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The former Democrat mayor of Sebastopol, California, has pleaded no contest to child sex crime charges and will spend seven years in prison. Robert Jacob, a 45-year-old Democrat who served as Sebastopol’s mayor from 2013 to early 2016 after serving on the city council, pleaded no contest after he was charged in 2021 with six counts of child sex crimes.

The Pontifical Academy for Life's Arcbhishop Paglia reportedly used nearly half a million euros of charitable funds to renovate his personal apartment at the Vatican.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The head of the increasingly dissident Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, is suing a Catholic news outlet after it accused him of diverting “hundreds of thousands” of euros away from missionary or charitable projects to other ends, including renovating his private apartment. Paglia has hit back after Catholic news outlet The Pillar confidently reported last week that “Paglia used charity funds to renovate apartment.” Citing “multiple independent sources with knowledge...

he 18-year-old pedophile at the center of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's Senate hearing said he was shocked to see his name in the news, but admitted what he did was 'monstrous.' Wesley Hawkins, now 27, was scurrying around D.C. looking for a new job while Senate members were discussing his case at length in a nationally televised SCOTUS hearing, unbeknownst to him. He was aware that Jackson, 51 - the judge who had sentenced him to three months in jail and 10 years on the sex offender registry for child pornography in 2013 - was before Congress as...

(CBS) SEBASTIAN, Fla. - A Florida state attorney says the charges against Kaitlyn Hunt, an 18-year-old high school student who engaged in a same-sex relationship with a 14-year-old classmate, will not be dropped, despite petitions from the public, CBS affiliate WTSP reports. Hunt has been expelled from Sebastian River High School in Sebastian, Fla. and is charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery of a child 12 to 16 years of age as a result of the relationship. The case began in February when Hunt was arrested and charged after the younger girl's parents notified authorities, reportedly when...

Ex-teacher gets 15 to life for molesting students VISTA -- A former Escondido middle school teacher -- denounced by victims' families as a predator and praised by his family and friends as a decent man who would never harm children ---- was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years to life in state prison. Peter Thomas Ziskin, 44, of Solana Beach was convicted in May of 17 of the 26 child molestation charges prosecutors had filed against him. Ziskin was acquitted of six of the charges, and jurors were unable to reach a verdict on three counts. The charges involved allegations that...

Judge: $10M suit against school board too late A $10 million lawsuit claiming local school officials were accountable for a teacher raping a boy was rejected by a judge Friday because it was filed too late, an attorney said. Stephen Craig Fults was a teacher at Barfield Elementary School when police charged him with the crime against a former student who was then attending Riverdale High in April 2003. He was convicted of the charge. The student, who is now an adult, and his mother filed a suit with the Circuit Court in Murfreesboro last January. Judge Mark Rogers, though,...

Court voids sentence for sex offender A man sent to prison for allegedly molesting a 16-year-old Whitefish High School student in May 2004 may get a new trial now that the Montana Supreme Court has voided his sentence. Wilbur Eskill Rytky, 32, came to Montana in February 2004, one month after he was released from custody in Maine after being convicted of molesting two children there. Maine authorities contacted Whitefish Police about Rytky's criminal history, and local police quickly put the word out where Rytky was residing in Whitefish. A registered violent sexual offender, Rytky soon became acquainted with the...

Minister Allegedly Took Nude Pictures Of Himself, Distributed Them With His Phone Number (WCBS/CBS 2 News) -- A New York minister is accused of trying to lure young boys for sex. CBS 2's Suzanne LeMignot reports police say the man may have attempted to prey on victims right here at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Police in Middletown, New York, say 50-year-old Jesus Cano, a minister with the Jehovah's Witnesses, allegedly used his own video camera to take images of himself in the nude and then print them with his phone number in hopes of luring young boys for sex. Cano...

Gay couple jailed for abusing their foster children Two homosexual men who sexually abused young children placed in their foster care were jailed yesterday. Ian Wathey, 41, and his partner Craig Faunch, 32, were found guilty of a string of offences against four boys aged between eight and 14. The pair used the boys for sexual gratification within months of being approved as foster carers by Wakefield council. A mother of eight-year-old twins raised concerns about them with social services after finding a photograph of one of the boys as he used the lavatory. The authorities chose to take no...

A gay couple found guilty of sexually abusing boys placed in their foster care have been sentenced to a total of 11 years in jail. Ian Wathey, 41, and his partner Craig Faunch, 32, were found guilty at Leeds Crown Court last month of a series of sex offences against young boys. Wathey has been sentenced to five years and Faunch has been sentenced to six. The sentences begin immediately. Judge Sally Cahill QC said neither of the men had shown "empathy, remorse or any responsibility for their actions". The pair were approved as foster carers by Wakefield Council in...

