Category Archive for : ‘General’

May 3, 2021
Zoe Kleinman
BBC

The international operation, involving several police forces, targeted a dark net platform called Boystown, which has now been taken down.
Officials say Boystown had more than 400,000 registered users.
They say some images showed the most serious sexual abuse of young children.
The dark net is an internet area beyond the reach of mainstream search engines.
The German-led investigation involved law enforcement agencies in the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, the US and Canada.
The EU police agency Europol says it will also examine intelligence gained from the operation, and “more arrests and rescues

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 28, 2021
Ben Myers
The Advocate

Lafayette Police repeatedly failed to notify UL administrators of student sex crime allegations over three years ending in 2018, disregarding an agreement with the university that arose from state law.
That is according to a bombshell USA Today report on Wednesday detailing how a student, Daniel Silva, bounced between three Louisiana public universities, leaving a trail of sex crime allegations at every stop.
University administrators and local police agencies repeatedly failed to disclose allegations against Silva, as intended in a 2015 law, known as Act 172, according to

May 26, 2021
Kaylyn Hlavaty, Jade Jarvis
News 5 Cleveland

CLEVELAND — Thirty-one people, ranging in age from 20 to 80 years old, were arrested as part of “Operation Deja Vu,” an undercover operation led by the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force and the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office.
The 31 individuals, who came from five different counties, including Cuyahoga County, were arrested after engaging in sexually explicit online conversations with who they believed were minor children, according to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley.
Initial charges ranging from third-degree to fifth-degree felonies were

May 20, 2021
WXII 12

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —A Winston-Salem man is facing 13 felony charges for sex crimes.
The Winston-Salem Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Unit received an online tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a person possibly had child sexual exploitation material, officials said.
Detectives with the department’s Special Victims Unit and the NCSBI executed a search warrant of the home that was formerly rented by Stephen Lintner.
Lintner turned himself in to Winston-Salem detectives on May 19.
He was charged with 13 felonies for the following

May 20, 2021
Trish Choate
Times Record News

Anthony Ryan Patterson of Wichita Falls was arrested Thursday after he was indicted on six charges related to allegations of human trafficking and child sex crimes, an official said.
Patterson, 44, was arrested by the Wichita County Sheriff’s Department and was being held Friday in Wichita County Jail, according to online jail records.
A Wichita County grand jury handed down an indictment against Patterson Wednesday, according to an official.
A total bail of $400,000 is recommended for five charges against Patterson, according to online jail records.
Online jail records