Peter Giordano, 37, pleaded guilty to federal charges that he masterminded an international Internet kiddie-porn ring that he ran out of his parent’s house. He used the online name HarryMudd, to barter in porn portfolios with more than 100 people worldwide. He faces up to 11 1/2 years in prison when he is sentenced on August 3rd.
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Albert Pollorena, 47, is charged with several counts of sexual assault and is being held in aMaricopa County jail. He moved into the home of a 92 year old woman, uninvited, three weeks ago andhad been raping her. Almost immediately after moving into her town house, numerous prostitutes,transients, druggies and all the other scum that hang out in that area started using her town houseas a crash pad, said Detective Tony Morales. They would just come and stay there. She was totallyvulnerable and helpless. There was nothing she could do
Rodney Saiter, 53, admitted downloading pornography from European Internet sites onto a computer that he gave his son, Robert Saiter, 34. Robert gave the computer to his teenage daughter. The two men were charged with giving her a computer loaded with hundreds of images of child pornography. More than 700 files of porn were on the computer with about 75% of it child pornography. Rodney Saiter is being held on $30,000 bond and is charged with disseminating material harmful to juveniles and pandering sexually oriented material involving a juvenile. Robert
After consulting a Web site produced by the advocacy group Parents For Megan’s Law, a parent discovered that a 51 year old man, convicted in February 1999, of attempted sexual abuse lived a few houses away from a school bus stop and within a quarter-mile of two elementary schools. Anger exploded in Commack at a packed school board meeting attended by approximately 400 parents when school officials and parents found out that Suffolk police chose not to notify the district about a high-risk sex offender living in their area. The
Bu Xiaogang, 23, kidnapped five year old Han Dong in northern Shaanxi province and buried the boy alive in a coal mine after being discovered. He was charged and convicted of kidnapping, not murder. He was executed along with four other men as part of a nationwide campaign against an upsurge in violence against children.
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Mohamed Tarish Al-Hameli, a 25 year old college student from Egypt, has been charged with tryingto kill a 22 year old Egyptian neighbor and schoolmate for allegedly raping his 14 year old wife.He attacked the man with a saber in retaliation for an alleged attack on Al-Hamieli’s wife.According to APBnews.com, Al-Hameli is being held in the Pierce County Jail on $250,000 bond and ischarged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing his neighbor in the chest, arms and legs. Amotive for the attack may have been a cultural custom by