Couple accused of arranging sex with girl, 13
A Gurnee couple’s bail was set at $50,000 each today after they were accused of sending text messages to a 13-year-old girl to arrange to have sex with her, officials said. Gina M. Cusimano, 25, and Kevin C. Pettitt, 21, both of the 5100 block of Pembrook Court in Gurnee, were charged with indecent solicitation [...]
Mother charged after 2 kids found dead in heat
The mother of two children found dead from heat-related symptoms Thursday in Smyrna has been charged. Samantha Harper, 25, faces two counts of especially aggravated child abuse. She is being held on a $200,000 bond. Police said the two children, a boy and girl aged 2 and 3 years old, were found just before 4 [...]
Teen convicted of raping his baby sister
(WMC-TV) – The Cordova teen accused of raping his baby sister was found guilty of the crime. James Prindle, who was 15 years old arrested, was convicted Friday. Prindle raped his 23-month-old sister in August 2010. A Cordova teenager will stand trial for the rape of a 23-month-old baby in just a few days. Action [...]
Vast International Child-Porn Network Uncovered
Robert Mikelsons, who was sentenced in Amsterdam on May 21, 2012, to 18 years in prison for abusing dozens of babies and toddlers, is seen in this undated booking photo. The men came from different walks of life on two continents: a children’s puppeteer in Florida, a hotel manager in Massachusetts, an emergency medical [...]
Tacoma man accused of raping teen while wearing GPS monitor
TACOMA, Wash. — A Tacoma man was being monitored by GPS when he allegedly kidnapped and raped a teenage girl, but investigators say they couldn’t track the man because his monitoring device wasn’t charged. Henry Hauser is accused of forcing a 16-year-old girl into his car at knife point last month before taking her to [...]
Kansas City Priest To Plead Guilty To Child Porn Charges
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City priest accused of producing and possessing child pornography will plead guilty Thursday to at least some of the federal charges he faces, his attorney confirmed. The Rev. Shawn Ratigan, 46, was charged last August with six counts of production of child pornography, two counts of possession of [...]
Accused Child Rapist Wants To Show Sex Tapes To Alleged Victims
A convicted child pornographer now facing rape charges wants to show his alleged victims videos of the sexual attacks during pre-trial witness interviews. The request could be granted to Weldon Marc Gilbert, because he’s acting as his own attorney in the upcoming Washington trial for allegedly raping boys in his home sex dungeon, KOMO reported. The alleged [...]
Pedophile who sexually assaulted disabled stepson finally caught after going on the run in Canada for three years
A pedophile who was once on America’s Most Wanted was finally caught this week and convicted of molesting his quadriplegic stepson. George Ross Wilcox, from Calgary, was arrested in a shopping mall in Surrey, British Columbia,on Monday. The alleged abuse happened in Arizona between July 2007 and January 2008. He fled on June 9, 2009, [...]
Teacher, 67, turns himself in for rape of girls believing statute of limitations had expired… and now faces prison
A long-time St. Louis-area teacher has been charged with rape and statutory sodomy after turning himself in, apparently in the mistaken belief that the statute of limitations had expired, authorities said Tuesday. Donald Ingerson, 67, is now jailed on $300,000 cash bond after being arrested and charged Monday. He doesn’t have an attorney. Ingerson called [...]
Hockey mom, 45, ‘plied son’s teammates, 13 and 16, with alcohol before having sex with them’
A 45-year-old ‘hockey mom’ plied her son’s teammates with alcohol before indulging in sex acts with two of them, a court has heard. Kathia Marie Davis is alleged to have engaged the teenagers in sexual activity in her own house while her children were elsewhere in the property, it is alleged. The divorced mother-of-three appeared [...]
Will Molly Bish’s murder finally be solved? Breakthrough as police search trailer of convicted killer in case of Massachusetts teen who was abducted in 2000
Police have searched the trailer of a convicted killer who has been a ‘person of interest’ in the murder case of 16-year-old Molly Bish who was abducted in 2000. An old wallet belonging to Rodney Stanger, 64, who is currently serving 25 years behind bars for stabbing his girlfriend Chrystal Morrison to death, led investigators to his [...]
Father kills seven-year-old daughter and shoots son in head before turning gun on himself in horrific murder-suicide after wife left him
In Oxford, Massachusetts, a seven-year-old girl is dead and her nine-year-old brother seriously injured with a gunshot wound to the head after their 41-year-old father apparently shot both before turning the gun on himself, ending his own life. Authorities said that a family member found the bodies of 41-year-old Daryl Benway and his daughter, Abigail, [...]
John Wayne Gacy’s nephew guilty of abusing 12-year-old girl and faces 120 years in prison
The nephew of serial killer John Wayne Gacy has been convicted of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl. The verdict was handed down to Raymond Kasper by a jury in McHenry County. The girl first reported the assault to a school counselor but later recanted and testified that the abuse did not happen. But a doctor [...]
Parents arrested After Cops Find Loaded Gun In Baby Carriage
Baby carriages apparently aren’t just for babies anymore. They can also be used to conceal loaded handguns. That’s where police in Manchester, N.H., found a 9mm handgun when they stopped parents Jonathan Bijoel and Cassandra Gagnon Monday night during a walk with their 1-year-old daughter. The officers were investigating a report of an assault made [...]
Ronald Brown, Puppeteer, Planned To Rape, Kill, Eat Children: Florida Police
A Florida puppeteer who entertains children at birthday parties, schools and churches, secretly wanted to rape, kill and eat them, cops said. Ronald Brown, 57, of Largo, was arrested last week after federal agents found that he’d allegedly been chatting online with child pornography suspects about “extremely graphic discussions regarding kidnapping, sexually abusing, murdering and [...]
Mom and sister busted stealing bathing suits at Walmart ditch BABY in escape . . . and police find them two days days later dancing in club
A mother and her sister were arrested after they left a one-year-old baby behind at a Walmart they had just robbed,. The mother, Allison Niemeyer, 19, and her 22-year-old sister Laura were found dancing at a club days later and charged with felony child neglect after they abandoned Ms Niemeyer’s toddler on Friday at the [...]