Category Archive for : ‘MARYLAND’

December 14, 2020
Jacob Baumgart
Patch

ANNAPOLIS, MD — Predators have taken advantage of kids’ increased screen time during the coronavirus pandemic, the Maryland State police said. Potential cases of child sexual exploitation have skyrocketed, the agency added.
Through Dec. 7, state police had received 5,433 tips notifying the agency of potential sex crimes against children. That’s up from the 3,248 reported in all of 2019.
About 80 percent of this year’s tips come from one of six jurisdictions. Those places are listed below with their 2019 and 2020 counts through November of each year.

“Children

December 11, 2019
Justice

Baltimore, Maryland – A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging Xavier Lee, a/k/a “X,” age 40, of Elkton, Maryland, on federal charges of using a website to promote and conduct his prostitution business, sex trafficking of a minor, production of child pornography, and interstate transportation for prostitution. The superseding indictment was returned on December 11, 2019, and added the charges for sex trafficking of a minor, production of child pornography, and interstate transportation for prosecution.
The superseding indictment was announced by United States Attorney for

December 11, 2019
Justice

Baltimore, Maryland – A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging Xavier Lee, a/k/a “X,” age 40, of Elkton, Maryland, on federal charges of using a website to promote and conduct his prostitution business, sex trafficking of a minor, production of child pornography, and interstate transportation for prostitution. The superseding indictment was returned on December 11, 2019, and added the charges for sex trafficking of a minor, production of child pornography, and interstate transportation for prosecution.
The superseding indictment was announced by United States Attorney for

October 30, 2019
Justice

Greenbelt, Maryland – Sean Dean, age 26, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor. Dean admitted that he conspired to traffic four minor girls to engage in commercial sex acts for his financial benefit. Dean entered his guilty plea on October 29, 2019.
The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K. Hur; Chief Russell E. Hamill III of the City of Laurel Police Department; and Special Agent in Charge John Eisert of

Rabbi David Kaye, 56, ensnared in a televised sex sting was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison yesterday for crossing a state line to have sex with what he thought was a 13 year old boy.  Kaye, of Rockville, Maryland, was convicted in September.  Most of the evidence came from a Dateline NBC sting conducted in conjunction with Perverted Justice, an Internet watchdog group.

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