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A Rowlett man was sentenced Thursday to 60 years in federal prison for filming himself molesting a 7-year-old child, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.

Mark Alan Miller, 35, was indicted in June 2020 and pleaded guilty in March 2022 to two counts of production of child pornography. He was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle, who handed down the statutory maximum sentence. According to court documents, police were dispatched to the victim’s home on Jan. 12, 2020, after the victim’s father

 United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Kennel, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse by Force, Assault of an Intimate Partner by Strangulation and Suffocation, and Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner. Rodd  Rankeen Rough Surface, age 45, was indicted in August of 2022.  He appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno on September 7, 2022, and pleaded not guilty to the Indictment. The maximum penalty upon conviction is up to life in federal

A “serious child sex abuse problem” in the nation’s schools confirms the problem is real – and the numbers of victims are rising. Through May 13 of this year, 135 educators had been arrested for child sex crimes in the United States, according to an analysis by Fox News Digital.  But in a recent updated report, Fox News says the number of arrests rose by nearly 50 by the end of June – a total of 181 educators, for an average of one arrest every day.

The disturbing pattern has led figures such as Christopher Rufo, a