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WILMINGTON, Del. -- A 66-year-old habitual sex offender has been sentenced to 30 years behind bars for traveling to Germany to molest a teenage orphan. Thomas S. Pendleton received the maximum sentence Wednesday in federal court in Delaware. A jury...
Posted in Abominations on February 8, 2010 04:46 AM
LANCASTER PA -- The child was sexually assaulted "hundreds of times," for almost eight years, the prosecutor said. The man made another child watch at times, the prosecutor added, as he performed "every kind of sexual act" on the girl....
Posted in Abominations on February 6, 2010 03:52 AM
Pastor married with three children (Exod.20:14; Lev.20:10; Prov.6:32; Matt.5:27-28; Gal.5:19-21) Minneapolis Star Tribune The former pastor of a church in Prior Lake pleaded guilty Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court to soliciting a prostituted woman. The Rev. John K. Erbele,...
Posted in Abominations on February 5, 2010 04:45 AM
OWENSBORO, Ky. -- A former preacher has been sentenced to 20 years after a jury found him guilty of a first-degree rape committed in 1984. The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer reports 77-year-old Prince Wilbert Woolfolk was charged with raping a 17-year-old girl...
Posted in Abominations on February 1, 2010 03:09 AM
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A convicted sex offender has pleaded guilty to violating his probation after fleeing the country when he was supposed to be in Colorado. Robert Snyder, a 55-year-old who authored the "Chess for Juniors" book series, entered...
Posted in Abominations on February 1, 2010 03:04 AM
MALTA -- The Archbishop’s Curia this week chose to remain silent about the nature of the appointment given to a Maltese priest in Malta in the mid-1990s who was convicted of paedophilia in Italy in 2004. While acknowledging that Fr...
Posted in Abominations on February 1, 2010 02:57 AM
BOSTON, MA -- Two child sex abuse victims and two experts on the clergy sex abuse crisis - who run Waltham-based BishopAccountability.org - will be outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 1400 Washington St., Boston, today at 1 p.m....
Posted in Abominations on January 28, 2010 02:35 AM
CHARLESTON, WV -- A former Kanawha County pastor convicted of sexually abusing teenage boys over nearly two decades is asking for a revisiting of his case. Attorney Jim Cagle, argued the motions before the state Supreme Court on Tuesday. Several...
Posted in Abominations on January 28, 2010 02:19 AM
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- On Monday, Cindy Simmons Uhl, 45, once again took the stand against Roger Parsons, her former junior high school assistant principal. It was 10 years to the day that Parsons was convicted of multiple counts of sexual...
Posted in Abominations on January 26, 2010 03:02 AM
A Maltese priest who spent two-and-a-half-years in a special community near Trento after plea bargaining to abusing children some years ago, was later sent to a parish in Malta where he spent some time before returning to Italy. Rev. Felix...
Posted in Abominations on January 25, 2010 02:36 AM
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, aka SNAP, was spreading the word in North Florida this week about a former Catholic priest recently convicted of sexually assaulting children in Wisconsin more than two decades ago. The Milwaukee Journal...
Posted in Abominations on January 23, 2010 03:07 AM
TOLEDO, Ohio -- A Roman Catholic priest convicted of killing a nun appeared by video at a court hearing in Ohio, the first time he's been seen publicly since his 2006 conviction. The Rev. Gerald Robinson sat impassively Friday during...
Posted in Abominations on January 23, 2010 03:07 AM
Texas pastor convicted of killing wife and trying to cover it up as a suicide WACO, Texas -- Jurors on Thursday sentenced a former Texas minister to 65 years in prison for murdering his wife and trying to cover it...
Posted in Abominations on January 22, 2010 04:25 AM
Matt Baker, dubbed by prosecutors as the “murdering minister,” was convicted Wednesday in the April 2006 drugging and suffocation death of his wife. Jurors in 19th State District Court deliberated more than six hours before finding the former Baptist minister...
Posted in Abominations on January 21, 2010 05:18 AM
CHATTANOOGA, TN -- Chattanooga police haul a preacher out of his own church in handcuffs over the weekend. It turns out Edward Lamar Hughes was preaching to a small congregation and is actually a convicted child sex offender. He lost...
Posted in Abominations on January 19, 2010 03:04 AM
Five separate lawsuits for $3 million each, the maximum under the law, have been filed in Ontario Superior Court of Justice against a Roman Catholic priest convicted of 11 of 16 sexual assault charges in criminal court. Bernard Cloutier, 68,...
Posted in Abominations on January 19, 2010 03:03 AM
BOSTON -- The highest court in Massachusetts has refused to overturn a Catholic priest's sexual assault conviction in a case that turned on recovered memory. The Supreme Judicial Court unanimously upheld the decision by the trial judge to allow evidence...
Posted in Abominations on January 18, 2010 03:23 AM
LOS ANGELES -- A prosecutor filed legal briefs Friday strongly reiterating his opposition to sentencing movie director Roman Polanski in absentia in a 32-year-old sex case. Insisting Polanski must appear in person in a Los Angeles courtroom, Deputy District Attorney...
Posted in Abominations on January 18, 2010 03:18 AM
TOLEDO -- A judge in northern Ohio has tossed out a lawsuit against a priest who was convicted of killing a nun. The lawsuit was brought by a woman who says she was sexually abused by the priest from Toledo...
Posted in Abominations on January 15, 2010 03:02 AM
Trial began Tuesday in the case of a 51-year-old Jeffersonville man accused of molesting two young family members. Andre B. Hepfer could face hundreds of years in prison if convicted on all 23 felony counts he is charged with. After...
Posted in Abominations on January 15, 2010 03:00 AM
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen - the sisterhood NEW YORK -- It was hard not to feel sympathy for Roza Hinda Weiss as she stood before some 700 Lubavitch women last Sunday night and asked them for money. At an “Emergency...
Posted in Abominations on January 14, 2010 03:05 AM
NEW YORK -- A son-in-law of Sholom Rubashkin, the kosher meat mogul convicted of financial fraud in November, has pleaded guilty to child endangerment in a case related to the sexual molestation of a 13-year-old boy at a mikveh. Under...
Posted in Abominations on January 14, 2010 03:04 AM
Though she confidently vowed to remain in office after a recent embezzlement conviction, Baltimore’s famously crooked mayor resigned as part of a scandalously lenient plea agreement that most definitely would never be extended to the average American. The veteran politician...
Posted in Abominations on January 13, 2010 03:13 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case that tests the federal government's power to keep convicted sex offenders behind bars after they have served out their prison terms. Currently, 84 such prisoners are indefinitely confined for treatment...
Posted in Abominations on January 12, 2010 02:45 AM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The Arkansas Supreme Court has ordered a new sentencing for a death row inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young children around the holidays in 2006. Justices upheld James Aaron Miller's murder conviction...
Posted in Abominations on January 9, 2010 01:40 AM
Former Anglican priest Kenneth Gibbs, imprisoned last month for molesting five young girls decades ago, has been convicted of two more dated sexual offences. Gibbs, 77, pleaded guilty earlier this week to two counts of indecent assault in a Timmins...
Posted in Abominations on January 8, 2010 02:00 AM
The conviction of a man who raped his 11-year-old adopted daughter over the years and resulting in her pregnancy was upheld in court Tuesday. The North Carolina Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the convictions of Transylvania County resident Edward Walter...
Posted in Abominations on January 8, 2010 01:32 AM
MADISON, WI -- Wisconsin Supreme Court justices could open the door for more high-profile defendants to appeal their convictions if they rule in favor of a priest found guilty of sexual assault, Walworth County's top prosecutor said Tuesday. The Supreme...
Posted in Abominations on January 7, 2010 02:17 AM
On November 10, 2009, Archpriest Neal James Carrigan of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) pleaded nolo contendre (no contest) to 2 counts of indecent assault on a person less than 13 years of age, and 1 count of corruption...
Posted in Abominations on January 6, 2010 02:45 AM
The Catholic Church in Germany has been accused of ignoring abuse complaints against a priest who reportedly shared beds, saunas and showers with boys and young men. South African public prosecutors will decide later this month whether to press charges...
Posted in Abominations on January 5, 2010 12:18 AM
BRIDGEPORT -- An elderly man previously convicted of sex offenses involving children was charged Sunday with a similar crime after police said he was trolling for teenagers. Edwin Phillips, 77, of Elmwood Avenue, was arrested on a charge of attempted...
Posted in Abominations on December 29, 2009 02:56 AM
CHICAGO, IL -- A Cook County judge rejected a plea for freedom at a hearing Thursday for a former priest who was convicted of sexually molesting children. Forty-one-year-old Daniel McCormack has served two years of a five-year prison sentence. He...
Posted in Abominations on December 18, 2009 02:52 AM
SAN DIEGO -- A judge, citing juror misconduct, declared a mistrial Tuesday in the case of a former fifth-grade teacher accused of molesting two boys once in her class. Adrienne Feistel, 36, will be retried next year, Judge Richard Whitney...
Posted in Abominations on December 18, 2009 02:52 AM
KNOX Grammar and the Uniting Church have apologised to sex abuse victims after a third former teacher pleaded guilty to child sex offences. The apology comes after Craig Treloar, 50, pleaded guilty in Central Local Court on Tuesday to sexual...
Posted in Abominations on December 18, 2009 02:46 AM
Australian Associated Press - The Age A former Melbourne teacher found guilty of making a 17-year-old student pregnant and paying for her abortion has been granted a retrial. Stephen Peter Morrow, 56, who worked as a physics teacher at an...
Posted in Abominations on December 17, 2009 07:04 PM
Debate rages in Uganda about a controversial bill before parliament that would make homosexuality punishable by death. A Ugandan member of parliament (MP) last month proposed that lawmakers should create a new crime of "aggravated homosexuality", which would be punishable...
Posted in Abominations on December 17, 2009 02:47 AM
IRELAND -- Verdict: Rev. Thomas Naughton, who was previously convicted of indecent assault in 1998, has been jailed for two years for indecently assaulting an altar boy in Valleymount, Co Wicklow, in the early 1980s. The 78-year-old St Patrick’s Missionary...
Posted in Abominations on December 17, 2009 02:45 AM
Australian Associated Press - The Age A former Melbourne teacher found guilty of making a 17-year-old student pregnant and paying for her abortion has been granted a retrial. Stephen Peter Morrow, 56, who worked as a physics teacher at an...
Posted in Abominations on December 17, 2009 02:40 AM
VISTA, Calif. -- A sex offender who pretended to be a teenager and molested four young boys was convicted Monday of multiple counts of child molestation. After a few hours of deliberations, Hubert Dymitr Haraszewski, 33, was found guilty of...
Posted in Abominations on December 15, 2009 03:44 AM
A Miami-Dade jury on Friday convicted the Rev. Gaston Smith, of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, of looting a county grant of $10,000. After three hours of deliberations, the jury tasked with judging Miami Rev. Gaston Smith sent out a note...
Posted in Abominations on December 15, 2009 03:37 AM
SAN FERNANDO -- A state appeals court panel has ordered a new sentencing hearing for a former pastor convicted of sex crimes involving two teenage girls who attended his Sunland church. The three-justice panel from the 2nd District Court of...
Posted in Abominations on December 11, 2009 03:58 AM
NORTHFIELD -- A former youth pastor convicted of sexually assaulting a preteen boy almost a decade ago has been labeled as sexually dangerous and committed to a state facility. Third District Court Judge Bernard Borene approved the civil commitment of...
Posted in Abominations on December 10, 2009 03:35 AM
For years at the center of a major City Hall corruption investigation, the notoriously crooked mayor of Maryland’s largest city—famous for being the first black woman to hold the office—has been convicted by a jury of embezzlement. Baltimore Mayor Sheila...
Posted in Abominations on December 9, 2009 02:18 AM
NEW YORK -- New laws passed in 25 states are making it easier for social networking giants Facebook and MySpace to purge their membership lists of convicted rapists, gropers and child molesters. More than 3,500 offenders registered in New York...
Posted in Abominations on December 8, 2009 12:34 AM
(See Video) Amanda Knox stood in a silent court room to hear the verdict, head bowed. But as the judge read out the jury's decision she turned and buried her face in her lawyers chest and started to sob uncontrollably....
Posted in Abominations on December 5, 2009 03:47 AM
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -- A Florida Baptist church known for its sometimes-provocative efforts to entice first-time visitors is receiving unwanted attention after the arrest of a staff member on molestation charges. The Coral Springs Police Department arrested Russell Dion Lewis,...
Posted in Abominations on December 4, 2009 03:25 AM
COVINGTON, Ind. -- An Indiana baby sitter convicted of videotaping herself performing sex acts with children as young as 2 months old has been sentenced to 125 years in prison. Samantha Light last month pleaded guilty to three felony counts...
Posted in Abominations on December 3, 2009 02:56 AM
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- A fifth-grade teacher sexually molested two boys who had been in her class, a prosecutor said, but a defense attorney said the mother of one of the boys had an ulterior motive to falsely accuse the...
Posted in Abominations on December 1, 2009 04:13 AM
Lorrie Elmer Mecham, 69, of Mountain Home, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court to 20 years in prison, followed by ten years of supervised release, for receiving and possessing sexually explicit images of minors, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced....
Posted in Abominations on December 1, 2009 04:11 AM
Pastor lets accused rapist remain in his job MEMPHIS, TN -- The music minister of a local Church of God in Christ congregation remains in his post after being charged with statutory rape involving a 16-year-old choir member. Dwayne "DJ"...
Posted in Abominations on November 30, 2009 05:20 PM
She was a trusted coach, friend, teacher and mentor who appeared eager to take a troubled student under her wing. On Friday, Melissa Koehn also became a felon. A Dakota County jury deliberated 3 1/2 hours Friday before convicting the...
Posted in Abominations on November 23, 2009 01:37 AM
TEXARKANA, AR -- A federal judge sentenced self-anointed "evangelist" Tony Alamo to 175 years in prison Friday following his conviction in July of 10 counts of taking underage girls across state lines for sex (See News Clip). U.S. District Judge...
Posted in Abominations on November 14, 2009 03:42 AM
ELDORADO, Texas – The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following the raid of a West Texas ranch was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called...
Posted in Abominations on November 11, 2009 03:10 AM
A former Anglican priest was found guilty Monday of molesting five young female parishioners in the 1960s and 1970s. Kenneth Gibbs was convicted of eight counts of indecent assault, offences that occurred when he was a minister at churches in...
Posted in Abominations on November 10, 2009 06:34 AM
A Galveston jury deliberated less than five hours before convicting a 26-year-old man of capital murder in the beating death of a 2-year-old girl who was known for months only as "Baby Grace." Royce Clyde Zeigler II was found guilty...
Posted in Abominations on November 10, 2009 06:33 AM
ELDORADO, Texas – The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called "spiritual...
Posted in Abominations on November 7, 2009 01:11 AM
A self-styled 'celebrity' priest, who claimed he could perform miracles, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for defiling an underage schoolgirl. Samuel Boitumelo Ntsebele, 23, was convicted after admitting to having sex with a 14-year-old member of his congregation....
Posted in Abominations on November 7, 2009 01:08 AM
WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for the sniper whose deadly 2002 shooting spree terrorized the US capital region urged the Supreme Court Wednesday to suspend his execution next week, arguing he had been badly represented. Attorneys for convicted murderer John Allen Muhammad...
Posted in Abominations on November 6, 2009 06:27 AM
KILPATRICK, AL -- A man convicted of sexual abuse in 2002 is headed back to prison for violating his probation. 64-year-old Billy Paul Masters was convicted of four different sodomy and sexual abuse charges in 2002. He was released from...
Posted in Abominations on November 5, 2009 05:23 AM
SAUDI ARABIA -- A man in Saudi Arabia is to be beheaded and crucified after he raped five children and left one of them, a three-year-old boy, to die in the desert. An appeal court in the capital Riyadh approved...
Posted in Abominations on November 4, 2009 03:01 AM
Investigators found the remains of at least four more bodies at the Cleveland home of a convicted rapist and are continuing to search. Anthony Sowell, 50, who lives at the home, has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder...
Posted in Abominations on November 4, 2009 03:00 AM
RICHMOND, Calif. -- A seventh suspect was arrested Tuesday in what police say was a gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a high school homecoming dance while as many as 20 people watched without calling police. Police arrested an...
Posted in Abominations on November 4, 2009 02:55 AM
CLEVELAND -- Investigators trying to identify the bodies of six women found in the home of a convicted rapist are focusing the inquiry on eight or nine missing women, the coroner said Monday. It could take days or weeks to...
Posted in Abominations on November 3, 2009 02:28 AM
A convicted rapist has been arrested after police acting on a tip found six decomposing bodies in his Cleveland, Ohio home. Anthony E. Sowell tried to flee and initially denied his identity when authorities tried to arrest him. Autopsies were...
Posted in Abominations on November 2, 2009 02:07 AM
Children and vulnerable adults are being put at 'horrifying risk' by a huge backlog of cases within the Government's controversial new vetting system. Insiders at the Independent Safeguarding Authority say the checking regime, which was officially launched last month, is...
Posted in Abominations on November 2, 2009 02:02 AM
A San Diego babysitter accused of selling a 3-year-old boy to an alleged pedophile so he could molest him and use him in pornographic movies is expected in a downtown San Diego courtroom Wednesday to stand trial. Aaron Zendejas, 24,...
Posted in Abominations on November 2, 2009 02:02 AM
The lawyer for a man accused of murdering 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers told jurors that his client dumped her body in Galveston Bay, but he didn't have anything to do with her death, as his murder trial began. Royce Clyde...
Posted in Abominations on October 31, 2009 01:54 AM
The lawyer for a man accused of murdering 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers told jurors that his client dumped her body in Galveston Bay, but he didn't have anything to do with her death, as his murder trial began. Royce Clyde...
Posted in Abominations on October 30, 2009 02:39 AM
SAVANNAH, GA -- The Catholic Diocese of Savannah announced today it has reached a $4.24 million settlement with a 40-year-old man who says he was sexually abused by a former priest. In a civil suit filed in 2008 in Jasper...
Posted in Abominations on October 29, 2009 02:10 AM
DETROIT, MI -- The Archdiocese of Detroit and the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) are engaging in a verbal skirmish over whether the archdiocese should have done more to publicize two abuse cases. Father Joseph Skelton Jr.,...
Posted in Abominations on October 28, 2009 01:39 AM
JAY, Okla. -- A former Southern Baptist pastor in Oklahoma has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after confessing to sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl who attended his church. Joshua Spires, 28, now of Odessa, Texas, pleaded guilty...
Posted in Abominations on October 27, 2009 02:38 AM
ELDORADO, Texas -- The first of a dozen polygamist sect members charged with abuse of women stands trial Monday, 18 months after agents raided the group's remote ranch and carted off more than 400 children in the largest child-custody case...
Posted in Abominations on October 27, 2009 01:07 AM
Hundreds rallied Saturday afternoon at the State Capitol as part of the 10th annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty. They came certain an innocent man was executed and called for an end to the death penalty. The protesters drew...
Posted in Abominations on October 26, 2009 01:52 AM
The Blankenburg twin brothers are well-known paediatricians with a successful practice. Not only did they share their practice, but the brothers lived together, were not married and were amateur photographers who took lots of pictures for a high school in...
Posted in Abominations on October 21, 2009 03:19 AM
(Exod.20:14; Lev.20:10; Prov.6:32; Matt.5:27-28; Gal.5:19-21) ADULTERY & ATTEMPTED MURDER -- A doctor has been found guilty of trying to poison his lover in an attempt to induce an abortion. Dr Edward Erin, 44, of west London, spiked the drinks of...
Posted in Abominations on October 20, 2009 02:41 AM
CHICAGO, IL -- A former Roman Catholic priest convicted of sexually abusing children is fighting to keep part of his court proceedings closed to the public. In July of 2007, Daniel McCormack pleaded guilty to abusing five boys. He was...
Posted in Abominations on October 20, 2009 02:32 AM
A Bradford vicar has been jailed for 14 years for the "wicked and cynical" rape and sexual abuse of boys in his pastoral care. A judge told Peter Hedge: "You are 47 years of age and an ordained member of...
Posted in Abominations on October 17, 2009 02:20 AM
FAIRFAX, Virginia -- The attorney for convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad says he plans to ask for clemency for his client who is scheduled for execution next month. An announcement on attorney Jonathan Sheldon's law firm's website says he plans...
Posted in Abominations on October 16, 2009 01:49 AM
Three men convicted of the gang rape of a West Palm Beach woman and the beating of her young son were sentenced to life in prison Tuesday. Palm Beach Circuit Judge Krista Marx sentenced Jakaris Taylor, 17, and Nathan Walker,...
Posted in Abominations on October 14, 2009 12:51 AM
LAS VEGAS, NV -- Claims of abuse in the catholic church lead to an interesting morning for some Las Vegas parishioners. This after one man says he was sexually abused by a priest right here in the valley more than...
Posted in Abominations on October 13, 2009 12:13 AM
A 50-year-old Verulam pastor who repeatedly raped his two daughters from the age of about five years was jailed for 24 years by Judge Anton van Zyl in the Pietermaritzburg High Court. Verulam Regional Magistrate J Pillay, who convicted the...
Posted in Abominations on October 7, 2009 02:16 AM
JEFFERSON CITY -- A Missouri sex offender contended Tuesday that a state law requiring him to live more than 1,000 feet from schools and child care centers is unconstitutional. An attorney for the sex offender told the Missouri Supreme Court...
Posted in Abominations on October 7, 2009 02:09 AM
BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- A jury deliberated for about two hours before finding a Georgia man guilty of murder and child molestation in the death of a 6-year-old boy whose body was later discovered wrapped in trash bags and dumped near...
Posted in Abominations on October 6, 2009 02:03 AM
BALTIMORE, MD -- More women are coming forward alleging inappropriate sexual behavior by a prominent Baltimore rabbi. Eighty-five-year-old Rabbi Jacob A. Max was sentenced to a suspended one-year prison term after he was convicted in April of sexually molesting a...
Posted in Abominations on October 6, 2009 01:59 AM
BALTIMORE, MD -- For more than half a century, Rabbi Jacob A. Max was a dominant figure in Baltimore's Jewish community, founder of one of its most important synagogues, an influential leader who officiated at countless cycle-of-life rituals of the...
Posted in Abominations on October 5, 2009 01:07 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A tiny Louisville church's newest minister is a gifted music leader and popular among its three dozen members. Mark Hourigan is also a sex offender. Almost a decade ago, long before he joined the flock at the...
Posted in Abominations on October 3, 2009 01:55 AM
The man who kidnapped, raped and murdered 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford and buried her alive behind his sister's trailer, has died on death row of natural causes. John Evander Couey died at a Jacksonville hospital after a lengthy illness. Couey, 51,...
Posted in Abominations on October 2, 2009 02:20 AM
BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- A 6-year-old boy pleaded with his captors — a man and his adult son — as they stripped and sexually assaulted the child inside a mobile home before strangling him, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday. The comments...
Posted in Abominations on September 30, 2009 03:39 PM
BELLEVILLE, Ont. -- A 54-year-old convicted pedophile and Thurlow native has indicated he is willing to undergo operations to help him decrease his sexual desires following guilty pleas to sexually abusing young girls in Kitchener. Terrance Madden, who left Belleville...
Posted in Abominations on September 30, 2009 04:38 AM
SAN ANTONIO -- A polygamist sect member set to go on trial for bigamy and sexual abuse of a child next month deliberately skirted anti-money laundering laws and used a wife he once abandoned to help front a company in...
Posted in Abominations on September 30, 2009 03:07 AM
ORANGE COUNTY, California -- What has Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown put in the wine that has his convicted perverts violating parole in record numbers? Time was when you were a diocesan employee and could rape young...
Posted in Abominations on September 29, 2009 03:17 AM
SOUTH BEND -- A majority of Indiana Supreme Court justices have ruled against a convicted child molester who claimed evidence presented in his case violated his Sixth Amendment rights. The decision comes on the heels of a recent controversial Supreme...
Posted in Abominations on September 29, 2009 03:16 AM
HONESDALE, Pa. -- A Wayne County Jury convicted James Kevin Strackbein, age 47, of two counts of Indecent Assault of a Child Under The Age of 13. Strackbein will be sentenced on January 7, 2010. He will also be evaluated...
Posted in Abominations on September 28, 2009 01:49 AM
In the last month, two Portland-area coaches -- Howard Avery and Askia Brown -- have been convicted of sexually abusing teen-age girls left in their care. Beyond the guilty verdicts, the two trials provided a dramatic contrast. And they've left...
Posted in Abominations on September 26, 2009 01:29 AM
CHICAGO, IL -- A Roman Catholic priest with a history that includes abusing as many as 30 boys, many from Chicago's suburbs, was freed from state custody this morning and will continue treatment as an outpatient. Fred Lenczycki, 65, the...
Posted in Abominations on September 25, 2009 02:01 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A group of clergy abuse survivors are asking the Louisville Archdiocese to speak out against a local church that recently ordained a convicted child molester as a minister. Several members of the Louisville chapter of Survivors Network...
Posted in Abominations on September 25, 2009 02:00 AM
PHOENIX -- Prosecutors have exhausted all appeals of a lower-court ruling that an excommunicated Roman Catholic priest is entitled to five separate trials on misdemeanor sex charges. Nearly five years after former Monsignor Dale Fushek was charged in December 2005...
Posted in Abominations on September 25, 2009 01:44 AM
Illinois prosecutors today filed a motion to seek the indefinite incarceration of a Roman Catholic priest convicted of sexually assaulting several boys in a West Side parish. The Cook County state's attorney's and Illinois attorney general's offices filed the petition...
Posted in Abominations on September 24, 2009 04:21 AM
MARTINEZ -- A Contra Costa County judge ruled Tuesday that an Antioch husband and wife should be tried on more than 40 counts of rape, sodomy and child molestation, stemming from allegations they sexually abused six female children in the...
Posted in Abominations on September 23, 2009 06:17 AM
MERCED, CA -- A 49-year-old convicted sex offender from Los Banos will be headed west after U.S. marshals on Saturday arrested him in Oklahoma. Roy Bristow was taken into custody at a Cleveland, Okla., motel after detective Dustin Witt of...
Posted in Abominations on September 23, 2009 06:04 AM
Australian Associated Press - Brisbane Times A former Melbourne teacher who made his 17-year-old student pregnant and paid for her to have an abortion is appealing his conviction. Stephen Peter Morrow was jailed for a minimum of four years for...
Posted in Abominations on September 22, 2009 04:28 AM
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A federal judge on Friday temporarily halted an unprecedented second attempt at lethal injection of an inmate who said his execution attempt this week was marred by painful needle sticks into his bone and muscles. U.S. District...
Posted in Abominations on September 19, 2009 02:50 AM
A convicted sex offender has been ordained as a pastor in Louisville, Ky., and numerous protestors gathered outside the service to voice dissent for the ordination. Mark Hourigan, 41, was ordained Sunday at the City of Refuge Worship Center. Among...
Posted in Abominations on September 17, 2009 03:38 AM
SACRAMENTO -- A former state union leader and convicted sex offender has been sentenced to 25 years in state prison after pleading no contest to child molestation, possession of child pornography, and manufacturing child pornography. Jaime Feliciano, 49, was sentenced...
Posted in Abominations on September 16, 2009 03:12 AM
Bristol Herald Courier Jim Cnockaert, the sports editor of the Bristol Herald Courier, was convicted Monday in U.S. District Court in Missoula, Mont., of receiving child pornography and must serve a minimum of five years in prison. Cnockaert is scheduled...
Posted in Abominations on September 16, 2009 03:09 AM
A Missouri woman, who is already serving nine consecutive life sentences for going on a deadly crime spree with her boyfriend, now has another life sentence for kidnapping a five-year-old Kansas girl. Dena Riley was sentenced in federal court to...
Posted in Abominations on September 15, 2009 03:39 AM
BENTON, AR -- When there’s an oil spill, people try to figure out how many barrels of oil went down. They want to know the extent of the damage. But when there’s a Baptist clergy predator, people hunker down and...
Posted in Abominations on September 15, 2009 03:38 AM
City of Refuge, an independent congregation on Goss Avenue that touts its acceptance of people of diverse sexual orientations and identities, plans to ordain Mark Edward Hourigan Sunday, according to a WHAS-TV report. Hourigan, 41, of Rowena Road, is listed...
Posted in Abominations on September 15, 2009 03:37 AM
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- A West Michigan man who was convicted of molesting a 3-year-old when he was age 14 is being charged in federal court in Kalamazoo. Louis Reginal Hamel III has been charged with one count of possession...
Posted in Abominations on September 15, 2009 03:22 AM
Prosecutor will seek the death penalty if a California woman is convicted of the kidnapping, rape and murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu whose body was found stuffed into a suitcase in a drainage pond near her mobile home park. Melissa...
Posted in Abominations on September 14, 2009 01:38 AM
ORANGE COUNTY, CA -- Finally! The Diocese of Orange has its third pervert to ever serve jail time for sexually abusing a minor: Albert Lee Schildknecht, a former choir directory at St. Timothy in Laguna Niguel (home to pedo-apologist supreme...
Posted in Abominations on September 11, 2009 02:50 AM
An organization that supports victims of sexual abuse is asking a local church not to ordain a registered sex offender. SNAP stands for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests and they are asking the City of Refuge Worship...
Posted in Abominations on September 11, 2009 02:42 AM
BOSTON -- Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, one of the central figures in the clergy sex abuse scandal, was convicted after a 27-year-old man tearfully described how the popular priest used to pull him out of catechism classes and rape him,...
