Swindler parent sentenced for stealing from Portland schools, best friend, grandma, even a nun
Amanda Dress looked like any other supportive parent when she walked into the Portland Jewish Academy, her 3-year-old daughter in tow, and asked to buy gift cards as part of a fundraiser. But parent volunteers soon realized something was up when Dress showed up again — and again — using different names. The checks she wrote [...]
California father Joshua Allen Robey seen trying to strangle infant son on hidden camera footage
LOS ANGELES - A Southern California man was caught by a hidden camera attempting to kill his 2-month-old son with a blanket fashioned as a noose, prosecutors said. Joshua Allen Robey, 24, is behind bars and due for arraignment Nov. 9 on one felony county each of attempted murder, torture and child abuse. According to the Orange County [...]
Sex offender arrested for murder and kidnap of Louisiana student Mickey Shunick who vanished days before her 22nd birthday
A registered sex offender has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a Louisiana college student. Brandon Scott Lavergne, 33, was booked last night on first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping charges by police in Lafayette, where University of Louisiana student Mickey Shunick went missing on May 19. St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said [...]
Mother-of-four plied boy, 15, with drink and drugs and had sex with him’
A 40-year-old woman has been jailed after admitting plying a teen with drink and drugs and having sex. Christine Noelle Starry, from Pennsylvania, allegedly admitted to sleeping with the 15-year-old boy on several occasions. The boy also told his mother he had sex with Starry on at least four occasions over a two-month period after [...]
Parents’ fury as teacher, 59, who got 16-year-old student pregnant tells court of their ‘love story’
A 59-year-old teacher defended his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female student as a love story not a crime. The teenager, now 17, is approximately eight weeks pregnant with his child. Krag Sanford, from Michigan, pleaded no contest to accosting a child for immoral purpose in a Kent County court today. As part of an [...]
Sister of Texas Congressman arrested after SWAT team raids her house and finds methamphetamine and guns
A SWAT team arrested the sister of a Texas Congressman on drug charges after raiding her home following a standoff with armed officers. Police say they found methamphetamine and guns inside the Corpus Christie home of Sue Farenthold — who was charged along with three accomplices, one of whom is a known gang member. Farenthold’s [...]
Caught by a bloody palm print: ‘Killer’ arrested 23 years after he ‘broke into honor student’s apartment to rape and murder her’
An Indianapolis man has been arrested for brutally killing a 16-year-old mother of one in November of 1989, when he was just 17. Police say Rodney Denk, now 40, broke into honor student Amy Weidner’s home with another assailant and the two raped and killed Ms Weidner. A bloody palm print on the wall of [...]
‘I raped you’: Suspect admits sexually assaulting woman at his home after night of alcohol and marijuana
A 35-year-old man was arrested for sexual assault after he admitted to a friend who had stayed in his house the night before that he had raped her. Boulder police arrested Timothy Jeremiah Young on Friday after he told the woman in a phone call listened into by detectives, ‘I fully understand I raped you’. [...]
Man was ‘driving naked while pleasuring himself with toy pistol’
A man who was arrested after he was caught driving naked while masturbating was also pleasuring himself with a toy gun, say police. Robert Casey, 49, was driving in St Lucie County, Florida, when he was pulled over by police. A tow truck driver had earlier reported he had seen a naked man drive a [...]
Bus driver ‘offered boy, 10, $1 for sex then showed him naked pictures of his six-year-old SON’
A bus driver and his wife have been arrested on suspicion of child abuse, molestation, child pornography and child prostitution. Police say Brian DiCamillo, 39, was found out after he offered a 10-year old boy a dollar to have sex with him and when the boy declined, DiCamillo then showed him pornographic images of his [...]
Police officer arrested after ‘forcing 15-year-old girl to strip naked for ‘sex exam’ in the backseat of car’
A Florida police captain was arrested after allegedly forcing a 15-year-old girl to get naked so that he could inspect her to make sure she hadn’t been having sex. The girl was so mortified when Captain Juan De los Rios, a Miramar police force veteran of 28 years, told her to strip off that she [...]
Paedophile and girlfriend charged ‘after leaving cell phone with child porn’ in Walmart shopping cart leading to discovery of ‘molested’ four-year-old girl
A sex offender and his girlfriend were arrested on Wednesday after a cell phone laden with child porn images was left in a Walmart shopping cart. The phone allegedly belonged to Alan Robert Johnson, 33, convicted in 2003 of possessing and transporting child pornography, and his partner Jennifer Sparks, 37. The phone was found by [...]
Search for Ivy League attorney who ‘beat Weight Watchers financial analyst girlfriend to death’ after threatening to hunt her down ‘like a dog in the streets’
The New York City Police Department is looking for a man they believe brutally beat his ex-girlfriend to death in their Astoria home. Danielle Thomas, 27, was found dead in the Queens apartment she shared with Jason Bohn, 33, on Tuesday evening. Police records show that Bohn has a history of abuse and had repeatedly [...]
Army wife found guilty of setting fire to home killing kids aged 9 and 2 in blaze ‘set for husband’
An Army wife has been found guilty of setting fire to her Fort Campbell home in a blaze that killed two of her three children which prosecutors alleged was meant for her husband. A federal jury in Paducah, Kentucky delivered the verdict five years after Billi Jo Smallwood’s 9-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter were killed [...]
Suspected pedophile, 25, arrested after posing as a teenager to live with 15-year-old boy and his mother
A suspected British paedophile has been arrested in America after posing as a teenager and staying with a 15-year-old boy and his mother. Michael Hunter, 25, was being held in jail on suspicion of flying to Florida to carry out illegal acts with a minor. Hunter, from Birmingham, had been staying with the teenage boy [...]
Wannabe cop admits molesting children in job interview
A Missouri man was arrested during an interview with the state Highway Patrol when he admitted to the interviewer that he had molested children. Christopher Stringham, of Park Hills, Mo., has been charged with 20 counts of first-degree statutory sodomy, local station KMOV-TV reports. During the interview last month, the 26-year-old jobseeker was asked if he [...]