Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

taxaswatchdog.org

Simply because one is a convicted sex offender does not bar that person from serving in someTexas elected office.  Former Skellytown Mayor Warren Andrew Mills, 73, pleaded guilty in 2007to two counts of indecency with a child.  The two girls involved were 8 and 16 years old atthe time.  He stepped down about a month later.  Last week, Mills returned to publicoffice.  He won 51 of 146 votes to become a Skellytown city council member. Another Texas resident in 2008, registered sex offender James Brian Sliter, ran for mayor

huffingtonpost.com/Andrew Duffelmeyer

Jennifer Mahoney, a 33 year old Manalapan, New Jersey woman, pleaded guilty to sexuallyassaulting a 5 year old girl she was allegedly babysitting and putting a video of the assault onthe Internet.  She faces between 15 and 30 years in prison when she is sentenced August 22,and will have to pay restitution to the victim.  She had been charged with two counts ofsexual exploitation of a child.  Mahoney has been in custody since December after prosecutorssaid three pornographic videos showing assaults on the child were found on the

huffingtonpost.com/David Lohr

Lee Moir, a 34 year old Justin Bieber impersonator from Toronto, Ontario, was arrested byCanada authorities for the alleged sexual abuse of a 12 year old New Jersey girl.  Chargesinclude luring a child under 16, manufacturing child pornography and extortion.  He posed asthe 18 year old Bieber on Facebook.  He allegedly enticed the girl to perform sexual acts onher webcam.  She initially complied, but later stopped communication.  It was then,police say, that the man repeatedly threatened to harm the victims’ family.   Moir wasreported to authorities and allegedly engaged

New York Times/Joseph Goldstein

In an effort to cut off another avenue used by online predators, several video-gamecompanies have agreed to close the accounts of more than 3,500 registered sex offenders in New Yorkstate following an agreement with the attorney general’s office.  Many games contain an audioor text component that allows players to communicate with one another.  Among the companiesthat agreed to close accounts linked to sex offenders were Microsoft, which runs the Xbox Livegaming network, and Sony, which runs the PlayStation Network.  Others included ElectronicArts, Warner Brothers, Disney Interactive

newsday.com/David J. Lopez

Braulin Gonzalez, a 36 year old Valley Stream man, was arrested Tuesday morning on childpornography charges after a police investigation determined he was in possession of computer fileswith pornographic images of children and he allowed those files to be shared online. Gonzalez, of 159 Broadway, faces three counts of possession of sexual performance by a child.
(New York)

huffingtonpost.com/Dan Elliott

Nico Cruz Santos, a 21 year old airman, pleaded guilty in September to a charge of attemptedsexual exploitation of a child in Gilpin County west of Denver.  He faces up to 18 months inprison & possible discharge.  He was arrested in an Internet sting in 2010 and pleadedguilty in a plea agreement.  The Air Force is now investigating how Santos managed to get hisown handgun onto a sensitive air base in Colorado where he barricaded himself in a building for 10hours before surrendering.
(Denver, Colorado)