Youth Pastor Sentenced To Over 1,000 Years
For Child Sex Abuse in Alabama
Mentally ill parents torture and kill 4-y/o girl
For Child Sex Abuse in Alabama
Written By Associated Press Television News | Mumbai |
An Alabama youth evangelist was sentenced Friday to more than 1,000 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple child-sex charges. Al.com reports that a judge handed down the maximum sentence on every count to Paul Edward Acton Bowen. Bowen had pleaded guilty in Etowah County to 28 counts involving six boys between the ages of 13 and 16.
The 39-year-old Bowen faced charges that include sexual abuse, sodomy, enticing a child for sex and traveling to meet a child for sexual abuse. He still faces other charges in the Birmingham area.
Victims and family members wept as the judge slowly read out the maximum sentence and fine on every count, the newspaper reported.
The shackled minister apologized to his own family and victims in the courtroom. “The shame and guilt I feel is overwhelming and has been for a long time,” he said. “My heart was never wanting to hurt anybody but my mind was not well.”
It's not your mind, I'm afraid. It's your spirit!
He had previously pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disorder.
Bowen was arrested on sex abuse charges last year. Authorities say additional victims came forward after he was in jail.
Bowen was a Christian minister who wrote books, ran his own youth ministry and traveled to speak at youth events.
Bowen pleaded guilty as his first trial was set to begin.
Etowah Co., AL
by burning her in hot bath water
..
The couple admits to having severe mental illnesses
and not treating them
By Varsha Vasudevan, Meaw
In a terrible tragedy in Michigan, a 4-year-old girl died after being tortured by her mother and the mother's boyfriend. The girl had been burned so badly that her big toe fell off and her melted skin was found in the bathtub.
Shocking details of toddler Gabby Barrett's death came to light after her 24-year-old mother, Candice Diaz, and the 28-year-old boyfriend, Brad Fields, were captured by the police on January 9th after being on the run from the law.
Gabby died on New Year's Eve and there was a nationwide manhunt for the couple after they went on the run from the Sumpter Township. The pair were arrested about 792 miles away from their home in southern Georgia.
The medical examiner from Washtenaw County said that Gabby's death was the "worst child death case" that he had ever seen in his 30-year career as a doctor.
The Detroit Free Press obtained court documents which had the gruesome details of the child's injuries. The authorities said that they had found Gabby's melted skin in the drain of the bathtub and she was also missing a big toe due to the burns.
So, how could this happen? They had to have had a doctor sometime in their lives. The doctor(s) had to know they had children and they weren't taking the medications. Isn't such a doctor obliged to inform child and family services that the children were in danger and should, at least, be looked in on? Shouldn't that be the law?
Former Boston, NY, Boy Scout Leader Accused of
Child Sex Abuse
By Spectrum News Staff and Jeannie McBride Hamburg
A town of Boston man and former Boy Scout leader was arraigned on Friday in Hamburg Town Court after being accused of sexually abusing two children.
Michael Meyers, 57, is charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse, course of sexual conduct against a child, and endangering the welfare of a child.
According to the Erie County District Attorney's Office, Meyers began abusing one victim in December 2015 when the child was 11 years old. The abuse is alleged to have continued until August 2019 and took place in the towns of Boston and Hamburg.
A second victim is alleged to have been abused by Meyers between May 2016 and September 2019, beginning when the child was 13 years old. The incidents allegedly took place in the town of Boston.
At the time of the investigation, Meyers served on the executive board for the Greater Niagara Frontier Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He previously served as council president.
Officials with the Boy Scouts say although the allegations against Meyers are not associated with his role, they took immediate action to prevent his future participation in the organization.
Meyers was released on his own recognizance and is due back in court on January 13, 2020. Orders of protection were issued for both victims.
If convicted, Meyers faces a maximum of 14 years in prison.
Millersburg, PA, man avoids prison
in child sexual abuse case
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – A Dauphin County man has avoided prison and instead will serve seven years of probation for groping a 5-year-old girl, authorities said.
He must register his whereabouts with police, under Megan’s Law, for the rest of his life.
The district attorney’s office said the child reported the abuse in March. Authorities said Mateer later admitted, after failing a polygraph examination, that he kissed the girl and inappropriately touched her.
Mills, WY, man sentenced to at least 10 years
for child sex abuse
TOM MORTONNatrona County Sheriff's Office
A Mills man will spend at least a decade in the Wyoming State Penitentiary for two counts related to child sexual abuse, according to the sentence handed down in Natrona County District Court on Friday
The prison terms will be served concurrently, or at the same time, Johnson said.
"The damage you did ... is unfathomable," she told Glazier.
This was his third felony conviction and the second sexual-abuse related conviction, Johnson said.
Glazier also will receive treatment for his child pornography addiction while in prison, she said.
In August, he pleaded guilty to a single charge of sexual exploitation of children and another count of third-degree sexual abuse of a minor.
As part of the plea agreement, the prosecution agreed to dismiss other charges in the case. On April 30, Glazier pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness. However, a mental health evaluation found that he was fit to go forward in the case.
On March 7, a Mills police officer was called to the Wyoming Medical Center emergency room to investigate a report that a 4-year-old had been sexually assaulted, court records say.
A nurse noted that the victim had injuries on her genitals, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
A Children's Advocacy Project interviewer spoke with the victim who said Glazier touched his genitals to hers. The victim also mentioned that Glazier laid her down and undressed her.
