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Former Cleveland Catholic Diocese priest Robert McWilliams took his own life while serving his sentence for child sex crimes at a Pennsylvania prison.

McWilliams, 41, pleaded guilty in federal court in July to two counts of sex trafficking of a minor, three counts of sexual exploitation of a child, and one count each of transportation of child pornography, receipt and distribution of visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct and possession of child pornography. He was sentenced to life in prison.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons said McWilliams, who

A 59-year-old man planned to travel to Cheshire to have sex with a nine-year-old boy, a court heard.

Ian Watson, 56, of Churchfields in St Helens, started speaking to another adult online to make arrangements to meet a nine-year-old boy in Cheshire with the intention of engaging in sexual activity.

But Watson didn’t know that he had actually been speaking to officers from North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU).

On March 30, 2020 he was arrested at his home address and appeared in Liverpool Crown Court on Friday, January 28 charged with

Marshall Ruskin, 63, is a former civilian webmaster for the Department of National Defence in Winnipeg. According to search warrant documents, investigators allege he paid to watch the sexual abuse of children in the Philippines through the video-conferencing service Skype. (Facebook)

WARNING: This article contains details of abuse.

One of three men wanted in connection with a notorious child sex abuse case in the Philippines is living in Winnipeg, say search warrant documents obtained by CBC News.

Marshall Ruskin, 63, a former civilian webmaster for the Department of National Defence in Winnipeg, is

Kathy McGibbon Givens speaking at Montgomery County Coalition Against Human Trafficking

Twenty years ago, Kathy McGibbon Givens entered into an urban nightmare. At age 22, she started dating a man in Houston. When he invited her to go on a business trip with him to Dallas, she readily accepted. But when she arrived at the hotel, she was photographed for an escort website and prostituted out to men she didn’t know.

The ordeal lasted nine months, until she was able to escape back home to her family.

Now, the Houston-based woman tells her

One of the pilots who flew late convicted pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein’s private jets to and from Long Island airports 50 times over a two-decade span witnessed sex trafficking victims aboard unspecified flights, records show.

Details of the multimillionaire alleged sex trafficker’s local stops emerged from flight records reviewed by the Press and the recent Manhattan federal court trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, Expstein’s ex-girlfriend. The British socialite is appealing her Dec. 29 conviction on five counts of sex trafficking and other charges related to recruiting and grooming teenage girls for Epstein

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – A psychologist in Grand Haven has been sentenced after pleading guilty in a second case for sex crimes by a mental health professional.

William Kooistra, 58, has been sentenced to nine months’ probation, 60 hours of community service and must pay a $1,404 fine for the abuse that happened in May 2020.

On Jan. 3, Kooistra pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct by a mental health professional, which is a high court misdemeanor.

He was previously sentenced in 2020 to 45 days in jail