Idaho police continue search for two missing children from couple with several suspicious deaths
By Clyde Hughes
Rexburg, Idaho Police continued their search Tuesday for missing children Joshua Vallow, 7, & Tylee Ryan, 17.
Photos courtesy of Rexburg Police Department
(UPI) -- Idaho authorities said they fear for the lives of a sister and brother who have been missing since September, and the mother and her new husband have refused to cooperate with the investigation.
The disappearance of Tylee Ryan, 17 and Joshua Vallow, 7, is being investigated by the Rexburg police with assistance from the FBI. They were last seen in Rexburg on Sept. 23. Their mother, Lori Vallow, and her current husband, Chad Daybell, have not helped in the search, police said.
"We have taken every step available to us, including executing multiple search warrants, interviewing multiple sources and running down every lead we have found," Rexburg police said in a statement while asking help from the public.
Tylee, Joshua, Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell
Suspicious deaths
Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Vallow's last two husbands have died since 2018 and Daybell is under investigation in the recent death of his last wife, Tammy Daybell. Authorities initially believed she died in October from natural causes, but now are re-examining the case as suspicious.
"We strongly believe that Joshua and Tylee's lives are in danger," Rexburg police said. "We are aware that in the weeks after Tammy Daybell's death, Lori Vallow-Daybell and Chad Daybell told witnesses that Lori's daughter had died a year before the death of her father, which is untrue. Around that same time, Chad told another witness that Lori had no minor children."
Police said the couple has not been charged in the case, and that investigators' first priority is to find the missing children.
"We know that the children are not with Lori and Chad Daybell, and we also have information indicating that Lori either knows the location of the children or what has happened to them," police said. "Despite having this knowledge, she has refused to work with law enforcement to help us resolve this matter.
"We publicly call on Lori Vallow-Daybell and Chad Daybell to do the right thing and come forward with the information they have about the location and welfare of Joshua and Tylee."
Man indicted for child sexual abuse in Rockford, Ill
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) -- A Chicago man is accused of sexually abusing a child in Rockford.
Darrell Creasy, 39, was indicted for reportedly abusing a child under 13 years old.
Rockford police responded to reports of sexual abuse in the 400 block of Hinkley Avenue on Aug. 22, 2019.
Police say Creasy knew people inside the home, but he was not known to the victim. Officers obtained a warrant for his arrest on Sept. 16.
If convicted, Creasy faces up to 30 years in prison. He is due back in court on January 29, 2020.
Child Victims Act lawsuit: Baptist Church youth group leader abused girl in 1970s
Anthony Borrelli, Ithaca Journal
A Tompkins County woman's lawsuit accuses a former Ithaca-area church youth group leader of sexually abusing her over the span of about three years when she was a teenager in the 1970s.
The lawsuit against Tabernacle Baptist Church and former youth group leader David W. Smith was filed Dec. 20 in Tompkins County Supreme Court under New York's Child Victims Act.
Court documents say the abuse allegedly began when the woman was 13 years old in 1975 — Smith was about 31 years old at the time — while the victim was involved in her church's Word of Life Group. Smith was a teen leader of the group at the time.
Although the woman's name was mentioned in the lawsuit, The Ithaca Journal does not identify victims of alleged sexual abuse.
The lawsuit says Smith and his wife took care of the girl whenever her parents were out of town, and she also spent Sunday afternoons between morning church service and evening youth group meetings either with Smith or in his home.
When youth group went late in the evening, she spent the night at Smith's home, according to the lawsuit. It was during those stays, the lawsuit claims, that Smith allegedly entered her room and forced her to perform sexual acts.
The Tompkins County Court House, at 320 N. Tioga St., Ithaca, houses the Tompkins County Clerk's Office
Smith is also accused of forcing the girl to engage in sexual acts in the basement of the residence as well, and touching her inappropriately on church grounds, according to her lawsuit.
Leaders at the church were notified at the time, the lawsuit claims, but they took no action against Smith regarding alleged sexual assaults.
