Free Republic

ESCONDIDO, Calif. -- A Mexican who has been deported three times was in federal custody Wednesday in Escondido on suspicion of fondling himself inside a vehicle while watching children walk to school. Antonio Montoya-Senteno was spotted in the 1200 block of North Broadway about 7:20 a.m. and, based on witness reports, arrested at El Norte Parkway and Escondido Boulevard, Escondido police Lt. Chris Wynn said. U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers at the Escondido police station as part of Operation Joint Effort questioned Montoya-Senteno and determined he had been deported three times, he said

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KTLA) -- Santa Ana City Councilman Carlos Bustamante has gone from a rising political star to a felony sexual assault suspect. The Orange County District Attorney's Office on Tuesday will detail the criminal charges it plans to file against Bustamante. The 47-year-old councilman was arrested around 4:15 p.m. Monday, right before a regularly scheduled Santa Ana City Council meeting. Bustamante faces multiple felony charges, including stalking, false imprisonment and attempted sexual battery. ... Bustamante was elected to the City Council in November of 2004. The charges against him may stem from his time as the director of...

COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - A Columbus man charged with child molestation is going to prison after exposing himself inside a children's restaurant. Kenneth McGhee, 22, pled guilty to child molestation and delivering false information to police following an incident at Chuck E. Cheese's on Macon Road last year. According to police reports, McGhee was pleasuring himself while Chuck E. Cheese's was packed with children and families. A mother told police she noticed McGhee had his hands between his legs and was masturbating with his penis fully exposed. He was arrested without incident later that day. McGhee was sentenced to...

Manhattan Beach public bathroom sex sting nets 18 arrests Wednesday, April 04, 2012 Images of 18 men arrested in a sex sting in Manhattan Beach are shown in this image provided by police. Gregory Barnett of L.A., Terrill Bazile of L.A., Isauro Benavides Jr. of Santa Monica, Charles Couch of Hawthorne, Celyn Cruz of Lawndale, Jacob Dotson of Manhattan Beach, Thomas Droeszler of L.A., Carl Edwards of L.A., Mario Flores of Lomita, William, Jackson of East Sussex, England, Giovanni Mendez of Gardena, Brad Onomura of Torrance, Claudio Pinto of Hermosa Beach, Tod Rathbun of Redondo Beach, Richard Reynolds of El...

Sex trafficking of children and adults across the US In preparing for Super Bowl Sunday on February 5, 2012, Governor Mitch Daniels told legislators to tighten the state’s law on human trafficking. He warned that the Super Bowl is the type of event that attracts sexual predators.

A Las Vegas man who claims Justin Bieber fathered his great-grandbaby is standing by his granddaughter’s story. Mariah Yeater, 20, claims Bieber got her pregnant after a concert at Staples Center last year when she was 19 and he was just 16 years old. “She met him at a concert and he sent two security guards down off the stage to bring her backstage to meet him. And she said they partied, and were, I guess, having some drinks or something, and they indulged in sex,” Yeater’s grandfather, Eddie Markhouse, told Inside Edition. Bieber’s lawyer denies the teen pop star...

Calif. Pol Touts 'Pedophile Island' for Sex Offenders (May 21) -- California gubernatorial candidate Douglas Hughes has made quite a name for himself in recent weeks -- not so much by surging ahead in the polls, but rather by promising, if elected, to create a "Pedophile Island" for convicted sex offenders. "I read the newspapers, and always somewhere buried in the paper somebody has [been] raped, tortured, kidnapped and so forth," Hughes told AOL News. "We are not getting anywhere [by] putting them back in the neighborhood. ... It's like any alcoholic, sex or drug addict -- have it around...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Ashley Elenea Burkett, a 32-year-old who taught reading and special-education students in Santa Rosa County, Fla., and was the assistant coach for the volleyball team, and April Burford Watson, a 33-year-old who taught math and was a junior varsity cheerleader adviser, each were sentenced to 15 months in state prison today in a sex-with-students case.

Questions are being raised about whether Pope Benedict was personally involved in covering up a case of child sex abuse by a Roman Catholic priest. Documents seen by the New York Times newspaper allege that in the 1990s, long before he became Pope, he failed to respond to letters about a US case. Fr Lawrence Murphy, of Wisconsin, was accused of abusing up to 200 deaf boys. Defending itself, the Vatican said US civil authorities had investigated and dropped the case. For more than 20 years before he was made Pope, Joseph Ratzinger led the Congregation for the Doctrine of...

Former TV evangelist Tony Alamo has been sentenced to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across US state lines for sex. Alamo, original name Bernie Hoffman, was sentenced today in Texarkana, Arkansas. US District Judge Harry Barnes listened to testimony from Alamo's victims before giving the 75-year-old the maximum time allowed by federal guidelines and effectively ordering that he spend the rest of his life behind bars. The founder of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries took girls into his organisation as underage "brides". Five women, aged between 17 and 33, testified in July that Alamo "married" them in private...

