Son of Yardbirds drummer jailed for 30 years for posing as charity volunteer to sexually abuse children as young as SIX
The son of British rock star Jim McCarty has been jailed for 30 years after posing as a charity worker to sexually abuse children as young as six. Simon Jasper McCarty, son of the Yardbirds drummer Jim, filmed himself abusing young children while pretending to be volunteering for their well being. Surrey-based McCarty – a [...]
Mother ‘drowned her one-year-old son in the bathtub’
A mother has been accused of holding her one-year-old son under water in a bathtub until he drowned. Chloe Menager, 25, from Dallas, is facing a capital murder charge and is being held on $1million bond for the death of her son Elijahu Perez. Police officers stopped Elijahu’s father on Thursday and then followed him [...]
Mother ‘repeatedly raped her son and daughter when they were five and 11-years-old’
A mother has been accused of repeatedly raping her two children ten years ago when they were aged five and 11. The son and daughter of A.M. – whose name is not being revealed to protect the victims’ identity – from Portland, Oregon, turned herself in after her children went to police to give ‘detailed [...]
Husband and wife arrested after nationwide ‘Jane Doe’ child pornography manhunt
A nationwide manhunt for a child pornographer has ended with the arrest of a husband and wife accused of filming and molesting their daughters aged six and nine for swapping online. Michael Serapis Freeman, 39, and Michelle Lee Freeman, 40, surrendered to police at their home in Salem, Oregon this week after learning an acquaintance had identified Michelle from a [...]
‘He raped me while my mom slept next to us’: Teen who escaped polygamous clan was abused for years by adoptive father – after therapist recommended family sleep in the same bed
A young woman who was forced to live with a polygamous clan in Utah throughout her childhood thought she found reprieve when she was adopted by a Washington man. However, rather than help her recover from her traumatic experience, her adopted father repeatedly raped and molested her. The father, 42, who lives in Snohomish, Washington, [...]
Parents jailed after their 18-month-old daughter Kayla died after they left her strapped in car seat inside boiling house
The parents of an 18-month-old girl who died after left strapped in a car seat in a hot room for several hours have been sentenced to time behind bars. Authorities say Kimberly and Jacob Taschler’s daughter Kayla died after left without food or water for 16 hours in their Palmerton, Pennsylvania home in 2010. A [...]
Military mom, 21, ‘let her toddler die because she was too depressed about her husband’s deployment’
A Texas woman who claims her military husband’s deployment overseas left her too stressed to care for their three young children, one of whom died, remained jailed Friday in connection with their alleged neglect. Tiffany Nicole Klapheke is charged with three felony counts of injury to a child in connection with her 22-month-old daughter’s death [...]
Three generations of one family murdered in the same house: Grandmother, mother and her son are all stabbed to death while girl, 9, watches
Three generations of a single family were murdered in their house during a stabbing rampage that killed a grandmother, a mother and a 14-year-old boy. The boy’s 9-year-old sister watched at least one of the horrific murders in the home in suburban Nashville, Tennessee. She ran out of the house to get help, though the [...]
Port Angeles sex offender arrested at Wash. carnival
SEATTLE — Pacific County deputies arrested a registered sex offender Wednesday when the 51-year-old was found working at a traveling carnival in South Bend. Philip Curtis Shelly was convicted of first degree child rape in 1998. After spending 11 years in prison, he was forced to register as a level II sex offender, according [...]
Child porn suspect found working at the Evergreen State Fair
PUYALLUP, Wash. — A woman facing child pornography charges was found working at the Evergreen State Fair, and now local parents are asking why background checks didn’t catch the woman before she was hired. The answer is that not all background checks are created equal. The state fair only looks at criminal convictions, which is [...]
Hugely indebted father shoots dead wife and daughter, 11, then hands himself in… but only after stopping to eat in McDonald’s with girl’s body in car
An indebted house painter shot dead his wife and 11-year-old daughter, drove to McDonald’s for a snack with the girl’s body in the car and then handed himself in to police. Dean Holmes, 40, of Spanaway, Washington, murdered his wife, Kristi, 41, whom he had been lying to about the family’s flailing financial affairs, while [...]
2 teens charged in death of NY girl, 5, found in trash
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Two teenagers were arrested Monday in connection with the death of a 5-year-old girl who vanished from her great-grandmother’s house and whose body was found dumped in a garbage can, authorities said. The arrests came after one of the teens went to police Monday morning and led them to a [...]
Mother-of-three admits sexually abusing the autistic 13-year-old son of her life-long friend
A mother-of-three has been jailed for sexually assaulting an autistic 13-year-old boy who was the son of a life-long friend. Mandy Thibodeau, 35, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison with four to serve and the rest suspended for six years of probation for twice sexually assaulting the mentally disabled boy. Thibodeau, of Farmington, [...]
Sex offender charged with murder of 17-year-old girl raped and suffocated 26 years ago
A registered sex offender has been charged with the death of 17-year-old Annette Thur who was raped, sodomized and suffocated more than a quarter of a century ago. John William Kelley, a convicted rapist, was charged last Friday with first-degree murder in the case of the teenager whose body was found dumped down a [...]
Wanted: Brandon Bertam: Slew of tattoos he’s inked with should help spot convicted child rapist on the run
WANTED IN SPOKANE COUNTY— Convicted child rapist, Brandon Bertram, has gone off the grid in Spokane County. He’s a level 2 sex offender who has also been busted for an indecent liberties sex crime, as well as obstruction of law enforcement. Now he’s failed to register as a sex offender. Here are the details on BRANDON [...]
Accused child molester running from law in Arizona – by running with biker club in Washington
Eric ‘E-Z’ McNeill WANTED IN YAVAPAI COUNTY, Arizona— Biker buddies know him by nickname, but likely know nothing about ‘horrendous’ sex crimes he’s accused of There’s an all-out fugitive alert for accused child molester, Eric McNeill. Detectives in Arizona say he’s running with a Washington biker club in the Algona area, on the King/Pierce County [...]