Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS WHO REOFFEND’

December 3, 2020
Melt Holt
WFTV

TITUSVILLE, Fla. — A massage therapist was charged Thursday after being accused of committing sex crimes against his clients, according to the Titusville Police Department.

Titusville police said the cases involve at least 19 potential victims over the past decade.

Thomas Grasso didn’t have anything to say to Channel 9 as he was escorted to the Brevard County Jail.

Grasso was initially arrested in October on a charge of battery and indecent exposure from a woman who was receiving massages once a week from Grasso for medical reasons.

The woman became

December 3, 2020
Rick Daysog
Hawaii News Now

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) – A new lawsuit alleges officials at a Big Island school were aware of allegations a staff member was sexually abusing a special education student but did nothing.

Stanton Caluag, 64, was an educational assistant at Kealakehe High School. He is now serving a year in jail after he pleaded guilty to third-degree sex assault in June.

The victim was 18 at the time and his grandmother said Caluag began molesting him two months after his mother died.

“It’s devastating. You know, he just lost

December 2, 2020
Frances Watson
KY3

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – A Springfield man accused in a manslaughter case is now charged with committing sex crimes.
Austin Larue is accused of causing a crash that killed Breanna Thomas, nearly 3 years ago.
He’s been out on bond and on supervised probation for a vehicle tampering charge out of St. Clair County until recently.
He’s back in the Greene County Jail. His bond was increased to half a million dollars.
“He does enjoy the presumption of innocence on all the charges at this point,” said his attorney Dee

December 2, 2020
Santa Maria Times

A Santa Maria man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of child sex crimes following a monthslong investigation by police detectives.
Joel McClain, 30, was arrested on a warrant shortly after 8:30 p.m. near the intersection of North Railroad Avenue and Rancho Verde, according to Santa Maria Police Sgt. Andy Magallon.
Detectives began investigating McClain in June after receiving information that he possessed child pornography, which led to multiple search warrants that were conducted at his residence, located in the 2000 block of Fiesta Way, according to arrest records.
During

December 3, 2020
US News

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest accused of collecting thousands of child pornography images while serving overseas and then bringing them with him when he returned to the United States is now facing federal charges, authorities announced Thursday.
The Rev. William McCandless, 56, of Wilmington, Delaware, pleaded not guilty to the counts during an initial court appearance in Philadelphia. He is charged with possessing child porn for importation into the Unites States, transporting child porn in interstate and foreign commerce and attempting to access with intent to

December 7, 2020
Bill Wyatt
Martinsville Bulletin

A Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to sex-related charges involving a 16-year-old girl from Martinsville was sentenced to 35 years in prison Monday during an emotional court hearing when his mother pleaded for leniency.

Cody Daniel Moore, 28, of Carlisle, Pa., appeared before Martinsville Circuit Court Judge G. Carter Greer handcuffed, shackled and wearing an orange inmate suit, to face sentencing on a negotiated plea.

“So this will be a guilty plea,” Greer said.

Martinsville Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Paula Bowen told Greer her office had agreed to drop