Posted in Abominations on September 10, 2009 02:17 AM
CANTON -- Seated in a wheelchair, Henri Ross, 75, is on trial this week for repeatedly raping three of his daughters over nearly two decades. Ross was secretly indicted last spring after one of the victims reported the abuse. Ross,...
Posted in Abominations on September 9, 2009 01:56 AM
A federal judge sentenced a Penn Hills man Tuesday to 10 years in prison, followed by 10 years of probation for possession of child pornography. George Stringer, 53, was convicted in 1985 of molesting a child in Texas, so he...
Posted in Abominations on September 9, 2009 01:55 AM
Melina McPherson walked free on bond from the city's jail, a day after she and her husband, a former Regent University assistant dean, pleaded guilty to child sex abuse charges. McPherson, 37, had pleaded guilty to taking indecent liberties with...
Posted in Abominations on September 8, 2009 01:41 AM
A convicted sex offender from Greene County should not be released from custody until a hearing is conducted to determine whether he is dangerous to society, a judge in Dutchess County ruled. Kenneth Cramer, 39, had asked acting state Supreme...
Posted in Abominations on September 8, 2009 01:39 AM
A North Bend man accused of raping a teenage girl six times and asking a man to kill two people will go to trial in December. If Kenneth E. Moore is convicted, he could be imprisoned for life. Earlier this...
Posted in Abominations on September 8, 2009 01:37 AM
Gin and bear it, sister. The Long Island nun charged with DWI after downing half a bottle of liquor may face additional charges based on witness accounts that she nearly mowed down a group of kids, the Nassau County DA...
Posted in Abominations on September 7, 2009 01:19 AM
MANSFIELD, OH -- John Picard was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison for sexual battery, with no possibility of parole. One of his victims, a 35-year-old woman, turned to Picard at the Richland County Common Pleas hearing, and said,...
Posted in Abominations on September 5, 2009 03:24 AM
Geelong's Christian College is supporting its principal Daryl Riddle amid criticism following the appearance of his brother, a convicted pedophile, at the school's debutante ball last weekend. Gary John Riddle attended the deb night with his wife Janine, a teacher...
Posted in Abominations on September 4, 2009 01:51 AM
BENTON, Ark. -- A former longtime music minister at a prominent Arkansas Baptist church has pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual indecency with a child. David Pierce, 56, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison. An additional...
Posted in Abominations on September 1, 2009 03:01 AM
LOS ANGELES -- A fashion designer has been sentenced to 59 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting aspiring models he lured to Los Angeles. Superior Court Judge David Wesley sentenced 35-year-old Anand Jon Alexander, who was convicted in...
Posted in Abominations on September 1, 2009 02:51 AM
MANSFIELD, OH -- Ex youth pastor John Picard was found guilty on 42 counts of sexual battery in Richland County Common Pleas Court Friday afternoon. The verdict was read around 4:45 p.m. and no sentencing date was announced. Defense attorney...
Posted in Abominations on August 31, 2009 01:50 AM
For years, she smiled from her FBI missing child poster, one of those children that had been missing so long no one expected her to ever be found alive. But Jaycee Lee Dugard turned up today at a California police...
Posted in Abominations on August 31, 2009 01:22 AM
She was only 11 when they took her in 1991, a 4-foot, 6-inch fifth-grader walking to school in El Dorado County in a pink windbreaker and pink stretch pants. For 18 years, police say, the convicted rapist and his wife...
Posted in Abominations on August 29, 2009 01:14 AM
Police last night searched the home of the couple accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard when she was 11, looking for evidence in another series of brutal crimes — the murders of several prostitutes in the 1990s. Several of the...
Posted in Abominations on August 29, 2009 01:11 AM
SACRAMENTO -- A woman who was snatched from a bus stop as an 11-year-old child in 1991 turned up Thursday after being held for the past 18 years in isolation in a backyard compound by a convicted sex offender who...
Posted in Abominations on August 28, 2009 02:08 AM
The parents of a Virginia man who recently went public with information that he was the victim in a $600,000 pedophile priest cover up case are urging other victims to come forward. Doctor Mark McAllister came forward to say that...
Posted in Abominations on August 28, 2009 02:07 AM
Judicial Watch The scandal-plagued government agency that oversees housing spends more than $12 million a year to illegally provide homes to thousands of lifetime registered sex offenders, many convicted of raping children. Although Congress banned federally subsidized housing for serious...
Posted in Abominations on August 27, 2009 01:09 AM
ATLANTA -- A federal judge on Tuesday began weighing arguments for and against a new Georgia law that requires sex offenders to hand over Internet passwords, screen names and e-mail addresses to law enforcement officials in the name of public...
Posted in Abominations on August 26, 2009 01:11 AM
A convicted sex offender who fled to Georgia and lived in a hole dug near an elementary school was sentenced this week to serve five years in prison. Timothy Primrose, 53, was convicted in 1996 of attempted rape, forcible sodomy,...
Posted in Abominations on August 26, 2009 01:09 AM
DENVER -- A man convicted in the 1960 slaying of the Coors brewery founder's grandson, one of Colorado's most notorious cases, has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot. Chief Denver deputy coroner Michelle Weiss-Samaras said Tuesday that Joe Corbett, 80,...
Posted in Abominations on August 26, 2009 01:09 AM
WICHITA -- A Wichita woman and her friend face life in prison after being convicted of prostituting her young daughter so he could rape and sodomize her. A jury Friday afternoon found the girl's 48-year-old mother and her friend Reggie...
Posted in Abominations on August 24, 2009 02:18 AM
Members of a support group for victims of alleged clergy abuse passed out leaflets in front of St. Columbkille Catholic Church in South Los Angeles today, urging parishioners and church employees who have information about sex crimes to speak out....
Posted in Abominations on August 24, 2009 02:18 AM
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- The Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $1 million from a Darien parish to support a lavish lifestyle died Saturday, the Diocese of Bridgeport said. The Rev. Michael Jude Fay, 58, died on...
Posted in Abominations on August 24, 2009 01:26 AM
BARRINGTON, Ill. -- Lake County authorities say an 84-year-old Barrington-area man faces criminal charges for inappropriately touching a 14-year-old girl who was caring for his ponies. Sgt. Christopher Thompson of the Lake County Sheriff's Police says George R. Todd was...
Posted in Abominations on August 24, 2009 01:22 AM
TUCSON, Arizona -- A former youth minister is facing more than 50 years in prison after being convicted Wednesday of molesting a 13-year-old girl over the course of a year. Christopher Scott Decaire will be sentenced Sept. 18 by Pima...
Posted in Abominations on August 21, 2009 03:42 AM
SANTA ROSA, CA -- An ex-middle school wrestling coach convicted of having consensual sex with underage girls has agreed to a plea bargain that cuts his 190-year sentence to 18 years. Jonathan Johnson was found guilty in 2003 of 40...
Posted in Abominations on August 20, 2009 03:02 AM
The S.C. Supreme Court today re-instated a child molestation conviction against a former deacon at First Baptist Church in Columbia. The court in a 4-1 ruling reversed a 2005 decision by the state Court of Appeals involving John Hubner, who...
Posted in Abominations on August 20, 2009 03:00 AM
DETROIT -- A 12-year-old Detroit boy accused of shooting a 24-year-old woman to death during a street robbery could face an adult murder sentence of life in prison without parole if he's convicted, authorities said. Demarco Harris was being held...
Posted in Abominations on August 20, 2009 02:59 AM
HOUSTON -- A Houston mother was convicted of mutilating her infant son by cutting off his genitals two years ago during an attack she blamed on the family dog. A Harris County jury deliberated for about three hours before finding...
Posted in Abominations on August 17, 2009 02:12 AM
SAN ANTONIO -- As lawyers frantically tried to file the last-minute appeal that could have halted the execution of a death row inmate, the Texas judge who oversaw the only court who could hear it was preparing to shut the...
Posted in Abominations on August 17, 2009 01:13 AM
LOS ANGELES, CA -- A former Los Angeles priest convicted of molesting boys has been called before a federal grand jury investigating how the L.A. archdiocese and Cardinal Roger Mahony handled priest abuse cases, a source told The Times. Former...
Posted in Abominations on August 15, 2009 12:53 AM
TUCSON, Arizona -- A former youth minister molested a 13-year-old girl from his church group numerous times for almost a year, threatening that if she ever told anyone, he would kill himself, his accuser testified Wednesday. The girl, now 15,...
Posted in Abominations on August 14, 2009 02:40 AM
A polygamous sect leader from Ogden has died at the Utah State Prison. Arvin Shreeve, 79, died Monday of natural causes, said Utah Department of Corrections Deputy Director Mike Haddon. He had been convicted of child abuse in 1991. His...
Posted in Abominations on August 13, 2009 02:57 AM
WOODBURY -- The former Vineland soccer coach accused of molesting three young boys reportedly once expressed an interest in adopting a son. Robert Pelle testified on Tuesday that David Durling, 43, had sought help from his friend whom he had...
Posted in Abominations on August 12, 2009 03:45 AM
LONDON -- Britons got their first look Tuesday at the mother behind a horrific child death that shocked the country. The face of 28-year-old Tracey Connelly, who stood by as her infant son Peter was tortured for months on end,...
Posted in Abominations on August 11, 2009 01:20 AM
A terrorism-financing case against a Yemeni cleric, which the U.S. government once claimed as a major victory against al-Qaeda, came to a murky end Friday as a federal judge ordered him to be released and deported, despite his 2005 sentence...
Posted in Abominations on August 10, 2009 12:46 AM
Defense attorney Robert A. Maloney does not lack confidence, nor does he hesitate from cussing out a reporter for a joke, when he talks about the fate of his client, Donald J. McGuire, the former Jesuit priest, who is currently...
Posted in Abominations on August 8, 2009 04:56 AM
Citing resource shortages, the Homeland Security agency responsible for enforcing federal immigration laws has released hundreds of violent illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes, including homicide and sexual assault. Equally alarming is that the agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),...
Posted in Abominations on August 7, 2009 12:59 AM
Virginia's Democrat governor has ignited public outrage by pardoning—at the request of a major political donor—three men convicted of raping and killing a teenager. Gov. Tim Kaine ordered freedom for three of four former sailors who raped and murdered another...
Posted in Abominations on August 7, 2009 12:57 AM
Roman Catholic priest Bernard Cloutier, convicted last month of sexually molesting young men a quarter century ago at various church parishes in the Sudbury area, will be sentenced in a Sudbury courtroom Nov. 9. A date for the sentencing of...
Posted in Abominations on August 6, 2009 04:07 AM
WILSON BOROUGH -- Police arrested a convicted sex offender Tuesday morning in his apartment. He was wanted in Georgia for breaking the terms of his probation by not providing his correct address. William Jacob Young, of the 100 block of...
Posted in Abominations on August 6, 2009 04:00 AM
WACO, Texas -- Seven men and five women were selected to hear the case against Henry Elbert Edgington, 65, of China Spring, a former pastor who is accused of 10 counts of possession of child pornography. Prosecutor Hilary LaBorde read...
Posted in Abominations on August 5, 2009 01:22 AM
STAMFORD -- As a trial date approaches, an attorney for the whistle-blower in the case of the priest convicted of embezzling $1 million from his Darien parish filed a memorandum that said the priest had an affair with a married...
Posted in Abominations on August 5, 2009 01:21 AM
McALESTER, OK -- An Okmulgee County judge Friday ordered a grand jury to be impaneled in Pittsburg County this month to hear evidence of other crimes by convicted child rapist David Earls. Earls, 64, was sentenced to a year in...
Posted in Abominations on August 4, 2009 02:30 AM
A twice convicted killer has entered a guilty plea in the 1983 rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in a case that lead to a moratorium on death sentences in Illinois. Brian Dugan pled guilty to the death of...
Posted in Abominations on July 30, 2009 02:30 AM
LAS VEGAS -- The first woman charged and convicted federally in Nevada with an Internet child pornography crime was sentenced to 10 years in prison and lifetime supervised release. Susan Dean, 43, of Las Vegas, was sentenced on Monday. Dean...
Posted in Abominations on July 30, 2009 02:27 AM
It took a trial of less than a week and only two hours of jury deliberation for former Forsyth County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Milton "Scott" Pruitt to be convicted of two counts of receiving child pornography. He could face up...
Posted in Abominations on July 30, 2009 02:27 AM
TEXARKANA, Ark. -- Alamo Defense attorney Don Erving says they will file a motion for a new trial within one week for newly convicted minister Tony Alamo. Erving said he was "disappointed and dejected" at the jury's guilty verdict. The...
Posted in Abominations on July 27, 2009 01:43 AM
TEXARKANA, Ark. -- Tony Alamo, a one-time street preacher who built a multimillion-dollar ministry and became an outfitter of the stars, was convicted Friday of taking girls as young as 9 across state lines for sex. Alamo stood silently as...
Posted in Abominations on July 25, 2009 05:58 AM
BINGHAMTON -- Jurors will resume deliberations today in federal court as they decide whether a 30-year-old former Newark Valley High School teacher is guilty of federal pornography charges. John Puglisi, of Airport Road, Town of Union, faces federal charges of...
Posted in Abominations on July 24, 2009 07:12 AM
WISCONSIN RAPIDS -- A Wisconsin paper mill worker has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting two young men he kept chained at his home. The judge told Ed Lanphear, 47, on Wednesday the sentence...
Posted in Abominations on July 23, 2009 07:27 AM
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has sentenced a former Fox News Channel producer to 10 years in prison for possession of child pornography. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Aaron Bruns was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court. Prosecutors had recommended...
Posted in Abominations on July 23, 2009 07:16 AM
A 14-year-old boy who lived at Big Oak Ranch remains in juvenile custody after he was convicted in June of first-degree sodomy of a 9-year-old resident at the ranch. The Southside Police Department was called to the ranch, which is...
Posted in Abominations on July 23, 2009 07:15 AM
SAN DIEGO -- A San Diego man accused of paying baby sitters to bring him children to molest has pleaded not guilty to 20 criminal counts. Jared Yaffe (YA'-fee), 30, entered pleas Tuesday to child molestation, kidnapping for sexual acts...
Posted in Abominations on July 23, 2009 07:11 AM
ORANGE COUNTY, CA -- A retired Roman Catholic priest from Orange County who escaped prosecution six years ago on suspicion of molesting a teenage boy has been charged with allegedly molesting another boy in the 1990s. Denis Lyons, 75, of...
Posted in Abominations on July 22, 2009 06:12 AM
PROVO, Utah -- A former LDS seminary principal got a lot of emotional support for a court appearance in Provo on Monday. 37 year old Michael Pratt was surrounded by friends, family and former students. The charges against him were...
Posted in Abominations on July 21, 2009 06:09 AM
TEXARKANA, Ark. -- Attorneys for an Arkansas self-proclaimed evangelist accused of taking five young girls across state lines for sex are expected to begin presenting their defense this week. The trial in federal court for 74-year-old Tony Alamo (uh-LAH'-moh) resumes...
Posted in Abominations on July 20, 2009 08:20 AM
A Roman Catholic priest who served as youth minister and associate pastor at St. Pius V Church in Providence between 2003 and 2005 was convicted this week in Maryland of sexually abusing an altar boy there more than seven years...
Posted in Abominations on July 20, 2009 08:14 AM
TEXARKANA, Ark. -- A woman who said Tony Alamo had sexually abused her since she was 8 acknowledged to jurors Friday that she hates him, but said the reason she agreed to testify was because she is afraid he will...
Posted in Abominations on July 18, 2009 12:06 PM
SODOMITE STATE: SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- A former Western Mass priest accused of abusing boys is convicted. The father of one those of boys tells us he feels justice has finally been served. Joe McMorrow says Rev. Aaron Cote abused his...
Posted in Abominations on July 17, 2009 10:11 AM
Roman Catholic Priest Bernard Cloutier was found guilty Thursday of sexually molesting young men a quarter century ago at various church parishes in the Sudbury area. Superior Court Justice Paul Kane convicted the 68-year-old priest of 11 of 16 charges...
Posted in Abominations on July 17, 2009 10:03 AM
SOMERSET, WI -- The family of a victim of a former Somerset priest convicted of sexual abuse says they are grateful the priest will be on the national sex offender registry for life. Father Aaron Joseph Cote, 57, of New...
Posted in Abominations on July 16, 2009 10:09 AM
COLUMBUS, OH -- A Catholic priest who worked at a parish in Columbus and two in Somerset is expected to be sentenced to 10 years of probation after being convicted of sexually abusing a child in Maryland. The Rev. Aaron...
Posted in Abominations on July 15, 2009 09:08 AM
GERMANTOWN, Md. -- A Roman Catholic priest has been convicted in Rockville of sexually abusing an altar boy at a Germantown church more than seven years ago. The Rev. Aaron Cote will be sentenced Oct. 14 to 10 years of...
Posted in Abominations on July 14, 2009 07:50 AM
RICHMOND, Va. -- The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped the execution of a Virginia man while it considers whether he was unconstitutionally tried twice for killing a 16-year-old girl. The court's order on Monday came a day before 31-year-old Paul...
Posted in Abominations on July 14, 2009 06:45 AM
DOUGLASVILLE, GA -- A Douglasville child molester on the run for seven years was apprehended Tuesday in Knoxville, Tenn., where he had established a new life as a youth pastor. Larry William Whitley, 53, fled Douglasville in 2002 after violating...
Posted in Abominations on July 13, 2009 10:55 AM
Canberra's Marist College is accused of harbouring a paedophile ring in the 1970s and '80s involving as many as 12 former teachers. The Marist Brothers order is grappling with a flood of new sexual abuse claims. A Canberra Times investigation...
Posted in Abominations on July 13, 2009 10:44 AM
LAS VEGAS, NV -- A Valley man is out of his church and in jail. Police say he claimed to be a prophet but instead, they say, he was molesting children. Metro says Benito Catello is a self-proclaimed prophet who's...
Posted in Abominations on July 6, 2009 09:41 AM
Frank Lombard is an associate director at Duke University's Global Health Institute and a homosexual who was charged last week with the molestation of his adopted 5-year-old black son and actively trying to sell him for sex on the internet....
Posted in Abominations on July 2, 2009 10:06 AM
JAY STREET -- A Bar Mitzvah tutor was convicted Wednesday of seven counts of sexual abuse in the second degree and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, for sexually abusing two boys, the Brooklyn District Attorney announced....
Posted in Abominations on June 30, 2009 08:20 AM
SEATTLE -- A former Bellevue teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student has been sentenced to 20 months in prison. Deene Juncker was also ordered to have no contact with his victim. Juncker, 47, has been convicted of...
Posted in Abominations on June 29, 2009 08:07 AM
South Australian authorities remain determined to keep the state's most notorious murderer, Bevan Spencer von Einem, behind bars. The convicted killer was ordered to serve another three-month jail term today, after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography in prison. Von...
Posted in Abominations on June 24, 2009 08:25 AM
SALT LAKE CITY -- A Riverton man remains in jail on suspicion of sexually assaulting a boy more than a decade ago. KSL has learned that in 1994, the same man pleaded guilty to attempted sex abuse on a child...
Posted in Abominations on June 19, 2009 11:50 AM
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Former major league outfielder Mel Hall was sentenced to 45 years in prison Wednesday after being convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl he coached on an elite basketball team. Hall was convicted on three counts of...
Posted in Abominations on June 18, 2009 05:24 AM
A Queens baker who admitted molesting a 10-year-old boy isn't going to prison - but he's been booted from the kitchen. The Rabbinical Council of Queens banned Issac Ebstein, 50, from Queens Kosher Pita in Kew Gardens Hills after he...
Posted in Abominations on June 17, 2009 10:24 AM
A woman involved in a spree of videotaped sex murders with her boyfriend has entered a guilty plea to kidnapping a 5-year-old girl as the couple were fleeing from police in 2006. Dena Riley, 42, has previously entered guilty pleas...
Posted in Abominations on June 16, 2009 08:43 AM
SCOTLAND -- Six homosexuals involved in one of Scotland's worst paedophile networks were jailed for a total of more than 50 years. A judge at the High Court in Edinburgh sentenced the group to between two and 20 years for...
Posted in Abominations on June 11, 2009 10:27 AM
McALESTER -- Some state lawmakers are trying to oust the judge who approved a one-year prison sentence for a man who was convicted of raping a child, citing gross neglect of duty. David Harold Earls, 64, received a split 20-year...
Posted in Abominations on June 11, 2009 10:24 AM
A former police officer who claimed he was a "Black Magic" high priest has been convicted of sexually abusing three children in East Dunbartonshire. John McFadden, 42, from Bearsden, was found guilty of abusing a boy between 1988 and 1992...
Posted in Abominations on June 11, 2009 09:48 AM
While teenage victims wept in relief, a judge revoked bail Monday for a baby sitter who admits she helped her sexual-predator ex-boyfriend molest and film her young charges. Concetta Jackson, 46, faces 15 to 30 years in prison in what...
Posted in Abominations on June 9, 2009 10:52 AM
ST. LOUIS, Mo -- The trial expected to begin Tuesday morning in Jefferson County Circuit Court has been continued for a 27-year-old convicted sex offender suspected of committing three sexual assaults between November and December 2001, according to Judge M....
Posted in Abominations on June 9, 2009 10:22 AM
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of lesbians to retain custody of an 18-month-old foster child. In an unsigned opinion issued Friday, the court barred enforcement of a Fayette County Circuit Court order that...
Posted in Abominations on June 8, 2009 02:49 AM
WEST BABYLON, NY -- A West Babylon woman had sex with a 14-year-old student in the Queens classroom where she is a middle school teacher - and was caught when the boy's mother heard rumors and found hundreds of text...
Posted in Abominations on June 3, 2009 09:08 PM
PETALUMA, CA -- The Casa Grande High School teacher convicted of soliciting sex from a person he thought was an underage girl was sentenced to two years in state prison this week. Scott Dietlin, 36, a world history and economics...
Posted in Abominations on June 3, 2009 09:05 PM
NEW YORK -- A 59-year-old Monsey man sentenced to 30 years in federal prison has filed papers seeking to appeal his conviction for sexually abusing his daughter. A U.S. District Court jury in Brooklyn convicted Rabbi Israel Weingarten in March...
Posted in Abominations on June 2, 2009 03:10 PM
NORFOLK, VA -- A Navy chaplain who served aboard the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson was found guilty Monday of raping a young enlisted woman. Lt. Shane Dillman, a Pentecostal chaplain who previously earned honors for his work, faces up to...
Posted in Abominations on June 2, 2009 03:09 PM
WINONA, MN -- A pastor convicted of having sexual contact with a woman seeking spiritual guidance was sentenced to 15 years of probation Thursday. Rev. Donald Dean Budd, 65, must also register as a predatory offender and complete community service....
Posted in Abominations on June 2, 2009 03:07 PM
NORTH JERSEY -- An Orthodox community in North Jersey is trying to reconcile the arrest of one of its own on charges of attempting to have sex with two 14-year-old boys. Already a convicted Megan's Law offender, 48-year-old Mitchell Levinton...
Posted in Abominations on June 2, 2009 03:06 PM
BERLIN -- A German federal court overturned a ban on a movie inspired by the case of a confessed cannibal, ruling that the artistic freedom of the filmmakers trumped the cannibal’s personal rights. Screenings of the movie "Rohtenburg" were banned...
Posted in Abominations on May 27, 2009 09:27 AM
ALBERTVILLE, Alabama -- A little more than two years after getting out of jail, Billy Paul Masters finds himself in trouble again. Masters, 65, was arrested Friday on a charge of first-degree sexual abuse. DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris said...
Posted in Abominations on May 26, 2009 05:46 PM
There was fresh controversy today over child sex abuse and the Catholic church when an archbishop's aide claimed the majority of paedophilia was being perpetrated by gay men. Father John Owen, the communications officer for the archdiocese of Cardiff and...
Posted in Abominations on May 26, 2009 05:46 PM
A Medina County assistant public defender is accused of sending more than 200 images of child pornography to undercover FBI agents. Sean Christopher O'Toole, 41, was arrested at his Lakewood home Friday by federal agents on a charge of receipt...
Posted in Abominations on May 26, 2009 04:05 PM
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas man convicted of raping women who advertised in the "erotic services" section of Craigslist was sentenced to 29 years in prison. David Lee Gage, 51, of Wichita, was convicted last month of three counts...
Posted in Abominations on May 25, 2009 07:37 AM
Prosecutors in a state with several illegal immigrant sanctuary cities can’t seem to decide whether to seek the death penalty for a previously convicted illegal alien felon who never the less remained in the country and murdered a teenager this...
Posted in Abominations on May 25, 2009 01:33 AM
Seventy more alleged paedophiles – including at least five in the Lothians – are set to face charges in connection with the worst child abuse ring ever uncovered in Scotland. As eight members of the paedophile gang centred in Edinburgh...
Posted in Abominations on May 15, 2009 05:12 AM
The family of a child victim of Scotland’s worst ever paedophile ring have told online perverts that watching child porn devastates lives. Another family - whose child fell victim to the twisted network – said they felt “indescribable anguish” towards...
Posted in Abominations on May 15, 2009 05:12 AM
Parents last night spoke of their "indescribable anguish" after men who posed as friends were convicted of sexually abusing their children and distributing horrifying images of the acts to other paedophiles. In total, eight men were found guilty of child...
Posted in Abominations on May 15, 2009 05:11 AM
A rapist jailed for attacking a woman in her own home tried to force a schoolgirl into sex after he was released from prison. Jurors at Cardiff Crown Court who convicted David Hallett, 46, who has recently lived at High...
Posted in Abominations on May 14, 2009 07:59 AM
A Philadelphia man was convicted yesterday on charges that he advertised child pornography on the Internet, the first such case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, U.S. Attorney Laurie Magid said. Robert Merz, 45, was convicted of advertising, receiving, transporting,...
Posted in Abominations on May 14, 2009 07:52 AM
The disgraced Texas federal judge who made history as the first to be indicted with sex crimes will keep his $174,000 annual paycheck even though he has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for obstructing justice. Unless the...
Posted in Abominations on May 13, 2009 07:40 AM
SPARTA -- A suspended teacher at Sussex County Technical School, charged with having sex with one male student and making sexual contact with another, would serve up to four years in state prison under a plea bargain that the county...
Posted in Abominations on May 12, 2009 07:55 AM
Elkhart County’s prosecutor is fighting a recent Indiana Court of Appeals decision to reduce the sentence of a former Goshen teacher convicted of having sex with two teenage girls. Mel Trowbridge, who taught fifth grade at Waterford Elementary in Goshen,...
Posted in Abominations on May 12, 2009 07:52 AM
Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony and the Vatican engaged in a "conspiracy of silence" by transferring a priest from Italy to Los Angeles, where he went on to molest teenagers at a local church, a lawsuit alleges. The complaint also...
Posted in Abominations on May 11, 2009 08:28 AM
STAMFORD, CT -- A former pastor was convicted on all counts of sexually assaulting his then-14-year-old congregant and tenant while baby-sitting her in 2007. Yves Jerome, 51, who lives on the West Side, was convicted in state Superior Court on...
Posted in Abominations on May 11, 2009 08:27 AM
A 21-year-old Moulton man convicted of sodomizing an 8-year-old girl has been sentenced to six decades in prison without parole. Larry Gene Fretwell Jr. was found guilty of first degree sodomy in March. He was arrested in June 2007. Authorities...
Posted in Abominations on May 11, 2009 08:24 AM
HILLCREST -- The management company of an apartment complex for the disabled is changing its policies after learning that a registered high-risk sex offender was living among its tenants. Residents of Eckerson Village were afraid and angry when they learned...
Posted in Abominations on May 11, 2009 08:06 AM
NEW YORK -- A Monsey rabbi was sentenced to 30 years in prison for taking his daughter out of the country to sexually abuse her. Rabbi Israel Weingarten, 59, represented himself during a weeklong trial in March in federal court...
Posted in Abominations on May 9, 2009 06:23 AM
A paedophile ring has been smashed after eight men were found guilty of a horrifying catalogue of more than 50 child pornography and abuse charges. Among the crimes was a shocking sexual attack carried out on a three-month-old baby boy...
Posted in Abominations on May 8, 2009 10:37 AM
The Missouri House has approved legislation that sets life prison sentences for those convicted of particularly vile rapes against children. The legislation was approved 138-15 on Thursday and now goes to Senate. Lawmakers have about a week to pass bills...
Posted in Abominations on May 8, 2009 09:34 AM
Eight members of a paedophile ring have been found guilty of a catalogue of child pornography and abuse charges, including the sexual assault of a three-month old baby. Two of the men - convicted sex offender Neil Strachan and gay...
Posted in Abominations on May 8, 2009 08:40 AM
PADUCAH, Ky. -- A federal jury convicted a former soldier Thursday of raping and fatally shooting a 14-year-old girl after killing her parents and younger sister while he was serving in Iraq. Pfc. Steven Dale Green faces a possible death...
Posted in Abominations on May 8, 2009 01:56 AM
NEW YORK -- A married Jew with peyos and a black hat, Stefan Colmer used to spend hours, according to reports, reading the Talmud in the main study hall of the Mirrer Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn. While there,...
Posted in Abominations on May 7, 2009 08:54 AM
In all likelihood, Delta pilot Michael William Ellicott will spend the rest of his days in prison for brutally assaulting his wife in their Peachtree City home. Superior Court Judge Paschal A. English Monday sentenced Ellicott, who is 48, to...
