yrs w/o parole for continuous CSA 2 girls - Texas
53 y/o man charged with sex assault and videoing 12 y/o girl - Illinois
Neurosurgeon & nurse charged with child sex abuse - Arizona
27 y/o pervert charged with sexually assaulting 2 y/o relative - Texas
Pa. woman is 6th accused in bizarre
'furry party' sex ring
BY JIM DEEGAN
A central Pennsylvania woman has been charged in connection with a child sex ring in which at least one child was victimized during "animal furry parties," authorities said.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office announced the charges Sunday against Paige Wren Tasker, 27, of Cumberland County.
Authorities said she was arraigned in Monroe County, where the crimes occurred, on charges of statutory sexual assault, corruption of minors, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and indecent assault.
Attorney General Josh Shapiro in a statement said her victim, a 14-year-old boy, was earlier identified as the victim abused during so-called furry parties in Bucks County. Authorities have described the behavior as a sexual fetish in which adults dress as animals.
They allege Tasker on more than one occasion performed a sex act on the teen victim.
State officials in January charged five men in connection with the furry parties. They included David R. Parker, 38, of Saylorsburg, who in 2009 started taking the child to furry parties in a home and was charged with child rape and related counts.
Investigators said Tasker had a brief relationship with Parker and in 2015 went to Saylorsburg to visit him. During the visit, she slept in the boy's bed and assaulted him, prosecutors said.
"In January, we made a promise when we first filed charges against predators that this investigation would continue as long as it takes," Shapiro said in a prepared statement. "The hard work of the agents and attorneys in our Child Predator Section, working closely with other law enforcement partners, led to this latest arrest.
"This is a deeply disturbing case, and we care about this victim and every victim of sexual abuse."
Tasker was arraigned on $250,000 cash bail and ordered to Monroe County Prison, the attorney general's office said. A preliminary hearing is tentatively scheduled for May 22.
Last week another one of the defendants, 57-year-old Kenneth C. Fenske of Milford Township, outside Quakertown, was held for trial on charges of child rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, corruption of minors and unlawful contact with a minor.
The three others charged with sex offenses in the predator ring are Jeffrey Harvey, 40, of West Wyoming in Luzerne County, Pa.; Craig Knox, 35, of Henrico, Va.; and Stephen Taylor, of Virginia.
Suspected child predators can be reported to the Office of Attorney General by calling the Child Predator Hotline at 1-800-385-1044. Individuals who suspect an online predator or abuse can also send anonymous tips by texting PAKIDS + YOUR TIP to 847411.
Saylorsburg, PA
N.J. man found guilty of filming sex abuse of child
Thomas Moriarty | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
NEWARK -- A jury Monday found a 41-year-old Jersey City man guilty of child pornography charges authorities say stem from his sexual abuse of a child, a crime which has exposed him to a minimum of 25 years in federal prison.
Following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge William H. Walls in Newark and less than three hours of deliberation, the jury found Felix Restitullo guilty of production and possession of child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Prosecutors say Restitullo, who was first arrested by the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office in March 2014, made video recordings of his abuse of a child while his mother was babysitting the girl.
The Prosecutor's Office has said Restitullo previously was charged with possessing child pornography in 2009, but pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child, a fourth-degree charge that allowed him to stay off New Jersey's sex offender registry.
A search of computer storage devices found in Restitullo's home in the March 2014 case turned up more than 350 videos and over 3,000 still images of child abuse, according to prosecutors.
Initially charged by the Prosecutor's Office with aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a minor, Restitullo was charged federally by Homeland Security Investigations in July 2015 and was indicted by a grand jury the next month, according to court records.
Walls in October barred any of Restitullo's statements to investigators from being used as evidence in the case, ruling they had implored him to give testimony immediately after he asked for a lawyer. Under questioning by Prosecutor's Office detectives, Restitullo made "admissions" regarding the possession of child pornography but denied taking part in the sexual assault, according to filings by federal prosecutors.
Federal authorities say that although Restitullo would normally face a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison on the production charge, his prior conviction exposes him to a mandatory minimum of 25 and a maximum of 50.
Prosecutors say he similarly faces a minimum of 10 years on the possession charge, which now carries a maximum of 20 years.
I guess he will make it onto the N.J. sex offenders list this time, if he ever gets out of prison.
Restitullo's sentencing has been scheduled for June 20.
Jersey City, NJ
Man sentenced to 50 years for child sex abuse
By Mike Glenn
A Houston plumber will spend the next 50 years in prison following his conviction for sexually abusing two young girls, the Harris County District Attorney's Office said Friday.
During a two-week trial in the Harris County court house, jurors were told Fidel Morales, 42, repeatedly abused a young girl in the bedroom of her home. The assaults stopped only after the girl told her mother what had been happening.
Her mother then reported the attacks to the Houston Police Department who launched an investigation. A second girl told jurors Morales had also abused her for almost three years.
