Category Archive for : ‘CHILD PORNOGRAPHY’

January 21, 2020
Ruth Brown
Idaho Statesman

A former Fruitland police officer initially charged with eight sex crimes against children in Payette County reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to four felonies on Friday.
Alexander Plaza, 25, was arrested in September on charges that covered alleged abuse between October 2017 and June 2019.
Plaza pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual battery of a child ages 16 or 17 and one count of sexual abuse of a child younger than age 16.
The abuse occurred when Plaza was off-duty. The Fruitland department confirmed last

January 16, 2020
Morgan Phillips
Fox News

An activist once lauded for his work to end sexual violence against minors admitted Thursday to having sex with an underage boy and possessing child pornography featuring prepubescent children.
Joel Davis, 24 and a former Columbia University student, now faces up to life behind bars, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman announced. Davis started the international group Youth to End Sexual Violence.
“As he admitted today, Joel Davis arranged to meet a 15-year-old boy for sex and engaged in illegal sexual activity with the 15-year-old,” Berman said. “He also

January 20, 2020
Margaret Kavanagh
WTKR

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – ‘Horrific’, ‘sadistic’ and on the verge of ‘torture’ – those were the words a judge in Canada used to describe what an Ontario man is accused of doing to two sisters in Virginia Beach back in 2012.
Marco Viscomi was arrested in Ontario and indicted in the United States on charges of sexual coercion or “sextortion.” Attorneys in Hampton Roads compared ‘sextortion’ to blackmail.
Viscomi was brought back to Virginia and put into the Western Tidewater Regional Jail on December 23, 2019. He declined an

January 15, 2020
Cheryl Corley
NPR

A group of registered sex offenders in Aurora, Ill. — about 40 miles outside of Chicago — could face felony charges if they don’t move out of their home. The city says they live too close to a playground, which has sparked a legal fight over housing, redemption and the definition of a playground.
In downtown Aurora, McCarty Park takes up a full square block. There are walking paths, a fountain-like splashpad in the center of the park and two small rocking horses further back. Wayside Cross Ministries

January 16, 2020
Hannah Hall
WHSV

AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WHSV)— Kris Losh, a former local radio host, is entering a plea agreement with Augusta County prosecutors for child sex crimes.
The Stuarts Draft man was arrested last June by the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office. According to the sheriff’s office, they launched an investigation at the start of June after receiving a report of a sexual assault involving a juvenile male victim and a 44-year-old Augusta County man.
Working with Child Protective Services, the Shenandoah Valley Department of Social Services, and the Augusta County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s

February 13, 2020
Vic Micolucci, Travis Gibson
News 4 Jax

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The “architect” of the Jaguars’ video board system is accused of repeatedly hacking the giant scoreboards during the 2018 season, after his contract was not renewed by the team, according to an indictment announced Thursday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Samuel Arthur Thompson, 49, who is a registered sex offender, is also charged with having child sex abuse images, illegally possessing a firearm and traveling without notifying authorities.
Investigators said that Thompson was a contractor for the Jaguars from April 2017 to