Posted in Abominations on May 6, 2009 08:48 AM
A former police officer was found guilty Tuesday afternoon in Jackson County Circuit Court of committing online sex crimes with children. Mark Allen Heckerman, 43, is guilty of committing 20 felony counts of encouraging child sexual abuse, Judge Ray White...
Posted in Abominations on May 6, 2009 08:46 AM
Three men accused of gang raping an 18-year-old woman they met via one of their MySpace accounts must stand trial on aggravated kidnapping, sodomy, forcible rape and other charges, a judge ruled today. Robert Melgoza and Brian Shippee, both 21,...
Posted in Abominations on May 6, 2009 08:44 AM
VISTA -- Testimony began Monday at a preliminary hearing that will determine whether three men will stand trial for sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman one of them met on MySpace. Vincent Barnett Jr., 22, Robert Melgoza, 21, and Brian Shippee,...
Posted in Abominations on May 5, 2009 10:05 AM
LITCHFIELD -- A Thomaston man found guilty Thursday by a jury of sexually assaulting a child is at liberty after posting a $250,000 bond, officials said Friday. Brian Schlicher, 38, 143 Pine Hill Road, was found guilty of two counts...
Posted in Abominations on May 4, 2009 06:02 AM
HANOVER, PA -- A Gettysburg man who is on probation in Adams County after being convicted of corruption of minors allegedly was found in possession of child pornography. Ronald William Brauer, 24, of 60 Chambersburg St., faces 16 counts of...
Posted in Abominations on May 4, 2009 05:56 AM
BLOOMINGTON -- A former University High School teacher convicted of having a sexual relationship with a student in 2006 has reached a settlement in a lawsuit with the victim who was 17 at the time of the sexual abuse. Sarah...
Posted in Abominations on May 2, 2009 07:00 AM
SAN DIEGO -- A married couple accused of molesting four children at their San Diego day care were ordered Thursday to stand trial on felony charges. Mark and Anita Kaczmarczyk each face eight counts, including child abuse and lewd and...
Posted in Abominations on May 1, 2009 07:50 AM
Boy, now 18, was sexually abused for years The boy was just 6 years old back in 1997 when the state first got a report that his mother's friend was sexually abusing him. Over the next four years, the reports...
Posted in Abominations on May 1, 2009 07:35 AM
SANTA CRUZ -- Jurors began hearing testimony Wednesday about whether a man convicted of raping and killing a toddler 20 years ago would be a danger if released from custody. Donald Gerald Schmidt, 37, is the oldest ward in the...
Posted in Abominations on April 30, 2009 09:33 AM
Convicted pedophile Dennis Ferguson is reportedly living in Sydney. The 61-year-old, who has been previously run out of communities because of his past convictions for child sex offences, moved to the city after being acquitted of a child sex offence...
Posted in Abominations on April 30, 2009 09:32 AM
RIVERSIDE, CA -- Three men charged in the 2005 kidnapping, rape and stabbing of a woman in Temecula have been found guilty, authorities said Tuesday. Francisco Ruis Silva, 38, and Oscar Julian Garcia Veloz, 24, were convicted Monday of attempted...
Posted in Abominations on April 29, 2009 07:02 AM
BOSTON -- The highest court in Massachusetts has rejected an appeal by an inmate convicted of killing a priest at the center of the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal. Joseph Druce strangled John Geoghan (GAY'-gan) in his prison cell in...
Posted in Abominations on April 28, 2009 07:10 AM
Two men were convicted today of charges stemming from the abduction, rape, carjacking and stabbing of a young woman who was left for dead nearly four years ago. Francisco Silva, 38, of Temecula, and Oscar Veloz, 24, of Quail Valley,...
Posted in Abominations on April 28, 2009 07:09 AM
VALLEJO, CA -- A Yolo County jury has convicted a Vallejo man of eight counts of felony sex crimes. District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that Victor Anthony Chappale, 46, of Vallejo, was convicted of eight forcible sex crimes. These crimes...
Posted in Abominations on April 28, 2009 07:08 AM
PONTIAC -- Authorities are investigating the jail death of a convicted sex offender from Brandon Township who was charged with the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl. William Arthur Keely, 64, was found about 5:30 a.m. Monday in his Oakland...
Posted in Abominations on April 28, 2009 06:20 AM
A jury convicted a former Denton middle school teacher of aggravated sexual assault of a child, a first degree felony, Thursday evening. Lauren Cosgrove, 30, of Sanger, now awaits the punishment phase which is continuing today in the 16th District...
Posted in Abominations on April 27, 2009 09:03 AM
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Louis Miller, a former priest in the Archdiocese of Louisville convicted of sexually abusing children for four decades, was denied parole this week. Miller, 78, won't have another chance for parole and must serve an additional 15...
Posted in Abominations on April 25, 2009 07:38 AM
Jung Myung-seok, a self-proclaimed messiah and founder of the JMS cult, was convicted by the country’s highest court yesterday of sex crimes against female believers and sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Supreme Court ruled yesterday to uphold the...
Posted in Abominations on April 25, 2009 06:55 AM
AZTEC -- A jury, after witnessing dozens of homemade photographs detailing the repeated molestation of a toddler, convicted 56-year-old Donald Wing of 20 sex crimes Wednesday after two hours of deliberation. Immediately after the verdict was read, the Farmington man...
Posted in Abominations on April 23, 2009 09:22 AM
TULSA, Oklahoma -- He already is serving a prison term linked to a 1998 child-sex case. A man with a previous record of assaulting children was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday for child pornography crimes. Tulsa County jurors...
Posted in Abominations on April 23, 2009 09:18 AM
A Bandon man will serve almost 19 years in an Oregon prison for sexually abusing a school-aged girl. Judge Michael Gillespie sentenced 35-year-old Matthew J. O'Donnell on Tuesday to 18 years and nine months in prison, after he pleaded guilty...
Posted in Abominations on April 23, 2009 09:17 AM
GREELEY, Colo. -- A man who claimed he snapped before killing a transgender "woman" was swiftly convicted of first-degree murder and a hate crime Wednesday for savagely beating the "woman" with a fire extinguisher. Allen Andrade, 32, of Thornton, was...
Posted in Abominations on April 23, 2009 07:58 AM
Washington state native Jeffrey Marsalis, 35, is accused of using drugs or alcohol to incapacitate and then sexually assault a 21-year-old woman at her Sun Valley condominium in 2005. He's already serving a 21-year prison term after being convicted in...
Posted in Abominations on April 21, 2009 04:10 AM
A retired Calgary pastor convicted of molesting a four-year-old girl in the united states is coming back to Canada. Kenneth Cooke, 74, is in the custody of immigration officials awaiting his deportation. Cooke has been in jail since november 2007,...
Posted in Abominations on April 20, 2009 06:33 AM
SPRINGFIELD -- A former manager at a makeshift Commercial Street homeless shelter will spend more than 25 years in prison for a January 2007 attack on one of the shelter's residents. Jurors convicted Darin K. Robinson, 45, of forcible sodomy...
Posted in Abominations on April 20, 2009 06:03 AM
Police searching for other possible victims of the convicted paedophile David Bye say they have received a number of calls from concerned parents. Bye, 43, was jailed indefinitely at Merthyr Crown Court for raping a young girl in a caravan...
Posted in Abominations on April 20, 2009 05:27 AM
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A former church youth pastor was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in the penitentiary for sexually abusing a young girl, despite his pleas to the judge for leniency. Timothy C. Edmonds, 37, was convicted in January...
Posted in Abominations on April 17, 2009 05:19 AM
BALTIMORE, MD -- A long-time Baltimore-area rabbi was convicted of sexual offense. Rabbi Jacob Aaron Max was found guilty Monday of sex offense in the fourth degree and second degree assault for molesting a female employee of a funeral home...
Posted in Abominations on April 17, 2009 05:19 AM
STOCKTON, Calif. -- A Northern California woman kidnapped, raped and murdered an 8-year-old girl whose body was found in a suitcase dumped in a pond, prosecutors alleged Tuesday. Melissa Huckaby, 28, was charged with murdering her daughter's playmate, Sandra Cantu,...
Posted in Abominations on April 15, 2009 05:06 AM
BRADENTON -- Doctors have determined that a convicted sex predator accused of molesting a patient at Manatee Glens Hospital is insane. Thomas Oliver, 41, had been set to stand trial this week for the reported Dec. 31, 2007, attack, but...
Posted in Abominations on April 14, 2009 11:02 AM
DENVER -- Angie Zapata was a tall woman with striking black hair and eyes who would attract the attention of men, even those who knew she was biologically male. But prosecutors say when Allen Andrade found out, he beat her...
Posted in Abominations on April 14, 2009 06:24 AM
Jury finds Perry Bennington guilty of rape, incest: On Wednesday, a jury in Bullitt County found Perry Bennington guilty of rape, sodomy, sexual abuse and incest. The jury recommended a 155-year sentence. Bennington was found guilty of sexually abusing and...
Posted in Abominations on April 9, 2009 07:52 AM
A southwest Harris County man who is accused of beating his 3-year old son said the child had been invaded by demons after he ate meat, a prosecutor said Monday. Jacky Tran, 35, is charged with injury to child with...
Posted in Abominations on April 7, 2009 04:06 AM
CONCORD -- The N.H. Department of Corrections should determine whether a defrocked priest and convicted sex offender can resume state residency within the next 30 days, according to spokesman Jeffrey Lyons. Police arrested Robert V. Gale, 67, in 2002 at...
Posted in Abominations on April 6, 2009 06:54 AM
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- A Massachusetts gay who raped a 6-year-old boy in a public library has been sentenced to life in prison. Corey Deen Saunders was sentenced Thursday for the January 2008 rape of the boy at the New...
Posted in Abominations on April 3, 2009 07:30 AM
A convicted sex offender who sneaked into the bedroom of a 5-year-old Pequannock girl and molested her on at least two occasions in 2007 is scheduled to be sentenced this morning to up to 18 years in prison. Timothy Iberer,...
Posted in Abominations on April 3, 2009 07:27 AM
A man convicted of murdering a woman he had lured to his home with an online baby-sitting ad was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the chance of parole. The sentence was mandatory for 20-year-old Michael John Anderson, who...
Posted in Abominations on April 3, 2009 03:15 AM
SHAKOPEE, Minn. -- A Minnesota jury has convicted a man in the shooting death of a woman he lured to his home with a fake advertisement on the craigslist.org Web site. The Scott County jury convicted 20-year-old Michael John Anderson...
Posted in Abominations on April 1, 2009 06:32 AM
BRIDGEPORT -- What did the Cardinal know and when did he know it? For years, attorneys, without success, have been trying to question New York's Cardinal Edward Egan about a priest he supervised while Bishop of the Bridgeport Diocese. The...
Posted in Abominations on March 31, 2009 07:57 AM
EASTLAND, TX -- A Catholic priest found guilty Thursday of sexual assault and indecency was sentenced to 50 years in prison by an Eastland County jury Friday. The Rev. Thomas Teczar, 68, was sentenced to 50 years each for three...
Posted in Abominations on March 28, 2009 04:11 AM
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- John Aretakis has been here before. He's waged an ongoing battle with the Syracuse Roman Catholic Diocese over what it did or did not do in the case of Father John Broderick, a priest arrested last year...
Posted in Abominations on March 28, 2009 04:10 AM
For a second time, the Rev. Thomas Teczar has been found guilty of sexually abusing a boy in Ranger in the 1990s, special prosecutor Tahira Khan Merritt with the Eastland County district attorney's office said. In 2007, Teczar was sentenced...
Posted in Abominations on March 27, 2009 06:12 AM
A former western Oklahoma sheriff was sentenced to 79 years in prison Tuesday for using his power over female drug court defendants to force them to have sex with him. Former Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess, 56, apologized to two...
Posted in Abominations on March 25, 2009 06:20 AM
LANSING, MICHIGAN -- A Lansing Township pastor accused of possessing child pornography has resigned from his church and faces up to seven years in prison. Lloyd M. Hall Jr. last week submitted his letter of resignation to Plymouth Congregational Church,...
Posted in Abominations on March 25, 2009 06:14 AM
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- A man convicted of molesting three girls who were in his Sunday school class at a Syracuse ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will spend at least 10 years in prison,...
Posted in Abominations on March 25, 2009 06:13 AM
A pedophile who admitted posting sick images of himself with a schoolboy on the internet has been jailed. Vile David Jenkins pleaded guilty to having 50,525 disturbing images of children, with hundreds at the most extreme level. The internet predator...
Posted in Abominations on March 25, 2009 05:31 AM
For the first three hours of what was supposed to be his jury trial, Timothy Ray Shifflett consulted his family on an important decision — potentially face life in prison if convicted by a jury of forcibly sodomizing a young...
Posted in Abominations on March 24, 2009 06:31 AM
A lesbian is demanding custody of a Christian woman's daughter in a case that could strong-arm Florida into recognizing out-of-state adoptions by homosexual couples. Lara Embry and her former lesbian partner, Kimberly Ryan, began a relationship while they lived in...
Posted in Abominations on March 20, 2009 08:25 AM
The hierarchy of the church recruited, educated, employed, fed, housed and shielded Robert Gale. When he was ordained, he took a vow of obedience to his bishop. Now that he has been convicted of horrific crimes, the hierarchy has once...
Posted in Abominations on March 20, 2009 08:25 AM
TALLAHASSEE -- Sex offenders hope Hollywood can step in where Florida political muscle struggled. Flanked by the nephew of Harvey Milk -- the first openly homosex official in California, who was slain in 1978 -- lawmakers and advocates pushed for...
Posted in Abominations on March 19, 2009 08:08 AM
CHICHESTER, N.H. -- A pastor in this quiet, picturesque New England town thought he was doing the Christian thing when he took in a convicted child killer who had served his time but had nowhere to go. But some neighbors...
Posted in Abominations on March 18, 2009 07:28 AM
The Virginia State Bar has revoked the law license of a former Regent University law school assistant dean who was convicted of sexual abuse charges. Stephen L. McPherson, 39, is scheduled to be sentenced May 22 in Chesapeake after pleading...
Posted in Abominations on March 17, 2009 07:21 AM
Two convicted sex offenders living on the grounds of Ararat prison in western Victoria have been charged with possessing child pornography. The men, in their early twenties, are subject to extended supervision orders which restrict their movements and require them...
Posted in Abominations on March 16, 2009 08:59 AM
CHEHALIS, Wash. -- Randle pastor Fred Haack faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced May 1 in Lewis County Superior Court for communicating with a minor for immoral purposes. The 50-year-old was convicted Wednesday for sending...
Posted in Abominations on March 14, 2009 06:16 AM
Darrin Sanford, 30, was one of several homeless people living near the field in an abandoned home slated for demolition, police said. He was convicted in 1998 of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes and luring minors with sexual...
Posted in Abominations on March 14, 2009 05:49 AM
DEDHAM, Mass. -- The family of the heartless killer convicted yesterday of cold-bloodedly raping and murdering his 6-year-old cousin assailed him for the “violent, selfish acts” that “shattered” their lives. A Norfolk County jury deliberated fewer than eight hours before...
Posted in Abominations on March 13, 2009 10:21 AM
A Louisiana senator famous for his involvement in a Washington D.C. prostitution scandal violated airport security moments after going ballistic on an airline employee because he didn’t receive special treatment. A Capitol Hill newspaper reports that Republican David Vitter—of D.C....
Posted in Abominations on March 13, 2009 06:03 AM
A Hasidic rabbi who defended himself against charges of molesting his daughter over a seven-year period was convicted on all counts Wednesday by a jury in Brooklyn Federal Court. The victim, now 27, was escorted into the courtroom by U.S....
Posted in Abominations on March 12, 2009 09:07 AM
As sex offenders and religious groups queue up in an effort to influence the outcome of a Miami appeals court case that will help decide whether homosexuals can adopt children in Florida, a state lawmaker has quietly introduced two...
Posted in Abominations on March 12, 2009 08:56 AM
SAN DIEGO, CA -- An elderly sex offender who was living under supervision in a rural area of San Diego County was ordered Wednesday to return to a state hospital because he violated terms of his release, including passing his...
Posted in Abominations on March 12, 2009 08:52 AM
WOODLAND, CA -- After eight days of deliberation, a Yolo County jury found Dr. Mark Anderson guilty of sexual battery on 10 of his female patients. Dr. Anderson was declared guilty on 12 counts, eleven of them felonies. The jury...
Posted in Abominations on March 12, 2009 08:49 AM
MONTREAL -- A former Quebec high school vice-principal and convicted child molester will remain behind bars after being charged with production of child pornography. David Wadsworth was to have been sentenced in Montreal on previous charges of possessing and distributing...
Posted in Abominations on March 11, 2009 05:12 AM
FARMERSBURG, IN -- A Valley man is in the Sullivan County jail, charged with attempted employment near children by a sexual predator. 30 year old Michial Riecks of Terre Haute is a convicted child predator. Police say he tried to...
Posted in Abominations on March 7, 2009 05:14 AM
SMETHPORT -- After a three-day trial, a jury found Johnnie Gale Lee guilty Wednesday evening of all charges in two child-rape cases. Lee, 44, of Mount Jewett, was found guilty of 12 counts of rape, eight counts of involuntary deviate...
Posted in Abominations on March 6, 2009 07:22 AM
BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio -- A former teacher who was arrested last month during a prostitution sting was convicted Tuesday on a charge of solicitation. A judge sentenced Amber Carter to two years of probation, ONN reported. Carter, 35, originally faced prostitution...
Posted in Abominations on March 4, 2009 08:17 AM
LAS VEGAS -- A man tracked down after a video of him sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl was found in the Nevada desert was convicted Tuesday of that attack and another on a 6-year-old. Chester Arthur Stiles displayed no emotion...
Posted in Abominations on March 4, 2009 06:54 AM
RUSSELLVILLE -- A 30-year prison sentence was recommended Friday for Russell Glenn Farmer, who was convicted Wednesday on one count each of first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, first-degree sexual abuse and incest, all committed against his daughter. The jury that convicted...
Posted in Abominations on March 2, 2009 07:40 AM
TACOMA, Wash. -- A judge has sentenced a mother to three months in jail for hitting a convicted sex offender with an aluminum baseball bat. Before her sentencing, Tammy Lee Gibson told Pierce County Superior Court Judge Susan Serko that...
Posted in Abominations on March 2, 2009 07:38 AM
WASILLA -- Oregon authorities say Zebulon Whisler, the 24-year-old Wasilla bowling alley cook facing 15 rape charges, was convicted of three sexual offenses as a teenager in that state in 1999. Whisler was released from Oregon court custody in November...
Posted in Abominations on March 2, 2009 07:38 AM
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Sandy Martin Cook, the former pastor at Shrewsbury Church of God, looked down at the defense table and shook his head as the judge read the verdict Friday in his sex abuse trial: guilty on all counts....
Posted in Abominations on February 28, 2009 08:26 AM
Convicted ex-morgue staffer faces more charges of sexually abusing bodies CINCINNATI -- A former morgue worker already in prison for having sex with a body awaiting autopsy was indicted Thursday on two more charges of sexually abusing corpses. The latest...
Posted in Abominations on February 28, 2009 06:23 AM
SALINA, Kan. -- A Saline County judge hands a 49-year prison sentence to a man convicted of sodomizing a 12-year-old girl. An attorney for Vernon Gilliland argued Thursday that people convicted of felony murder, terrorism or treason spend less than...
Posted in Abominations on February 27, 2009 11:37 AM
SCOTTSBORO, Alabama -- A Bridgeport gay, convicted of four counts of sodomy last November by a Jackson County Jury, was sentenced to a total of 40 years in prison by Circuit Judge Jenifer C. Holt last week. Robert Wayne Womack,...
Posted in Abominations on February 27, 2009 10:46 AM
KANSAS CITY, MO -- A convicted rapist accused of assaulting an 11-year-old girl he knew appeared in Jackson County Circuit Court on Wednesday. Raymond C. Thomas, 48, faces rape and sodomy charges for attacks against the victim at his home...
Posted in Abominations on February 26, 2009 04:17 PM
DETROIT, MI -- A Westland man who sexually assaulted his live-in girlfriend's 8-year-old daughter will spend much - if not all - of his life in prison. Tadario Derwin Sims, 22, was sentenced Wednesday in Wayne County Circuit Court to...
Posted in Abominations on February 26, 2009 04:16 PM
COVINA -- A convicted sex offender who has habitually used local churches to house and view child pornography has been indicted for the same offense. Richard Michael Welton, 48, of Covina was caught stashing pages of child pornography at the...
Posted in Abominations on February 25, 2009 08:44 AM
PLANTATION KEY -- The state rested its case Monday in the trial of a man accused of sodomizing a teenage family member under his care. Zachariah Delatorre, 34, could face up to 90 years in prison if convicted on the...
Posted in Abominations on February 25, 2009 08:00 AM
A pedophile priest who preyed on his victims as they lay sick in hospital is living in Britain, The Sun can reveal. Rev. Ivan Payne, 65, who molested children in Dublin from 1968-87, was convicted in 1998 of sexually abusing...
Posted in Abominations on February 24, 2009 10:50 AM
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A jury convicted a Florida priest on Monday of stealing from his church, but the panel found that he embezzled far less than the $488,000 prosecutors charged. The Rev. Francis Guinan, 66, was found guilty...
Posted in Abominations on February 24, 2009 01:17 AM
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A federal judge on Monday ordered a man convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography to pay about $200,000 in restitution to a woman who was photographed being sexually abused when she was a child. Senior U.S....
Posted in Abominations on February 24, 2009 01:13 AM
BAKER CITY, Ore. -- A former police officer and juvenile court counselor has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after he admitted sexually abusing two 16-year-old girls in a church group he led as a youth pastor. Dean Barnes...
Posted in Abominations on February 20, 2009 12:58 PM
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Facebook has removed more than 5,500 convicted sex offenders from its social networking Web site since May, Connecticut's attorney general said Thursday. Richard Blumenthal said the world's largest social networking site, which claims to have more than...
Posted in Abominations on February 20, 2009 06:48 AM
FONDA -- Catholic priest John W. Broderick was found guilty of a misdemeanor charge but acquitted on two felony counts of sexual conduct against a child. The jury’s verdict, returned about 3 p.m., was viewed as a victory by Broderick’s...
Posted in Abominations on February 19, 2009 03:05 PM
Convicted child rapist Adrian Gonzalez Cruz should have spent the rest of his life in prison. But on Tuesday, he took advantage of inattentive Maricopa County sheriff's deputies and made a brazen lunchtime escape from the Maricopa County Superior Courthouse...
Posted in Abominations on February 19, 2009 05:26 AM
A Catholic monk has been convicted of a string of sexual assaults on schoolgirls dating back 40 years. Liam Roberts, nicknamed "Disgusting Augustine", molested the girls in Rickmansworth during the 1960s and 1970s. Yesterday, Roberts, who is now 80 and...
Posted in Abominations on February 18, 2009 11:19 AM
LOS ANGELES, CA -- An Antioch school teacher who told authorities last month that he sexually abused dozens of boys has quit his job at Antioch Upper Grade School. Kenneth Johnson, 60, of 450 N. Main St., Wauconda, was charged...
Posted in Abominations on February 18, 2009 10:04 AM
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland -- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp. of St. John's, Newfoundland, was found liable for damages to eight altar boys sexually abused by a priest in the 1970s. The Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court's trial division ruled the...
Posted in Abominations on February 17, 2009 09:30 AM
Pedophiles who rape young children could face the death penalty in Alabama...if one state lawmaker gets his way. State Representative Steve Hurst of Munford in Talladega County is proposing a new law that would allow a judge to use capital...
Posted in Abominations on February 17, 2009 09:30 AM
CHICAGO, IL -- A defrocked Catholic priest who once served as a spiritual advisor to Mother Teresa was sentenced in Chicago on Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for sexually molesting a boy on several interstate and international religious...
Posted in Abominations on February 13, 2009 12:18 PM
CHICAGO, IL -- For hours Wednesday, defrocked Catholic priest Donald McGuire listened in federal court as victim after victim--grown men now--as well as some of their parents described their long-standing sorrow and bitterness over his betrayal. The white-haired McGuire, convicted...
Posted in Abominations on February 12, 2009 11:34 AM
A prominent former Roman Catholic priest convicted of taking a boy on religious retreats to have sex with him is scheduled for sentencing. Donald McGuire of Oak Lawn could be sentenced Wednesday to up to 30 years in prison after...
Posted in Abominations on February 11, 2009 12:52 PM
A former teacher and debate coach at Buhler High School has been sentenced to more than 13-and-a-half years in state prison; 68-year-old Richard Young was convicted for sex crimes against minors. The case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs...
Posted in Abominations on February 10, 2009 09:46 AM
PROVIDENCE –– “Come in,” Raymond Harwood said when he heard a knock on his bedroom door. But when the convicted child molester saw a Providence police investigator and two probation officers in the doorway at 36 Carter St. in the...
Posted in Abominations on February 10, 2009 09:37 AM
ANNAPOLIS, MD -- It was March 2008 when the 44-year-old man called police, but the crime he was reporting happened 31 years ago. He was only 13 years old in 1977 when an older teen befriended him, gained the trust...
Posted in Abominations on February 9, 2009 07:36 AM
A former Christian college instructor found guilty of repeatedly molesting a young man who sought counselling after he feared he was homosexual has been sentenced to nine months in jail. A jury convicted 61-year-old Terrance Lewis of one count of...
Posted in Abominations on February 7, 2009 10:34 AM
OMAHA, Neb. -- A sex offender convicted of killing a 12-year-old girl has been sentenced to death in Nebraska. A three-judge panel condemned Roy Ellis to death on Friday in Nebraska's first death sentence since the state Supreme court banned...
Posted in Abominations on February 7, 2009 08:04 AM
TOLEDO, OH -- A juror in Gerald Robinson's 2006 murder trial expressed the opinion that the Toledo Catholic priest was guilty and should be "put away" before any evidence was presented, according to a newly filed affidavit. The statement, filed...
Posted in Abominations on February 5, 2009 10:24 AM
A jury convicted Adrian Arriano, the Canyon Country rapist, on 27 of 29 counts in San Fernando Court Tuesday. Jurors acquitted Arriano, 31, on charges of attempted murder and robbery, potentially sparing him a longer sentence. "I was happy to...
Posted in Abominations on February 4, 2009 05:08 AM
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- A convicted sex offender has pleaded guilty to raping a 6-year-old boy at the New Bedford Public Library a year ago. Corey Deen Saunders entered the plea Monday to charges that include of rape of a...
Posted in Abominations on February 3, 2009 08:07 AM
A 34-year-old Silver Spring man was sentenced Tuesday to 17 and a half years in prison for taking cell phone pictures of himself sexually abusing a 2-year-old girl, according to a news release from the United States Attorney's Office for...
Posted in Abominations on February 2, 2009 07:37 AM
Worry was the dominant feeling among Brentwood parents after hearing that a convicted sex offender with HIV has had contact with teenagers in the area. Manjit Kaur said she doesn't stop worrying until her son, 17, Manpreet Trehan, gets home...
Posted in Abominations on February 2, 2009 06:18 AM
A former Catholic priest living in Hollywood was arrested and indicted Friday on charges that he possessed child pornography. Kenneth Hasselbach, 68, was booked into Broward County's main jail and charged with possession of child pornography. Agents with the FBI...
Posted in Abominations on February 2, 2009 04:48 AM
REDDING, CA -- The former senior pastor of the First United Pentecostal Church in Redding today pleaded guilty to five felony counts of child molestation in exchange for a 16-year prison sentence. David Leon Bishop, 65, who remains free of...
Posted in Abominations on January 30, 2009 10:15 AM
CINCINNATI -- A suburban Cincinnati man convicted of sexually touching children while claiming to be a market researcher who wanted to measure their underwear has been sentenced to 44 years in prison. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman imposed...
Posted in Abominations on January 30, 2009 05:54 AM
MANILA, Philippines -- Barack Obama has been asked by a convicted Filipino priest to grant him clemency, the Public Attorney’s Office said. "Jose Superiaso requested me to be of assistance to him so that he may be given the chance...
Posted in Abominations on January 29, 2009 08:28 AM
CHICAGO, IL -- A judge has given the Archdiocese of Chicago the power to seal portions of documents related to convicted pedophile priest Daniel McCormack. Attorney William Martin represents the victim in the case against the diocese. He says a...
Posted in Abominations on January 29, 2009 08:27 AM
A minister and music teacher who mentored boys in San Diego and Riverside counties was arraigned Tuesday on several counts of lewd and lascivious acts with children, authorities said. Jimmie “Xray” Robinson Jr., 47, of Los Angeles, pleaded not guilty...
Posted in Abominations on January 29, 2009 07:13 AM
BOSTON -- The highest court in Massachusetts has agreed to hear an appeal from a convicted former priest who was a key figure in Boston’s clergy sex abuse scandal. Paul R. Shanley, who was defrocked in 2004 and convicted in...
Posted in Abominations on January 28, 2009 08:29 AM
BOSTON -- The highest court in Massachusetts has agreed to hear an appeal from a former priest who was a key figure in Boston's clergy sex abuse scandal. Paul Shanley is serving a 12- to 15-year prison sentence for repeatedly...
Posted in Abominations on January 27, 2009 07:58 AM
MONTREAL -- A self-described pastor who hoped his “marriage” to a 10-year-old girl he took to bed would convince a judge to acquit him on a sexual assault charge was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday. Daniel Cormier,...
