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March 22, 2021
Caren Lissner
Patch

UNION COUNTY, NJ — The owner of 18 rental properties in Elizabeth has been charged with coercing 13 of his tenants into sexual acts to avoid eviction and homelessness, or in exchange for lower rents, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office said Monday.
“The victims reported feeling they had no choice but to concede to [his] demands, citing dire personal circumstances such as trying to maintain housing for their young children,” said a press release from the office of Prosecutor Lindsay Ruotolo.
Joseph Centanni, 73, of Mountainside was charged with

March 22. 2021
CBS News

Nearly a decade after she was pulled into sex trafficking, a woman is telling her story for the first time. And she says Facebook is responsible.

Laurie Segall interviews the woman, who is being called Jane Doe to protect her identity, for the latest edition of 60 Minutes+.

“I don’t have a feeling,” Doe says. “I don’t feel sad, I don’t feel mad, I don’t feel happy.”

Doe says in 2012, when she was 15 years old, she accepted a friend request on Facebook from a man who was using

March 20, 2021
Cecily Hilleary
VOA News

WASHINGTON – Note: This report contains language or content that some may find disturbing or offensive.
“I was very young when I was introduced to a pedophile,” said Lisa, 41, a survivor of sex trafficking who asked that her real name not be used. Raised on an Indian reservation in South Dakota, she cites a family history of sexual abuse.
“My mother was sent to a boarding school where the dean raped her repeatedly,” she said.
She believes she is the product of that rape.
“Later on, my mother got

March 19, 2021
Jennifer Lott
KPLC TV

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) – A Ragley man is accused of manufacturing child pornography as well as sexually abusing an animal.
Cody Romero, 20, faces more than 100 counts of child pornography.
The Beauregard Sheriff’s Office received a complaint on March 9 that Romero was manufacturing child pornography, according to information from the Sheriff’s Office.
Deputy Lindsey Miller contacted Romero and took his cell phone through a search warrant, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Det. Toree Simmons then obtained a search warrant for the contents of the phone and

March 19, 2021
Jamie Parfitt
KDRV

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A registered sex offender living in the Grants Pass area was arrested on Thursday after a new investigation into sex crimes he allegedly committed over the past decade.
According to the Grants Pass Department of Public Safety, the investigation began in February of this year following a report to the agency of sex crimes that happened between 2013 and 2015. The suspect, 42-year-old David Manning Koger, was already a registered sex offender. GPDPS says that he is a transient living in the Grants Pass

February 19, 2021
Michael Salter
The Conversation

Child sexual abuse material — images and videos of kids being sexually abused — is a growing international problem. Almost 70 million reports of this material were made to US authorities in 2019. That figure rose still further in 2020, as the COVID pandemic drove children and adults to spend more time online
Police and online safety agencies have been sounding the alarm that online sex offenders are seeking to capitalise on the increased online presence of children, tricking and blackmailing kids into creating abuse images and