Category Archive for : ‘STINGS’

May 13, 2021
Dominic Casciani
BBC

The plan from the Sentencing Council says judges should look at intent, rather than whether a child was harmed.
Undercover operations with officers posing as children are a common way of uncovering paedophile rings.
Offenders have sought reduced jail terms if no child came to harm.
The rules will cover the sentencing of all abusers caught via stings, usually operating online – including those run by police forces around the world and traps set by informal groups of people often dubbed “paedophile hunters”.
Current guidelines have long been interpreted as meaning

May 18, 2021
Kelly Whitmire
Forsyth News

Several indictments have been handed down by the Forsyth County Superior Court for a variety of alleged and attempted sex crimes in the county.
Below are some of the May indictments that have moved ahead.
Man indicted on child molestation, sexual battery charges
The Forsyth County Superior Court has indicted a man on child molestation and sexual battery charges for crimes allegedly committed against an elementary-school-aged victim on multiple occasions.
Blake Kristopher McCaulla was indicted with two charges each for aggravated sexual battery and child molestation for a series of

May 13, 2021
WKRN

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A massage therapist who was arrested last month and later released on bond has been arrested again for more sex crimes.
Metro police say 33-year-old Tarek Mentouri was arrested on a grand jury indictment charging him with eight counts of sexual battery, five counts of assault (offensive contact), two counts of harassment, rape and kidnapping involving nine women who had gone to his home on Glade Street for either a massage appointment or to apply for a job he had posted for an assistant.
The kidnapping

May 13, 2021
Carol Robinson
Al.com

A Tarrant man is under arrest after authorities say he tried to solicit a juvenile for sex, one of handful of men arrested by Homewood police in recent months in ongoing operations targeting sex crimes, particularly those against children.
Gabriel Jesus France-Mendez, 20, was booked into the Jefferson County Jail earlier this week – on Tuesday – on charges of traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act and child solicitation by computer – electronic solicitation for a child.
Details of his alleged crimes have not been

May 4, 2021
Fox News

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A former speaker of the Oregon House and current lobbyist in Salem has been accused by Portland Police of soliciting sex from an undercover officer. The charge was first reported by the Portland Tribune.
Democrat Dave Hunt lives in Milwaukie and represented parts of northern Clackamas County in the Legislature for a decade, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. From 2009 to 2011, he served as speaker of the House and he previously served one term as House majority leader.
He was one of eight men arrested in

April 20, 2021
Joshua Rhett Miller
NY Post

An Ohio school district employee who thought he was arranging sex with an 8-year-old girl showed up at a hotel with candy, condoms and a bottle of NyQuil, FBI officials said.
Bradley Willem Beun, 41, of Uniontown, was busted Friday at a hotel in Akron, where the stomach-churning items he agreed to bring in an earlier online chat with an FBI undercover investigator were found inside his car, FBI officials in Cleveland said Monday.
Beun, who worked as director of special services for Springfield Local School District,