Posted in Abominations on January 27, 2009 07:58 AM
A La Crosse teenager accused of posting nude pictures of a 16-year-old girl on his MySpace page was convicted Monday of a felony after reaching a plea agreement. Alex Phillips, 18, of W4300 Hwy. M, No. 79, pleaded guilty to...
Posted in Abominations on January 27, 2009 07:56 AM
Stephen McPherson, a former Regent University law school assistant dean, pleaded guilty Friday in Chesapeake Circuit Court to sexually abusing children. McPherson, 39, of Chesapeake entered guilty pleas to two counts of forcible sodomy and two counts of object sexual...
Posted in Abominations on January 26, 2009 09:07 AM
HONOLULU -- A complaint has been filed against the Catholic Church involving convicted child molester priest Robert Burkholder. Burkholder, who is deceased, was formerly with the Archdiocese of Detroit. The latest complainant, who is listed only as “John Doe,” says...
Posted in Abominations on January 26, 2009 09:05 AM
A man who was convicted of murder more than 30 years ago has died before he could stand trial on Tulsa County charges of molesting three children more than two decades ago. Gary Lee Reece, 55, died Jan. 14 at...
Posted in Abominations on January 26, 2009 08:38 AM
HONOLULU -- Another complaint has been filed against the Catholic church and convicted child molester priest Robert Burkholder. The latest complainant is listed only as "John Doe," who says Burkholder forcibly attempted to assault him in 1984 when he was...
Posted in Abominations on January 24, 2009 06:38 AM
A pastor convicted of assaulting his ex-wife following sex games involving another man has been relieved of his duties by his employer, the Church of Sweden. The man's ex-wife, who is also a pastor, has also received a written warning...
Posted in Abominations on January 24, 2009 06:37 AM
A Modesto man was sentenced to six years in prison after he was convicted of sexually abusing his girlfriend's 13-year-old niece, the Stanislaus County district attorney's office said Tuesday. A jury convicted Eric Albarico, 32, after his trial ended in...
Posted in Abominations on January 23, 2009 07:52 AM
It is interesting that Gov. Martin O'Malley is using the full power of his office to do away with Maryland's death penalty ("O'Malley vows to work to end death penalty," Jan. 16) but, despite his Catholic background, isn't doing anything...
Posted in Abominations on January 23, 2009 06:44 AM
Harrowing details of how a "mother from hell" abused her children were laid bare yesterday. Six young children were forced to endure years of depravity at the family home, described in court as a "house of horrors". The court yesterday...
Posted in Abominations on January 22, 2009 08:16 AM
The Urban County Government is suing a foreign insurance company for failing to pay five settlements arising from litigation over convicted child molester Ron Berry. The county had an insurance policy with the Insurance Corp. of Ireland, now known as...
Posted in Abominations on January 22, 2009 08:03 AM
SANTA ANA -- A former athletic trainer at Tustin High School faces arraignment tomorrow on charges that could land her in prison for nearly eight years if she's convicted of having a sexual relationship with an underage male student, officials...
Posted in Abominations on January 21, 2009 09:25 AM
A jury has convicted a homosexual of molesting a Westchester boy and three other children he befriended over more than a decade. The Airport Courthouse jury deliberated less than a day before finding Francis Miguel Cuellar, 40, guilty of 21...
Posted in Abominations on January 21, 2009 09:22 AM
ALEXANDER CITY, AL -- In the early morning hours of Oct. 24, 2004 Twayne Tuck broke in to the Tallassee residence of 53 year-old Bernice Harris and shot her with an automatic pistol before kidnapping her daughter, Marilyn Collins and...
Posted in Abominations on January 21, 2009 09:21 AM
A judge on Friday rejected a new trial request for a convicted child rapist then sentenced the Menifee minister to 15 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting his foster daughter. Judge Albert J. Wojcik sentenced Joseph Patrick Billock,...
Posted in Abominations on January 19, 2009 08:31 AM
A 71-year-old retired Ukiah Police Department officer who was convicted of misdemeanor sexual battery was sentenced Friday to 90 days in county jail and three years of probation, ordered to undergo counseling and will also be required to register as...
Posted in Abominations on January 19, 2009 08:26 AM
FAIRVIEW, Okla. -- A former Oklahoma sheriff was convicted of second-degree rape and bribery Saturday in a case that accused him of coercing sex from female inmates and drug court defendants. A Major County jury convicted former Custer County Sheriff...
Posted in Abominations on January 19, 2009 07:40 AM
A level-three registered sex offender who has AIDS, Robert Musmacker, 36, of Lincoln Avenue in Oceanside, was held on a $1 million bond or $500,000 cash, after a grand jury charged him with a third-degree criminal sex act and reckless...
Posted in Abominations on January 16, 2009 10:01 AM
MUNCIE -- Ball State University police are warning students about a wanted sex offender who has purportedly preyed on college students and has a relative in East Central Indiana. Rickey Allen Robbins, 58, was released from an Oregon prison in...
Posted in Abominations on January 16, 2009 09:58 AM
U.S. Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona said Monday that they have apprehended three convicted sex offenders who entered the country illegally within three days. Monday morning, agents form the Sonoita Border Patrol Station arrested a 26 year old Mexican...
Posted in Abominations on January 16, 2009 07:28 AM
EL CAJON, Calif. -- A professional photographer accused of molesting nine young girls he recruited to pose at his El Cajon studio must stand trial on 50 charges, including committing lewd acts on children, a judge ruled Tuesday. Gary Lee...
Posted in Abominations on January 14, 2009 04:52 AM
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A jury in Olympia will decide this week whether to lock up a 25-year-old man indefinitely as a sexually violent predator. The state attorney general's office is seeking the civil commitment of Johnny Davis for treatment. He...
Posted in Abominations on January 14, 2009 04:22 AM
FLORENCE -- A Florence man has been arrested after he was accused of having sex with a 6-year-old girl. Ronald Gardner Szezorak Jr., 21, 4702 Huntsville Road, Florence, was taken into custody Thursday evening and charged with four counts of...
Posted in Abominations on January 13, 2009 09:46 AM
TEXARKANA, TX -- United States Attorney Rebecca A. Gregory announced on Friday that a 66-year-old Texarkana, Texas man has been sentenced for federal sex offender registry violations in the Eastern District of Texas. Harold Wayne Lewis was convicted of failing...
Posted in Abominations on January 10, 2009 07:48 AM
SANTA ANA -- An Anaheim pastor, who had videotaped himself molesting a 13-year-old parishioner in a church office, cried and clutched a Bible behind his back Monday as he was led from a courtroom in handcuffs after pleading guilty to...
Posted in Abominations on January 7, 2009 07:40 AM
MARTINEZ, California -- Two men and a teenager were charged Tuesday in the alleged gang rape of a lesbian in the San Francisco Bay area. Humberto Hernandez Salvador, 31, and Josue Gonzalez, 21, were charged with kidnapping, carjacking and gang...
Posted in Abominations on January 7, 2009 03:57 AM
LIBERTY -- A Sullivan County grand jury on Tuesday handed up a 163-count indictment against a convicted sex offender accused of sex acts against two children. Anthony LaMantia, 56, of Liberty, is charged with repeatedly abusing a girl and a...
Posted in Abominations on January 5, 2009 05:21 AM
URBANA, IL -- A lawsuit claims a Normal-based school district provided incorrect employment information to Urbana's district about a teacher convicted of molesting students in both places. Attorney Ellyn Bullock filed the amended federal complaint on behalf of an Urbana...
Posted in Abominations on January 3, 2009 08:48 PM
A county man who pleaded guilty to attempted rape and attempted sodomy was sentenced in Chesterfield General District Court on Dec. 10. Circuit Judge Michael C. Allen sentenced Joseph L. Roth, 35, to 20 years in prison, but suspended 15...
Posted in Abominations on January 2, 2009 05:04 PM
A recently released sex offender was arrested again last week after authorities said he admitted to investigators he sexually abused a 5-year-old boy in 2003. Steven Maxwell Gooden, 33, was arrested Dec. 24 and booked into the Garfield County Detention...
Posted in Abominations on December 31, 2008 03:15 PM
TOLEDO, Ohio -- Ohio's highest court has turned down an appeal filed by a Toledo priest convicted of murdering a nun. The Ohio Supreme Court said Wednesday that it is declining to hear the appeal of the Rev. Gerald Robinson....
Posted in Abominations on December 31, 2008 03:14 PM
The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Rev. James L. Bevel, a prominent figure in the civil rights movement whose legacy was clouded by an incest conviction has died, a relative said. He was 72. Bevel died Friday in Virginia after...
Posted in Abominations on December 21, 2008 11:01 PM
CATLETTSBURG, KY -- A Boyd County man already facing a litany of charges stemming from alleged sex crimes against a teenager was indicted Thursday on two more counts. Grand jurors charged Robert R. Davis, 40, of Rush, with two counts...
Posted in Abominations on December 19, 2008 12:50 PM
One of South Korea's most famous actresses was convicted of adultery Wednesday in a high-profile case that drew renewed attention to a decades-old law prohibiting extramarital affairs. Ok So-ri, who was handed a suspended jail term, had lost a battle...
Posted in Abominations on December 19, 2008 11:14 AM
The computer records of an admitted pedophile from Hudson County have led to the arrest of a gay who runs a brothel in Thailand where American gays went to have sex with boys as young as 4, authorities said. John...
Posted in Abominations on December 17, 2008 01:37 PM
A convicted gay sex offender and former Plano Teacher of the Year has been arrested in New Mexico after being on the run from authorities for more than two years. Joe Wayne Cates, 51, was placed on the Texas Top...
Posted in Abominations on December 17, 2008 01:13 PM
A convicted sex offender who cut his electronic tether off six weeks ago is charged with Friday night's attack on a woman in Ann Arbor's Burns Park neighborhood. Bobby Lenord Beach, 28, of Ypsilanti Township, was arraigned Sunday at the...
Posted in Abominations on December 15, 2008 12:12 PM
MILWAUKEE, WI -- A judge Friday rejected an 80-year-old nun's request for early release from the jail term she's serving for having sex with two young boys while they were students at her school more than 40 years ago. Norma...
Posted in Abominations on December 13, 2008 03:30 PM
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced an Apache Junction man to 220 months, or more than 18 years, in federal prison on multiple counts of child pornography. Paul Richard Butts, 39, also was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mary...
Posted in Abominations on December 11, 2008 12:22 PM
He was just another guy couch-surfing and working construction in Calgary -- no one knew he was a convicted pedophile wanted by Texas authorities after a sex attack on a young girl. Yesterday, however, Calgary cops caught up with Steven...
Posted in Abominations on December 10, 2008 09:41 AM
Convicted pedophile and former community leader Ronald Tuckwell faces another seven years' jail after admitting he abused a fourth boy in the 1960s. The 74-year-old will be sentenced tomorrow, in the District Court, for the 1961 indecent assault of an...
Posted in Abominations on December 10, 2008 09:26 AM
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The man convicted of killing and beheading a 3-year-old girl known for years as "Precious Doe" wrote numerous jailhouse letters to his wife, urging her to change her story and reject a plea deal. The Kansas...
Posted in Abominations on December 9, 2008 02:17 AM
Local gay receives two life sentences for the sexual abuse of young boys. Peter Petrosky Sr., was sentenced in Washoe County to two consecutive life terms with the possibility of parole after 20 years after Washoe County Sheriff's investigated the...
Posted in Abominations on December 8, 2008 10:36 AM
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A registered sex offender was charged Friday with killing three Hartford girls in the 1980s, and a man who has served 20 years in prison for one of the deaths is seeking a new trial. Pedro Miranda,...
Posted in Abominations on December 6, 2008 06:32 AM
Boy George faces a jail term for falsely imprisoning a male escort. He was told in court today that a prison sentence was 'the most likely option' after a jury convicted him of handcuffing Norwegian Audun Carlsen to a wall...
Posted in Abominations on December 6, 2008 05:41 AM
LAWRENCE, KS -- A Douglas County judge on Thursday sentenced a former Lawrence church youth group leader to serve nearly five years in prison for having a three-year sexual relationship with an underage girl about eight years ago. “(The crime)...
Posted in Abominations on December 5, 2008 01:36 PM
STOCKTON, Calif. -- A central California couple was charged Thursday with kidnapping and torturing a teenager that authorities say was sometimes kept shackled inside their home and abused with a baseball bat, belt and knife. The boy's one-time guardian was...
Posted in Abominations on December 5, 2008 03:54 AM
An Orcutt gay convicted of molesting two young boys over the course of five years could be sentenced to up to 300 years in prison next month. James Sutherland is set to be sentenced on Jan. 29 following his conviction...
Posted in Abominations on December 4, 2008 05:02 PM
He laughed, he cried and he dodged the death penalty. Bill Smithson's tumultuous 43-year existence was on display in a Delaware County courtroom as his closest friends and relatives took the witness stand to convince a jury that their son,...
Posted in Abominations on December 3, 2008 09:17 AM
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- A man convicted of raping, strangling and killing four women in the Springfield area in the late 1990s says he also murdered a fifth woman and left her 22-month-old daughter to starve to death. Alfred Gaynor's confession...
Posted in Abominations on December 3, 2008 09:17 AM
WALPOLE -- The man convicted of killing convicted pedophile ex-priest John Geoghan, who began his career in 1962 at Blessed Sacrament Church in Saugus, claims he was taken out of his cell and beaten by three prison guards on Halloween...
Posted in Abominations on December 2, 2008 10:43 AM
A federal grand jury in Maryland indicted a former third-grade teacher at an elite private Washington school on a child-pornography charge yesterday. Eric Toth, 26, has been missing since last summer and is considered a fugitive despite a suicide note...
Posted in Abominations on December 2, 2008 10:40 AM
A registered sex offender has been charged with viewing child pornography last week at the Minneapolis Central Library. Duane Gene Elliott, 54, of Minneapolis, was charged in Hennepin County District Court with a felony count of possession of pornographic work...
Posted in Abominations on December 2, 2008 10:39 AM
A registered sex offender faces new charges alleging he sexually abused four victims under the age of 7. Ronald Keith Mack, 42, could face up to 265 years in prison if convicted on the eight charges against him, ranging from...
Posted in Abominations on November 26, 2008 10:28 AM
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Posted in Abominations on November 26, 2008 04:21 AM
TAMPA -- A Port Richey pain doctor convicted of six charges of possessing and receiving child pornography was sentenced this afternoon to 33 years and 9 months in federal prison. "I see a deep darkness within you, sir," said U.S....
Posted in Abominations on November 25, 2008 01:08 PM
DETROIT -- The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit is facing a second civil lawsuit over allegations it failed to stop a priest who molested children when he served at parishes in Warren, White Lake, Redford, Pontiac, and Utica. The lawsuit...
Posted in Abominations on November 21, 2008 03:28 AM
GREELEY, Colo. -- A Catholic priest convicted of indecent exposure will not serve any time in jail. A Weld County District Court sentenced Rev. Robert Whipkey to five years probation Thursday morning. Whipkey will also have to register as a...
Posted in Abominations on November 21, 2008 03:26 AM
United States Marshals tracked down a former Phoenix priest and registered sex offender, who disappeared while on probation. Marshals arrested Wilputte Sherwood Sunday in San Francisco. Sherwood spent ten years in prison for molesting young boys in the Phoenix area....
Posted in Abominations on November 19, 2008 07:57 AM
PORTSMOUTH -- A Portsmouth District Court judge has rejected an agreement that would have made it easier for a sex offender to be released on bail. James E. Green, 43, with a last known address of 13 Wedgewood Road in...
Posted in Abominations on November 19, 2008 03:48 AM
OAKLAND -- A convicted murderer heard his victims' loved ones label him as a cowardly monster in court Monday before he was sentenced to die for killing three women and two teenage girls over three months in the East Bay...
Posted in Abominations on November 18, 2008 04:02 AM
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- A Dutch court convicted two homosexuals Wednesday for attempting to infect 14 victims with HIV in a bizarre sex case. The Groningen District Court found the two guilty of severe assault for injecting semiconscious men with HIV-infected...
Posted in Abominations on November 13, 2008 09:13 AM
A Bridgeport gay was convicted of sodomy by a Jackson County jury Thursday morning. In Circuit Judge Jenifer Holt's courtroom, the jury took less than 30 minutes to return four guilty verdicts for sodomy second degree against Robert Wayne Womack,...
Posted in Abominations on November 11, 2008 12:34 PM
CLAYTON -- A former federal prosecutor received a 65-year sentence for sex crimes involving teenage boys. A St. Louis County jury convicted 47-year-old Eric Tolen last month on 36 counts of statutory sodomy for engaging in sex with teenage boys...
Posted in Abominations on November 10, 2008 02:11 PM
OTTAWA -- A 50-year-old Ottawa man who beat his 18-year-old daughter with a baseball bat and held a knife to her throat so she would have sex with him was convicted Friday of incest, assault causing bodily harm and administering...
Posted in Abominations on November 10, 2008 08:24 AM
PLYMOUTH -- Federal officials say a convicted sex offender held at the Plymouth County jail hacked into the jail's computer system and got the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 1,100 current and former jail employees. Francis...
Posted in Abominations on November 7, 2008 07:43 AM
Fast becoming the marketing tool of choice for pimps and child predators in Metro Detroit and elsewhere, the Web site Craigslist on Thursday announced an agreement with state attorneys general to crack down on explicit and criminally suggestive content in...
Posted in Abominations on November 7, 2008 07:09 AM
A jury found a Great Falls businessman guilty of raping and molesting one young girl and attempting to molest another girl. Richard Cunningham, 56, bowed his head as the court clerk announced the first verdict: guilty of sexual assault. He...
Posted in Abominations on November 5, 2008 03:30 PM
Cambridge University was accused of being 'out of touch' after allowing an academic to keep his job despite being convicted of possessing sickening pornographic images of children. Dr Nicholas Hammond, 45, was suspended on full pay as director of studies...
Posted in Abominations on November 5, 2008 01:52 PM
BOISE -- A federal judge in Idaho on Monday sentenced convicted child killer Joseph Duncan to three life prison terms for kidnapping and sexually abusing two children. Those federal terms are in addition to three more life terms also imposed...
Posted in Abominations on November 4, 2008 02:27 PM
A man convicted by a jury in August of forcible sodomy and manufacturing child pornography was sentenced Monday afternoon. Michael Jay Showalter, 51, was found guilty of the crimes following his August 20 jury trial. He was found not guilty...
Posted in Abominations on November 4, 2008 02:20 PM
A Russell County man convicted Wednesday of four sex-related charges will spend the rest of his life in prison. That's because Vincent Bernard Jones had three felony convictions -- two of them rapes -- under his belt when he faced...
Posted in Abominations on October 30, 2008 02:32 PM
ABILENE, Texas -- A religious sect's elder who molested a girl under the guise of checking her for cervical cancer faces up to life in prison. Yedidiyah Hawkins, 40, a House of Yahweh elder, was convicted Monday of aggravated sexual...
Posted in Abominations on October 29, 2008 07:54 AM
VANCOUVER -- A Delta youth pastor convicted of child sex abuse in Mexico -- and wanted in B.C. for child pornography -- is still being paid by his parish. Brad Firth, 41, the former supervisor of youth activities at St....
Posted in Abominations on October 28, 2008 02:35 PM
WATERSMEET, MI -- Roman Catholic Bishop Alexander K. Sample of the Diocese of Marquette has suspended 86-year-old Father Aloysius J. Hasenberg from his priestly ministry over allegations of child sex abuse. Sample, who did not disclose details of the allegation,...
Posted in Abominations on October 28, 2008 02:11 PM
Accusations and denials flew Wednesday about whether more cases of improper sexual contact between teachers and students involving Helix Charter High School have taken place than were previously reported. "The Helix High School board and principal have been stonewalling and...
Posted in Abominations on October 28, 2008 12:50 PM
WINNEBAGO COUNTY, Wisconsin -- A Winnebago County jury will decide next month whether a Catholic priest who sexually assaulted two boys in the 1980s meets the criteria to be classified as a sexually violent person and remain in custody indefinitely....
Posted in Abominations on October 27, 2008 12:57 PM
A Johannesburg pastor accused of the rape and indecent assault of his secretaries is facing a possible 10 years in prison after being convicted of two counts of rape. Pastor Errol Jacobs, a pastor at the Family Worship Centre in...
Posted in Abominations on October 27, 2008 12:55 PM
CHICAGO, IL -- Donald McGuire sat hunched in his wheelchair in a federal courtroom Friday with his face locked in a frown, a shell of the charismatic priest who traveled the world to hold religious retreats and advise Mother Teresa....
Posted in Abominations on October 25, 2008 08:49 AM
Donald McGuire, the defrocked Jesuit priest who once served as a spiritual adviser to Mother Teresa, was convicted today in federal court in Chicago of engaging in sexual acts with a minor during trips abroad between 2000 and 2002. The...
Posted in Abominations on October 24, 2008 01:57 PM
STAUNTON -- A 16-year-old Stuarts Draft boy was convicted as an adult after pleading guilty in Augusta County Circuit Court to sodomizing a 12-year-old boy last year. Michael A. Dillow entered guilty pleas to three counts of forcible sodomy and...
Posted in Abominations on October 24, 2008 01:49 PM
A Greenville boy will be sentenced on rape, abuction and assault charges today, a day before he turns 18. The sentencing is one of two in Augusta County Circuit Court in which convicted sex offenders face possible life sentences. A...
Posted in Abominations on October 24, 2008 01:49 PM
EASTLAND, Texas — An appeals court has thrown out the conviction of a former priest accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old Texas boy in the early 1990s. The 11th Court of Appeals ruled last week that the trial judge erred...
Posted in Abominations on October 23, 2008 01:06 PM
PONCHATOULA, LA -- A former pastor at the now defunct Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula will serve four life sentences for raping his own two sons. Louis Lamonica was convicted last month of four counts of aggravated rape. Lamonica abused his...
Posted in Abominations on October 22, 2008 03:17 PM
Sentencing for former Hickman Community Church pastor Doug Porter, scheduled for next week, has been delayed until Nov. 21. His attorney, Kirk McAllister, told Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Thomas Zeff he needed more time to prepare a motion for...
Posted in Abominations on October 21, 2008 12:35 PM
WHEATON, IL -- The last of four former officials of a Downers Grove church to be convicted of sex-related crimes was sentenced Friday to serve a year in the DuPage County Jail work-release program. Presiding DuPage County Circuit Court Judge...
Posted in Abominations on October 20, 2008 10:23 AM
TEXARKANA, Ark. -- Evangelist Tony Alamo told a judge on Friday that he understood that he could get life in prison if convicted of taking a minor across state lines for sex, and he'll argue next week that he should...
Posted in Abominations on October 18, 2008 01:57 AM
TEXARKANA, Ark. -- Evangelist Tony Alamo appeared in court Friday for a five-minute hearing on a federal charge accusing him of transporting minors across state lines for sex. It was Alamo's first appearance since his Sept. 25 arrest in Arizona,...
Posted in Abominations on October 17, 2008 02:07 PM
LEESBURG, Va. -- A one-time top lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for having sex more than a decade ago with his then-teenage daughter. The Rev. James L. Bevel, 71, a key...
Posted in Abominations on October 16, 2008 10:26 AM
The head of a defunct church in Montreal who claims to have married a 10-year-old girl has been found guilty of sexual assault. Daniel Cormier, 56, was convicted by a judge in provincial court in Montreal Wednesday. The self-declared pastor...
Posted in Abominations on October 16, 2008 10:25 AM
CAMBRIDGE -- A prestigious Boston-area private school is apologizing for mishandling reports of sexual abuse of students by a teacher more than two decades ago. Rebecca Upham, the head of the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, in a...
Posted in Abominations on October 16, 2008 10:24 AM
In the ninth civil lawsuit naming convicted abuser Francis DeLuca, along with the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, an anonymous 40-year-old plaintiff claims the former priest abused him for 13 years, beginning when he was 11. DeLuca moved from the Wilmington...
Posted in Abominations on October 16, 2008 10:20 AM
MONTREAL -- The head of a defunct Montreal church who says his so-called marriage to a 10-year-old girl gave him the right to have sex with her has been found guilty of sexual assault. Daniel Cormier was convicted by a...
Posted in Abominations on October 15, 2008 01:17 PM
READING, PA -- A former Boyertown High School math teacher was sentenced Tuesday in Berks County Court to four to 23 months in Berks County Prison for having a pornographic video of children on his personal computer at school. Peter...
Posted in Abominations on October 15, 2008 01:14 PM
The Canadian pedophile caught by a global police appeal and groundbreaking computer wizardry appeared in a Thai court today on fresh child sex charges, officials said. Christopher Paul Neil, 33, a teacher, was convicted of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy...
Posted in Abominations on October 14, 2008 11:12 AM
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- U.S. Attorney Tom Moss has prosecuted some of Idaho's most high-profile murders, and he's put three people on death row. But his most recent murder case - against convicted child killer Joseph Duncan III - was...
Posted in Abominations on October 14, 2008 11:11 AM
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- A suburban Kansas City man convicted of murdering a woman whose rape and suffocation were videotaped was sentenced to death Friday. Judge Marco Roldan followed a jury's recommendation in sentencing Richard Davis, 44, of Independence, to death...
Posted in Abominations on October 11, 2008 07:18 AM
DALLAS -- A former teacher from Kaufman County who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday. Upon release, Chad Michael Hutchins, 29, of Forney will also serve a 15-year term of...
Posted in Abominations on October 11, 2008 07:18 AM
By Paul Cameron, Ph. D. / Family Research Institute Three kinds of scientific evidence point to the proportion of homosexual molestation: 1) survey reports of molestation in the general population, 2) surveys of those caught and convicted of molestation, and...
Posted in Abominations on October 10, 2008 12:41 PM
CHICAGO, IL -- Opening arguments are expected to start tomorrow in a criminal trial against an already-convicted pedophile priest who is the nation's most high profile child molesting Catholic clergyman. The is a federal case being held in Courtroom 2119...
Posted in Abominations on October 9, 2008 11:56 AM
A 17-year-old boy reluctantly testified Tuesday that his former foster father tried to molest him months before the Menifee minister was charged with raping a 9-year-old foster daughter. The teenager initially denied that defendant Joseph Billock tried to touch his...
Posted in Abominations on October 9, 2008 11:51 AM
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The defense attorney for a man who was convicted of murdering five young women in the East Bay in 1985 asked jurors Wednesday to spare his life, calling him "an ordinary man who did some very bad...
Posted in Abominations on October 9, 2008 11:31 AM
VIGO COUNTY, Ind. -- A convicted child molester learned Wednesday afternoon how much time he will spend behind bars. Last month, John Edrington, 34, admitted he molested two little girls. "You got people you grow up with and they're sick,"...
Posted in Abominations on October 9, 2008 11:30 AM
James Bentley is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday on a sexual abuse charge, about a month before he goes on trial for the same charge in another county. The Vinton man was accused in Benton and Linn counties of molesting...
Posted in Abominations on October 9, 2008 11:30 AM
RHODE ISLAND -- In 1982, Mary Ryan was raped by a Roman Catholic priest in the bedroom of her Providence apartment. The priest, the now-deceased Monsignor Louis Ward Dunn, was convicted by a judge. It was the first rape conviction...
Posted in Abominations on October 6, 2008 08:31 AM
A 37-year-old Fargo man has been ordered to serve 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl last summer. A Cass County jury convicted Wilson Grant Paul Sr. of Class AA felony gross sexual imposition in connection with...
Posted in Abominations on October 6, 2008 06:19 AM
By Paul Cameron, Ph. D. / Family Research Institute Three kinds of scientific evidence point to the proportion of homosexual molestation: 1) survey reports of molestation in the general population, 2) surveys of those caught and convicted of molestation, and...
Posted in Abominations on October 4, 2008 02:55 AM
Victims of Paul Raymond Evans clapped and cheered from the public gallery of the NSW District Court yesterday after the Catholic priest was handed a 15-year prison sentence for sexually abusing teenage boys in his care. Evans, 57, who was...
Posted in Abominations on October 4, 2008 02:55 AM
MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that a man charged with drugging, sexually assaulting and killing his 12-year-old niece coerced another girl into aiding his plot by claiming to be part of a child-sex club that sometimes selected girls...
Posted in Abominations on October 2, 2008 09:39 AM
David Fortwengler is a man on a mission. He traveled by car from his home in Gaffney, South Carolina on Saturday, Sept. 6 and stayed at a motel in Clifton until Monday, Sept. 8. His quest – to let the...
Posted in Abominations on October 2, 2008 09:37 AM
Santa Cruz -- A $100,000 arrest warrant was issued this week for a high-risk convicted sex offender who was released from County Jail earlier this month, the Sheriff's Office reported. Richard Nash, 58, is registered as a transient, meaning he...
Posted in Abominations on October 1, 2008 07:06 AM
BROOKLYN, NY -- Pastor Dieuvais Surin was sentenced Monday to about 10 to 40 years at Kings County Supreme Court for repeatedly molesting and abusing a young girl in various locations, such as his van, his apartment, and the church...
Posted in Abominations on September 30, 2008 10:26 AM
A man who was convicted four times of sex crimes has been released from the Clark County Jail and is living at 11201 N.E. 12th Ave. in Hazel Dell. Phillip Anthony Wilde, 51, is classified as a Level 3 sex...
Posted in Abominations on September 27, 2008 04:53 AM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- FBI agents arrested evangelist and convicted tax evader Tony Alamo at an Arizona motel Thursday, alleging days after raiding the Arkansas headquarters of his ministry that he took minors across state lines for sexual purposes. Alamo...
