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MIAMI – Benito Montes de Oca Cruz, 60, of Miami-Dade County, has pled guilty to abusive sexual contact with a woman serving part of her 51-month prison sentence in home confinement under his authority. Cruz, a site supervisor employed by Riverside House, conducted home visits to monitor compliance of federal inmates on home confinement. Riverside House, pursuant to a contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, is responsible for providing custodial, supervisory, and disciplinary oversight to federal inmates on home confinement. As admitted at the change of plea, on December 28, 2020, Cruz conducted a home confinement supervision visit to...

Mohamed Bakari Shei was sentenced to 176 days in the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center on Monday for two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with someone under 13.

An 8-year-old child was allegedly molested in August by a substitute middle school teacher in Kansas City, Missouri, who is now in jail. Jason L. Carey was arrested on Wednesday and charged with one count each of felony enticement or attempted enticement of a child, felony second-degree child molestation, and two counts of misdemeanor furnishing pornographic material or attempting to furnish pornographic material to a minor. He was already under investigation for allegedly sending nude photos of himself to several eighth-grade students. ------------ the 8-year-old said that Carey abused her and forced her to watch pornographic tapes, including one with...

he Columbus Dispatch reported on Wednesday that police arrested a 27-year-old undocumented Ohio man, Gerson Fuentes, after he confessed to raping a 10-year-old girl, which resulted in pregnancy. The viral story of the child who needed to seek an abortion out of state after Roe v. Wade was overturned was reported vaguely by the Indianapolis Star and was used as a political weapon to go after Republican legislators who advocate for abortion restrictions. I reported on glaring errors and omissions in the reporting in the Indianapolis Star, which led to fact-checks by multiple news organizations, including Snopes and the Washington...

Washington D.C. police are offering $10,000 for any information about 42-year-old Maryland resident Kenneth Miles Davis' whereabouts Police say Davis shot a woman in a road rage incident on May 19 while her two kids were in the car The driver was struck in the shoulder and a 5-year-old was hit by the shattered glass while the 11-year-old was traumatized Surveillance footage from the event shows Davis getting out of his car and approaching a gray sedan that he starts shooting He then turns back and begins to shoot the car behind him, before getting into his Maserati and making...

A man killed three people and wounded four others in a series of shootings over roughly four hours that started on Chicago's South Side and ended with his death in a shootout with police in a parking lot just north of the city.Investigators are trying to determine a motive for the attacks, which began Saturday afternoon with the killing of a 30-year-old University of Chicago student who was shot in the head while sitting in his car in a parking garage in the Hyde Park neighborhood, ...The shooter, 32-year-old Jason Nightengale, then “just randomly” walked into an apartment building a...

A 30-year-old Baton Rouge man was accused by a grand jury Wednesday of raping a 4-year-old girl and molesting a 6-year-old girl. An East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury indicted Joel Rodriguez, of 3579 Victoria Drive, on first-degree rape and molestation of a juvenile under the age of 13. The rape occurred on May 26, and the molestation took place between Aug. 1, 2018, and May 30, the indictment states. A first-degree rape conviction would carry a mandatory sentence of life in prison. The case has been assigned to state District Judge Bonnie Jackson.

Midwest City police say a day care worker knocked on the locked bathroom door at 7025 SE 15th Street on Tuesday after the girl didn't return promptly A police affidavit says a man eventually came out and said: 'I was just washing my hands' The child told workers the man, identified as Joshua David Kabatra, sexually assaulted her Kabatra told police that he had felt sick and threw up in the bathroom sink while the girl was on the toilet He remains jailed in Oklahoma City, and court records don't list an attorney who can speak on his behalf A...

A British man has been given 22 life sentences after admitting 71 charges of sex abuse against children in Malaysia aged from six months to 12 years old.

In 2007, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn was packing up to become the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Jean Quatremer, a writer for the French paper Libération wrote on his blog that "Strauss-Kahn's only real problem is his relationship to women. Too heavy … it borderlines harassment," reports the UK’s Guardian. The Guardian says that “many politicians privately wonder[ed]” then “how he would cope in a puritan U.S. which frowns upon sexual advances.”He may not have coped at all. He may have snapped. I hope that I’m wrong about it, but fear that I’m not. Strauss-Khan, a 62-year old French...

