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June 29, 2020
Troy Messenger

Attorney General Steve Marshall today announced the indictment of a Dale County man for 60 counts of child sex crimes. Jason Park, 40, of Newton, was served notice on June 26 at the Dale County Jail where he was already incarcerated after being arrested previously on many of the same charges.

Attorney General Marshall’s Office presented evidence to a Dale County grand jury on June 17, resulting in Parks’ indictment. An indictment is an accusation issued by a grand jury, and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven

June 22, 2020
Independent

The date is 4 August 2016. The Indianapolis Star, a daily newspaper, has published an article titled “A blind eye to sex abuse: How USA Gymnastics protected coaches over kids”. The article reveals in thorough detail how top executives at USA Gymnastics had – for years – brushed allegations of sexual abuse under the carpet by following an unlawful policy of not alerting the authorities unless an allegation was heard directly from a victim or their parent. The publication of the article would set off a chain of events that would result in

June 29, 2020
Zaira Perez
Denton RC

Officials at Liberty Christian School in Argyle have sent an email to parents and staff acknowledging a former staffer is accused of child sex-trafficking charges.

Robert Shiflet, 50, of Denton was indicted Wednesday by a grand jury on allegations of transporting minors across state lines for illegal sexual activities. Denton Bible Church confirmed Friday that Shiflet was a youth pastor at the church from 1995 to 2001, when he was in his mid- to late 20s and early 30s.

An email Liberty Christian School sent to parents and staff,

March 25, 2020
Andy Gregory
Independent

The alleged leader of an online sexual blackmail ring which exploited dozens of vulnerable women and girls has been named after millions signed petitions in South Korea.

At least 74 women, including 16 underage girls, were “virtually enslaved” for months, according to South Korea’s National Police Agency.

They were blackmailed and coerced by the group into sending videos of themselves performing increasingly degrading and sometimes violent sexual acts.

These were then posted to chatrooms on the encrypted Telegram messaging app, where some 10,000 people used cryptocurrencies to pay the group between £150 and £1,000 for

June 29, 2020
Asia Simone Burns
AJC

Three Forsyth County men will spend time in prison after they were convicted of various child sexual exploitation charges, officials said.

Steven Vinnenberg, 66, Robert Harley Martin, 38, and John O’Dell, 40, all of Cumming, each pleaded guilty to charges involving sex crimes against children, according to Forsyth sheriff’s office spokeswoman Stacie Miller.

The men were among 24 people who were arrested last September in connection with a child sex sting, Miller said. The four-day undercover operation, called “Operation Just Cause,” was a cooperative effort between fourteen law enforcement agencies

July 7, 2020
Adam Blake
Emporia Gazettes

A former Emporia High School social studies teacher charged with inappropriate sexual relations and sexual battery against six former students made his first appearance in Lyon County District Court Tuesday afternoon.

Tyler J. Bosiljevac, 39, of Emporia was arrested and booked into the Lyon County Detention Center on eight charges in late May. According to the official case report, the charges include two counts of Attempted Unlawful Voluntary Sexual Relations with a child under the age of 16, Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Child between the ages