Category Archive for : ‘TRACKING SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

August 28, 2019
Ellen Killoran
CrimeOnline

A 16-year-old girl from Queens has been found safely after she flew to London in order to see a man she had met online.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea told the New York Post that Victoria Grabowski was found safely in London on Wednesday, after she is believed to have flown to the UK this weekend after being lured there by an adult male she met on the internet. Police reportedly believe she stole a credit card to pay for a plane ticket to London on Saturday.

“She developed some

August 9, 2019tra
Europol

Europol supported a pan-European operation against trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation, forced begging and labour exploitation. The operation, led by the United Kingdom, involved law enforcement authorities from 15 EU member states, Iceland and Switzerland*.

Between 17 and 23 June 2019, over 127 000 individuals, 63 800 vehicles and 1 100 locations were checked. Law enforcement authorities searched private properties, commercial establishments, hotels, buses and train stations, ferry ports, airports and border crossings. Prevention campaigns in schools to inform minors of the risks of human trafficking were also part

July 31st 2019
abc 6 on your side

SAN ANTONIO (WOAI) – A 9-year-old boy is safe after police say he was kidnapped and almost trafficked to another city, but police were able to track him down just in time.

Police spent the entire night tracking down the child until he was found inside a car at a local grocery store.

Things ended around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday at an H-E-B on the South Side off Goliad Road and Southeast Military Drive.

Police said the boy was kidnapped in the downtown area and authorities were immediately

September 13, 2019
Mary Hudetz
MSN

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A former Roman Catholic priest is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in Santa Fe, where a jury found him guilty this year of sexually abusing an altar boy in the early 1990s before fleeing the country.
Federal prosecutors are requesting a sentence of more than 30 years in prison for 81-year-old Arthur Perrault, once a pastor at an Albuquerque parish and a chaplain at Kirtland Air Force Base.
Perrault — who pleaded not guilty to charges after he was returned to the United States from

September 9, 2019
By Priscilla Aguirre
My San Antonio

Bexar County law enforcement agencies arrested or indicted 37 people on child sex crime charges in August, according to court records.

The suspects were charged with a an array of crimes, including indecency with a child, sexual assault of a child, aggravated sexual assault of a child and super aggravated sexual assault of a child.

August had the second highest number of suspects that were either arrested or indicted on child sex crimes so far this year. In July, 42 people had child sex crime charges,

Thursday, August 1st 2019
Annette Weston
WCTI 12

GREENVILLE, Pitt County — After the arrests last month of two previous sex offenders for failing to let the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office know when they were released from jail on unrelated charges, the department is putting all registered sex offenders on notice — saying they will be ‘aggressive’ in making sure those requirements are followed.

North Carolina law requires offenders to let their local sheriff’s department know where they are living, in person, within three days of their release from jail.

Investigators say James Acklin of