Category Archive for : ‘CHILD PORNOGRAPHY’

June 29, 2020
Troy Messenger

Attorney General Steve Marshall today announced the indictment of a Dale County man for 60 counts of child sex crimes. Jason Park, 40, of Newton, was served notice on June 26 at the Dale County Jail where he was already incarcerated after being arrested previously on many of the same charges.

Attorney General Marshall’s Office presented evidence to a Dale County grand jury on June 17, resulting in Parks’ indictment. An indictment is an accusation issued by a grand jury, and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven

June 22, 2020
Independent

The date is 4 August 2016. The Indianapolis Star, a daily newspaper, has published an article titled “A blind eye to sex abuse: How USA Gymnastics protected coaches over kids”. The article reveals in thorough detail how top executives at USA Gymnastics had – for years – brushed allegations of sexual abuse under the carpet by following an unlawful policy of not alerting the authorities unless an allegation was heard directly from a victim or their parent. The publication of the article would set off a chain of events that would result in

March 25, 2020
Andy Gregory
Independent

The alleged leader of an online sexual blackmail ring which exploited dozens of vulnerable women and girls has been named after millions signed petitions in South Korea.

At least 74 women, including 16 underage girls, were “virtually enslaved” for months, according to South Korea’s National Police Agency.

They were blackmailed and coerced by the group into sending videos of themselves performing increasingly degrading and sometimes violent sexual acts.

These were then posted to chatrooms on the encrypted Telegram messaging app, where some 10,000 people used cryptocurrencies to pay the group between £150 and £1,000 for

June 29, 2020
Asia Simone Burns
AJC

Three Forsyth County men will spend time in prison after they were convicted of various child sexual exploitation charges, officials said.

Steven Vinnenberg, 66, Robert Harley Martin, 38, and John O’Dell, 40, all of Cumming, each pleaded guilty to charges involving sex crimes against children, according to Forsyth sheriff’s office spokeswoman Stacie Miller.

The men were among 24 people who were arrested last September in connection with a child sex sting, Miller said. The four-day undercover operation, called “Operation Just Cause,” was a cooperative effort between fourteen law enforcement agencies

June 29, 2020
DW

 The cybercrime unit of the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia is investigating some 30,000 leads in a massive online child abuse probe, officials said on Monday.

The state justice ministry said the extent of abuse taking place and being shared online was “deeply disturbing.”

“I hadn’t reckoned with the extent of child abuse on the internet,” said state Justice Minister Peter Beisenbach.

Officers are investigating what could lead to around 30,000 unidentified leads. “We want to drag perpetrators and supporters of child abuse out of the anonymity of the internet,” said the ministry.

Those

March 13, 2020
Euronews

A retired surgeon accused of sexually abusing as many as 349 young children over decades – primarily his patients, in their hospital rooms — is facing justice at last, in the worst such case to come to light in France.

The trial opening Friday in the western city of Saintes is only the beginning, however.

It concerns four people allegedly targeted by Joel Le Scouarnec, 69, including two of his nieces. Other legal complaints against the doctor have piled up since the original investigation wrapped up, and prosecutors are preparing