A man is behind bars accused of raping a three-year-old girl he was babysitting in Deerfield Township. 23 year-old Alejandro Vasquez-Camargo was living at the same address as the victim. The Warren County Sherrif's Office says Camargo is an illegal immigrant from Mexico. He was arrested this morning. He is charged with rape and gross sexual imposition.

MINERAL WELLS, Texas - A Mineral Wells family is devastated after a 4-year old boy who was kidnapped from his home was found dead. Police believe the child was murdered by a family friend who was holding him for ransom. The man wanted for the kidnapping and murder escaped while in police custody and is still at large. Salvador Briones, Jr. disappeared from his parent's Mineral Wells home early Friday morning. Police say he was snatched from his bed and later found murdered in an abandoned house. The suspect, Arturo Pacheco Barrera, 23, is wanted by police and the Federal...

After an investigation, the Secret Service announced that the allegation that someone yelled “Kill him” when Barack Obama’s name was mentioned at a Sarah Palin rally is completely unfounded. And Barack Obama owes John McCain an apology for using this false story to beat up McCain and Sarah Palin in last night’s debate. He even says that Palin “didn’t mention, didn’t stop, didn’t say hold on a second.” She didn’t stop or say anything about it because it didn’t happen. And she wasn’t even on stage at the time of this nonexistent event.

The victims were among the most vulnerable. Their plight brought one hospital official to tears and drew flashes of anger from another yesterday as they described a horrifying case of child molestation and pornography at Children's Convalescent Hospital. A 54-year-old respiratory therapist has been arrested on 40 counts of possession, manufacture and distribution of child pornography and two counts of lewd and lascivious acts on two children under 14. In all, the charges involve nine children. A cell phone allegedly was used to take photographs of bedridden children at the 59-bed convalescent center, which is part of the Children's Hospital...

MANITOWOC, Wisconsin (AP) -- A 16-year-old boy detailed the final horrific hours of a young photographer, telling investigators he and his uncle raped and killed her when she came to a salvage lot last Halloween on a photo assignment, a criminal complaint says. Brendan Dassey was charged Thursday with being party to homicide, mutilation of a corpse and sexual assault of Teresa Halbach. Dassey is a nephew of 43-year-old Steven Avery, who was charged in November with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and possession of firearms by a felon in Halbach's death. He had been released from prison in...

SAN DIEGO – A pedophile who was part of the international child pornography ring that exchanged videos and photos of themselves molesting children was sentenced Thursday to more than 467 years to life in state prison. Paul Whitmore, a former counselor for autistic children, was convicted Nov. 30 of 51 felony charges, including committing a lewd act on a child, aggravated sexual assault on a child, posing a minor for pictures involving sexual conduct for commercial purposes and attempting to dissuade a witness from reporting a crime. The verdicts included special allegations of bondage, sodomy, sexual penetration, oral copulation and...

The stepfather of a 10-year-old girl was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor after she became pregnant, police said. William Edward Ronca, 26, was being held Friday at the Abbeville County jail. The girl's mother told The (Greenwood) Index-Journal that she had no idea her daughter was pregnant. A school guidance counselor told the mother the girl was acting withdrawn and not participating at school. The girl was later taken to Abbeville County Memorial Hospital, where it was discovered she was about seven to eight months pregnant. Warrants said Ronca had been having sex with the girl...

SARASOTA, Fla. - Joseph Smith should be executed for kidnapping, raping and murdering Carlie Brucia, the 11-year-old girl whose abduction was captured by a surveillance camera and broadcast around the world, a jury recommended Thursday. Jurors deliberated five hours before arriving at their recommendation, voting 10-2 for the death penalty. Circuit Judge Andrew Owens ultimately will issue the sentence, as early as next month. Under the law, he must give great weight to the jury's choice before imposing a sentence of death or life in prison without parole.

JNW HEADLINE NEWS PA already exploiting Gaza-Egypt crossing By Stan Goodenough November 30th, 2005 Well that didn’t take long. Just days after Israel – under intense US pressure – relinquished full control of the crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt to the Arabs, the Palestinian Authority allowed a Hamas terrorist exiled by Israel to enter the area. Fadel Zahar, a senior member of the Hamas terror gang, and brother of Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar, walked across from Egypt Tuesday, 15 years after Israel banished him from all areas under Jerusalem’s control. The PA’s prompt abuse of its newly acquired...

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - A former mechanic was convicted Thursday of raping and strangling an 11-year-old girl whose abduction was captured by a car-wash security camera.