Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS COMMITTING ADDITIONAL CRIMES’

July 10, 2020
Carolyn P Smith
BND

A 51-year-old Belleville man was charged Sunday with sex crimes and harboring a teenage runaway, who had been reported missing from her Georgia home in February.

The suspect, 51-year-old Larry Hale, was charged by the St. Clair County State’s Attorney’s office with one count of child pornography/moving depiction, two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and a misdemeanor count of harboring a runaway.

Hale is currently being held at the St. Clair County jail on $250,000 bail.

According to police, Hale traveled to Georgia to bring the 16-year old girl back to his

July 10, 2020
Haeryun Kang
Washington Post

 Son Jong-woo is the creator of “Welcome to Video,” once the world’s largest known child pornography website. In 2015, when he was 19, he started the website in the dark web, warning its members, “Do not upload adult porn.” Over the next three years, the site would balloon to more than 1 million downloads worldwide, trading in cryptocurrency and trafficking videos featuring the sexual assault, including rape, of minors. One of the site’s most popular searches was for “2-year-olds.” By the time Son was arrested and the website shut down in

June 18, 2020
Jamie Burch
KTXS

ABILENE, Texas — The Abilene Police Department’s Cyber Crimes Unit arrested two men and two women for various drug and child pornography charges.

Detectives executed a search warrant Wednesday at a home in the 1500 block of Sycamore Street as part of a child pornography investigation.

Nicholas Kenemore, 22, is charged with distribution of child pornography and possession of methamphetamine. His bond was set at $24,000.

Kenemore is accused of distributing child pornography over the internet. Police said he was in possession of “numerous videos containing child pornography.”

Deborah Kenemore, 46, is

July 8, 2020
Alice McCool
The Guardian

Child protection organisations in Kenya say more needs to be done to protect young people from exploitation by overseas perpetrators, as the country reports a rising number of abuse cases.

The warning follows the arrest of Gregory Dow, a 61-year-old missionary, who last month pleaded guilty in a US court to sexually abusing girls at an orphanage he ran in Kenya.

It also comes after Kenyan authorities charged a 71-year-old German national in May on counts of trafficking, defilement, indecent acts and child pornography.

Mueni Mutisya, detective chief inspector of Kenya’s

July 7, 2020
Middle East Monitor

Egypt’s public prosecutor has charged a university student with indecent assault of at least three women, including one who was a minor at the time, in a case prompted by a social media campaign that opened up a rare public debate on sex crimes.

Ahmed Bassem Zaki, in his early 20s, was the target of a campaign on Instagram last week from an account that included postings by women accusing him of sex crimes. He is not known to have addressed the accusations publicly and Reuters was not able to

July 30, 2020
WMI Centralce

HOLBROOK — Cory Spencer, 26 of Show Low was sentenced last week in the Navajo County Superior Court to five years in prison followed by lifetime probation with sex offender terms. The case started in November of last year according to a press release from the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office (NCSO) when deputies responded to a report of an adult male taking pictures of the genitals of a child and showing a child nude pictures of Spencer. He was arrested that day and has been in the