Posted in Abominations on September 26, 2008 08:34 AM
A jury has convicted a Smiths Station teen for the rape of an 82-year-old Phenix City woman. Jurors convicted 19-year-old Javarous Jermaine Hall of rape, sodomy, kidnapping and robbery Tuesday. Hall was charged on Aug. 7, 2007. Hall’s victim testified...
Posted in Abominations on September 25, 2008 10:23 AM
After a Georgia inmate convicted of murdering a police officer was spared from execution a second time, the condemned man's widely publicized supporters erupted in joy. But far from television cameras, the victim's family seethed. "My son is dead. Theirs...
Posted in Abominations on September 25, 2008 02:34 AM
MORROW -- Warren County authorities say a 40-year-old man molested his own 19-year-old son, a young man so physically and mentally handicapped he was unable to tell anyone what was happening to him. "He cannot talk, read, write or communicate...
Posted in Abominations on September 24, 2008 08:43 AM
FOUKE, Ark. -- State and federal authorities are investigating the possible sexual abuse of minors at a 15-acre evangelical compound run by a convicted tax evader who critics describe as a cult leader. The Tony Alamo Christian Ministries complex in...
Posted in Abominations on September 23, 2008 08:00 AM
USA TODAY FOUKE, Ark. -- A 15-acre church compound was quiet Sunday morning following a raid by federal and state law enforcement officers as part of a child-abuse and pornography investigation. A prosecutor said an arrest warrant was likely. A...
Posted in Abominations on September 22, 2008 06:10 AM
Incensed a convicted child rapist will be turned loose tomorrow and unsupervised for a month, the father of 10-year-old murder victim Jeffrey Curley is urging parents to start calling their state representatives today to protest. "They should be outraged," Bob...
Posted in Abominations on September 22, 2008 06:06 AM
By Paul Cameron, Ph. D. / Family Research Institute Three kinds of scientific evidence point to the proportion of homosexual molestation: 1) survey reports of molestation in the general population, 2) surveys of those caught and convicted of molestation, and...
Posted in Abominations on September 19, 2008 12:52 PM
EL PASO, Texas -- A military contractor convicted of possessing child pornography while working in Iraq has received a sentence of 10 years in federal prison. John Charles Fox, 52, pleaded guilty June 30 to charges of failing to register...
Posted in Abominations on September 19, 2008 12:14 PM
SANFORD, Fla. -- A Florida woman will spend the rest of her life in prison for having sex with a 5-year-old boy. Sanford convicted Kelly Lumadue, 33, for videotaped sex acts with the boy. It was Lumadue's second trial for...
Posted in Abominations on September 19, 2008 10:45 AM
John Jackey Worman of suburban Philadelphia has been convicted on child-pornography charges for abusing or raping children as young as 3 months old. Police found more than 1 million visuals on his computer, including thousands of videos of Worman raping...
Posted in Abominations on September 18, 2008 09:34 AM
PHILADELPHIA -- Federal prosecutors rested their case yesterday against accused child-molester John Jackey Worman after presenting photographs - featuring Worman and a 3-month-old infant - that are so vile that the jury was spared from viewing them. Worman, 41, of...
Posted in Abominations on September 16, 2008 10:13 AM
Poland seriously considers introducing coerced treatment of pedophile attraction as part of the sentence for child sex offenders. The country's statistics show about 850 recorded cases of pedophilia a year. The debate over castration for pedophiles was sparked by the...
Posted in Abominations on September 16, 2008 09:45 AM
The Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A 40-year-old pastor has been sentenced to 100 years in prison after a jury convicted him of sex crimes involving two teen boys who say he abused them over a two-year period. During Friday's...
Posted in Abominations on September 8, 2008 01:04 PM
DOVER, N.H. -- A former Strafford County jail chaplain is headed to prison for at least two years, after being convicted of sexually assaulting a female inmate. Ralph Flodin, 71, was sentenced Friday to 2 to 10 years in prison...
Posted in Abominations on September 8, 2008 12:59 PM
AMITE, LA -- After nearly eight hours of deliberations, a Tangipahoa Parish jury found Louis D. Lamonica guilty of four counts of aggravated rape in the Hosanna Church sex scandal. Lamonica, 49, of Hammond, faces a mandatory life sentence in...
Posted in Abominations on September 6, 2008 06:28 AM
Former Omaha priest Daniel Herek will remain in jail an additional four months for violating his probation in a molestation case. Herek, 63, stood before Douglas County District Judge J Russell Derr today in an orange jail jumpsuit, his daily...
Posted in Abominations on September 6, 2008 06:25 AM
It was just a matter of minutes between when Gail Lawrence last checked on her daughter and when she says a man tried to pull the 15-year-old into a van. Her daughter was approached Wednesday night by a man police...
Posted in Abominations on September 5, 2008 09:06 AM
St. Louis Post-Dispatch CLAYTON, MO -- Former teacher Cathy Heminghaus was taken from a Clayton courtroom in shackles Wednesday to serve a six-year prison term for performing sex acts on teenage students at Ferguson Middle School in 2005. St. Louis...
Posted in Abominations on September 4, 2008 12:28 PM
A Mormon branded a predatory paedophile found guilty of carrying out years of sexual abuse on a child he befriended at his church will be sentenced today. As reported first on Cambridge News Online, Martyn Conway was convicted of eight...
Posted in Abominations on September 4, 2008 12:24 PM
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Authorities say an upstate New York Roman Catholic priest sexually abused three young children over a three-year period. A Montgomery County grand jury indicted the Rev. John Broderick on three felony counts of having sexual contact with...
Posted in Abominations on September 4, 2008 12:22 PM
TORONTO -- A former eastern Ontario police officer will have to spend another 30 days in jail after he was convicted of criminal contempt for repeatedly refusing court orders to testify at the Cornwall Public Inquiry. Perry Dunlop has already...
Posted in Abominations on September 4, 2008 11:06 AM
CASSOPOLIS -- The last time John Clyde Tighe sat in Cass County Circuit Court, he tried to kill himself. But on Friday the scene in court was much less dramatic as the 54-year-old convicted child molester awaited sentencing for sexually...
Posted in Abominations on September 2, 2008 09:19 AM
Newnan resident Harold Space has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after being convicted on charges of receiving child pornography via the Internet. Space, 45, was sentenced Aug. 28 by U.S. District Judge Jack Camp, according to U.S....
Posted in Abominations on September 2, 2008 09:13 AM
A federal jury in Boise, Idaho deliberated only three hours before voting to sentence convicted killer and sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan III for the kidnapping, torture, sexual assault and murder of 9-year-old Dylan Groene. The jury's recommendation is binding...
Posted in Abominations on August 28, 2008 04:05 AM
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A former teacher who was sent to prison for attempting to meet a teenage boy for sex learned Monday that he will not be released from prison early. Mark Boster was sentenced in April to a year...
Posted in Abominations on August 27, 2008 10:17 AM
EUREKA, Calif. -- A former youth pastor and teacher's aide pleaded not guilty to charges he molested four boys he met working at after-school and church-based youth programs. Andrew Belant, 25, entered his plea Friday in Humboldt County Superior Court....
Posted in Abominations on August 26, 2008 08:42 AM
CLAYTON -- The 7-year-old victim of a convicted child molester has been barred from playing with his cousins because he is still acting out sexual fantasies from the assaults, the boy's grandmother says. The boy was 5 in October 2006...
Posted in Abominations on August 26, 2008 08:40 AM
BOISE, Idaho -- California law enforcement officials are watching the sentencing hearing for convicted killer Joseph Duncan closely in expectation of eventually trying him there for at least one murder there. The Riverside County, Calif., district attorney's office charged Duncan...
Posted in Abominations on August 25, 2008 08:32 AM
A federal jury in Idaho deliberated for two hours before voting convicted sex offender and killer Joseph Edward Duncan III eligible for the death penalty in the 2005 kidnapping, torture, sexual assault and murder of Dylan Groene. Now prosecutors must...
Posted in Abominations on August 23, 2008 05:37 PM
A Texas jury deliberated 15 minutes before returning a guilty verdict for Patrick "Booger Red" Kelly in the Mineola Swinger's Club case. Kelly was convicted of grooming children as young as 5 to perform sex shows for adults at the...
Posted in Abominations on August 22, 2008 11:53 AM
BOISE, Idaho -- Jurors cringed, cried and some desperately looked away as they were shown a series of deeply disturbing and graphic videos taken by a convicted child killer as he tortured, sexually abused and nearly killed a 9-year-old boy....
Posted in Abominations on August 22, 2008 11:53 AM
Reading her Chicago Sun-Times last week, Diane Houston lingered over a prison photo of the Rev. Norbert Maday, his mug shot showing the convicted sex abuser with a black eye and a swollen lip. Though the Homewood woman is the...
Posted in Abominations on August 22, 2008 11:52 AM
A California appeals court has upheld a lower court's finding that a Catholic priest molested a boy and his church colleagues and bosses were responsible for the crimes. Joey Piscitelli charged, in a civil case, that he was molested by...
Posted in Abominations on August 22, 2008 11:48 AM
CHICAGO, IL -- The family of a boy who allegedly was molested by former Catholic priest and convicted sexual abuser Daniel McCormack filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Archdiocese on Wednesday. The family's attorney, Kenneth Cunniff, said he expects the...
Posted in Abominations on August 21, 2008 08:46 AM
Convicted sex offender Jerry Buck Inman has pleaded guilty to robbery, kidnapping, rape and murder in connection with the death of a Clemson University student in May 2006. Inman admitted in court that he strangled the 20-year-old Tiffany Marie Souers...
Posted in Abominations on August 20, 2008 09:57 AM
A young girl who is the sole survivor of a murderous 2005 attack on her family told detectives that Joseph Edward Duncan III raped her, tried to kill her and forced her to watch him torture, molest and kill her...
Posted in Abominations on August 20, 2008 09:56 AM
CHICAGO IL -- A lay reform group on Tuesday called on Cardinal Francis George to leave his post as Chicago's Catholic archbishop, saying recent revelations about his handling of sexual abuse allegations against priests were intolerable. Leaders of the Boston-based...
Posted in Abominations on August 20, 2008 09:54 AM
DENVER, CO -- At a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters will announce another child molestation lawsuit against the Denver archdiocese. They will also urge local Catholic officials to -- disclose whether they have or are...
Posted in Abominations on August 20, 2008 09:19 AM
EAGLE RIVER, Wis. -- A once-popular and respected church choir director has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for assaulting a teen at his home and the church in Eagle River. Vilas County Circuit Judge Mark Mangerson also sentenced...
Posted in Abominations on August 19, 2008 09:13 AM
MANSFIELD, OH. -- Another person has come forward in the John Picard sexual battery case. Picard, 40, of Springboro, was arrested last month and charged with 10 counts of sexual battery. He is accused of having sexual relations with a...
Posted in Abominations on August 19, 2008 09:11 AM
PORTSMOUTH -- The state Department of Health and Human Services is reviewing its contract policies after learning federal money administered through the department paid most of the salary of a convicted child rapist who allegedly worked with minors on the...
Posted in Abominations on August 19, 2008 06:09 AM
Convicted gay child-killer Joseph Edward Duncan III taunted two kidnapped children, joking that he would take them home, in a video clip shown Friday to jurors in his death penalty sentencing hearing. The video was one of several clips shown...
Posted in Abominations on August 18, 2008 09:01 AM
TORRINGTON -- A baseball umpire group acknowledged this week that members knew they were honoring a convicted homosexual when the group recently gave him a good service award. The Torrington Board of Approved Baseball Umpires on Aug. 5 honored Thomas...
Posted in Abominations on August 18, 2008 08:59 AM
VANCOUVER -- The brother of a Canadian convicted of child molestation in Thailand says he has love - but little sympathy - for his sibling. Schoolteacher Christopher Neil of Maple Ridge, B.C., was sentenced to 39 months in prison on...
Posted in Abominations on August 18, 2008 08:58 AM
Gary Glitter, a one-time British glam rocker, is set for release on Tuesday from his Vietnamese prison where he has spent two years and nine months for child sexual molestation, officials say. The disgraced 1970s pop star, once famed for...
Posted in Abominations on August 18, 2008 08:57 AM
BOISE, Idaho -- The man who admits kidnapping two northern Idaho children and killing one of them wrote a letter to his mother blaming society for feeding the evil in his heart, a prosecution witness testified Friday. "I have once...
Posted in Abominations on August 16, 2008 08:55 AM
SEATTLE -- Lawmakers and college administrators are trying to shut paroled sex offenders out of one of the few places they can still live: Student neighborhoods near major U.S. universities. More than 23 states ban registered sex offenders from living...
Posted in Abominations on August 16, 2008 07:24 AM
BOISE, Idaho -- The father of two children murdered and another sexually assaulted by a convicted sex offender testified at the killer's federal death-penalty hearing Thursday, showing pictures of his youngest children and choking up after confirming their handwriting on...
Posted in Abominations on August 15, 2008 08:07 AM
GREENBURGH -- A Level 3 sex offender dressed in a bikini top was arrested after he allegedly exposed himself to passing joggers on a local bike path, police said. Arthur Meuse, 64, of 45 Grandview Ave. in Mount Vernon, was...
Posted in Abominations on August 15, 2008 05:36 AM
One-time British pop star Gary Glitter will be deported to Britain next week upon his release from a Vietnamese prison after serving a three-year term for child molestation. "I paid for the ticket for him," Glitter's lawyer Le Thanh Kinh...
Posted in Abominations on August 15, 2008 04:39 AM
BOISE, Idaho -- As a federal jury hears prosecutors explain why he should be put to death for killing four members of a family and kidnapping a fifth, a convicted pedophile may offer no substantial counter-argument for why he should...
Posted in Abominations on August 14, 2008 08:46 AM
Victor Johnson looked unblinkingly at 12 Nassau County jurors yesterday as, one by one, they announced the verdict that could send him to prison for up to 25 years: Guilty of molesting a young boy. The boy, now 11, took...
Posted in Abominations on August 14, 2008 08:45 AM
WHEATON -- A former Naperville priest and convicted child molester deemed a sexually violent person will not get a new trial. In March, a jury decided Fred Lenczycki, 64, might reoffend and committed him to the Illinois Department of Human...
Posted in Abominations on August 13, 2008 08:52 AM
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- A former police sergeant convicted of raping four women was sentenced to 440 years in prison Tuesday. Jeff Pelo, formerly with the Bloomington police, slouched forward in his chair but otherwise didn't react as Judge Robert Freitag...
Posted in Abominations on August 13, 2008 04:24 AM
A Harris County man and former student at an Episcopal school in Houston has sued the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Texas, alleging he was sexually abused by a school coach who was later convicted on multiple charges of sexual abuse...
Posted in Abominations on August 9, 2008 07:46 PM
PHOENIX -- An Arizona appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Colorado City polygamist who argued that his marriage to an underage girl was protected by religious freedom. Kelly Fischer was one of the so-called "Colorado City Eight," members...
Posted in Abominations on August 9, 2008 07:44 PM
SAN FERNANDO -- A former Sunland church pastor who molested two girls was sentenced to 32 years and four months in state prison. Joseph Gary Torres, 48, whose sentence was handed down by a San Fernando Superior Court judge, was...
Posted in Abominations on August 8, 2008 09:22 AM
A Harris County man and former student at a Episcopal school in Houston has sued the Episcopal diocese, alleging he was sexually abused by a school coach who was later convicted on multiple charges of sexual abuse of a child....
Posted in Abominations on August 8, 2008 09:20 AM
TOLEDO -- The attorney for a woman suing Toledo priest Gerald Robinson after accusing him of satanic ritual abuse has filed a motion asking that the Toledo Catholic Diocese be forced to provide documents and interrogatories related to the case....
Posted in Abominations on August 6, 2008 03:05 PM
A convicted sex offender and former local church piano player is scheduled to stand trial in Cullman County next month for the alleged sexual abuse of a child. According to court records, Michael Likos, 34 of Gadsden is scheduled for...
Posted in Abominations on August 6, 2008 03:02 PM
MODESTO -- A rural California preacher was convicted Monday of murdering an 85-year-old farmer after he stole more than $1 million from the elderly bachelor's trust. Jurors in Stanislaus County Superior Court also found Howard Douglas Porter guilty of attempted...
Posted in Abominations on August 6, 2008 02:47 PM
Anthony Hopkins of Mobile is charged with murdering his wife and sexually abusing his eldest daughter, who tipped off police While Anthony Hopkins was leading a revival in a small church on the outskirts of Jackson, Ala., Monday night, the...
Posted in Abominations on July 30, 2008 08:26 AM
BOISE, Idaho -- A man who kidnapped two Idaho children and murdered one of them in 2005 is allowed to represent himself at his death penalty hearing, a federal judge decided Monday. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge made the ruling...
Posted in Abominations on July 29, 2008 07:33 AM
ST. LOUIS -- For three days this week, Michael Boykin refused to leave his jail cell while St. Louis Circuit Court jurors several blocks away heard the details of his gut-wrenching crimes. They heard from a 16-year-old boy who told...
Posted in Abominations on July 29, 2008 07:31 AM
BOISE, Idaho -- A federal judge in Boise says convicted child-killer Joseph Edward Duncan III is mentally competent to face a death penalty hearing. Duncan faces the death penalty on three of 10 federal charges related to the 2005 kidnappings...
Posted in Abominations on July 25, 2008 12:08 PM
A New York priest has pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and another count of rape and assault while on field trips with children in the Bay State in the late 1970s. The Rev. Frank Genevieve, 51, who now...
Posted in Abominations on July 24, 2008 08:18 AM
Members of a victims' advocacy group distributed fliers over the weekend at First United Methodist Church of Waukesha to call attention to the fact that a minister who served as the church's pastor in the mid-1980s was convicted and sentenced...
Posted in Abominations on July 24, 2008 08:17 AM
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- Texas authorities on Wednesday began looking for five indicted members of a polygamist sect, in a child sex-abuse case that the group's spokesman alleged was a face-saving move by officials who lost a court battle over...
Posted in Abominations on July 24, 2008 07:55 AM
Louisiana prosecutors asked the Supreme Court yesterday to revisit its recent decision outlawing the death penalty for people convicted of raping children. The unusual request is based on the failure of anyone involved in the case -- lawyers on both...
Posted in Abominations on July 23, 2008 10:06 AM
EL DORADO, Texas -- FLDS spokesman Willy Jessop was pulled over and handed a subpoena early Tuesday morning to appear before a grand jury considering criminal charges against members of his polygamous sect. Jessop, who has become the public face...
Posted in Abominations on July 22, 2008 12:53 PM
RALEIGH -- The Jessica Lunsford Act is one step away from becoming law in North Carolina. Oh Thursday, the N.C. House and Senate adopted a final version of the act, which would provide a minimum 25-year prison sentence for adults...
Posted in Abominations on July 21, 2008 07:39 AM
Authorities searched Friday for a hospital technician who fled an Orange County courthouse just as he was about to be found guilty of sexually assaulting six women in a maternity ward, at least the second time this year someone about...
Posted in Abominations on July 19, 2008 09:53 PM
By Manuel Roig-Franzia / The Washington Post CULIACAN, Mexico -- A U.N. court ruled Wednesday that the United States should halt the executions of five Mexican nationals -- including a convicted killer sentenced to die in three weeks -- until...
Posted in Abominations on July 17, 2008 04:23 AM
OAKLAND -- A longtime Berkeley Sea Scouts leader has pleaded no contest to child molestation and will spend six years in prison, authorities said. Eugene Austin Evans, 64, of Kensington was convicted of two counts of child molestation Monday and...
Posted in Abominations on July 16, 2008 01:15 PM
AMITE, La. -- The former pastor of the defunct Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula will not face charges that he sexually abused a 2-year-old girl at his upcoming aggravated rape trial, a prosecutor said. The case involving the girl will be...
Posted in Abominations on July 15, 2008 12:44 PM
A former Omaha priest is in jail after a judge Thursday denied his request to serve his sentence under house arrest. At a hearing, Douglas County Judge Lyn White ordered Daniel Herek, 63, to turn himself in immediately, and he...
Posted in Abominations on July 11, 2008 12:12 PM
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- An ex-diplomat convicted of having sex with teenage girls in the Congo and Brazil and taping the encounters is asking a judge for leniency, claiming that cultural differences in those countries make sex with girls more acceptable....
Posted in Abominations on July 11, 2008 05:44 AM
A Lawrence-area woman is alleging that the Mormon church failed to conduct a background check on a convicted sex offender, who went on to molest her 9-year-old son in 2004 while baby-sitting the boy at the church's Methuen branch. In...
Posted in Abominations on July 10, 2008 11:52 AM
The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to review the case against a now-former Catholic priest convicted of molesting two teens and sexually battering a young man while assigned to a Los Angeles church. The state's highest court rejected the defense's...
Posted in Abominations on July 10, 2008 11:18 AM
Protesters have burned an effigy and used megaphones, horns and sirens outside a Queensland property housing convicted pedophile Dennis Ferguson. Anger continued to simmer on Wednesday over Ferguson's presence on a church group's property at Carbrook, southeast of Brisbane, following...
Posted in Abominations on July 9, 2008 01:01 PM
SALINAS, CA -- Jury selection will begin today in the trial of David Stamm, the former owner of two Peninsula recreational facilities who is charged with molesting a young employee and possessing child pornography. Stamm faces a maximum sentence of...
Posted in Abominations on July 9, 2008 11:59 AM
A convicted sex offender with a history of preying on young boys has been denied an early release from a prison sentence for drug trafficking. Carl Ronald Skidmore, a retired school teacher from Stellarton, was handed a two-year sentence in...
Posted in Abominations on July 9, 2008 06:40 AM
POULSBO -- A level three sex offender has taken up residence in Poulsbo. As a level three offender, courts have deemed Robert C. Brueger, 33, as having potential to re-offend. In 1990, Brueger was convicted of child rape and two...
Posted in Abominations on July 7, 2008 11:34 AM
WEATHERFORD -- A 43-year-old Springtown man was convicted of 43 child sex abuse counts in Weatherford on Tuesday. He was sentenced Wednesday to 4,060 years in prison, to be served consecutively, and a fine of $430,000. The Parker County jury...
Posted in Abominations on July 3, 2008 07:40 AM
NORTH PORT -- Police arrested a registered sex offender on Monday and accused him of molesting a 10-year-old boy. Authorities say William Aron, 25, convicted in 2003 of two sex crimes, showed a 10-year-old North Port boy pornography before molesting...
Posted in Abominations on July 2, 2008 09:33 AM
STARKE, Fla. -- Florida carried out the state's first execution of a 39-year-old pedophile since a botched lethal injection procedure prompted a moratorium and an investigation. Gov. Charlie Crist's office said Mark Dean Schwab died by lethal injection at 6:15...
Posted in Abominations on July 2, 2008 04:16 AM
JACKSONVILLE -- Death row inmate Mark Schwab's appeals were quickly running out Monday as courts denied or refused to hear any more arguments in the case of the gay convicted in the rape and murder of 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez. Schwab's...
Posted in Abominations on July 1, 2008 07:53 AM
The paid companion and sometimes sex partner of an 85-year-old Orange County attorney strangled in his Palm Desert vacation trailer nearly two years ago testified Monday that he was with the victim when the lawyer picked up the transient who...
Posted in Abominations on July 1, 2008 07:51 AM
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have condemned sexual predators and are urging churches to flush out molesters using federal background checks. But a simple search on the convention's Web site shows they have yet to purge their own house...
Posted in Abominations on June 30, 2008 06:49 AM
WILMINGTON, Del. -- A sixth person has filed a child sexual abuse lawsuit against the Reverend Francis DeLuca, a Catholic priest who has already been convicted of molestation. Sixty-year-old Michael Sowden claims he was abused by DeLuca in 1961 and...
Posted in Abominations on June 30, 2008 06:38 AM
An ecclesiastical court has found that Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Charles E. Bennison engaged in conduct unbecoming of a member of the clergy. Bennison, 64, faced two counts of the charge. The first count of the presentment that formed...
Posted in Abominations on June 27, 2008 11:31 AM
LOS ANGELES -- A former pastor was convicted Thursday of multiple counts of sexually molesting two adolescent girls who attended his church in the San Fernando Valley. A Superior Court jury deliberated for about 90 minutes before finding Joseph Gary...
Posted in Abominations on June 27, 2008 11:30 AM
Mark Head was found guilty today of molesting a 7-year-old girl. The 41-year-old truck driver from Lindale was convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child by a Smith County jury in 7th District Judge Kerry Russell's...
Posted in Abominations on June 27, 2008 11:04 AM
WICHITA FALLS, Texas -- An Air Force colonel was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday and kicked out of the military for assaulting a woman, misusing his government travel card and other crimes at Sheppard Air Force Base. Col....
Posted in Abominations on June 27, 2008 02:05 AM
CLARK COUNTY, Washington -- Robert D. Bennefield, a convicted sex offender spared prison a decade ago by a judge who granted his request for treatment, was back in front of the judge Friday on a new charge of raping a...
Posted in Abominations on June 26, 2008 10:27 AM
The Homyel Regional Court on Friday sentenced a 27-year-old man to death by shooting for raping and murdering a nine-year-old boy last fall. Pavel Lenoy had been convicted for committing lewd acts on children twice and spent nearly five years...
Posted in Abominations on June 26, 2008 10:26 AM
Convicted rapist Christal Gravlin was found to be at low risk of ever sexually re-offending, but only after Judge Jerry Richards departed from a points formula that would have classified her as a Level 2 offender. Gravlin will have to...
Posted in Abominations on June 26, 2008 07:58 AM
The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law that allows the execution of people convicted of a raping a child. In a 5-4 vote, the court says the law allowing the death penalty to...
Posted in Abominations on June 25, 2008 11:26 AM
BEEVILLE -- A former Dogwood City pastor convicted of molesting small children while in his day care has died in prison. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons confirmed that Jefferson Marion Moore Jr., 60, (Brother Jeff) died in...
Posted in Abominations on June 25, 2008 11:08 AM
The monster who raped and tortured a Columbia student for 19 hours snoozed in a cell Tuesday while a jury convicted him of so many crimes he'll probably die in jail. Robert Williams, who frequently played hooky from his trial,...
Posted in Abominations on June 25, 2008 01:38 AM
Southern Baptist Convention leaders are railing against sexual predators, calling upon local churches to drive out anyone accused of sex crimes against children, but a quick Internet search shows the organization has not cleansed its own Web site. An online...
Posted in Abominations on June 24, 2008 03:00 PM
A Radford jury on Monday recommended that a minister spend 11 years in prison for molesting a young girl eight years ago. Hawthorne Reed Jr., 63, was convicted late Friday night of two counts of forcible sodomy and one count...
Posted in Abominations on June 24, 2008 02:59 PM
MINEOLA, Texas -- In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for...
Posted in Abominations on June 23, 2008 10:08 AM
PLATTE CITY, Mo. -- A Texas pervert faces up to 80 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sodomizing a 3-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl. Matthew D. Upchurch, 20, was convicted of two counts of first...
Posted in Abominations on June 19, 2008 05:17 PM
CALLAHAN, Florida -- After pleading guilty to possession of child pornography and possession of firearm ammunition by a convicted felon, David Eugene Mashburn was sentenced to 18 years in a state prison Thursday. Mashburn, 47, was one of three men...
Posted in Abominations on June 19, 2008 05:16 PM
A predatory paedophile groomed and sexually assaulted four young boys while he was a Southampton publican, a court heard. Paul Bedard plied the boys with alcohol, showered them with money, clothes and cigarettes to win their trust and then took...
Posted in Abominations on June 18, 2008 10:27 AM
Japan's most reviled serial killer -- a "cannibal nerd" who preyed on primary-school girls and drank their blood -- has been executed in Tokyo. The hanging of 45-year old Tsutomu Miyazaki brings to 13 the number of death-row inmates who...
Posted in Abominations on June 17, 2008 01:53 PM
Chief says police have "better things to do" BOULDER -- Some residents of Boulder are upset over how the Police Department handled the city's naked bike ride Saturday. Being naked in public is illegal in Boulder, yet police did nothing...
Posted in Abominations on June 17, 2008 01:49 PM
Gary Webster could be a flight risk and has been warned by a U.S. judge not to leave the country. The former UPEI professor is being held in custody on a $100,000 US bail. He pleaded not guilty to two...
Posted in Abominations on June 16, 2008 12:38 PM
Contrary to what President Bush claims, family values do stop at the Rio Grande for many illegal aliens. In addition to suppressing wages, bankrupting our hospitals, and over-crowding our jails and public schools, illegal aliens are preying upon our children....
Posted in Abominations on June 16, 2008 11:56 AM
Rejecting the death wish of a convicted rapist/murderer, a Montgomery County Court judge concluded yesterday that life in prison was the appropriate penalty for Mark Patrick O'Donnell. "For some people, the death penalty may be too easy," said Judge William...
Posted in Abominations on June 14, 2008 09:51 PM
This Is London A young woman has been branded a convicted sex offender because she had an incestuous two year affair - with her long-lost father. Chelsea Cummins, 21, was arrested after she willingly slept with Stephen Broomhead up to...
Posted in Abominations on June 14, 2008 10:11 AM
CHICAGO -- R. Kelly was acquitted of all charges Friday after less than a day of deliberations in his child pornography trial, ending a six-year ordeal for the R&B superstar. Kelly dabbed his face with a handkerchief and hugged each...
