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by ANTONIO HARVEY

A national network of coordinated task forces dedicated to investigating, prosecuting, and developing effective responses to internet crimes against children nearly lost an effective key program.

Thanks to Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove), who secured $5 million in state funds, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program (ICAC) stays in operation.

“As a former commander of the Sacramento Valley High Tech Crimes Task Force, I know firsthand how valuable ICAC is to protecting our young ones from sexually violent predators,” Cooper said in a May

By: News 12 Staff

Police say a Norwood day care worker was arrested on child pornography charges and that one child at the facility was a victim.

The NYPD says Silfredo Castillo Martinez worked at Lina’s Garden Day Care for more than 10 years before he was arrested earlier this month.

Valles says her two sons, ages 5 and 9, attended the day care at 3525 Decatur Ave. for years and never had any complaints.

“It was great, I had no problem with them. And I asked them, and they said nothing happened with

BY SIMONE JASPER

A 73-year-old accused of committing sex crimes was a substitute teacher in North Carolina, officials told news outlets. Richard Gene Martin had worked for Guilford County Schools but wasn’t an active substitute as of April 26, the district said. Weeks later, he reportedly was facing several charges, including indecent liberties with a student and first-degree statutory rape. A lawyer believed to be representing Martin didn’t immediately share a statement with McClatchy News on May 25, “The allegations, although they are very serious allegations, are just that allegations at

Alex Brizee

BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — An Idaho man was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison after he stalked several teenage girls at Ada County parks in 2021, the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday.

Upon Kyle C. Baxter’s arrest, he was found to be in possession of “hundreds of sexually exploitative images and videos of minors.”

On Wednesday, the 39-year-old was sentenced by 4th District Judge James Cawthon to 20 years fixed and 15 years indeterminate, according to a news release from the prosecutor’s office, meaning he must serve 20

Quinn Wilson

May 26—A San Bernardino man was arrested after allegedly making lewd gestures while following a child walking home from school in Chino in his pickup truck, police announced Wednesday, May 25.

The incident happened Monday, May 23, around 4:30 p.m. in the area of Riverside Drive and San Antonio Avenue, the Chino Police Department said. The minor was walking home when she noticed an old Ford truck stopped at the intersection before the truck pulled up alongside her, authorities said.

The driver asked the girl to get into the truck several

Dennis Bright

LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — A 67-year-old Florence man was among 11 people arrested in a recent multi-agency online sting operation aimed at potential child sexual predators, authorities said.

Robert Mitchum Nichols was charged with criminal solicitation of a minor and second-degree attempted criminal sexual conduct with a minor, according to the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department, which conducted the investigation along with the Lexington Police Department, the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office and numerous other law-enforcement agencies from across the state.

“Officers pretended to be underage teenagers as the suspects messaged