Category Archive for : ‘GEORGIA’

WINDHAM, Conn. — An Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) student is facing numerous charges after a child exploitation investigation in Georgia, officials said Friday.

Officials said 22-year-old Victor Pastor was arrested Wednesday at the university’s campus by Georgia law enforcement and ECSU campus police.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes Unit (GBI) was asked by a Georgia sheriff’s office to help in their child exploitation investigation on March 18.

The investigation found that Pastor was reportedly in contact with a child over a social media platform and was later

An 18-month investigation by the LaGrange Police Department, Athens-Clarke County Police Department, and the GBI revealed that Hogan Pendergraph’s crimes began as early as 2012 when he videotaped, photographed women he was dating without their permission.

An 18-month investigation by the LaGrange Police Department, Athens-Clarke County Police Department, and the GBI revealed that Hogan Pendergraph’s crimes began as early as 2012 when he videotaped, photographed women he was dating without their permission. (Shutterstock)

LAGRANGE, GA — A judge has sentenced a Georgia man to 50 years behind bars for sex crimes against

May 26, 2021
Matthew Enfinger
WRDW

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – An Aiken County man has pleaded guilty after being arrested in 2019 on suspicion of sexual crimes involving a minor.
Grant Reeder pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor first degree, criminal solicitation of a minor and criminal sexual conduct with a minor second degree in Aiken County.
He was given a 10-year sentence to be served at the South Carolina Department of Corrections. He will get credit for 651 days served on house arrest. When he is released, he will have to register

May 18, 2021
Kelly Whitmire
Forsyth News

Several indictments have been handed down by the Forsyth County Superior Court for a variety of alleged and attempted sex crimes in the county.
Below are some of the May indictments that have moved ahead.
Man indicted on child molestation, sexual battery charges
The Forsyth County Superior Court has indicted a man on child molestation and sexual battery charges for crimes allegedly committed against an elementary-school-aged victim on multiple occasions.
Blake Kristopher McCaulla was indicted with two charges each for aggravated sexual battery and child molestation for a series of

February 9, 2021
Sarah Coble
Info Security – Magazine

A US Army Cyber Command major has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Jason Michael Musgrove, of Grovetown, Georgia, was arrested in December 2019. At the time of his apprehension by law enforcement officers, the 41-year-old was serving as an integrated threat operations officer with Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information clearance, assigned to the Army Cyber Joint Headquarters at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia.
According to court testimony and documents, Musgrove admitted that he had produced CSAM and

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