child sexual abuse

A 67-year-old Casper man pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of sexually abusing a child who was under the age of 10.  

A primary school teacher was arrested for allegedly molesting a Year Two pupil at the music room of a school here on Tuesday. The 47-year old teacher from a school in Seberang Prai Selatan, was arrested on Thursday and has been remanded for five days. He was alleged to have undressed the 8-year-old girl and performed oral sex on her.  

For more than a year, John Mark Felton chatted online with an Anchorage father of two, planning a visit to meet the family so he could molest a 6-year-old boy, according to documents filed in federal court. He talked about a scene in which the father would molest his 7-year-old girl and Felton, a Briton living in Boston, would molest the 6-year-old. "I'll come there if you're offering to let me play nicely with your son," Felton wrote during the conversation, according to documents filed in federal co  

A prominent local man has been accused of possessing child pornography and luring a minor via electronic means. David Runnion, 50, of Brattleboro, the director of the Windham Orchestra, was cited Thursday after a lengthy joint investigation by the Brattleboro and Keene, N.H., Police departments that began in May. Runnion, the son of Norman Runnion, a longtime managing editor of the Reformer, referred all questions to his attorney. He is scheduled to appear in Windham District Court to answer to the ch

It was not an undercover cop. This was an actual victim that we discovered through another case we were investigating.   -Eric Johnson

 

A mother accused of having sex with her son's 16 year old friend pleaded guilty to one count of first degree sexual abuse. Last December, detectives found Jeannie Vannerson of Kevil locked in a bedroom with the boy. Prosecutors dropped two other sexual abuse charges as part of a plea deal.  

Troubles with a rented laptop computer caused a Homosassa man troubles with the Citrus County Sheriff's Office today. The Sheriff's Office found 21 images of child pornography on a computer rented by Andrew James Layton, 21, of 7578 W. Karmac Court, Apartment 6. Layton had taken the computer in for repair, where a computer technician later found what appeared to be child pornography on it and called the Sheriff's Office.  

Police arrested five Poly High School freshmen for sexual battery after two girls were attacked on campus earlier this week, authorities said Friday. The arrests stem from an incident that occurred on school grounds on Tuesday during the lunch break, police and school officials said. Police said the incident involved five males and two females - all of whom are ninth-graders - and included groping of the girls breasts, buttocks and privates.

involved in a brief situation where at least one of the boys apparently groped one or more of the girls   -Chris Eftychiou

 

On Friday, police charged the parents of an 8-year-old gang rape victim with child abuse after an indictment alleged that the Liberian girl's parents failed to protect their daughter. Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced that both Hemie Dio, 59, and Wedeh Dio, 47, were charged with seven felony class 5 counts of child abuse, and one count of felony class 3 child abuse. The eyes of the nation turned to the girl's plight after she was allegedly sexually assaulted by four underage suspects, a

We appreciate the efforts of Phoenix police and our prosecutors in bringing this case forward. It's truly heartbreaking that this young girl is a victim in two criminal cases   -Andrew Thomas

 

A TEENAGER complained of being visited by "a plague of professionals" at her home since disclosing she had been sexually abused, a conference heard yesterday. The 16-year-old girl is a patient of child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dr Imelda Ryan, director of St Louise's Child Sexual Abuse and Assessment Unit at Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Dublin. Dr Ryan, who was speaking during a conference in Dublin that looked at how children disclose their experiences of sexual abuse in Dublin, said the teen  

An Elkin business owner was arrested and charged with statutory sex offense with a 14 year old and solicitation of a child by computer to commit a sex act. William Frederick Cosby Jr., 45, had been investigated since Nov. 13 when the incident was reported to the Elkin Police Department. Cosby Jr. is being held at the Surry County Sheriff's Office on $100,000 bond.