MOBILE, Ala. -- Two men who admitted taking trips to Thailand for sex with young boys face 6½-year prison terms, but could trim the time by testifying against the alleged organizer of the encounters. Burgess Lee Burgess of Mobile and Mitchell Kent Jackson of Pensacola pleaded guilty in November 2008 to traveling to have sex with a minor and conspiracy to do so. The two men once lived together in Mobile.

PAPILLION -- A missionary from Chile has pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy. Sarpy County prosecutors had charged 23-year-old Claudio Gonzalez with forcible first-degree sexual assault, a felony. But after a deal with prosecutors, on Monday Gonzalez pleaded no contest and was found guilty of misdemeanor sexual assault of an incompetent person. Gonzalez faces up to a year in jail at sentencing, which was set for Dec. 17. Authorities say Gonzalez sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy who had passed out on a hotel room bed in La Vista after drinking some alcohol...

Rallying to the defence of director Roman Polanski after his arrest in Switzerland, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand declared the situation "horrifying," and suggested that if the cultural world didn't come to the rapist's defence, "it would mean there is no culture in our country." He may have a case -- if you consider drugging and sodomizing a 13-year-old a manifestation of advanced "culture." Sadly, however, Mr. Mitterrand is hardly the only public figure willing to shrug off sexual crimes and indiscretions. Mr. Mitterrand's own background is illustrative. In a 2005 book he described as "half real and half dream,"...

Detective Diane Webb was determined. The Grim Sleeper, an anonymous killer who’d stopped murdering for 13 years, had resurfaced, and she had a plan for tripping him up. It was the fall of 2008, and she happened to show Detective Lauren Rauch, one of 33 officers who work for Webb monitoring the city’s vast population of registered sex offenders, a recent L.A. Weekly news story headlined, “The Grim Sleeper: The most elusive serial killer west of the Mississippi took a 13-year break. Now he’s back, murdering Angelenos, as cops hunt his DNA.” Webb, a hardcore number-cruncher and sex-crimes expert, floated...

There's an entire unit at the Fort Smith Police Department dedicated to keeping the streets of Fort Smith clean. Their sting operations have netted hundreds of people in the past few years. We're told the unit has made almost 300 arrests at Fort Smith park alone since their start in 2005. The public park has become a hotspot for homosexual activity. Prostitution is also a problem that plagues the city and one that isn't limited to a particular location. "Just when I think I've seen it all there's something that comes along that you know causes me to raise an...

A former Lincoln Public Schools bus driver and pastor of a north Lincoln church has been charged in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with sexually assaulting four people, including a young girl. Lincoln police arrested Efrain Umaña, 53, on June 11 for extradition, said Capt. Anthony Butler. Umaña, 1906 Hartley St., is pastor of El Nuevo Nacimiento Church at 2441 N. Ninth St., according to the church’s Web site. He faces charges in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. According to court documents filed there, police say Umaña forced a 10- to 11-year-old girl to have sex with him in a Council Bluffs church in...

A 29-year-old man accused of raping and suffocating a 3-year-old girl inside the South Sioux City home where her family was sleeping Saturday morning was in an Iowa jail Sunday, awaiting extradition to Nebraska. De Jesus Melisio-Camacho was arrested in Sioux City, Iowa, around 6 a.m. Saturday, less than an hour-and-a-half after South Sioux City police got a call from the hospital where the girl was pronounced dead. She had been taken there by family. Authorities have not released the victim’s name or address, but said both parents and two siblings were in the house at the time of the...

<p>A United Nations probe collected 217 allegations of abuse of girls and women by peacekeepers in eastern Congo, from sex with teenagers in the back room of a liquor store to threats of "hacking" victims for cooperating with investigators.</p> <p>The 2006 investigation found many allegations credible and said evidence suggests "frequent and ongoing" sexual exploitation in the region. But it could only establish proof against one of 75 peacekeepers accused of wrongdoing.</p>

Relations between Russia and Germany have not been good since Vladimir Putin's nationalist sabre-rattling this summer, but they are about to get a whole lot worse. A new film about to be released in Germany will force both countries to re-examine part of their recent history that each would much prefer to forget. Yet it is right that the ghastly truth should finally be acknowledged. The movie, A Woman In Berlin, is based on the diary of the German journalist Marta Hillers and depicts the horror of the Red Army's capture of the capital of the Third Reich in April...

Two years after a woman filed a damage suit alleging Bolivar Baptist Church pastor Dale “Dickie” Amyx molested her as a 14-year-old and impregnated her when she was 18, the suit has been settled out of court. Debbie Vasquez, now 47, sued Amyx and the church in June 2006, alleging that he began having sex with her when he was 28 years old, married and the youth pastor of a now-defunct Lewisville church, Calvary Baptist. According to the court documents, he continued having sex with her after he was pastor of the Bolivar church by threatening her with guns and...