<p>A teacher at a Chevy Chase day-care center was arrested over the weekend for allegedly fondling a 14-year-old male in a restroom stall at a Rockville bookstore, Montgomery County police said yesterday.</p> <p>John P. Salinas, 37, of Silver Spring was charged with attempted third-degree sex offense and fourth-degree sex offense following an alleged May 20 incident in which he forcibly pulled down the pants and underwear of a teenager who was using the restroom at the Barnes & Noble store on Rockville Pike.</p>

(CBS) CHICAGO A Mt. Prospect teacher accused of attempting to meet up with a 13-year-old boy for sex has been arrested for Internet solicitation of a minor. Carmel, Ind. police caught the man, Chad Roby, in a sting operation. Roby has worked at River Trail Middle School for six years, according to Dr. Terry Barker of Mt. Prospect School District. He taught sixth grade English and Drama. Roby has been suspended with pay and the school district is waiting on the outcome of the investigation, Barker said. Roby was also a coach with the Glenview Youth Baseball Organization. He has...

HIV-positive man sentenced to 8 years for molesting two boys ANGOLA, Ind. - An HIV-positive man was sentenced to eight years in prison after the parents of two young boys he molested told a judge their children face years of medical tests. Bobby E. Lehner Jr., of Orland was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to child molesting and vicarious sexual gratification in January. The parents of the victims, described in court documents as two boys ages 6 and 9, became emotional as they told Steuben County Magistrate Randy Coffey that because Lehner, 34, is HIV-positive, their children face HIV testing...

Boys' sex abuser up for parole A man convicted of sexually abusing two Decatur boys and who dreamed of a "homosexual boys ranch" will have his first parole hearing Monday in Montgomery. Decatur law enforcement personnel, including Police Chief Joel Gilliam and Morgan County District Attorney Bob Burrell, have sent letters to the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles advising that Phillip Lee Dunn should remain in prison for the duration of his 257-year sentence. A Morgan County jury convicted Dunn, 51, in June 1996 on four counts of sodomy for his involvement with two boys, then ages 11 and...

Scoutmaster Sentenced To 20 Years For Abusing Boys NEW YORK -- A Boy Scout leader was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for sexually abusing two 13-year-old members of his troop. Ronald Occhipinti, 46, a scoutmaster for 15 years, pleaded guilty May 8 to taking sexually explicit photographs of the boys and abusing them at his home in Bayside, Queens and in a church several times between Sept. 1, 2003 and Aug. 6, 2005. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Occhipinti "abused not only his two young victims who looked up to him as a leader, a responsible adult,...

Former Sydney scoutmaster Robert Potter has been jailed for at least five and a half years for sexually assaulting young boys over a 24-year period. Potter, 57, pleaded guilty to 18 charges of aggravated indecent assault between 1978 and 2002 while he was a scout leader and a pool shop owner at Narwee, in Sydney's south-west. Sentencing him in NSW District Court today, Judge Robyn Tupman described Potter's role as a scout leader and the numerous assaults on his four victims as "a double-edged sword". Judge Tupman said the sexual predator "enticed" and "groomed" his four victims with big trucks,...

Man Thought He Was Communicating With 12-Year-Old BENSALEM, Pa. -- A local scoutmaster is in jail after undercover agents arrested him Friday in an Internet child sex sting. Prosecutors said that David Mayberry is a dangerous man. State agents arrested the 50-year-old Montgomery County man, accusing him of trying to engage in sex acts with a gay 12-year-old he met on the Internet. However, prosecutors said that Mayberry was not messaging a 12-year-old -- it was an agent with the attorney general's office. "I can't describe the specific acts he wanted to engage in. You won't hear me repeat them...

Excerpt from the book Twice Adopted by Michael Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan. Michael Reagan was molested as a child by his male camp counselor: A GAME OF TRUTH-OR-DARE Kids who have been molested can’t even express what happened to them. They don’t have the understanding or the vocabulary to put it into words. Big people think little seven-year-olds can just got o an adult and say, “Hi, Mom. Hi, Dad. I was molested.” Bud kids don’t know words like molested and sexual abuse and child pornography. They don’t know how to explain to their parents that they have...

SALEM — An admitted pedophile convicted of molesting a 9-year-old boy he had befriended at a Methuen church was sentenced yesterday to the maximum term possible — nine to 10 years in state prison. "He is the classic sexual predator," Salem Superior Court Judge Howard Whitehead said of Kevin Curlew, 44. "He is the true danger to society." Whitehead said the prison term was the only way to protect society. He also ordered Curlew to serve 10 years probation after his release, during which he will be barred from contact with anyone under 16, the victim and his family. He...

PROMINENT Sydney lawyer John Marsden was found by a NSW District Court judge to have sexually abused an eight-year-old schoolboy when he was a swimming and football coach at a Catholic boarding school in the late 1960s. The 2001 civil case, in which the plaintiff was awarded the then maximum amount of $40,000 in victim's compensation, could not be revealed until now because it was subject to a court suppression order. But now that Marsden - a former New South Wales Law Society president - has died of cancer, his alleged victim has come forward to The Weekend Australian. Marsden...