Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS APPREHENDED’

6/6/2020
DW

Police in Germany have arrested 11 people in connection with a nationwide child sex abuse ring, the public prosecutor’s office and police in the western city of Münster said in a statement released on Saturday.
Seven of the suspects have been remanded in custody, including a 27-year-old man – an IT technician, and his 45-year-old mother.
The arrests were carried out in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Lower Saxony, after police uncovered encrypted data from hard drives found hidden in a false ceiling in a basement in Münster, belonging to

May 27, 2021
Texomas Homepage

MONTAGUE CO. (KFDX/KJTL) — A former Nocona banker and rancher with possible connections to missing teen Caleb Diehl now faces new charges of child sexual exploitation and pornography.
Ricky Dale Howard, 59, pleaded not guilty to a new four-count federal indictment in U.S. Northern District Court, according to The Bowie News.
The charges were filed May 12 and Howard was arraigned May 17.
Howard was previously arrested February 12 on a federal indictment for sexual exploitation of a minor that alleged Howard induced or coerced a minor to engage in

May 25, 2021
KAKE

NORTON, Kan. (KAKE) – A former Kansas City school resource officer was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for child sex crimes and rape.
Kansas Attorney General said Mark Scheetz was sentenced for two Jessica’s Law counts of aggravated criminal sodomy with a child younger than 14 and two counts of rape. Scheetz was sentenced to life in prison and he will not be eligible for parole for at least 50 years.
Scheetz was also sentenced to 32 months for sexual exploitation of a child and six months

May 27, 2021
Nelson Oliveira
NY Daily News

A Florida man has been charged with multiple sex crimes after police learned he went to an 11-year-old’s home, picked her up and traveled with the child for several days.
The investigation began in March following the victim’s disappearance and mysterious return to her Bay County home, authorities said in a news release Tuesday. The girl was reported missing on March 20, seven days after she was last seen, and she returned home on March 21, according to police.

A search of the child’s cellphone later showed

May 27, 2021
Justice

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Clinton, Missouri, man who was identified and arrested on the same day he shared live video and images of his sexual assault of a toddler with an undercover officer was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography.
Gino Alexander Maiorano, 26, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to 25 years in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Maiorano to spend the rest of his life on supervised release following incarceration.
On June 23, 2020, Maiorano pleaded guilty to one

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