Posted in Abominations on June 13, 2008 06:37 PM
MURRIETA, Calif. -- A polygamist was convicted Wednesday of charges that he starved, tortured and abused two of his wives and many of his 19 children and stepchildren. A Riverside County jury found Mansa Musa Muhummed guilty on 25 counts,...
Posted in Abominations on June 12, 2008 05:33 AM
A 66-year-old grandmother of 25 took the stand this week at a trial in Montgomery County and quietly told jurors how she had been sexually assaulted six years ago. "It's that man there," she said, pointing at the defendant. "Those...
Posted in Abominations on June 12, 2008 03:02 AM
SALISBURY, N.C. -- A Mooresville man will spend nearly half a century in prison after a jury found him guilty of repeatedly sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl. During a weeklong trial, a second girl, who doesn't live in North Carolina,...
Posted in Abominations on June 9, 2008 01:07 PM
A UF student was arrested on two felony charges related to child pornography following an undercover Internet investigation by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office. Mark Guterman, a microbiology and cell science junior, was arrested in his Gainesville Place apartment Friday...
Posted in Abominations on June 9, 2008 01:01 PM
TAMPA -- A Tampa federal jury that watched more than eight hours of graphic and violent pornography in court decided that the movies violated community standards for decency. Jurors on Thursday convicted the producer, Paul Little, of 10 counts of...
Posted in Abominations on June 7, 2008 08:08 AM
SANTA ROSA -- A Petaluma gay was sentenced to 14 years and eight months in prison in Sonoma County Superior Court this week on charges of furnishing drugs to a minor during sexual encounters with him for more than a...
Posted in Abominations on June 5, 2008 08:46 AM
BROOKLYN, NY -- A Brooklyn priest was arrested yesterday and charged with touching the breast of a 12-year-old schoolgirl, prosecutors said yesterday. Father Augusto Cortez, 44, a member of the Vincentian Fathers order, allegedly fondled the girl last May 29...
Posted in Abominations on June 5, 2008 08:44 AM
BATTLE CREEK, MI -- His lower lip began to quiver and Troy Deal wiped away tears as a judge told him what his prison sentence meant. "If you commit a crime and get convicted of it, you have to pay...
Posted in Abominations on June 3, 2008 09:02 AM
MOBILE -- A Washington County teacher who was convicted of enticing a former student for sex was sentenced Monday to more than 10 years in prison for the crime. U.S. District Judge Kristi DuBose sentenced Charlene Schmitz to 10 years...
Posted in Abominations on June 3, 2008 08:34 AM
Leveling an accusation of obstruction of justice, federal prosecutors in Mobile plan to ask a judge today to sentence a Washington County teacher to a stiffer sentence for enticing a former student for sex. Attorneys for the 55-year-old former Leroy...
Posted in Abominations on June 2, 2008 08:21 AM
DOVER, Del -- A New Castle County man filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that he was sexually abused as a child by a priest already convicted of molestation. Attorneys for the 58-year-old former Marine filed the lawsuit under the pseudonym...
Posted in Abominations on May 31, 2008 06:52 PM
RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia has tightened its education licensing system to ensure that teachers who sexually abuse children aren't allowed to return to the classroom. A law effective July 1 will require courts to promptly notify local school divisions when...
Posted in Abominations on May 30, 2008 12:35 PM
An "America's Most Wanted" fugitive was captured Wednesday near Kings Mountain, authorities said. Chief Deputy Danny Gordon of the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office said Richard Allen Sloan, 45, was arrested by U.S. marshals and that Deputy Travis Hamrick assisted. Sloan...
Posted in Abominations on May 29, 2008 02:53 PM
Richard Allen Sloan was arrested Wednesday night by U.S. Marshals in North Carolina. Sloan has been featured on WAFF 48's To Catch a Predator report several times, and recently he was featured on America's Most Wanted. Sloan is wanted in...
Posted in Abominations on May 29, 2008 02:52 PM
BALTIMORE -- A Catholic priest convicted of molesting a student in Maryland has been spared registration as a sex offender because the crime occurred before 1995. Jerome Toohey Jr. was found guilty in 2006, almost 20 years after he sexually...
Posted in Abominations on May 26, 2008 06:35 PM
A former Roman Catholic priest who was convicted in 2006 of sexually abusing a student at Calvert Hall College High School 20 years earlier will not have to register as a child sex offende. Jerome F. Toohey Jr., who was...
Posted in Abominations on May 26, 2008 06:33 PM
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. -- A defrocked Roman Catholic priest who admitted driving from Pennsylvania to Long Island intending to have sex with a teenage boy was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison. Thomas Bender, who had a prior conviction...
Posted in Abominations on May 23, 2008 05:12 PM
RUTLAND, Vt. -- A man who raped and killed a University of Vermont student after a chance meeting in which she asked to borrow his cell phone was convicted Thursday in the case, which sent a shudder through Vermont. After...
Posted in Abominations on May 23, 2008 07:03 AM
Canada's notorious sex offender says he owes the people of New Brunswick - where he estimates most of his then-child victims still live - a huge apology, and so much more. "I owe the people of New Brunswick one heck...
Posted in Abominations on May 22, 2008 05:11 PM
FORT LAUDERDALE -- A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a South Florida woman to seven years and three months in prison for keeping a teenage girl from Haiti in servitude for six years. Maude Paulin, 52, a former Miami-Dade County...
Posted in Abominations on May 21, 2008 11:07 AM
BOSTON -- House Democratic leaders and Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. joined Attorney General Martha Coakley yesterday to outline a proposed new child protection law they said would provide new powers to track child predators on the Internet and...
Posted in Abominations on May 21, 2008 07:48 AM
BROOKLYN -- The Kings County District Attorney's office announced the indictment of Yona Weinberg, 29, a Flatbush Bar Mitzvah tutor and licensed social worker charged with sexual abusing four male students, one of which was a client. The indictment charges...
Posted in Abominations on May 20, 2008 05:28 PM
BALTIMORE -- The Archdiocese of Baltimore said a former Calvert Hall College high school chaplain who abused a student in the 1980s has been officially dismissed from the priesthood, or defrocked. Pope Benedict XVI, at the request of the archdiocese,...
Posted in Abominations on May 20, 2008 05:27 PM
PHOENIX -- Lawyers for Warren Jeffs asked an Arizona judge Friday to drop incest charges against the imprisoned polygamist leader. Jeffs, who was convicted in a similar case last year in Utah, is charged in Mohave County as an accomplice...
Posted in Abominations on May 19, 2008 12:24 AM
A Southeast Washington man was convicted yesterday of the 2004 rape and murder of Martha E. Byrd, his 77-year-old neighbor. After eight days of deliberation, a D.C. Superior Court jury found Robert Pettus, 22, guilty of eight of the 16...
Posted in Abominations on May 19, 2008 12:23 AM
NASHUA -- A convicted sex offender, who admitted to fondling an 8-year-old girl while working as a monitor on a Faith Baptist Church bus, was sentenced Thursday to serve at least 13 years in prison. Eugene Hammond, 59, formerly of...
Posted in Abominations on May 16, 2008 01:30 PM
DALLAS -- An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. Because a jury found that Willie Campbell used his saliva as a deadly weapon,...
Posted in Abominations on May 16, 2008 06:48 AM
A convicted and defrocked pedophile Episcopal priest is being allowed to conduct spiritual retreats - two of them in an Episcopal facility with the blessing of Mrs. Katharine Jefferts Schori, TEC's Presiding Bishop. In an exchange of correspondence with David...
Posted in Abominations on May 15, 2008 12:57 PM
DALLAS -- An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. Because a jury found that Willie Campbell used his saliva as a deadly weapon,...
Posted in Abominations on May 15, 2008 07:06 AM
For the second time, a former Milford priest has been convicted of abusing a child. A jury deliberated less than three hours before finding John M. Banko guilty Tuesday of sexually abusing a young boy between September 1994 and January...
Posted in Abominations on May 14, 2008 08:53 AM
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The Inland Empire is considering laws to ban registered sex offenders from driving ice cream trucks. The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors will consider an ordinance Tuesday that requires background checks for drivers and bans anyone...
Posted in Abominations on May 14, 2008 12:54 AM
TYLER, Texas -- A jury again needed just four minutes Thursday to convict an organizer of an East Texas swinger's club where prosecutors say young children were forced to perform sexual acts for an audience. Shauntel Mayo, 29, faces life...
Posted in Abominations on May 10, 2008 06:31 PM
By Jacqueline L. Salmon / The Washington Post It's getting a little uncomfortable for Catholic Bishop Carlos Sevilla these days. Several times in recent months, the Yakima, Wash., clergyman has had to defend himself against accusations that he concealed sexual...
Posted in Abominations on May 10, 2008 02:55 PM
James Hanley, the former Catholic priest at the center of New Jersey's worst clergy sex abuse case, pleaded guilty today to a bail-jumping charge stemming from a missed December court date in an assault case. The guilty plea, in state...
Posted in Abominations on May 9, 2008 10:51 AM
FLEMINGTON -- A man claiming he was sexually abused as a child by a priest in Hunterdon County was silent for almost a decade before he came forward, a prosecutor told a jury Tuesday. "He felt he couldn't face it....
Posted in Abominations on May 8, 2008 12:14 PM
Outraged parishioners have abandoned a Manhattan Lutheran church - after their pastor vowed to keep a convicted kiddie-porn collector on staff. "The families were horrified," said Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge John Wilson, who attended St. Peter's Church at the Citicorp...
Posted in Abominations on May 7, 2008 11:44 AM
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A Texas woman who caused her lover's shooting death by falsely crying rape was convicted Friday of involuntary manslaughter. Tracy Denise Roberson, 37, cried a bit when the verdict was announced. The punishment phase was set...
Posted in Abominations on May 5, 2008 06:45 AM
BONIFAY -- Lawyers on both sides of Christopher Powers' case agreed Tuesday only on how "disgusting" Powers’ crimes were. A Bonifay jury convicted Powers, 46, of sexual battery on a child younger than 12 and lewd or lascivious battery on...
Posted in Abominations on May 3, 2008 10:38 PM
EL PASO, Texas -- Lawyers for convicted child killer David Renteria began wrapping up their case Friday in Renteria's resentencing trial. The defense called their final witness Friday morning, Doctor Mark Cunningham. Cunningham is a clinical and forensic psychologist who...
Posted in Abominations on May 3, 2008 10:32 PM
Only two months after being released, former Aurora and Geneva priest Mark Campobello is back in prison. Campobello was brought back to prison last week, after a "technical parole violation," according to Illinois Department of Corrections spokesman Derrick Schnapp. Campobello...
Posted in Abominations on April 24, 2008 02:39 PM
LUMBERTON, N.J. -- A teacher once named Lumberton's Educator of the Year is charged with possession of child pornography. Sixth-grade social studies and language arts teacher Joseph Macanga was arrested Wednesday. The FBI seized his computer last fall after an...
Posted in Abominations on April 24, 2008 02:35 PM
A teenager convicted of a sex-related hazing incident in the East High School locker room - who also faces charges for attempting sexual activity with two boys he baby-sat - is expected to accept a plea deal May 7, his...
Posted in Abominations on April 23, 2008 06:47 PM
PENDLETON, Ore. -- A Pendleton man has been sentenced to 100 years in prison without parole for raping his 9-year-old stepdaughter. A judge called the crime despicable when he sentenced 34-year-old Darryl Lamont Galloway to what amounts to life in...
Posted in Abominations on April 21, 2008 05:40 PM
WASHINGTON -- Under pressure to meet combat needs, the Army and Marine Corps brought in significantly more recruits with felony convictions last year than in 2006, including some with manslaughter and sex crime convictions. Data released by a congressional committee...
Posted in Abominations on April 21, 2008 05:03 PM
DETROIT -- A jury convicted an 18-year-old man Wednesday of killing another man, beheading him and setting fire to his body in what prosecutors called a thrill killing. Jean Pierre Orlewicz was charged with first-degree murder in the Nov. 7...
Posted in Abominations on April 17, 2008 09:00 AM
BATTLE CREEK -- Opening statements and the first testimony from witnesses are scheduled today in the trial of a Battle Creek youth pastor charged with using the Internet to solicit children for sex. Troy Deal, 35, who was director of...
Posted in Abominations on April 16, 2008 05:20 PM
Former priest and convicted sex offender Donald McGuire faces new allegations of sexual abuse against an underage boy. The former priest, who lives in Oak Lawn, currently faces charges in another sex abuse case. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in...
Posted in Abominations on April 15, 2008 04:10 PM
WASHINGTON -- A federal jury convicted a woman Tuesday of running a prostitution service that catered to members of Washington's political elite. Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, sighed as the verdict was read. She had repeatedly denied the escort service engaged...
Posted in Abominations on April 15, 2008 03:59 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court that ruled in 1977 that states cannot execute someone for the rape of an adult will now decide if the death penalty for those convicted of child rape is constitutional. The court will hear arguments this...
Posted in Abominations on April 15, 2008 09:46 AM
Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Austin said prosecutors sent a message to sex offenders Monday in Cleveland County District Court. "If you've been convicted of sexually abusing a child and you do it again, you're going to spend the rest of...
Posted in Abominations on April 15, 2008 09:43 AM
TAMPA -- When Hillsborough County School Board members meet today to talk about growing numbers of teachers accused of having sex with students, they may be in for some sage advice. Owen Lafave, former husband of Debra Lafave, said he...
Posted in Abominations on April 15, 2008 09:39 AM
CAIRO, Egypt -- An Egyptian court convicted five men Wednesday on charges of homosexual behavior and sentenced them to three years in prison, officials said. Defense lawyer, Adel Ramadan, said the judge found the men guilty of the "habitual practice...
Posted in Abominations on April 10, 2008 03:34 PM
A tango instructor crossed a line between dance and crime when he molested one of his students, a Denver County Court jury decided Tuesday. A jury of five women and one man took about 21/2 hours to find Charles Gale,...
Posted in Abominations on April 10, 2008 09:00 AM
A retired priest and Vatican official sentenced to prison time for sexually abusing 13 boys decades ago is being sued by 11 victims for more than $20 million. The civil suits filed in Pembroke, Ont., on Monday named both former...
Posted in Abominations on April 9, 2008 03:58 PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of a man who argued he cannot be executed because he is mentally retarded. The high court ruled unanimously Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, in favor of convicted killer...
Posted in Abominations on April 9, 2008 11:12 AM
PEMBROKE -- The Catholic church was aware of the sexual abuse of young boys by Bernard Prince more than three decades ago but allowed it to continue, according to lawsuits filed by nearly a dozen victims of the pedophile priest....
Posted in Abominations on April 7, 2008 03:22 PM
A former Tasmanian Anglican priest and convicted paedophile will be put on the sex offenders register for 8 years. 62-year-old Garth Stephen Hawkins will be listed on the register when he's released from prison. In 2003, Hawkins was sentenced to...
Posted in Abominations on April 7, 2008 03:20 PM
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. -- On the screen at the front of the classroom, Virginia assistant attorney general Gene Fishel flashed an online social-networking profile of "hotlilflgirl," a 15-year-old who says she enjoys being around boys and wants to meet new people....
Posted in Abominations on April 7, 2008 01:22 PM
ALISO VIEJO -- An on-duty Orange County Sheriff's Department deputy who was found dead of a single gunshot wound in an unmarked patrol car Wednesday has been identified as a 41-year-old officer who had been charged with molesting a 12-year-old...
Posted in Abominations on April 3, 2008 04:25 PM
Detectives on Wednesday arrested a homeless man who sexually assaulted children. James Matthew Kelly, 26, was released from prison in December and then went missing. Kelly had cut off a tracking bracelet he was supposed to wear and fled, according...
Posted in Abominations on April 3, 2008 04:14 PM
RACINE -- The former Burlington pastor who had an ongoing romantic and sexual relationship with one of his youth group members is "a wolf in sheep’s clothing," a prosecutor said Monday. Judge Gerald Ptacek sentenced Scott Hoppe to four years...
Posted in Abominations on April 2, 2008 07:40 PM
BOSTON -- The new commissioner of the state's prison system said Tuesday he plans to re-examine the case of a convicted killer suing the Department of Correction to try to get a sex-change operation. Prison officials have strenuously opposed a...
Posted in Abominations on April 2, 2008 06:47 PM
STAMFORD -- The bookkeeper who blew the whistle on a Darien priest who stole $1 million from St. John's Church has filed suit against the church and the Diocese of Bridgeport, claiming they harassed and threatened her after she exposed...
Posted in Abominations on April 1, 2008 07:29 PM
ATLANTA -- A former professional wrestler convicted of leading a sex trafficking ring has been sentenced to life in prison. Forty-two-year-old Harrison "Hardbody" Norris of Cartersville was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Atlanta. Prosecutors say Norris ran a scheme...
Posted in Abominations on April 1, 2008 07:28 PM
AGASSIZ, B.C. -- A convicted child pornographer died Saturday in what officials called a disturbance at Mountain Institution in Agassiz, B.C. The victim was identified as Michael Andrew Gibbon, 39, who was serving a sentence for sexual offences, said Corrections...
Posted in Abominations on March 31, 2008 02:56 PM
The associate minister at a local church and a former Toledo Public Schools board candidate was found guilty this morning on misdemeanor charges that he procured prostitution and disseminated pornographic materials to juveniles. The misdemeanor charges against Richard Brown III,...
Posted in Abominations on March 28, 2008 09:55 PM
OSHKOSH -- An Oshkosh man convicted of sexually assaulting his daughter will now serve at least 30 years in prison for assaulting his 12-year-old son. Winnebago County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Gritton told the 50-year-old man at his sentencing on...
Posted in Abominations on March 28, 2008 09:55 PM
STEPHENVILLE, Texas -- A former Tarleton State University psychology professor who did research in child sexual abuse has been indicted on charges of possessing child pornography, authorities said. Thomas M. Dougherty, 42, of Stephenville, turned himself in to the Erath...
Posted in Abominations on March 28, 2008 09:54 PM
A former minister and Mobile businessman, who prosecutors say molested children over a period of decades, is going to prison for the rest of his life. Judge Charles Graddick sentenced Warner Price-Williams, 68, to eighty years in prison for four...
Posted in Abominations on March 27, 2008 05:47 PM
LEXINGTON, SC -- Officials say a convicted sex offender's latest victim is a 12-year-old disabled boy. The gay is in jail as of Wednesday night. Bruce Williams, 44, is accused of having sex with a disabled, 12-year-old boy. Lexington County...
Posted in Abominations on March 27, 2008 05:42 PM
THESSALONIKI, Greece -- A Greek court convicted a British gay on Wednesday of molesting a boy and attempting to molest another, and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. John Norman Hardy Foss, 66, was arrested in July 2006 in...
Posted in Abominations on March 26, 2008 04:51 PM
GATES, NY -- A Gates gay convicted of sodomizing a boy over a two-year period was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to serve five years probation today. Jonathan J. Meek, 53, was sentenced by Justice Francis A....
Posted in Abominations on March 26, 2008 04:48 PM
It's the second trial for James Perry, accused of raping the two boys, then ages 4 and 5, in October 2005. A jury convicted him in September 2006, but trial Judge Denise Langford Morris threw out that ruling, arguing that...
Posted in Abominations on March 20, 2008 02:10 PM
The Salesians Clergy of California have shattered the World Record for the most accused child molesters in one area, by a landslide. There is no religious order in the world that we know of that is even remotely close in...
Posted in Abominations on March 20, 2008 01:32 PM
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court threw out a death sentence and murder conviction Wednesday because a Louisiana prosecutor kept blacks off the jury in a trial he called his "O.J. Simpson case." By a 7-2 vote, the justices said state...
Posted in Abominations on March 20, 2008 09:26 AM
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- A suburban police sergeant who is married to a New York City anchorwoman was charged Wednesday with raping a 17-year-old girl hours after he helped arrest her boyfriend at her house. New Rochelle Sgt. David Rodriguez...
Posted in Abominations on March 20, 2008 09:18 AM
Convicted gay and killer Douglas Moore threatened suicide repeatedly before he was arrested, and denied murdering three people, a coroner's inquest heard today. Peel Regional Police Det. Ken Drover told a Hamilton inquest jury looking into Moore's death that he...
Posted in Abominations on March 19, 2008 06:18 PM
A Russian businessman accused of sexually assaulting at least 19 Cambodian girls was jailed yesterday for 13 years after being convicted in the first of several cases against him. Alexander Trofimov was arrested last October after six girls and their...
Posted in Abominations on March 19, 2008 06:06 PM
A national support group for people molested by clergy is urging leaders of the Baptist General Convention of Texas to disclose the names of ministers reported for child molesting to protect potential victims. But convention leaders, who received the written...
Posted in Abominations on March 19, 2008 06:04 PM
NEW YORK -- Jurors who heard weeks of gruesome testimony about the torture and killing of a 7-year-old girl convicted her stepfather of manslaughter Tuesday but decided against a murder count that could have sent him to prison for life....
Posted in Abominations on March 19, 2008 12:39 PM
Across the nation, dozens of sexual predators have been taking higher education classes at taxpayer expense while confined by the courts to treatment centers. Critics say they are exploiting a loophole to receive Pell Grants, the nation's premier financial aid...
Posted in Abominations on March 18, 2008 04:48 AM
A paedophile was a governor at a primary school despite having two convictions for sex crimes. Father-of-two Alan Whitty was a pillar of the community but hid a sordid secret from teachers at Annecy Roman Catholic Primary School. Yesterday the...
Posted in Abominations on March 14, 2008 12:46 PM
BERLIN -- A Regensburg court convicted a Roman Catholic priest Thursday of sexually abusing minors in his former parish and sentenced him to three years in a state-run psychiatric ward. The priest, identified only as 40-year-old Peter K., confessed to...
Posted in Abominations on March 14, 2008 12:27 PM
ST. LOUIS -- A law prompted by a pottery shop could make it harder for some sex offenders to start a business in the city. Approved quietly by aldermen late last month, the law prohibits individuals convicted of a sex...
Posted in Abominations on March 13, 2008 12:31 PM
2nd boy gives details in teacher sex-assault trial The second child to accuse former Oak Park school teacher James Perry of sexual assault took the witness stand Tuesday, and for the first time, provided details of how he says Perry...
Posted in Abominations on March 12, 2008 01:08 PM
DENVER -- Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow the state to execute people convicted of sexually assaulting children under 12 years old. The bill applies to perpetrators who threaten to retaliate against their victims. Prosecutors would have...
Posted in Abominations on March 11, 2008 01:07 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A convicted killer recently released from prison was charged Saturday with fatally shooting his brother during an argument and then killing five witnesses, including two of his brother's children, police said. Jessie L. Dotson, 33, was arrested...
Posted in Abominations on March 10, 2008 08:28 AM
NORMAN, Okla. -- The man convicted of killing a 10-year-old girl as part of a cannibalistic fantasy "gave up on being normal" and was driven by deviant sexual disorders and a downward spiral of depression, a psychiatrist testified Wednesday. Dr....
Posted in Abominations on March 6, 2008 05:48 PM
A former DeKalb High School teacher convicted last year for having an improper relationship with a student was arrested again late Saturday, accused of inappropriate contact with another girl he once coached. Scott R. Coffing, 34, of Rochester, was arrested...
Posted in Abominations on March 4, 2008 01:01 PM
A former Anglican priest convicted of indecently assaulting a 13-year-old boy has lost his appeal to the High Court. Raymond Frederick Ayles was sentenced to four years' jail after pleading guilty to two of six counts of indecent assault but...
Posted in Abominations on March 1, 2008 06:30 PM
Brisbane's Holy Trinity Anglican Church has been dubbed the "Unholy Trinity" after it has been revealed a pedophile, an alleged pedophile and a practising priest with his own seedy past are leading its Sunday services. Following revelations in The Courier-Mail...
Posted in Abominations on March 1, 2008 06:30 PM
A former school teacher and Nationals member serving an eight-year jail term for sexually abusing young boys has had three years added to his sentence for similar offences. Garry Robin Ford, 58, was convicted of four added offences - wilful...
Posted in Abominations on February 29, 2008 02:13 PM
SEYMOUR -- A woman pleaded guilty this week after prosecutors say she helped a man pay to have sex with a pre-teen girl. 38-year-old Tina Day pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution. Police say Surgio Viveros paid Day $15 to have...
Posted in Abominations on February 29, 2008 02:12 PM
NASHUA -- A former Manchester resident, whose two previous convictions for molesting a friend's young daughters in 1996 were overturned, was sentenced yesterday in Hillsborough County Superior Court to a total of 30 to 60 years in prison on a...
Posted in Abominations on February 29, 2008 02:11 PM
KINGMAN, Ariz. -- Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was handed over to Arizona authorities Tuesday to face sex charges stemming from the arranged marriages of two teenage girls to older relatives. He already has been convicted in Utah in connection...
Posted in Abominations on February 27, 2008 06:26 AM
A once-prominent Jesuit priest convicted of molesting two boys in the 1960s was officially defrocked Friday. The Rev. Donald J. McGuire has been permanently expelled from his religious order and removed from all clerical duties, according to a statement from...
Posted in Abominations on February 25, 2008 10:51 AM
A 45-year-od Ripon man recently convicted of murdering his wife will be sentenced in April. A sentencing hearing for Kevin M. Moore has been set for 9:30 a.m. April 15 before Fond du Lac County Circuit Court Judge Richard Nuss....
Posted in Abominations on February 25, 2008 10:50 AM
Josh Coman was charged Thursday with criminal sodomy, a misdemeanor. It comes with a special allegation, meaning the crime was sexually motivated so if he's convicted as is he'll have to register as a sex offender. He was not charged...
Posted in Abominations on February 22, 2008 09:28 AM
Eugene Dunagan was convicted of sexual assault Thursday. Dunagan was a municipal judge in Colfax for many years. He was charged with sexually assaulting an autistic man in 2005. The criminal complaint says the man told police he would go...
Posted in Abominations on February 22, 2008 09:27 AM
More than 170 immigrants convicted of sex crimes are being deported after authorities found their names on Virginia's sex offender registry, state and federal officials announced yesterday. Some of those being deported are undocumented immigrants, and others were in the...
Posted in Abominations on February 21, 2008 12:04 PM
TALLAHASSEE -- People who distribute or even download child pornography could soon face civil action on top of criminal charges. Florida's attorney general announced a bill Tuesday that would allow victims of child pornography in the state to sue the...
Posted in Abominations on February 20, 2008 08:50 AM
A Fayette County judge Tuesday sentenced a convicted sex offender to a prison term of 52 1/2 to 105 years, virtually assuring Earl D. Fulton, 57, of Uniontown, will spend the rest of his life in jail. A jury convicted...
Posted in Abominations on February 20, 2008 08:49 AM
Athens Police Captain Marty Bruce says 25-year-old Gregory Ray Brooks is passing himself off as a 17-year-old. Bruce said, "back in 2004 he was convicted of sodomy, 1st degree where the victim was an 8 year old female." Now four...
Posted in Abominations on February 20, 2008 08:47 AM
Three men were convicted Tuesday of breaking into a Mission Beach condominium and raping two of four University of San Diego students who were there. Donald Duante Smith, 20, Antonio Washington, 19, and Willie Louis Watkins, 32, face multiple life...
Posted in Abominations on February 20, 2008 08:22 AM
A Federal jury found 54-year-old Charlene Schmitz guilty on two counts of using a computer to entice a child Thursday. The jury came to a unanimous decision in two hours. "You have to respect the jury verdicts at anytime, but...
Posted in Abominations on February 18, 2008 08:20 AM
No one realized Joseph Billera, then 30, was having sex with children. Yet there were warning signs for years that the popular Salem-Keizer teacher preyed on his Houck Middle School students. School officials verbally reprimanded Billera after spotting him at...
Posted in Abominations on February 18, 2008 08:19 AM
Thousands of children are abducted, trafficked, sold to criminals and used as subjects for child sex pornography in many developing countries. French traffickers using charity workers as cover were arrested, charged and convicted in a matter of weeks. Hundreds of...
Posted in Abominations on February 18, 2008 08:16 AM
At age 55, Jerry Kobs still faces the emotional scars of his sexual abuse at the hands of Sister Norma Giannini. Carrying the secret as he raised his own two kids, Kobs hopscotched jobs as he sought work allowing him...
Posted in Abominations on February 14, 2008 01:16 PM
LOS ANGELES -- A judge Wednesday denied a request to allow a convicted sex offender to be moved from Santa Barbara County to the Antelope Valley area, following protests from local legislators and area residents. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge...
Posted in Abominations on February 9, 2008 10:13 PM
PLATTE CITY, Mo. -- A Platte County jury has convicted Andrew M. Sapien, 19, of two counts of first-degree statutory sodomy for sexually abusing two children. Prosecutors said Sapien, of Kansas City, sexually abused a 10-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy...
Posted in Abominations on February 4, 2008 10:27 AM
A Covington County jury convicted a 67-year-old gay for committing several sex crimes against an 11-year-old Andalusia boy following a two-day trial Tuesday. After a brief deliberation, the jury found Kenneth Cender guilty of solicitation to commit sodomy in the...
Posted in Abominations on February 4, 2008 10:23 AM
CANTON, Ohio -- Prosecutors will use statements from a former police officer's son and testimony from a high school classmate to try to convict him of killing a pregnant woman whose disappearance received national attention last summer. Former Canton patrolman...
Posted in Abominations on February 4, 2008 07:07 AM
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- A convicted gay who was released from prison over prosecutors' objections has been charged with raping a 6-year-old at a public library while the boy's mother used a computer nearby. Corey Saunders was arrested outside a...
