Child wept as she hugged Texas officers,
reported years of sexual abuse
By Mariah Medina
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Police arrested 70-year-old Jose Louis Guajardo and charged him with continuous sexual abuse of a child after a 12-year-old girl told police he had sexually abused her since she was in second grade.
According to an affidavit, a Child Protective Services investigator and two SAPD officers were called to the girl's home on Christmas Eve to investigate a possible sexual assault case.
As the CPS investigator talked to the 12-year-old girl's mother, the affidavit said the child walked up to the two SAPD officers and hugged them, weeping as she recounted the sexual abuse she suffered.
The victim told police she fell asleep on Saturday and awoke to Guajardo inappropriately touching her. When investigators asked if it had ever happened before, the girl said "it happens a lot."
The victim said she remembered Guajardo telling her "this was going to be their secret" when she was younger.
She told police none of her family knew about the abuse.
Oklahoma school sued for alleged sex abuse
of 15 elementary students
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Perry Elementary School in Perry, Oklahoma, which was sued by the parents of 15 girls that say they were molested by a teacher's aide. (Photo/KWTV via CBS News)
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma school and its board of directors are being sued on behalf of 15 girls who say they were molested by a teacher's aide.
The federal lawsuit filed Friday in Oklahoma City seeks unspecified damages from the Perry school district and the school board for allegedly failing to protect the elementary students from molestation by 86-year-old Arnold Cowen.
Cowen has pleaded not guilty to 19 felony charges of committing lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16, one count of making an indecent proposal and one count of possessing child pornography.
The lawsuit that alleges that the school district's former superintendent texted at least one school board member about allegations against Cowen weeks before Cowen was reported to police, reports CBS affiliate KWTV.
Former principal Kenda Miller and former teacher Jeffrey Sullins face misdemeanor charges of failing to report child abuse.
The lawsuit accuses Miller of instructing alleged victims not to report Cowen's misconduct, because "it could get people in trouble," reports The Oklahoman. The lawsuit accuses Sullins reprimanding a student for writing a note to another student detailing allegations of abuse by Cowen.
"Instead of reporting the sexual assaults or informing the victim's parents, Sullins told Jane Doe 12 that she was a 'liar' and that 'he believed none of it,'" the lawsuit says, according to The Oklahoman.
Sullins has pleaded not guilty. Miller has asked that the charge be dismissed.
Houston sex offender facing new charges after
allegedly recording women in the bathroom
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A registered sex offender accused of photographing multiple women and even a little girl as they used the restroom at restaurants across Harris County is facing more charges tonight.
This week, Suber was charged with possession of child pornography with two prior offenses, and the intention to promote child pornography.
Suber was booked in the Harris County Jail on Friday without bond, and is expected to face a judge on Wednesday.
Deputies arrest Oregon man on child porn
Following interviews and preliminary onsite digital forensics, Irving was arrested and transported to the Linn County Jail. Irving was charged with one count of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the First Degree. Additional charges may be forthcoming following digital forensic examination of devices seized during the search warrant.
"Our office is committed to protecting our children and will diligently and proactively investigate online child exploitation crimes,” Riley said.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office was assisted during the search warrant by the Benton County Sheriff’s Office and the Lebanon Police Department.
This investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information relevant to this investigation is encouraged to contact Detective Trenary at 541-917-6665.
Third lawsuit alleges Texas ISD knew about abuse as it transferred teacher to another campus
Ray LeszcynskiA third lawsuit against a special education teacher, Garland ISD and several of the district's administrators has been filed in federal court, alleging the physical and sexual abuse of teen boys.
Guadalupe Mares says that within months, her son, now 16, was victimized at Hudson. Facts outlined in her Dec. 20 suit draw from those filed in June by Steven and Nora Schutt and in July by Cherish Hooper.
The unnamed son has autism and moderate intellectual disabilities. He was in the special education program at Hudson but, like Hooper's son, did not require assistance in the restroom.
Mares' suit claims that Roell, 36, touched her son and Hooper's son in the restroom under the guise of teaching them "to shake excess urine from their penis after urinating."
"There is very, very strong circumstantial evidence," said Martin Cirkiel, the attorney for Mares and her son. "We have a young man who can speak and called out in class, and everybody heard it, 'If you touch me again, I'm going to call police.' "
Roell faces a single charge out of Sachse of indecency with a child by contact, a second-degree felony. There are no criminal charges in Garland ISD, site of the Pathfinder Achievement Center, where the Schutts say Roell broke their son's arm in a school restroom.
Citing the pending litigation, a Garland ISD spokesman and the outside attorney hired to represent the district and its employee defendants other than Roell declined to comment. Roell's attorney could not be reached for comment on this story.
Cirkiel, who represents plaintiffs in all three suits, said he hopes to combine the cases to allow a single judge to handle scheduling, trial and discovery matters.
Among individual employees named as defendants last week were two listed as "unknown school administrators" in the previous suits.
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