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UXBRIDGE, Mass. -- A convicted Level 3 sex offender has won $10 million in the Massachusetts State Lottery. The Worcester Gazette & Telegram reports 56-year-old Daniel Snay, of Uxbridge, could now face charges because he failed to notify authorities that he had moved, according to Connecticut State Police. “I’m flabbergasted,” Connecticut State Police Lt. Paul Vance told the Telegram. “His whereabouts, until you told me about this, have been unknown to us. But I guess you could say he’s very fortunate.”

Police say KHS coach confessed to hiding cameras in locker room By SCOTT SMITH Tribune staff writer Kokomo varsity swim coach Brian D. Hindson was arrested on a federal child pornography charge Wednesday, after law enforcement agents say they found evidence linking him to videos secretly taken of girls undressing in a Memorial Gym locker room. Hindson, 40, Carmel, was arrested without incident Wednesday morning and terminated from his employment with Kokomo-Center Schools the same day, according to statements released today by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana and Kokomo-Center Schools. A search warrant was served late...

NEW BEDFORD - A convicted sex offender arrested this week on charges of raping a 6-year-old boy in the public library had been released from prison a year ago, despite the strenuous objections of the district attorney and three psychologists who argued that he posed a serious threat to children. Superior Court Judge Richard Moses denied the prosecutor's motion to keep Corey Saunders in custody indefinitely, arguing that he had a low IQ and had suffered physical and sexual abuse as a child. The judge said Saunders, who was sentenced to four years for the attempted rape of a 7-year-old...

KINGSTON - Starting next year, urinating in public could land you on the sex offender registry. But two state lawmakers are trying to make sure that doesn't happen. "People who are caught in a situation of public urination, as part of the complaint they're charged with indecent exposure," said Rep. David Welch, R-Kingston. This year, that isn't a problem. But starting next year, when New Hampshire complies with a new federal law, anyone convicted of two indecent exposure charges within three years will have to register as a sex offender. Welch and Rep. Stephen Shurtleff, D-Penacook, think that's wrong. "I...

Beth Modica, 44, a former assistant district attorney in Rockland County and Queens, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to counts including statutory rape, sex abuse and endangering children. Bail was set at $75,000. Her husband, the Spring Valley police chief, is "not implicated whatsoever," Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said. The 35-count indictment says that, beginning in July, Modica had sex with a 16-year-old, as well as oral sex with that boy and a 15-year-old. The judge issued orders of protection for the boys. Modica also is accused of drinking with children at her home and smoking marijuana with them...

New sex-offender laws, meant to protect, may instead ruin lives and increase risks Everything began with babysitting. Michael's mother often made him watch her boyfriend's 7-year-old son, Aaron. One afternoon, while his mother was working, 15-year-old Michael

CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. -- Police said a Fayette County man claimed he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old by accident.

A Sunday school teacher at a Chandler church has been arrested on suspicion of molesting a child in his care. Terry Greenwood, 62, of Chandler is accused of forcing a 5-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him last month, according to a police report released Monday. Under questioning by detectives, Greenwood admitted he sexually assaulted the girl twice at Chandler United Methodist Church, 251 W. Chandler Blvd., police said. Greenwood was taken into custody on Dec. 21, the report said. He was booked into jail on suspicion of four counts of child molestation, one count of sexual conduct with...

CHANDLER, Ariz. -- A Sunday school teacher who was arrested on suspicion of molesting a 5-year-old girl at a church blamed his actions on his “high blood pressure,” according to a police report. Terence James Greenwood, 62, a married father of two children, also cast blame on his “medication,” or the possibility he had “mental problems,” the report said. Greenwood faces six felony charges, including child molestation, sexual conduct with a minor and indecent exposure. Greenwood has been a member of the Chandler United Methodist Church for years, but just started helping in the classrooms in September, according to the...

Pittsburgh police have arrested a Marine lance corporal from North Carolina on charges that he traveled to Pittsburgh to meet a 13-year-old North Side girl early Christmas morning. Their trip ended last night when officers intercepted the bus they were riding in Harrisburg. Johnathan Plaisance, 20, had presented the girl with a diamond engagement ring. Cpl. Plaisance is being held in the Allegheny County Jail after a 20-hour investigation yesterday by city police, the FBI and the county sheriff's department. Federal agents and prosecutors typically call such incidents "traveler cases," in which men strike up friendships with minors online, groom...

