Diane Heffner a 39 year old popular former PTA president, is accused of sexually abusing a 12 year old boy. The accusations are partly based on tapes of
sexually inappropriate phone conversations between the two. She allegedly touched the child’s buttocks and allowed him to touch hers. She was arrested on July 19 and, according to the Times Union, the four misdemeanor charges, each carrying a maximum sentence of up to a year in jail, have touched off a storm of outrage in the small community where she is well-liked
US Senator Charles Schumer responded to the concerns of a Long Island based advocacy group byannouncing his proposed legislation to tighten up the federal Megan’s Law by requiring local lawenforcement to more aggressively notify communities when a sexual predator moves in, eliminatinglocal authorities’ discretion in the matter. He said local authorities still would have thediscretion to determine how they would notify the community of a high-risk sexual offender and whatinstitutions, organizations or persons to notify under the bill he planned to introduce. Accordingto Newsday, his proposal would require states to
A US government study released yesterday shows that parents need to worry about more than stranger danger: Youngsters are more likely to be kidnapped by an acquaintance. The most common kidnapper of children 17 and under, listed in 49 percent of cases, is a member of the family, according to a report by the Office of Juvenile and Delinquency Programs. The next largest category was acquaintances (27%), followed by strangers (24%). In acquaintance kidnappings, often by boyfriends or ex-boyfriends, 23% of female victims also suffered sexual assault, compared with 14%
Kenneth Wolfe, a 36 year old man who on paper and in person seemed like the ideal child-care worker, was caught by a Koalaty Time employee in a restroom taking a Polaroid picture of a 3 year old girl with her pants down. He was arrested on two counts of lascivious acts with a child and one count of indecent contact with a child. In an instant, he metamorphosed from a trusted colleague to someone accused of being a parent’s worst nightmare, a person who finds children sexually attractive. When
Denver Rocky Mountain News/Jose Garner
Michael Charles Smith, 50, a longtime high school teacher who was arrested by federalauthorities on suspicion that he belongs to a ring of pedophiles that smuggles young boys fromMexico into the United States for sex and child pornography pleaded guilty May 5 to four federalfelonies. He pled guilty to three counts of harboring an illegal alien and one child-pornographycharge, which involved 16 pictures of boys transmitted over computers. An original charge ofsmuggling a Mexican boy into the United States for sex was dismissed as part of
Michael S. Dorrington, a 26 year old teacher accused of videotaping his kindergarten students as they undressed, was charged with five counts of endangering the welfare of a child last month. His lawyer wants the charges dropped because the state’s voyeur laws do not cover such an act. Five girls were told by Dorrington to go inside a closet and change into bathing suits on Water Fun Day at Lincoln Elementary School. He had a hidden camera in the closet which was in the classroom. He later dropped the camera
« Previous Page — Next Page »
