Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

February 4, 2021
Mark Hayward
Union Leader

A Concord High School teacher has been arrested and charged with several sex crimes involving a minor, Concord police announced Thursday.

Manchester resident Joshua Harwood, 36, was arrested Thursday and charged with:

Two Class A felony charges of manufacturing child sexual abuse images.

One Class B felony charge of prostitution involving a minor.

A felony charge of possession of child sexual abuse images.

Misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child and solicitation to commit sexual contact. The solicitations charges involve an adult, Concord police said.

Concord police said Harwood was

January 14, 2021
Christine Breenan
USA Today

Just hours before the 2021 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were set to begin in Las Vegas, the attorney for a former skater said the sport’s national governing body agreed to pay $1.45 million to settle the skater’s lawsuit accusing the organization of being negligent in its duty to protect young athletes from sexual abuse.

Adam Schmidt, 36, a former skating student of suspended Olympic coach Richard Callaghan, alleged that he suffered “numerous sexual assaults” by the well-known coach when he trained with him as a teenager in

January 21, 2021
Sam Dorman
Fox News

A minor boy and his mother are suing Twitter, alleging that it benefited from and neglected to remove an exploitative video — featuring him and another minor — which was retweeted thousands of times and at least 167,000 views on the platform.

Announced on Wednesday, the federal lawsuit claims that the minor, John Doe, and his mother repeatedly contacted Twitter about the content, but the social media giant allegedly didn’t suspend accounts distributing it until a federal agent from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intervened.

According to

January 21, 2021
Curtis Kalman
Tulsa World

A Sapulpa man who pleaded guilty to various child sex abuse and child pornography charges was sentenced Thursday to 60 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of post-custody supervision, according to the Tulsa U.S. Attorney’s Office.

U.S. District Judge John Dowdell ordered the prison term for Ryan David Miller, 34, after turning away a prosecutor’s request for a 100-year term.

Miller pleaded guilty Aug. 6 in Tulsa federal court to sexually exploiting a child, advertising child pornography and possessing child pornography.

A court appointed representative for the

January 20, 2021
WSPA

GREENWOOD COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A Greenwood man has been arrested on child sexual abuse material charges.
22-year-old Noah Mackenzie Martin was arrested on three charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said. Greenwood County Sheriff’s Office investigators made the arrest.
Investigators received CyberTipline reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) which led them to Martin. Investigators state Martin distributed files of child sexual abuse material.
Investigators with the Attorney General’s Office, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the 8th Circuit

January 21, 2021
KCBD

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – Attorney Kevin Glasheen and the personal injury law firm of Glasheen, Valles & Inderman, LLP filed a lawsuit Thursday morning in Lubbock County District Court on behalf of a minor child alleging that he was sexually assaulted by Jason Paul White, DDS.
Glasheen says Dr. White “apparently has a porn business,” which they have alleged in the lawsuit. “He’s offered money to minor children for them to produce pornography. He’s touched children inappropriately. And this is apparently, according to the evidence that we’ve discovered, has