Posted in Abominations on February 2, 2008 06:19 AM
Anne K. Ream's recent Op-Ed sheds much needed light on how the U.S. military continues to trivialize rape and sexual assault committed by members of the armed forces. Writing about whether a man who is convicted of rape in a...
Posted in Abominations on February 1, 2008 04:36 AM
BUCHAREST, Romania -- A former priest began a seven-year jail term Wednesday for murdering a young nun during an exorcism ritual when she was bound, chained to a cross and denied food and water for days. Irina Cornici, 23, died...
Posted in Abominations on January 31, 2008 10:39 AM
LUBBOCK, Texas -- A former Lubbock pastor already convicted of importing an African woman for sex now awaits sentencing for bilking the government out of nearly $600,000. That money was intended to feed needy children. A federal pre-sentencing investigation is...
Posted in Abominations on January 31, 2008 10:38 AM
VICTORVILLE, Calif. -- A month after his son admitted lewd acts with a child, a Las Vegas man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the continuous sexual abuse of young girls. Clyde Clovis had been facing 45 years...
Posted in Abominations on January 26, 2008 10:44 PM
The 84-year-old retired priest convicted of sexually abusing dozens of girls died of natural causes, a coroner's inquest has concluded. The jury said Wednesday that nothing could have been done to prevent Charles Sylvestre's death at the Kingston Penitentiary on...
Posted in Abominations on January 24, 2008 01:06 PM
RICHMOND, Va. -- The General Assembly is considering tightening the state's education licensure system to ensure that teachers who sexually abuse children aren't allowed to return to the classroom, perhaps in another jurisdiction, to repeat their crimes. Virginia's Department of...
Posted in Abominations on January 22, 2008 07:14 AM
TOLEDO -- Attorneys for convicted murderer and Roman Catholic priest Gerald Robinson have filed a motion seeking to vacate his 2006 murder conviction in the 1980 death of a 71-year-old nun, claiming they have uncovered new evidence that the priest's...
Posted in Abominations on January 21, 2008 03:42 PM
Joseph Robertson was found guilty of molestation and sodomy. The Pontotoc County District Court jury is recommending he be sentenced to 16 years in prison on each count. Robertson was charged after an investigation in 2005 in which the child...
Posted in Abominations on January 18, 2008 05:46 PM
HOUSTON -- A jury convicted a gay Tuesday of raping a man, one of five sexual assaults he is accused of committing on men in an eight-month spree in 2006. The sentencing phase of the trial was to begin later...
Posted in Abominations on January 16, 2008 02:29 PM
SUPERIOR, Wis. -- A Superior man convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer has been sentenced to another nine months in jail. Bryan James Hathaway, 21, had his probation revoked last month for using alcohol and marijuana, lying...
Posted in Abominations on January 7, 2008 11:08 AM
LAS VEGAS -- A victims' advocacy group wants church officials in Nevada to open records and look for possible victims of a former Catholic priest convicted of sexually abusing adolescent boys in Milwaukee. A Diocese of Las Vegas spokeswoman says...
Posted in Abominations on January 5, 2008 08:24 AM
COURTHOUSE -- A convicted child molester, who most recently sexually assaulted a Norristown boy, will no longer be free to prey on other children. Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O'Neill Wednesday sentenced Gerald Bendig Jr., 52, formerly of the 1000...
Posted in Abominations on January 3, 2008 10:02 PM
EWING, N.J. -- Convicted sex offenders who used the Internet to help them commit their crimes will be banned from using the Internet under a measure signed into law Thursday. The bill applies to people who, for example, lured a...
Posted in Abominations on December 27, 2007 04:44 PM
THE boyfriend of 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears could face statutory rape charges carrying a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail. If 19-year-old Casey Aldridge really is the father and the baby was conceived in Spears' home state of Louisiana,...
Posted in Abominations on December 21, 2007 11:59 AM
OSWEGO, NY -- A city of Oswego pedophile was sentenced to 146 years in state prison Wednesday for raping two young girls and sexually abusing a third girl. An Oswego County Court convicted George D. Gunther Jr. of one count...
Posted in Abominations on December 20, 2007 04:14 PM
CHATSWORTH -- A Chatsworth woman convicted by a Murray County jury in October of child molestation (party to a crime) and false statements was sentenced to 10 years in prison by Judge Jack Partain Wednesday morning. Tylee Sprayberry, 33, was...
Posted in Abominations on December 20, 2007 04:13 PM
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- They were convicted one after another - four U.S. soldiers who helped gang rape and kill a 14-year-old Iraqi girl in one of the war's worst atrocities. In exchange for leniency, each struck deals to testify against...
Posted in Abominations on December 19, 2007 07:56 PM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- An effort to free three young men convicted in the lurid 1993 slayings of three 8-year-old boys is gathering speed, with rock stars and other celebrities taking up their cause and about 150 supporters rallying Wednesday...
Posted in Abominations on December 19, 2007 07:47 PM
TRENTON, N.J. -- Marilyn Flax has never been involved in political campaigns. That changed Monday, when New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed a law making New Jersey the first state to abolish the death penalty in more than 40...
Posted in Abominations on December 18, 2007 09:32 AM
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. -- A jury on Monday convicted a millionaire couple of enslaving two Indonesian women they brought to their mansion to work as housekeepers. Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51, and his wife, Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 45, were each convicted...
Posted in Abominations on December 17, 2007 02:25 PM
New Jersey lawmakers have voted to abolish the death penalty in the state, sending the governor a bill he has already said he will sign. The measure will make New Jersey the first state in more than 40 years to...
Posted in Abominations on December 14, 2007 03:06 PM
Convicted of 32 sex charges against 10 male students WINSTON-SALEM -- A former Triad middle school teacher indicted last April on sex offenses pleaded guilty to all charges Wednesday in a Forsyth County courtroom. Robert Watson was sentenced to 18...
Posted in Abominations on December 13, 2007 01:08 PM
NEW YORK -- A therapist at a Queens elementary school has been charged with molesting a 6-year-old. Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown identified the defendant as George Bournias of Public School 84 in Astoria, where the girl was receiving...
Posted in Abominations on December 13, 2007 01:02 PM
LOS ANGELES -- A biochemist who killed her husband by knocking him out and pouring hydrochloric acid on him was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder. A Superior Court jury found Larissa Schuster, 47, of Clovis, guilty of murdering Timothy Schuster...
Posted in Abominations on December 13, 2007 01:01 PM
The mother of a woman murdered by a convicted rapist after he was paroled while Mike Huckabee was Arkansas governor is now speaking out against the GOP presidential hopeful. Lois Davidson, whose daughter Carol Sue Shields was murdered by Wayne...
Posted in Abominations on December 10, 2007 05:21 PM
The mother of a woman murdered by a convicted rapist after he was paroled while Mike Huckabee was Arkansas governor is now speaking out against the GOP presidential hopeful. Lois Davidson, whose daughter Carol Sue Shields was murdered by Wayne...
Posted in Abominations on December 10, 2007 05:00 PM
Police need your help in locating convicted felon and wanted subject Curtis Eugene Caldwell, 47, a sexual offender whose whereabouts have been unknown for two years. In December 1997, Caldwell was arrested and charged with multiple counts of first-degree sexual...
Posted in Abominations on December 10, 2007 02:32 PM
WASHINGTON -- A Navy physician was sentenced to nearly four years in the brig after a military jury found that he had secretly recorded Naval Academy midshipmen having sex in his Annapolis home. The jury also dismissed Cmdr. Kevin J....
Posted in Abominations on December 10, 2007 02:16 PM
DOTHAN, AL -- Two Wiregrass men are behind bars on multiple child molestation charges, including a 42-year-old Dothan man previously convicted of sodomy, according to Slocomb Police Chief David Land. Police arrested 51-year-old Daniel Killingsworth, of Forest Street in Slocomb,...
Posted in Abominations on December 8, 2007 10:01 PM
A Hamilton pastor was found guilty of inappropriate sexual contact with a teenage female member of his congregation Tuesday following an two-day trial. The Rev. Bruce Alvin Curtis, 54, a religious leader at Community Friendship Church of God in Christ...
Posted in Abominations on December 7, 2007 12:28 PM
A former postman and ex-pastor convicted of sexually abusing an elderly Florala woman is headed to prison. Alabama Attorney General Troy King said a Covington County judge yesterday sentenced Jerry Hutcheson to four years for raping an 86-year-old woman in...
Posted in Abominations on December 7, 2007 12:27 PM
ABC News A convicted sex offender was charged Wednesday in the death of a 4-year-old boy whose body was found in a garbage truck in July. The boy disappeared from outside his family's apartment near Churchill Downs on June 29....
Posted in Abominations on December 5, 2007 05:26 PM
CONRAD -- District Judge Laurie McKinnon will consider whether a 13-year-old Conrad boy convicted of sexual assault should be required to register as a sex offender and have his picture posted on the state's notification Web site. Colt Harris, who...
Posted in Abominations on December 5, 2007 05:22 PM
JENA, La. -- A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate led to one of the largest civil rights protests in years pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor battery charge that could see him released from...
Posted in Abominations on December 4, 2007 10:20 AM
The jury believed the soft-spoken boy. Even though in court he couldn't recognize his attacker -- whose face was obscured behind a bushy beard -- the 9-year-old had said, yes, it was Tommy Wayne Boyd who lured him into those...
Posted in Abominations on December 3, 2007 02:26 PM
A Salem, Oregon man has been sentenced to a total of 138 years in prison partially because of the state's new Jessica Law passed in 2006. Michael David Robinson, 35, pleaded guilty to eight counts of sexual abuse that involved...
Posted in Abominations on December 3, 2007 02:23 PM
GALENA -- A Stone County man was convicted this week of two counts of first-degree statutory sodomy involving the 5-year-old daughter of his former girlfriend. Joshua Bunch, 24, formerly of Reeds Spring, was found not guilty of one additional charge...
Posted in Abominations on December 3, 2007 02:23 PM
ATLANTA -- Federal authorities allege that the husband of an Atlanta police officer took photos of himself having sex with several young girls, and say the police department had some of the pictures seven years ago but took no action....
Posted in Abominations on December 1, 2007 03:05 PM
A Salem man will spend the rest of his life in jail for convictions of eight counts of sexual abuse, partly as the result of a relatively new law enacted in Oregon. Michael David Robinson, 35, received the 138-year sentence...
Posted in Abominations on November 30, 2007 10:39 AM
ST. GEORGE, Utah -- A judge sentenced a polygamous-sect leader Tuesday to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison for his role in the arranged marriage of teenage cousins. Warren Jeffs, 51, was convicted of two counts...
Posted in Abominations on November 21, 2007 05:39 PM
WATCH VIDEO: Junny's Parents Speak Out JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of convicted child killer Mark Dean Schwab on Thursday, hours before he was scheduled to die. Schwab was sentenced to death for the...
Posted in Abominations on November 15, 2007 03:20 PM
SALT LAKE CITY -- Attorneys for a polygamous sect leader convicted of rape by accomplice are asking a judge to set aside the jury's verdict, saying the evidence was insufficient and circumstantial at best. "We think it's the wrong result,"...
Posted in Abominations on November 15, 2007 10:58 AM
TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- Convicted child killer Mark Dean Schwab paces his cell for 14 hours a day worrying about Thursday's execution, his attorney said on Tuesday immediately after asking Judge Charles Holcomb for an evidentiary hearing. "He's nearing execution and...
Posted in Abominations on November 14, 2007 05:53 AM
A District man who was convicted of abducting a woman at gunpoint in Southeast Washington and sexually assaulting her in Prince George's County was sentenced yesterday to two terms of life in prison plus 30 years. The county's top prosecutor...
Posted in Abominations on November 9, 2007 08:26 AM
SALT LAKE CITY -- A polygamous-sect leader tried to hang himself in jail in January, eight months before a jury convicted him of rape as an accomplice, according to documents released Tuesday. The disclosure was in an evaluation by mental-health...
Posted in Abominations on November 7, 2007 07:49 AM
PIERRE, S.D. -- A former state lawmaker was convicted Tuesday night of raping two former foster daughters during physical examinations that he claimed would help them sell their reproductive eggs. The Hughes County jury found Ted Klaudt guilty of all...
Posted in Abominations on November 7, 2007 07:45 AM
An Ohio appellate court yesterday reinstated a 2005 lawsuit filed by a Toledo woman alleging that Gerald Robinson, the Toledo priest convicted last year in the 1980 murder of a nun, was part of a group that repeatedly tortured and...
Posted in Abominations on November 1, 2007 10:45 AM
GOLDEN, Colo. -- The man known as "Don Vito" on MTV's show "Viva La Bam" was convicted Wednesday of two counts of sexual assault on a child. Vincent Margera, 51, who was accused of groping three girls ages 12 to...
Posted in Abominations on November 1, 2007 04:01 AM
LOS ANGELES -- U.S. polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, convicted of being an accomplice to rape, renounced his role as prophet while awaiting trial because he had been "immoral" with a sister and a daughter 30 years ago, according to...
Posted in Abominations on November 1, 2007 02:46 AM
For many registered child sex offenders in Maryland tonight, answering the doorbell might be less likely to reveal a ghost or goblin than a police officer. And it won't be a costume. In an operation that began last night, the...
Posted in Abominations on October 31, 2007 08:49 AM
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court halted an execution in Mississippi on Tuesday less than an hour before a convicted killer was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection. The last-minute reprieve for Earl Wesley Berry is the third...
Posted in Abominations on October 31, 2007 08:48 AM
Georgia's State Supreme Court has ruled that Genarlow Wilson's 10-year sentence for having oral sex when he was a teenager is "cruel and unusual punishment" and ordered him freed. The state court announced the ruling Friday morning. Wilson was convicted...
Posted in Abominations on October 26, 2007 10:24 AM
He may be the most prominent Catholic priest convicted of sexual abuse and now two Phoenix brothers claim they were his victims. The Chicago Jesuit priest was convicted last year of abusing two men in the 1960's. One of the...
Posted in Abominations on October 25, 2007 12:43 PM
Two young men from Arizona have filed a sexual abuse lawsuit charging a Jesuit priest molested them when they were children, and charging the Jesuit order knew he'd molested other boys and never did anything about it. One of the...
Posted in Abominations on October 25, 2007 12:35 PM
ATLANTA -- The Georgia Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution to a man convicted of killing two people in Spalding County in 1990. Curtis Osborne had been set to die by lethal injection tomorrow. Court records say that...
Posted in Abominations on October 23, 2007 03:13 AM
PHOENIX -- Two men who sent millions of unsolicited pornographic e-mail messages have been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison as part of a prosecution under a federal antispam law, officials from the Department of Justice said...
Posted in Abominations on October 15, 2007 09:52 AM
By Ben Smith / Politico.com A prominent Texas Republican has sued Rudy Giuliani's law firm and a close friend and partner of Giuliani's, Kenneth Caruso, alleging that Caruso, the firm and others "schemed and conspired to steal $10 million." J....
Posted in Abominations on October 9, 2007 03:58 PM
The Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A former Riverside County church volunteer who molested three boys was sentenced to 141 years to life in prison. Jeffrey Randolph Wright, 47, of Hemet, was sentenced in a French Valley courtroom. "This is...
Posted in Abominations on October 4, 2007 01:49 PM
A 23-year-old Midland gay was sentenced to 18 years in state prison Tuesday after being convicted of sexually assaulting a 7-year-old boy. At the end of a 385th District Court trial that began last Wednesday, Jose Angel Soliz had been...
Posted in Abominations on October 4, 2007 01:49 PM
Jerry Wayne Sash was convicted Friday of molesting a 10-year-old boy whom he lured into his home from a neighborhood playground. Sash, 48, was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child by 114th District Judge Cynthia Stevens Kent....
Posted in Abominations on October 4, 2007 01:48 PM
STEELE, N.D. -- School boards across the country are debating how to deal with parents like Cody Mittleider. The 28-year-old married father of three young children spent a year in prison for a 2005 rape conviction, but has since worked...
Posted in Abominations on October 3, 2007 01:20 PM
Robert W. Fulsom, a former captain of the Blasdell Volunteer Fire Company, was ordered Monday to spend the next 15 years in prison by a judge who denounced him as a "predator" against children. Fulsom, 28, was sentenced on his...
Posted in Abominations on October 2, 2007 04:12 PM
The Associated Press ST. GEORGE, Utah -- The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for performing a wedding between a 19-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl. Warren Jeffs, 51, could...
Posted in Abominations on September 25, 2007 05:27 PM
By Stephen Gurr / The Gainesville Times Saying Gregory Kapordelis had "little chance for rehabilitation," a federal judge sentenced the Gainesville anesthesiologist to 35 years in prison on child pornography charges Tuesday. The sentence was 45 years less than what...
Posted in Abominations on September 20, 2007 07:49 AM
By Stephen Gurr / The Gainesville Times An alternately apologetic and indignant Gregory Kapordelis on Monday addressed a federal judge who pondered how much time the Gainesville anesthesiologist will spend in prison after being convicted of child pornography charges. Kapordelis,...
Posted in Abominations on September 19, 2007 02:47 AM
LOGAN, W.Va. -- Prosecutors filed amended felony charges Tuesday in the case of a woman tortured for days in rural West Virginia, changes that mean the six defendants could face life in prison if convicted. Graphic details of the crime...
Posted in Abominations on September 19, 2007 02:45 AM
DETROIT -- An assistant U.S. attorney from Florida was arrested in an Internet sting operation after flying to Michigan to have sex with a 5-year-old girl, authorities said Monday. John D.R. Atchison, 53, was arrested Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport...
Posted in Abominations on September 18, 2007 06:19 AM
The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The execution of a man convicted of murdering a sheriff and his deputy was halted by the Kentucky Supreme Court on Wednesday, two weeks before he was set to die in the state's first...
Posted in Abominations on September 14, 2007 09:29 AM
PHOENIX -- A convicted sex offender sought in a child pornography investigation has been arrested in Australia, U.S. authorities said. Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said 66-year-old Howard Wesley Cotterman of California faces federal charges related to the...
Posted in Abominations on September 12, 2007 06:38 AM
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- A 25-year-old woman has been convicted of having sex with a 14-year-old boy. Morgan Crawson was found guilty of two felony counts of second-degree rape after prosecutors said she had two separate sexual encounters with the teenager....
Posted in Abominations on September 8, 2007 10:43 AM
FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- A Nevada couple has been sentenced to over a decade in prison after police said they tried to get a 15-year-old girl to run away to Las Vegas to be the husband's sex partner. Problem was,...
Posted in Abominations on September 7, 2007 10:17 AM
A former Roman Catholic school pupil who helped to convict the teacher who repeatedly sexually assaulted him has told his harrowing story and urged other victims to speak out. John, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, said...
Posted in Abominations on September 6, 2007 03:13 PM
Former Anglican priest Ralph Rowe on July 6 was convicted of additional charges of sexual abuse against boys and sentenced by a judge in Kenora (Ont.) Superior Court to three years in prison. The Kenora Daily Miner & News reported...
Posted in Abominations on September 6, 2007 03:07 PM
A former teacher at a Roman Catholic boarding school was jailed for 10 years and nine months today for sexually abusing six pupils. Former Royal Navy chaplain Paul Couch was convicted on August 2 but released on bail by the...
Posted in Abominations on September 3, 2007 02:11 PM
By Christopher Swann / Bloomberg.com Senator Arlen Specter said Idaho Republican Larry Craig should try to withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct in connection with an incident in an airport men's room and fight the case. ``I think he...
Posted in Abominations on September 3, 2007 01:15 PM
Senator Arlen Specter: "I'd like to see Larry Craig go back to court, seek to withdraw his guilty plea and fight the case," Senator Arlen Specter said on 'Fox News Sunday'. Drawing on his earlier experience as District Attorney of...
Posted in Abominations on September 3, 2007 01:15 PM
A Fort Worth man accused of getting his daughter's friend drunk with wine coolers before sexually assaulting her was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday. Robert Highland, 69, was convicted on three counts of aggravated sexual assault by a Parker...
Posted in Abominations on August 30, 2007 03:16 PM
A music teacher at Tehiyah Day School in El Cerrito has been acquitted of molesting a female student, but has been convicted of lesser charges of assault and battery. Achi Ben Shalom, 53, of El Cerrito was found not guilty...
Posted in Abominations on August 28, 2007 03:29 AM
INVERNESS, Fla. -- John Evander Couey looked straight ahead as a judge told him he should be executed for crimes that led to new laws in many states cracking down on convicted sex offenders. The 49-year-old convicted sex offender was...
Posted in Abominations on August 25, 2007 11:40 PM
By Anemona Hartocollis / The New York Times The former principal of a Montessori school in Manhattan has appealed her conviction for having sex with an under-age student, accusing prosecutors of concealing promises to a witness in exchange for...
Posted in Abominations on August 24, 2007 12:02 PM
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. -- Despite warnings from a denominational official as well as another church, a Southern Baptist congregation near Chicago allowed a convicted child molester to preach for years. In the end, it took media inquiries for Jeffrey Hannah, 42,...
Posted in Abominations on August 23, 2007 04:31 PM
EUGENE, Ore. -- A Lane County jury has convicted a former high school chemistry teacher of sexually abusing two 17-year-old students. Curtis Buell has been found guilty on multiple counts of second-degree sexual abuse. They carry a maximum five-year prison...
Posted in Abominations on August 23, 2007 04:26 PM
CHICAGO -- A Jesuit priest convicted last year of sexually abusing two teenage boys about 40 years ago is facing new accusations of abuse. Though the original charges against the priest, the Rev. Donald J. McGuire, date from the late...
Posted in Abominations on August 22, 2007 01:22 PM
A second convicted sex offender was invited into a worship role at a southwest suburban Southern Baptist church, where Jeff Hannah, a multiple sex offender, had been preaching with the church's blessing since being paroled from prison in 2001, the...
Posted in Abominations on August 21, 2007 11:56 AM
Iowa schools are one of several places off limits to all sex offenders convicted of a crime against a minor. What happens when the sex offender is child himself? Should he be allowed to attend classes with other kids? That's...
Posted in Abominations on August 16, 2007 02:23 PM
Sex abuse victims ask church members to stop donating Admitted predator is heading a third 'spiritual retreat' this week in Minnesota. In rare move, Episcopal officials respond to pressure & warn participants about his crimes but defrocked, convicted cleric shouldn't...
Posted in Abominations on August 15, 2007 12:43 PM
BOSTON -- A Lowell man who spent the past 16 years living free and raising a family should have been serving prison time for a 1990 rape conviction, prosecutors said in a petition to the state’s highest court. The Middlesex...
Posted in Abominations on August 15, 2007 12:42 PM
BELGRADE, Serbia -- The Serbian Supreme Court has quashed the conviction of an Orthodox priest convicted of sexually abusing boys in a monastery, a court spokeswoman said Wednesday. Jovan Misic was found guilty last year of "lewd behavior and sexual...
Posted in Abominations on August 8, 2007 07:14 AM
Renald David Dominguez, a former Napa foster parent, is looking at 200 years to life in prison. Last week a jury convicted Dominguez, 58, on 19 counts of child molestation, including oral copulation and sodomy. The crimes involved three male...
Posted in Abominations on August 7, 2007 10:40 AM
PHILADELPHIA -- A wealthy motel owner was convicted yesterday of traveling to eastern Europe to sexually assault impoverished boys in exchange for money and gifts. Anthony Mark Bianchi, 45, of North Wildwood was found guilty of virtually all the charges...
Posted in Abominations on August 4, 2007 10:20 AM
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Maryland Court of Special Appeals has upheld the conviction a former middle school teacher convicted of sexual abuse of a minor last year. Christopher Tribbitt, 28, of Denton was convicted of one count of sexual abuse...
Posted in Abominations on August 4, 2007 10:17 AM
West Islip school district officials are under fire for using district letterhead to write a judge in support of a teacher who was later convicted of trying to cover up the rape by her husband of a North Babylon High...
Posted in Abominations on August 3, 2007 03:34 AM
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. -- A sentence was handed down for a local pastor after being convicted of molesting a teenage parishioner. Dozens of parishioners came out to support the pastor. When the judge handed down the sentence of 15 years...
Posted in Abominations on August 2, 2007 02:55 AM
DELAND -- A former foster father accused of sexually abusing children in his care said in court Tuesday he did not touch the boys with sexual intentions because he suffers from low testosterone -- but the jury wasn't going for...
Posted in Abominations on August 1, 2007 11:10 AM
ALBANY, N.Y. -- A sex offender living in Pownal, Vt., who is accused of possession of child pornography, was indicted by a grand jury on July 19 in U.S. District Court in Albany. Edward K. Carnes, 44, of Blueberry Hill,...
Posted in Abominations on July 28, 2007 08:25 PM
A convicted pastor's tearful plea for leniency, impassioned testimony about his character and a courtroom jammed with supporters failed to sway a Howard County Circuit Court judge, who sentenced the religious leader Thursday to 15 years in prison for sexually...
Posted in Abominations on July 28, 2007 08:18 PM
The Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A former Birmingham police officer who was serving 22 years in prison for forcing a 12-year-old boy to perform sexual acts, was granted bond after the Alabama Supreme Court ordered he get a new...
Posted in Abominations on July 28, 2007 08:17 PM
A two-time Greene County sex offender accused in a new case of trying to sexually assault a 9-year-old Springfield boy will stand trial. Associate Greene County Circuit Judge Jason Brown found enough probable cause after Tommy Wayne Boyd's Wednesday preliminary...
Posted in Abominations on July 27, 2007 11:58 AM
The devil did not make him do it, said a Yuba City pastor convicted of lewd and lascivious conduct with a 12-year-old girl. But the devil does prey on people who have just completed fasting and taken communion – and...
Posted in Abominations on July 25, 2007 05:31 AM
LAS VEGAS -- Trial has been postponed until January for a Roman Catholic priest who could face life in prison if convicted of sexually attacking and trying to kill a church soloist. Lawyers cited scheduling conflicts Tuesday in pushing back...
Posted in Abominations on July 25, 2007 05:30 AM
The Associated Press ATLANTA -- The Vatican has joined the list of those calling for a man convicted of killing a Savannah police officer in 1989 to be spared the death penalty. In a letter sent on behalf of Pope...
Posted in Abominations on July 20, 2007 01:54 PM
An unpublished government study suggests a strong link between men who download sexual images of children and molestation, The New York Times reported. Of the convicted Internet offenders in the study, 85 percent said they had sexually abused minors, with...
Posted in Abominations on July 20, 2007 01:52 PM
REGINA -- A possible plea bargain that convicted pedophile Peter Whitmore may get on Monday is evoking conflicting reactions. Whitewood's deputy mayor, Randy Miller, said on Wednesday that he has mixed feelings about Whitmore possibly serving a life sentence instead...
Posted in Abominations on July 20, 2007 01:51 PM
Experts have often wondered what proportion of men who download explicit sexual images of children also molest them. A new government study of convicted Internet offenders suggests that the number may be startlingly high: 85 percent of the offenders said...
Posted in Abominations on July 19, 2007 06:42 AM
A 27-year-old man who was posing as a woman when he was arrested by Denver police during a prostitution sting has been charged with prostitution with knowledge of being infected with HIV or AIDS. Darren Garcia is being held in...
Posted in Abominations on July 19, 2007 05:16 AM
DENVER -- A jury in Denver has convicted Donald Shissler of sexually assaulting children. Friday the jury convicted Shissler, 74, on a total of 14 counts involving sex assault on a child and one count of exploitation of a child....
Posted in Abominations on July 16, 2007 04:19 AM
SPOKANE, Wash. -- A former Lutheran youth minister was convicted Thursday of multiple sex crimes involving two teen-age girls. James D. Ritter, 33, sat quietly while Superior Court Judge Neal Rielly found him guilty of six counts of first-degree sexual...
Posted in Abominations on July 16, 2007 04:17 AM
TACOMA, Wash. -- A Thai immigrant convicted of incest led investigators to the body of a 12-year-old girl who had been missing since the Fourth of July, and is expected to be charged in her death, authorities said Friday. Police...
Posted in Abominations on July 16, 2007 04:16 AM
PHILADELPHIA -- Seven years ago, Russian courts convicted a wealthy American motel owner of molesting children, sent him to prison, then expelled him from the country. The experience did little to keep Anthony "Mark" Bianchi stateside. Over the next few...
Posted in Abominations on July 16, 2007 04:14 AM
ALLEGED prison child pornography offender Anthony Wheatman can now be named after a court rejected his attempt to use his children as an identity shield. As the suppression decision was handed down in the Adelaide Magistrates Court yesterday, Wheatman -...
Posted in Abominations on July 12, 2007 12:49 PM
Prosecutors established the groundwork to seek the death penalty in the case of 18-year-old Kelsey Smith, the Kansas teen who was abducted in a Target store parking lot June 2 and was found murdered four days later 20 miles from...
Posted in Abominations on July 11, 2007 08:30 AM
BOSTON -- The man convicted of killing a pedophile priest may have posted a prison security video online that shows the murder as it occurred. Joseph Druce beat, stomped and strangled convicted child molester John Geoghan, 68, while both were...
Posted in Abominations on July 6, 2007 03:49 PM
TRENTON -- The New Jersey attorney general said Tuesday that 141 convicted sex offenders in the state, more than half of them on probation or parole, have profiles on the social networking Internet site MySpace.com. “We have the proof in...
