The Sacramento Bee
John M. Ballard, 36, of Dayton, Nevada was arrested Wednesday afternoon in a midtown motel onsex charges. He had made arrangement to meet an undercover police detective who was posing on theInternet as a pedophile, at the motel where the detective was to bring a juvenile female. Ballardwas booked on three counts of attempted child molestation and attempted production of childpornography and is being held in the Sacramento County jail in lieu of $600,000 bail. He isscheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. today.
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Michael Paul Slattery, 45, has been accused of trying to use the Internet to arrange a sexual encounter with a person he believed to be a 15 year old girl who was actually law enforcement officers. According to the Associated Press, he was initially arrested by Southaven police officers and the FBI on November 12th and was indicted on the charge Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Oxford and rearrested Thursday. He is free on $10,000 bond. The use of the Internet to arrange sexual activity with a minor
Within minutes of a 14 year old named Scottie getting on a Web site where gay teens exchange electronic messages, a middle-aged man from Indiana engages him in a private conversation. The man suggests they act out a fantasy where he kidnaps the boy and then the conversation turns to hard-core pornography. Scottie is not Scottie and he is not a 14-year-old boy. He is a member of the US Customs CyberSmuggling Center who is prowling the Internet for rings that are trading child-porn images or sexual predators who are
Lawrence Cohen, a former New York City kindergarten teacher admits to arranging to meet a child at a motel for kinky sex. He faces sentencing January 8th on a state charge of plotting to have a weekend of sexual activity involving dog collars and duck feathers with an 11 year old boy who was actually the invention of undercover officers. He pleaded guilty in July to a single federal charge, sending child pornography, and in October to a state charge of attempted aggravated sexual assault. He has been sentenced to
Maria Darrosa, 29, of 21 Brentwood Road, Bay Shore, was sentenced to 6-12 years in prison yesterday for first-degree sodomy. Darrosa was caught on videotape last year sexually abusing a Rockville Centre toddler in her charge while babysitting. She apologized for the crime to which she pleaded guilty in September. She could have faced up to 25 years in prison if convicted by a jury according to Assistant District Attorney Kyle Rose. After the child’s parents had been warned by another babysitter last December that Darrosa was yelling at their
David Vaksdale, 30, was indicted late Wednesday by a Will County grand jury on nine counts of child pornography. Federal and Will County authorities allege he is part of an international child pornography ring that operates on the Internet. If Vaksdal is convicted, he faces 4 to 15
years in prison. Three of the charges are that Vaksdal allegedly videotaped two young girls depicted in poses involving lewd exhibition of naked body parts. The other charges are that Vaksdal allegedly possessed with the intent to disseminate photos or other visual
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