Lawyers for the defendants are expected to file their own documents in response to the lawsuit, which seeks an unspecified amount of compensation to be decided through future court action.
The Child Victims Act (CVA) created a one-year window for filing old civil claims for child sexual abuse. It also extended the statute of limitations for future acts of child sexual abuse so that victims have until age 55 to bring a lawsuit.
A statute for criminal prosecution changed as well under the CVA, adding five years to the window of time within which charges can be brought.
Plano, TX, doctor charged with child sex abuse met teens on Grindr, recorded encounters
By Tom SteeleDallas Morning News
A Plano doctor who was arrested in October on two counts of sexual assault of a child is accused of using a dating app to meet teenage boys in the early 2010s, one of whom he reportedly plied with drugs and recorded during sex.
An attorney for Collins did not respond to requests for comment.
In arrest-warrant affidavits obtained by The Dallas Morning News, an Arlington detective writes that the two accusers — both now in their early 20s — reported the allegations of sexual abuse in September.
The first accuser said he was about 15 when he met Collins through the dating app Grindr. Collins gave the teenager GHB — also known as the date-rape drug — and methamphetamine before sexually assaulting him at Collins’ home, the affidavit says.
The teenager said he returned to Collins’ home at least 50 times over the next three years and continued to have sexual encounters with him in exchange for meth. He said Collins recorded up to a dozen of their encounters when he was underage and stored the videos in a safe in his bedroom.
The second accuser told authorities he was also about 15 when he met Collins through Grindr. He said he met Collins twice for sex — once at an Arlington motel and once at Collins’ home, where he saw cameras in the bedroom.
Police found body-camera video from July, when officers were called to a domestic disturbance at Collins’ home on Elmridge Drive. Footage from the bedroom showed cameras and a large safe as the accusers had described, police wrote in the affidavit.
Authorities reported finding methamphetamine when they arrested Collins. He posted $52,500 shortly after his arrest, court records show.
In October, the Texas Medical Board suspended Collins’ license “after determining his continuation in the practice of medicine poses a continuing threat to public welfare,” the board said in a written statement.
Rhode Island man cited in early 2000s
child sex abuse in Sheffield, VT
By Justin Trombly, VTDiggerJeffrey Touchette, 35, was cited Friday to appear in Caledonia County court on charges of sexual assault of a person under 16 and lewd or lascivious conduct with a child.
Touchette lives in West Warwick, Rhode Island, according to Vermont State Police.
Detectives said that between 2001 and 2006, Touchette sexually assaulted the child at a residence in Sheffield.
The crimes began when the child was 7 and ended when the child turned 12, state police said.
Troopers provided no further details about the incidents.
Touchette is due in court March 2. West Warwick officers helped issue the citation.
La Crosse, Wis, man charged with attempted
child sexual assault
Jourdan Vian La Crosse Tribune
A 31-year-old La Crosse man is accused of arranging to meet an undercover cop posing as a 14-year-old girl for sex earlier this month.
According to the criminal complaint, the La Crosse Area Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force received a tip Dec. 9 from a Grand Chute, Wis., law enforcement agency that Williams was involved in an online conversation with someone he believed was 14 in that area.
A La Crosse police officer sent Williams a message on the social messaging app Kik about the weather Dec. 10 using an undercover persona of a 14-year-old girl, according to the complaint. During the course of the next two days, Williams sent the undercover officer a picture of his face and genitals and arranged to have sexual intercourse.
The police asked Williams to meet the supposed teen Dec.12 at the La Crosse Public Library and, when he arrived, he was taken into custody.
Not too bright
According to the criminal complaint, Williams told police he never talks to anyone privately on Kik and only sends photos of himself to his wife, saying “I didn’t do anything bad.”
Williams denied any knowledge of the messages and said his phone and email had been hacked six months prior. Williams asked the officer why it seemed like they didn’t believe him and the officer responded, “Because I don’t,” according to the report.
Williams handed over his phone to police and gave them his passcode and permission to make a forensic copy. When police opened the phone, the Kik app was still open and the chat between Williams and the undercover officer was still on his phone, according to the complaint.
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