Story Published: Dec 26, 2007 at 9:31 AM PST YAKIMA -- A Wapato elementary teacher was in court Monday charged with several counts of child rape and child molestation just days after one of his students told police they had been having a sexual relationship for more than a year. Adams Elementary teacher Jesus Barcena could face a maximum of life in prison if found guilty of raping one of his fifth grade students. The student told her mother about the allegations. Barcenas was arrested last week. Police say Barcenas began molesting the girl last fall just a few weeks...

PHOENIX -- Police have arrested a man who they say sexually assaulted a 4 year old girl at a playground at University Park. Suspect booked into 4th Avenue Jail Police say the girl was at the playground with her family near by. Several witnesses say they saw suspect William Speed grab the girl while she played on the jungle gym and begin sexually assaulting her. The girl screamed and her family had to fight Speed to get him off of the girl. The family and nearby witnesses restrained Speed until police arrived. Suspect William Speed is a Level 3 sex...

SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco radio talk show host pleaded not guilty to child pornography charges after surrendering to authorities Thursday. The specifics of the allegations against Bernie Ward, 56, remain under seal. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco did not immediately return a call. Ward, frequently called the "lion of the left" for his staunchly liberal views, hosts a nightly news talk program on KGO-AM 810 as well as a program called GodTalk on Sundays. He produced an award-winning series that explored allegations of financial and sexual misconduct in the Archdiocese of San Francisco,...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A convicted sex offender was charged Wednesday with murdering a 4-year-old boy whose body was found in a garbage truck in July. The boy disappeared from outside his family's apartment near Churchill Downs on June 29. A city trash collector found the body of Cesar "Ivan" Aguilar-Cano in the back of a garbage truck eight days later. Cecil Eugene New II, 46, who lived across an alley from the boy's family, was arrested Wednesday morning, Louisville police spokesman Phil Russell said. A grand jury indicted New on charges of murder, kidnapping, tampering with physical evidence and...

A 40-year-old man who was named Father of the Year five years ago by a local radio station was sent to prison Friday for 15 years for having sex with a 12-year-old friend of his stepdaughter. Ouati Ali, formerly of Sun Prairie, is already serving a 14-year sentence handed down in October for a previous sexual assault that came to light only after he was charged in 2005 in the latest case. Dane County Circuit Judge John Markson gave Ali 15 years in prison to be followed by 15 years of extended supervision in the latest case, and made that...

POTEET, Texas — The mayor of this South Texas town is a registered sex offender who can be arrested for going to City Hall, but he still doesn't plan to resign. Mayor Lino Donato pleaded guilty last month to indecency counts involving two girls, and his plea deal required him to register as a sex offender for 20 years. But he received deferred adjudication, which isn't a conviction, so he can't be forced from office. Donato is required to stay more than 1,000 feet from places where children congregate, and City Hall is "well within 200 feet" of that limit...

NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Two teens have been charged in the brutal decapitation death of a registered sex offender in Michigan whose headless body was left to burn in a subdivision in what prosecutors are calling a "thrill kill."

A Fairfax County Sheriff's Deputy has resigned after he was caught up in an online child porn sting. Forty-four-year-old Master Deputy Sheriff Robert A. Romero Jr. was arrested and charged with possession and receipt of child pornography. The FBI says an undercover agent caught Romero in an online sting and investigators discovered more than 1000 images of child pornography and 100 videos on his computer. Neighbors were understandably shocked by the allegations. "He would always wave and say 'Hi.' He coached, I guess the football team, for the youth league and would talk to me about recruiting my (six-year-old) son...

Getting snacks to kids wasn't the only thing a high school food service worker had in mind when he got busted for bad behavior. Ricardo Espinoza-Valdez, 28, a contract food-service worker for Scottsdale schools is accused of taking pictures of girls' buttocks and legs at Saguaro High School by positioning a digital camera in a box near their skirts, Scottsdale police said. [SNIP] Espinoza-Valdez is being held in custody for 2 counts of Disorderly Conduct. Espinoza-Valdez also has an ICE hold. Other felony charges are pending further investigation. He has been given a $1 million bond. Espinoza Valdez had been...

Official at Children's Museum Is Charged in Child Pornography Case By Mary Beth Sheridan and Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, November 7, 2007; B01 A senior executive at the National Children's Museum was arrested yesterday and charged with distributing child pornography over the Internet, officials said. Robert A. Singer, 49, a married father of two who lives in Falls Church, was suspended from his job as chief operating officer and barred from the museum. "We are horrified by the charges," museum officials said in a written statement. According to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, Singer sent...