He was convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child. Morales is not eligible for parole due to the nature of the crimes.
"Morales will essentially spend the rest of his life behind bars after he destroyed the lives of two young girls," JoAnne Music, chief of the sex crimes division at the Harris County District Attorney's Office, said in a statement.
O’Fallon man charged with sexual assault,
video recording of young girl
BY DANA RIECK
A 53-year-old O’Fallon, Illinois man is facing seven felony charges alleging he sexually abused a now 14-year-old girl for more than two years and physically attacked a then 11-year-old boy, according to court documents obtained Monday.
Those documents state that Carl Scoma is accused of sexually touching the then 12-year-old’s body and secretly recording her in the shower in her home. These allegations are in connection to events said to have occurred between January 2014 and August 2016.
Scoma has been charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of the girl, a Class X felony. Other charges involving the attacks on the girl include two counts of criminal sexual assault, Class 1 felonies; two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, Class 2 felonies; and unauthorized video recording, a Class 3 felony.
The O’Fallon man was also charged with aggravated domestic battery, a Class 2 felony in connection to an alleged attack against a 11-year-old boy in 2015. Prosecutors allege Scoma put his hands around the boy’s throat in an attempt to strangle him.
As of Monday morning, Scoma was not in custody but documents noted that when he is arrested, his bail will be $250,000.
Santa Cruz Co. doctor, nurse arrested in
child sex case
child sex case
KSBW, Amy Larson, Phil Gomez
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —
A Santa Cruz neurosurgeon and nurse were arrested by the Watsonville Police Department on suspicion of sexually abusing children, including a victim who is less than 10 years old.
James Kohut, 57, of Santa Cruz, is a respected neurosurgeon at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, as well as Dominican Hospital.
He was arrested Sunday on suspicion of oral copulation with a minor, and forcing lewd acts on a minor. Kohut was arrested at his house on 4th Avenue, and was booked into jail without chance of bail.
A Dominican Hospital nurse, 42-year-old Rashel Brandon, was arrested May 9.
The Watsonville woman is charged with eight felony counts of child sex abuse, including sodomy and oral copulation.
A third person was also arrested in connection to the case, but the suspect's name has not been made public yet.
According to the charges, there are two victims. One is less than 10 years old and the other is less than 14 years old.
So far, investigators have not disclosed where the alleged crimes occurred. This case is being investigated by the FBI, Internet Crimes Against Children Task force, and Watsonville Police Department.
Kohut was disciplined and sanctioned back in 2006 by the state medical board for "quality care issues," according to public records.
One of those "issues" was that Kohut was caught downloading and viewing pornography while at work, according to the state board. He was employed as a neurosurgeon at University Medical Center at the time.
A second cause for discipline was a botched brain surgery Kohut performed in 2002, according to the board. An x-ray showed that a 36-year-old man had an aneurysm on the left side of his head, and Kohut erroneously attempted to surgically remove the aneurysm on the right side.
Kohut's professional biography pages on SutterHealth.org and Pamf.org were giving "404 Page Not Found" error messages Monday, and appeared to have been removed.
According to her Facebook page, Brandon is an ICU staff nurse at Dominican Hospital and a mother of two.
Elwood man held on child sexual abuse,
porn charges - 2 y/o
By Stuart Hirsch | The Herald Bulletin
ELWOOD, Texas — Alerted by relatives and a former girlfriend, Madison County Sheriff's Deputies on Thursday arrested a 27-year-old Elwood man on preliminary charges of child molestation and other related charges.
Michael B. Maddox is accused of sexual misconduct with intimate child relatives — both male and female — at least one of whom was a 2-year-old toddler, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in the case.
Maddox is currently being held in the Madison County Jail on a $100,000 full cash bond, on preliminary charges of Level 1 felony child molestation, Level 3 felony vicarious sexual gratification, Level 4 felony child solicitation, and Level 6 felony dissemination of matter harmful to minor.
He appeared before Madison County Magistrate Judge Steven Clase Friday morning for an initial hearing. Clase granted a request from the Madison County Prosecutor's office to delay the filing of formal charges for 72 hours.
In interviews at Kids Talk, the Madison County Child Advocacy Center in Anderson, children described watching child and adult pornography with Maddox; watching him masturbate, and instruction videos, according to the probable cause statement.
Sheriff's investigators seized multiple computers, media storage devices, cellular telephones, and sex toys, according to court records. All that material will be sent to the Indiana State Police cyber crimes unit where it will be evaluated.
Maddox was read a Miranda warning during an interview with sheriff's investigators, and voluntarily waived his right silence and agreed to talk, according to the court statement.
He admitted to them that he suffered from an addiction to methamphetamine, but when that interview turned to the subject of pornography, "Mr. Maddox indicated he would invoke his right to having a lawyer present during questioning. The interview was then stopped," according to the probable cause.
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