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Melvin Clay Sr., a 62-year-old retired air traffic controller on Long Island from Moriches, has been charged with purchasing child pornography, a federal offense, from a Moscow company.  According to Newsday, he is among nine people arrested in the United States and Russia in connection with trafficking child pornography in an ongoing investigation by law enforcement authorities in both countries. Three other men were arrested in Indiana, San Francisco and Malden, Massachusetts.  

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Nelden McMickle began molesting his daughter, Chrissy, when she was 5 years old, afterward, hewould give her ice cream and warn her not to tell anyone. He began sexually abusing his son,Michael, when he was 5 years old and beating him when he was 7. Eventually, Michael told a neighborand their father went to jail for more than eight years. According to the Associated Press, thisyear, the state moved Nelden McMickle to a psychiatric facility and said the children he abusedwould have to pay part of the $90,000

Alfred Muller, a 58-year-old suburban mayor, pleaded guilty Friday to sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy in Washington’s National Cathedral.  Muller is a longtime mayor of Friendship Heights, Maryland and a volunteer usher at the cathedral for 35 years.  He encountered the teen in a bathroom on January 28th and reached over and touched him as they stood at adjacent urinals.  The boy identified Muller from a photo in People Magazine, which carried a story about Friendship Heights’ smoking ban.  The boy was at the cathedral on a field trip.  According

On Tuesday, the Vatican denied a report in the National Catholic Reporter saying sexual abuse of nuns by priests, especially in AIDS ravaged Africa, is a serious problem.  The magazine article is based on five reports dating to 1994 by senior members of women’s religious orders and a priest.  A Vatican spokesman acknowledged there were isolated cases of priests sexually abusing nuns, but said the problem is restricted to a limited geographic area.  The article said, priests are afraid of contracting AIDS and sometimes turn to young nuns who are

Canada’s government introduced a bill to make it a crime to surf for child pornography on the Internet.  Accessing child pornography would carry a penalty of up to five years in prison.  The bill is not meant to catch people who inadvertently open e-mail attachments or Web pages that have child pornography but those who knowingly cause child pornography to be viewed.  According to the New York Post, the legislation would create new criminal offenses of transmitting child porn, for example by e-mail; of providing child-porn Web addresses; and of

Canada’s government introduced a bill to make it a crime to surf for child pornography on theInternet. Accessing child pornography would carry a penalty of up to five years in prison. The billis not meant to catch people who inadvertently open e-mail attachments or Web pages that have childpornography but those who knowingly cause child pornography to be viewed. According to the NewYork Post, the legislation would create new criminal offenses of transmitting child porn, forexample by e-mail; of providing child-porn Web addresses; and of exporting it from Canada. Eachwould