Category Archive for : ‘GOOD POLICING CATCHES SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

October 8, 2019
Carley Bonk
USA TODAY

A Chambersburg man was arrested after a tip from Google led to the discovery of child pornography on his laptop and cell phone, authorities said.

John Footen, 70, faces 81 felony counts related to child pornography and criminal use of a communication facility, according to court documents.

A special agent with the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General’s Child Predator Section first received tips from Google on Jan. 9.

The tips noted that Footen had allegedly uploaded and reviewed four images depicting young girls engaging in sexually explicit acts. The

October 16, 2019
BBC

More than 300 people have been arrested following the take-down of one of the world’s “largest dark web child porn marketplaces”, investigators said.
The site had more than 200,000 videos which had collectively been downloaded more than a million times.
It was shut down last year after a UK investigation into a child sex offender uncovered its existence.
But on Wednesday, officials revealed that 337 suspected users had been arrested across 38 countries.
US officials unsealed nine indictments against the site’s owner Jong Woo Son, 23, from South Korea – where he

October 18, 2019
Olivia Heersink
NWI TIMESse
SOUTH BEND — A LaPorte man was sentenced to 60 years in prison after pleading guilty to possession and production of child pornography, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.

Eric Weiler — who was arrested on April 17, 2018 — admitted to drugging a child and performing sexual acts on them while they were unconscious in or about the spring of 2013, court records state. The 46-year-old then “relived the abuse by writing about it many times in drawings and notes that later were recovered from his house.”

In

October 17, 2019
Ebony Bowden
NY POST

A depraved Queens man with a disturbing trove of child porn pleaded guilty on Thursday to the whopping 17,725 charges against him.
Vishal Lalbeharry, 30, of Jamaica, was busted in January for allegedly downloading thousands of sick images and videos of babies being sexually abused — also possessing 16 videos of himself having sex with a dog.
Lalbeharry pleaded guilty in Queens Supreme Court to promoting sexual performance by a child, possessing a sexual performance by a child and sexual misconduct.
He faces up to 2 years behind bars

October 15, 2019
Isabel Hughes
USA TODAY

WILMINGTON, Del. – In the early morning hours of Aug. 4, 1993, a young woman was walking near Hill Park in Newark when a nude man grabbed her from behind.

Pushing her onto a grassy area, the man raped her, then fled with her clothes and other personal items.

The 22-year-old, who never saw her attacker, immediately reported the rape to Newark police, who were unsuccessful in locating the man.

Despite receiving tips and interviewing witnesses in the days and weeks that followed, Newark detectives exhausted all

October 16, 2019
Kyle Odegard
Democrat-Herald

A Lebanon man was arrested on suspicion of several sex crimes and a child pornography charge on Tuesday afternoon.
Elijah Nathaniel Baker, 18, was charged in Linn County Circuit Court on Wednesday afternoon with three counts of first-degree sex abuse, first-degree sodomy and first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse.
Judge Rachel Kittson-MaQatish set Baker’s bail at $75,000, as requested by the prosecution.
Prosecutor Richard Wijers said the sodomy charge was a Jessica’s Law crime, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison.
Defense attorney Heidi Sternhagen, who handled Wednesday’s