Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

February 2, 2020
Marion Callahan
Bucks County Courier Times

A 15-year-old student struggling in math in one Bucks County school district sought help from her teacher. After a few meetings, they exchanged emails, then texts, then pictures. Eventually, the relationship became sexual.
In a neighboring district, a female teacher befriended a male student on Snapchat, then began swapping pictures and text messages; the exchanges eventually led to sex.
Another area teacher gave excessive passes to students, enabling them to cut class and visit his office. The same teacher repeatedly credited students for work that was

January 22, 2020
Jeff Weinrich
WSILTV

LIVINGSTON CO., KY (WSIL) — Two people face multiple charges for sex crimes against a juvenile.
Kentucky State Police arrested Paxton L. Faulkner Yates, 31, and Christina L. Faulkner Yates, 39, of Hampton, on Wednesday.
Investigators say Paxton Faulkner Yates admitted to having sexual contact with victim multiple times. He also took photos and video of the acts.
He’s in the McCracken County jail on the following preliminary charges:
• Incest-forcible compulsion/incapable of consent or under 18 years of age
• Use of a minor under 18 years of age in a sexual performance
• Possession/viewing

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 20, 2020
Lauren Lumpkin
SF Gate

The former president of Franklin College in Indiana – who spent about seven years as a vice president at American University in Washington, D.C. – is facing charges related to child sex crimes after he allegedly attempted to meet a 15-year-old who turned out to be an undercover police officer.
The Indiana college fired Thomas Minar after school officials learned of his arrest in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, according to a statement from Franklin College. School leaders also announced plans to investigate Minar’s conduct while he was president.
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