Category Archive for : ‘ABOUT SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

March 18, 2021
Danielle Wallace
Fox News

Fort Hood leadership blocked sexual assault reporting, shamed victims and failed to identify “textbook” examples of grooming and “serial” offenders, investigators told Congress this week, following an independent review conducted in the wake of 20-year-old soldier Vanessa Guillén’s disappearance and murder, and a string other deaths and suicides connected to the U.S. Army base in Killeen, Texas.

The House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee held a hearing on the issue on Tuesday, looking to examine ways to reform criminal investigations in the military in the wake of

March 16, 2021
Karin Johnson
WLWT

LEBANON, Ohio — A former youth sports coach accused of sex crimes against children asked a Warren County judge to amend conditions of his bond.

Eric Schmidt, 42, of Mason is not supposed to be around minors except for his own children. During a hearing Tuesday, Schmidt asked Judge Robert Peeler for permission to attend his children’s’ sporting events.

“I think just a blanket that he can’t go to any of his kids’ sports games in the spring when they’re all in public, outside, when he can stay at

February 18, 2021
Joshua Rhett Miller
NY Post

A former radio broadcaster in St. Louis has pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges, according to reports.

Harry Hamm, a longtime broadcaster and entertainment editor at KMOX Radio, pleaded guilty Wednesday in US District Court to two counts of possession of child porn and one count of access with intent to view child porn, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Hamm, 79, admitted that FBI investigators uncovered child porn on his two iPhones and personal laptop in 2018, prosecutors said.

Agents also reportedly found evidence that Hamm searched

March 19, 2021
KHQ

A 67-year-old Spokane County man could be facing child pornography charges after evidence was spotted in his home by a deputy during the man’s arrest on a malicious mischief charge.

The Sheriff’s Office said in a release that deputies were arresting Gerald R. Fox at a north Spokane County residence on Thursday on a charge of 2nd Degree Malicious Mischief.

Before taking him to jail, the Sheriff’s Office said the deputy asked Fox if he wanted his home locked and Fox said yes.

“While Deputy Totman did as

March 18, 2021
Noah Feit, John Monk
The State

A Columbia attorney was arrested Thursday morning on child sex crime charges, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department said.

Harry Gregory, 60, was taken into custody without incident at about 7:40 a.m., the sheriff’s department said in a news release.

Later Thursday, a Richland County magistrate ordered that Gregory be released from the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center on a $100,000 personal recognizance bond.

Gregory’s lawyer, Greg Harris of Columbia, said in an interview that Magistrate Mildred Metts found that Gregory was neither a flight risk nor a

March 20, 2021
Dick Uliano
WTOP

A youth football coach in Calvert County, Maryland, has been charged with four counts of child sex abuse, and the county’s sheriff’s office believe there may be additional victims.

Moshe Michael Imel, 50, of Owings, is being held without bond following his arrest on Friday. He was taken into custody after the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office said two victims stepped forward accusing him of past sexual abuse.

The charges date back to 2012, according to the Sheriff’s Office, which went on to say the offenses may have been going