That evening, Glazier voluntarily went to the Mills Police Department to speak to detectives. When a detective asked him about looking at pornography online Glazier said, "[I] invariably seem to get myself in trouble with it because I end up in the darkest recesses of the internet." Glazier then explained he came across a folder with questionably legal pornography, meaning child porn.
Glazier told detectives he downloaded too much child porn to keep track of it, the affidavit says.
Sin is progressive. It obviously progressed to the level of raping a 4 y/o girl. How sick is that?
Long Prison Sentences for Two Minnesota Creeps
Making and Distributing Child Sexual Images
KIM DAVIDMaking and Distributing Child Sexual Images
Minneapolis (KROC AM News) - Two Minnesota men have received lengthy federal prison sentences for separate child pornography convictions.
A 40-year sentence has been given to 43-year-old Michael Carlos Mitchell of Minnetonka. He was charged with using a young child to produce large amounts of child porn. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Minneapolis, Mitchell “created hundreds of videos and thousands of images of himself sexually abusing a child under the age of 10 years old.”
A 25-year sentence has been handed down in the case of 33-year-old Marty Keith Larson of Keewatin. Prosecutors say he “created sexual abuse images of a minor under the age of 10 and distributed them using Kik Messenger application.”
U.S. Attorney (Minnesota) Erica H. MacDonald said, “We have seen a dramatic uptick in the number of cases involving the sexual abuse of minors. I am committed to using every available resource to combat this disturbing trend. One such resource is the Project Safe Childhood initiative which brings together child protection experts nationwide that are laser focused on bringing these predators to justice.”
MacDonald adds, “These cases were brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.”
Life + 25 x 2 for Okemah, OK, man convicted
of child sex crimes
By Editor By Ken Childers
ONL Editor
An Okemah man convicted of child sexual abuse has been sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years times two.
In November, an Okfuskee County jury found 63-year-old Mark Wattles guilty on four counts of child sexual abuse. Following suit with the jury’s recommendations, Judge Lawrence Parish last week handed down two life sentences, one each for counts one and two, plus a pair of 25-year sentences, one each for counts three and four.
The sentences for counts two and four are to run consecutively with counts one and three – meaning two sentences of life plus 25 years, served back-to-back.
That makes no sense to me - to me it results in two sentences of Life + 25 years, to be run concurrently. Is that how you read it?
The case stemmed from allegations of sexual abuse made by two young Texas girls who had spent the summer of 2017 with Wattles and his wife Mary at their Okemah home. Mary Wattles was charged with multiple counts of enabling child sexual abuse and will be tried at a future date. A motion made by the defense to have the two trials consolidated was denied by the court.
The initial investigation began in Abilene, Texas, when the girls, who were 12 and 14 years old at the time, returned home and confided in a family member about the incidents. The family member then notified the girls’ mother, which led to the notification of authorities.
During the trial, the girls’ father testified that the girls “crumbled” when he talked to them about the allegations they had made.
“This has been the toughest two years of my life,” the father said. “My daughter has been hospitalized, my kids are so much different, my wife and I nearly separated over this and I’ve changed careers,” he said. The father was an employee of the Texas Department of Corrections but left his job – which involved reading “gruesome details” of crimes – because he felt he could no longer “look at things objectively.”
The witness further testified that the younger of the two girls has been hospitalized three times for suicide attempts since 2017 and the older daughter had become “reclusive” and often wears sweaters, even in hot weather, to stay covered up. Both girls are still receiving counseling to treat sexual abuse-related trauma, according to their father.
Also during the trial, jurors were shown video of forensic interviews conducted with both girls in 2017 by Brandon Gurganus, Victims Services Specialist with the Abilene Police Department. In the video, the oldest of the two girls seemed reluctant to discuss the abuse, stating only that “bad things” had happened. She later wrote more details down on paper for Gargunus. The younger girl described several events, including one in which Wattles allegedly exposed himself to her. “I don’t get why he did it to me,” she said in the interview.
Mark and Mary Wattles were taken into custody in September 2017 and were scheduled to stand trial in October 2018, but it was rescheduled due to family health issues with the couple’s lawyer. The trial was rescheduled for May 13, 2019 but was continued twice, first until May 20 then to November.
According to court documents, Mark Wattles, a former employee of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, has filed notice that he intends to appeal the conviction.
Good idea! You haven't made the girl's lives difficult enough; you should torture them some more!!!!
Ex-Penn Charter School Counselor and Coach Accused of Sexually Abusing Teen Counselor
A former summer camp counselor and tennis coach for William Penn Charter School has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a teenage counselor from the school’s summer camp program in 2018.
35-year-old Christopher Spencer was arrested on December 19 and faces charges of attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, aggravated indecent assault, institutional sexual assault, and related charges.
In July 2019, parents of a different teenage summer camp counselor filed a complaint with the school, alleging that Spencer “engaged in inappropriate online and verbal communication and interacted with their child in a way that made the child feel uncomfortable,” according to a statement from the school.
Penn Charter officials reported these allegations to ChildLine – Pennsylvania’s child abuse reporting hotline. This led to an investigation by the Philadelphia Police Department Special Victims Unit. However, this investigation was closed without further action.
The school continued to internally investigate the July 2019 allegations and spoke with other people that Spencer had interacted with through his position at Penn Charter. In September, the school says they discovered “information that led us to believe that Spencer engaged in inappropriate sexual contact with a high school-age counselor the year before, in the summer of 2018,” the school said in a statement.
The summer 2018 allegations were also reported to ChildLine and also led to an investigation by the Special Victims Unit. Spencer would eventually be arrested based on these allegations.
Nice work, Penn Charter; not-so-much Philly SVU.
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