Posted in Abominations on July 5, 2007 08:48 AM
By Kevin O’Connor / The Rutland Herald The first warning came sometime in the early 1970s, when the head of St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, Md., called the director of priest development for Vermont's Catholic Church to report a potential...
Posted in Abominations on July 3, 2007 09:52 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A former Roman Catholic priest will face a second trial on sexual-abuse charges in October, after the Kentucky Supreme Court tossed out a jury's verdict. Bullitt County prosecutors said they will retry Daniel C. Clark, 59, starting...
Posted in Abominations on July 3, 2007 09:45 PM
THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. -- A gay was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy whom he later ordered killed. The jury deliberated just three hours Wednesday evening before convicting Kent A. Proffit Sr. on all eight counts of third-degree sexual assault....
Posted in Abominations on July 2, 2007 09:57 AM
HAPEVILLE, Ga. -- A 43-year-old Hapeville woman has been convicted of pimping her teenage goddaughter and the girl's best friend for $40. Authorities say the 15-year-old Florida girl was visiting her father with her 16-year-old friend when they stopped by...
Posted in Abominations on June 29, 2007 03:20 PM
A convicted sex offender recently accused of attempting to sexually assault a 9-year-old boy near a bike trail has committed similar crimes at least twice in the past, court documents say. Tommy Wayne Boyd, 29, is accused of telling the...
Posted in Abominations on June 18, 2007 05:13 PM
An Auburn man, on the run for a decade, pleaded not guilty in an Auburn courtroom Tuesday to 39 counts of egregious child molestation and sex charges. Gary Wilde, 66, faces more than 300 years behind bars if convicted on...
Posted in Abominations on June 13, 2007 03:11 PM
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- A man who was convicted of persuading girls to send him pornographic pictures of themselves has been sentenced to 60 years in prison. David E. Starr, 45, of Marion, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court....
Posted in Abominations on June 12, 2007 09:17 PM
SAN DIEGO -- A former respiratory therapist pleaded guilty Tuesday to molesting young, brain-damaged patients at the hospital where he worked for 25 years. Wayne Albert Bleyle, 55, admitted to eight counts of forcible lewd acts upon a child and...
Posted in Abominations on June 12, 2007 06:56 PM
NOBLESVILLE -- One of two teenagers who prosecutors and police say were molested by a former Child Protective Services worker told a jury this morning that he had been touched inappropriately the first time in the worker’s sport-utility vehicle. The...
Posted in Abominations on June 8, 2007 03:40 PM
The Marion County Sheriff's Office is notifying residents in northeast Salem that convicted sex offenders have moved into their neighborhood. Jose Manuel Aguirre, 40, is living at 1545 Capital St. NE, No. 2. Homosexual Eugene Thomas Ward, 47, is living...
Posted in Abominations on June 7, 2007 10:21 PM
A judge has stood by his decision to ban newspapers from naming a convicted paedophile in case it would embarrass his family. In a highly unusual move Judge Warwick McKinnon barred the press in April from identifying a 45-year-old Upper...
Posted in Abominations on June 7, 2007 10:20 PM
New London -- Julie Amero, a substitute teacher convicted after pornographic images appeared on a classroom computer, was granted a new trial today. Amero's lawyer says there is new evidence casting doubt on her conviction. Outside court Amero, 40, was...
Posted in Abominations on June 6, 2007 12:21 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from David Allen Jones, a preacher who was convicted in 2001 in Sharkey County of murdering his wife. Jones, who in the late 1990s served as pastor of the Anguilla...
Posted in Abominations on May 22, 2007 05:43 PM
CHICAGO, Illinois -- Twelve jurors who convicted a man of killing seven people at a suburban restaurant 14 years ago narrowly recommended he spend the rest of his life in prison rather than be sent to death row. All but...
Posted in Abominations on May 21, 2007 07:56 AM
An Odenton minister convicted of molesting a 10-year-old boy was sentenced to five years in prison. Enoch Jermaine Hill, 29, sat quietly as Judge William C. Mulford II dismissed his pleas for leniency and ordered him to prison. But after...
Posted in Abominations on May 11, 2007 08:57 PM
By Scott Daugherty / Annapolis Capital An Odenton minister convicted of molesting a 10-year-old boy was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison. Enoch Jermaine Hill, 29, sat quietly as Judge William C. Mulford II dismissed his pleas for leniency...
Posted in Abominations on May 8, 2007 08:31 PM
The Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. -- A church congregation voted to approve setting guidelines for dealing with registered sex offenders who ask to participate in the church community. The approval Sunday by more than a two-thirds majority opened the door...
Posted in Abominations on May 8, 2007 08:30 PM
BRISTOL, England -- A Church of England priest has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for sexually assaulting six boys. The Rev. David Smith, rector of the church in Clevedon, Somerset, was convicted after a two-week trial...
Posted in Abominations on May 4, 2007 07:23 PM
One of the founders of an Eden children’s soccer league was convicted Monday of periodically molesting a young male friend of his children several years ago. Michael Spicola, 51, who also is the part-time bookkeeper for the Town of North...
Posted in Abominations on May 3, 2007 08:39 PM
By Charles Montaldo / About.com A man authorities believe to be Los Angeles' most prolific serial killer, has been convicted of the murders of 10 women and the unborn child of one of his victims. A jury of six men...
Posted in Abominations on May 1, 2007 04:22 PM
MANITOWOC, Wis. -- A jury convicted a 17-year-old teenager of raping a photographer and helping his uncle — whose previous brushes with the law brought attention to the case — kill her and burn her body. Brendan Dassey was convicted...
Posted in Abominations on April 26, 2007 02:43 PM
DARLINGTON, S.C. -- A convicted sex offender accused of raping two teens in a dungeon-like space behind his home testified Saturday that he had sex with both of his accusers hours before the alleged crimes took place. Kenneth Glenn Hinson...
Posted in Abominations on April 23, 2007 07:41 AM
By Anemona Hartocollis / The New York Times “Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds,” a judge in Manhattan said Thursday, quoting Shakespeare, before sentencing a former private school principal to up to 14 years in prison for...
Posted in Abominations on April 21, 2007 11:33 AM
NEW YORK -- ABC’s 20/20 examined the problems with clergy sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention April 13, warning that some convicted “preacher predators” remain on an SBC’s list of ministers available for employment. Featuring interviews with Southern Baptist...
Posted in Abominations on April 18, 2007 12:38 PM
NEW YORK -- ABC's "20/20" examined the problems with clergy sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention April 13, warning that some convicted "preacher predators" remain on an SBC's list of ministers available for employment. Featuring interviews with Southern Baptist...
Posted in Abominations on April 17, 2007 02:20 PM
Clergy sex scandals have widely been exposed in the Catholic Church, but recent media attention has gone toward Protestant churches, mainly the Southern Baptist Convention, which some fear may be developing a similar pattern to the Catholic Church. A six-month...
Posted in Abominations on April 16, 2007 09:39 AM
NEW YORK -- A bail bond of $3.5 million was posted Monday for a Manhattan Montessori school headmistress and teacher who was convicted last week of having a sexual relationship with one of her barely pubescent students. Bond for Lina...
Posted in Abominations on April 16, 2007 09:16 AM
FORT COLLINS -- Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput met privately with members of a parish whose former priest was convicted of sexually assaulting teenage boys. About 200 people met with Chaput on Thursday night to discuss the case of Timothy Joseph...
Posted in Abominations on April 13, 2007 05:48 PM
FLEMINGTON -- A former Milford priest's upcoming sex assault trial may not include testimony from other alleged victims who aren't directly involved in the case, as his first trial did. Hunterdon County Assistant Prosecutor Dawn Solari said Thursday she doesn't...
Posted in Abominations on April 13, 2007 05:46 PM
CLEVELAND -- A former Cleveland grade school principal who committed sex crimes against one of her students took the stand Wednesday during a hearing to determine if she will be labeled a sexual predator. A judge ruled that convicted sex...
Posted in Abominations on April 13, 2007 05:44 PM
FAYETTEVILLE -- Even though a fellow evangelist vouched for William R. Ward’s character, a judge on Wednesday sentenced Ward to at least 55 years in prison for sex crimes against family members. Although he did not speak at his trial,...
Posted in Abominations on April 12, 2007 02:15 PM
A three-judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals listened to arguments Wednesday on whether the former pastor of St. Timothy’s Catholic Community in Mesa should get a jury trial for a slew of misdemeanor charges related to possible sexual...
Posted in Abominations on April 12, 2007 02:13 PM
A judge has refused to lift an order banning newspapers from naming a convicted paedophile in case it would embarrass his family. In a highly unusual move Judge Warwick McKinnon barred the press from identifying a 45-year-old Upper Norwood man...
Posted in Abominations on April 12, 2007 07:30 AM
For the second time in three weeks, a Catholic priest was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy who came to him for counseling. Timothy Evans, 44, was found guilty Monday of fondling a 17- year-old boy who entered counseling...
Posted in Abominations on April 11, 2007 03:56 PM
WASHINGTON -- A Naval Academy midshipman convicted of sexually assaulting a fellow student should spend two years in prison and be dismissed from the Navy, a military jury said Tuesday. The decision will be reviewed by academy superintendent Vice Admiral...
Posted in Abominations on April 10, 2007 05:43 PM
PENDLETON, Ind. -- An inmate at the Pendleton Correctional Facility who had been convicted of molesting a child was found dead in his cell Friday afternoon. Kent D. McDonald, 44, of North Vernon, was serving a sentence for child molestation...
Posted in Abominations on April 9, 2007 10:19 AM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A convicted sex offender from Escambia County who tried to flee to Mexico has been indicted on additional felony charges that could make him a habitual offender and result in a life sentence, Attorney General Troy King...
Posted in Abominations on April 3, 2007 03:54 PM
NEW YORK -- A headmistress and teacher at an exclusive private Manhattan Montessori school, accused of having sexual relations with two young teen students, was convicted Thursday of sodomizing one of them when he was 13. Lina Sinha (photo), showed...
Posted in Abominations on March 30, 2007 12:03 AM
PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- A 29-year-old sex offender who posed as a boy while enrolling in several charter schools is competent to stand trial for numerous crimes, a judge has ruled. Yavapai County Superior Court Judge Thomas Lindberg on Monday found...
Posted in Abominations on March 29, 2007 10:45 AM
56-Year-Old Pennsylvania Man Found Guilty of Abusing Girl For More Than A Decade A western Pennsylvania man has been convicted of several hundred sex-crime counts for abusing one girl for more than a decade. A jury found Clarence Thomas, 56,...
Posted in Abominations on March 23, 2007 07:15 AM
SUPERIOR, Wis. -- A 20-year-old man received probation after he was convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer. The sentence also requires Bryan James Hathaway to be evaluated as a sex offender and treated at the Institute for...
Posted in Abominations on March 23, 2007 07:14 AM
By Chuck Hustmyre / Crime Library BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- A little more than three hours after 6-year-old Christopher Barrios disappeared, convicted child molester George Edenfield admitted to police that he had killed the kindergartener, according to a newly released search...
Posted in Abominations on March 22, 2007 02:57 PM
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- A convicted child molester and his parents were indicted Wednesday on charges they molested and then murdered a 6-year-old neighbor boy, whose body was found last week in a trash bag dumped by a roadside. Glynn County...
Posted in Abominations on March 21, 2007 01:50 PM
LAS VEGAS -- A Roman Catholic priest pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he beat and sexually assaulted a female soloist at a parish office, and his attorneys said they intend to show that the woman and their client had...
Posted in Abominations on March 15, 2007 08:57 PM
By Russ Bynum / The Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- A tip from a convicted child molester led police Tuesday to search a wooded field and canal near the home of a missing 6-year-old boy, but a search party of...
Posted in Abominations on March 14, 2007 09:26 AM
Thomas Daniel Nuckles maintains he did not molest a 4-year-old boy while he worked at a Roanoke County day care center. But DNA evidence taken from a stain on the boy's underwear overwhelmingly points to Nuckles, and a judge convicted...
Posted in Abominations on March 12, 2007 01:45 PM
COLLINSVILLE -- Authorities are looking for a 42-year-old Collinsville gay who was charged Monday with sexual assault, sexual abuse and soliciting sex from two teenage boys. A warrant remains open for Donnie G. Helms, a previously convicted sex offender, after...
Posted in Abominations on March 12, 2007 01:45 PM
NEW CASTLE -- The 15-year-old Craig County boy had worked for three years at The Bread Basket restaurant when owner Sidney Arnold Harry called him upstairs. Harry said "he had some things to show me," the boy testified. In a...
Posted in Abominations on March 12, 2007 12:35 PM
FORT WORTH -- A judge handed down a 25-year prison sentence to a priest whose long history of sexual misconduct has already cost the Fort Worth Catholic Diocese more than $4 million in legal settlements. Thomas Teczar was convicted earlier...
Posted in Abominations on March 9, 2007 08:47 PM
The Associated Press A Lutheran congregation is grappling with how to deal with a convicted sex offender who says his church attendance is an important step toward rehabilitation. Clergy and members at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd say they're...
Posted in Abominations on March 4, 2007 01:31 PM
A former high school principal pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lewd conduct in a public place after being arrested during a police sting involving a male undercover police officer at a park. Brent Bailey of Fullerton resigned...
Posted in Abominations on March 1, 2007 04:30 PM
The Methodist Church in Ireland has said it was "greatly saddened to learn" of the conviction of a former president of the church, Kenneth Best, of sex abuse. In a statement it also said it "deeply regrets any suffering caused...
Posted in Abominations on February 28, 2007 04:45 PM
Actor Bruce Willis was among dozens of celebrities named yesterday when the explosive little black book kept by notorious Hollywood madam Jody 'Babydol' Gibson was finally made public. Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones was another listed in records kept by...
Posted in Abominations on February 28, 2007 01:31 PM
SANTA ANA, CA -- A trial has begun for a former aide to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy he met over the Internet. During opening statements Thursday in Orange County Superior Court,...
Posted in Abominations on February 26, 2007 09:11 AM
WINDHAM, Conn. -- Until recently, Julie Amero says, she lived the quiet life of a small-town substitute teacher, with little knowledge of computers and even less about porn. Now she is in the middle of a criminal case that hinges...
Posted in Abominations on February 14, 2007 09:41 AM
STANTON -- A pastor of a Stanton church accused of having sex with a 16-year-old female parishioner appeared in court today during his arraignment, which was continued until Feb. 23. Ronald Hernandez Tovar, 56, of Placentia was charged on suspicion...
Posted in Abominations on February 12, 2007 11:35 AM
CHEYENNE -- People who knowingly harbor unregistered sex offenders could be found guilty of felonies under a bill that received initial approval in the House on Tuesday. Although some House members expressed concern that the legislation could violate people's right...
Posted in Abominations on February 9, 2007 03:18 PM
An Oakland County judge granted a new trial Wednesday to an Oak Park teacher convicted of sexually assaulting two young boys, saying "it would be a miscarriage of justice to allow the verdict to stand." Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca,...
Posted in Abominations on February 8, 2007 12:58 PM
After one full day of deliberation, a Deschutes County jury found a former Sisters pastor guilty on all six charges Friday in the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl whose family worshiped at the church. Deschutes County Circuit Judge Michael...
Posted in Abominations on February 7, 2007 02:19 PM
LOS ANGELES -- A judge Tuesday ordered the Roman Catholic Church to release insurance records and confidential files related to a notorious priest who had been convicted of molestation before being transferred to California. Superior Court Judge Peter D. Lichtman...
Posted in Abominations on February 7, 2007 02:18 PM
HANOI, Vietnam -- A Vietnamese court reduced former British rocker Gary Glitter's child molestation sentence Wednesday, cutting his three-year term by three months as part of a nationwide Lunar New Year prison amnesty, a judge said. Glitter, convicted of molesting...
Posted in Abominations on February 7, 2007 10:06 AM
EL MIRAGE, Ariz. -- To neighbors, Casey Price was a seventh grader with acne and a baseball cap who lived an unremarkable life among a bevy of male relatives. He built the occasional skateboard ramp and did wheelies on his...
Posted in Abominations on February 1, 2007 09:05 AM
By Jordan Robertson / The Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A gay prosecutors said was one of the nation's most prolific child molesters was sentenced Monday to 150 years in prison for abusing two 12-year-old boys. Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller,...
Posted in Abominations on January 29, 2007 03:28 PM
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Police say a convicted gay involved in a bizarre Arizona case may have molested children in El Reno, where records show he lived from 2003 to 2005, a newspaper reported Saturday. Neil Havens Rodreick II, 29, claimed...
Posted in Abominations on January 29, 2007 03:28 PM
By Kirk Mitchell / The Denver Post A Colorado repeat child sex offender was convicted of raping and killing an 8-year-old girl in California in 1979, a prosecutor says. Joseph Seferino Cordova Jr., 62, was found guilty by a 12-member...
Posted in Abominations on January 29, 2007 03:27 PM
More alleged victims could testify against former Milford priest and convicted child molester the Rev. John Banko. They most likely would not be the accusers who testified in the 2002 trial, when Banko was found guilty of sexually assaulting an...
Posted in Abominations on January 29, 2007 03:27 PM
A Rochester school sentry charged earlier this month with sexually assaulting a student now is charged with attacking nine more boys. A Monroe County grand jury today indicted Andre T. Johnson, 34, on charges that he sexually assaulted 10 students...
Posted in Abominations on January 29, 2007 03:24 PM
The Associated Press SEATTLE -- Three more men have sued the Salvation Army, claiming they were molested by a swim coach in the 1970s. The three, identified by their initials, filed a lawsuit this week in King County Superior Court...
Posted in Abominations on January 26, 2007 05:53 PM
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Experts on child exploitation are all too familiar with sex offenders working as scout leaders, coaches and teachers, but this was a new one — a boyishlooking man who posed as a 12-year-old and enrolled in school...
Posted in Abominations on January 26, 2007 05:52 PM
ROCHESTER -- A Catholic priest and Elmira native now jailed for possessing computerized images of child pornography contends he should not be on New York's sex offender registry when he is freed in March from federal prison. In court papers...
Posted in Abominations on January 25, 2007 08:05 PM
Convicted pedophile priest Charles Sylvestre died Monday at a prison hospital, just months into his three-year sentence for abusing 47 girls. Sylvestre - who abused children for nearly four decades under the noses of parents, teachers and officials within the...
Posted in Abominations on January 25, 2007 08:04 PM
PIERRE, South Dakota -- A man who had blamed his 12-year-old daughter for his wife's stabbing death was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder. Prosecutors said Brad Reay, 47, stabbed his wife to death last winter just days after she asked...
Posted in Abominations on January 25, 2007 08:04 PM
PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Authorities investigating a 29-year-old sex offender suspected of repeatedly enrolling in schools as a 12-year-old boy said Thursday they seized a video showing him engaging in sex acts with a child. Investigators were trying to determine the...
Posted in Abominations on January 25, 2007 01:41 PM
"It always hits the papers when a female teacher has sex with 14- or 13-year-old boys, but when a pastor sexually abuses … young boys, it's kept quiet," said Greenwood, Mo., detective Robert Leslie. It's Missouri's biggest clergy sex-abuse case...
Posted in Abominations on January 23, 2007 05:50 PM
YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZ. -- Some parents in Arizona are shocked after learning a 29-year-old gay tried to enroll in school as a 12-year-old. Investigators believe he was doing it to try to find young boys to molest - and they...
Posted in Abominations on January 23, 2007 05:50 PM
Two brothers filed a $6.5 million lawsuit Monday against the Mormon church and the Boy Scouts of America for alleged sexual abuse in the 1980s by a Portland church teacher and Scout leader. The lawsuit, filed in Multnomah County Circuit...
Posted in Abominations on January 23, 2007 05:49 PM
GREENWOOD, Mo. -- In what the detective investigating it described as Missouri's biggest clergy sex-abuse to date, Shawn Davies, a 33-year-old former music and youth minister, was sentenced Jan. 12 to 20 years in prison for molesting children at First...
Posted in Abominations on January 19, 2007 08:37 PM
VIERA, Fla. -- A former Brevard County teacher convicted of molesting a former student has been sentenced to 70 years in prison. A Brevard County judge also sentenced Daniel Cliatt on Tuesday to a lifetime of probabtion. Cliatt, 30, faced...
Posted in Abominations on January 18, 2007 06:16 PM
Sexual abuse victims of a defrocked priest can seek punitive damages from the Diocese of San Diego in a lawsuit that alleges officials knew the priest was abusive and did not protect them, a judge ruled Tuesday. Former priest Edward...
Posted in Abominations on January 18, 2007 06:15 PM
PHILADELPHIA -- A gay convicted of molesting a boy he met at a youth academic camp has been allowed to leave prison every day for months to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. A judge halted the arrangement...
Posted in Abominations on January 18, 2007 06:14 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A Grants Pass man convicted of raping and beating his former girlfriend was sentenced to 32 years in prison. William M. Blanscet Jr., 36, assaulted the woman at her apartment for three days in December 2004,...
Posted in Abominations on January 16, 2007 07:58 PM
An imprisoned gay pleaded not guilty today to new charges that he took pornographic photos of a child in Ohio and drove another child to Virginia to have sex with him. Joseph M. Tyson, 57, of Canandaigua, is charged in...
Posted in Abominations on January 16, 2007 07:57 PM
Paso Robles, Calif. -- The family of a boy molested by a teacher at his elementary school is suing the Paso Robles Public School District for $5 million. Michael Paul Fitch of Los Osos, was convicted of committing a lewd...
Posted in Abominations on January 16, 2007 07:55 PM
By Glenn Smith / Charleston Post Courier CHARLESTON, S.C.-- Just months before his arrest, a North Charleston minister charged with molesting young men in his congregation opened a cavernous outreach center designed to draw kids from around the community. Pastor...
Posted in Abominations on January 15, 2007 12:18 PM
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton has drawn three new lawsuits accusing a deceased priest and an already convicted child molester deported to Ireland of sexually abusing former students at a Lodi parochial school. The civil lawsuits, filed in San...
Posted in Abominations on January 15, 2007 12:15 PM
A gay lawyer who practised in Prince Albert, Sask., and Flin Flon, Man., has been found guilty of a series of sexual offences involving teenage boys. Queen's Bench Justice Grant Currie handed down the ruling Wednesday in Prince Albert, finding...
Posted in Abominations on January 11, 2007 03:17 PM
A predatory child molester who attacked two Springfield girls last summer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Jason Seth Albion O'Connell, 35, is accused or convicted of crimes against children in three states. The Springfield attacks happened about...
Posted in Abominations on January 11, 2007 03:16 PM
BEDFORD -- Zachary M. Harrison was arrested Friday for allegedly soliciting and molesting a 13-year-old Bedford boy in March. Harrison, 24, 486 Bartlettsville Road, reportedly contacted the boy by phone, after seeing the boy’s phone number and “sexually suggestive” remarks...
Posted in Abominations on January 10, 2007 04:19 PM
It took three attempts to convict Wayne Jewell of the most serious sex crime charges he faced, but as a result, the former neighborhood babysitter faces a 60-year prison sentence. Howard Superior Court 2 Judge Stephen Jessup handed down the...
Posted in Abominations on January 9, 2007 07:24 PM
NORWICH, Conn. -- A substitute teacher in the Norwich school system is facing up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of exposing students to pornography on a computer at the school. Julie Amero, 40, of Windham, was convicted...
Posted in Abominations on January 9, 2007 07:23 PM
FORT WAYNE, IN -- The 120-year sentence handed down to convicted child molester Anthony Demarco could be cut in half unless the Indiana Supreme Court upholds the original sentence. Demarco, 27, of Mentone, received the sentence after a Kosciusko County...
Posted in Abominations on January 8, 2007 03:47 PM
A Nicasio physician was arraigned on three felony counts of child molestation Friday for what prosecutors say were crimes that continued for more than a year. Alan Lawrence Ager, 59, faces the prospect of 16 years in state prison if...
Posted in Abominations on January 8, 2007 03:45 PM
Bob Allen / Ethics Daily In 1999 in Calvert County, Maryland, a student had to change her plans to deliver her high school graduation prayer after a fellow student objected, with backing from the ACLU and the state attorney general's...
Posted in Abominations on January 6, 2007 08:18 PM
Scott Hoppe told the Walworth County girl that God loved her. But the girl told police that Hoppe, a former youth minister and assistant pastor at Grace Church in Burlington, had sex with her many times when she was between...
Posted in Abominations on January 5, 2007 01:44 PM
Sexual predators are on the rise in our nations schools, the perpetrators are teachers. Take a look at the following three cases; do you know what they have in common? Grand Rapids, Mich., a teacher at South Haven's Baseline Middle...
Posted in Abominations on January 5, 2007 01:37 PM
A Patchogue gay convicted of sexually abusing a 3-year-old boy was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison. A Suffolk jury last month convicted Alex Dayton on charges of sodomy, sexual abuse, endangering the welfare of a child and petit...
Posted in Abominations on January 4, 2007 02:22 PM
ATASCADERO, Calif. -- A gay who molested more than 50 children could be nearing supervised release from a state mental facility. James Lamb, a former Spreckels resident, underwent chemical and physical castration in his efforts to be released from Atascadero...
Posted in Abominations on January 4, 2007 02:20 PM
BONHAM -- It seemed like the Fannin County Attorney's Office prosecuted one sex offender after another in 2006, and it's because prosecutors practically did just that. On Jan. 27, 2006, a Fannin County jury convicted Lester Baxter Starnes on four...
Posted in Abominations on January 4, 2007 02:19 PM
WORCESTER -- Joseph L. Druce, who was found guilty earlier this year of the 2003 prison slaying of pedophile priest John J. Geoghan, has filed a civil suit charging there was a conspiracy to mislead him about the defense strategy...
Posted in Abominations on December 28, 2006 04:22 PM
WATERLOO, Ia. -- A former youth minister convicted of abusing church youth has been given jail time as well as probation and parole under new sentencing laws for sex offenders. Michael R. Ross, 28, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation by...
Posted in Abominations on December 20, 2006 05:17 PM
A gay convicted of sexually abusing a teenage boy was sentenced Friday to the maximum 22 years in prison, which the judge said wasn't long enough. "If I could give you more than 22 years, I would," Will County Judge...
Posted in Abominations on December 19, 2006 08:15 AM
"IN OUR community we really treat each other as if we are really, really close friends," the 10-year-old girl explained to the police officer. The girl was talking about her religious community, the Exclusive Brethren. And she was explaining how...
Posted in Abominations on December 19, 2006 08:09 AM
OCALA, Fla. -- Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all executions in Florida after a medical examiner said Friday that prison officials botched the insertion of the needles when a convicted killer was put to death earlier this week. Separately, a federal...
Posted in Abominations on December 16, 2006 06:42 PM
ST. GEORGE, Utah -- A polygamist church leader accused of forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry and have sex with an older cousin in 2001 was ordered Thursday to stand trial. Warren Jeffs, 51, pleaded not guilty Thursday in state...
Posted in Abominations on December 15, 2006 05:40 AM
BENTONVILLE -- A Benton County woman was convicted Wednesday of raping a 13-year-old boy and exposing him to HIV. An 11-man, one-woman jury recommended Donna Sue Mars, also known as Donna Turner, serve a 10-year sentence for the rape and...
Posted in Abominations on December 14, 2006 12:37 PM
An Upper Peninsula man admitted that he stole the identity of a dead infant so he could move to Oregon without registering as a sex offender. Bradford Storti of Rock pleaded guilty in Ingham County on Wednesday to identity theft...
Posted in Abominations on December 14, 2006 12:37 PM
BOSTON -- A former editor for the company that publishes the children's newspaper Weekly Reader was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison for soliciting sex from a minor. Noel Neff, 47, of Norwalk, Conn., was arrested in 2005 in...
Posted in Abominations on December 14, 2006 11:12 AM
RICHMOND, Va. -- Officials in two states proposed unusual plans Monday to tighten oversight of convicted sex offenders: Virginia's attorney general wants them to register their e-mail addresses and online IDs, and New York officials want them to take lie-detector...
Posted in Abominations on December 12, 2006 09:03 AM
A 19-year-old Lynchburg gay was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for molesting a 12-year-old boy last year. In July, a jury convicted Adolphus Lee Thomas Jr. on one count of forcible sodomy for having sex with the boy...
Posted in Abominations on December 9, 2006 05:37 PM
NORFOLK -- A woman who was accused of prostituting a young female relative was found guilty Friday of aggravated sexual battery, indecent liberties with a child, and child abuse. Jurors found the woman, Brenda Johnson Holley, not guilty on charges...
Posted in Abominations on December 9, 2006 05:36 PM
A gay convicted of having sex with a 9-year-old boy was ordered Thursday to undergo chemical castration, the first time a judge in Collier County has used an obscure part of state law that also allows for physical castration. After...
Posted in Abominations on December 8, 2006 12:37 PM
WASHINGTON -- A Virginia man was sentenced to 150 years in prison for sexually exploiting minors and operating child pornography Web sites. Gregory John Mitchel, who previously had been convicted of child pornography crimes, pleaded guilty in January to the...
Posted in Abominations on December 8, 2006 07:56 AM
A 33-year-old man convicted of sodomizing a dog in Eastpointe will appeal an order requiring him to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison term. Delbert John Holliday was sentenced to 3 1/2 to 15 years in...
Posted in Abominations on December 6, 2006 11:28 AM
The 38-page sheaf of material contained information about Edward F. Dudzinski, 56, who last month was among 20 former priests accused by the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, Del., of sexually abusing children. He served in the priesthood in the 1970s...
Posted in Abominations on December 6, 2006 11:26 AM
DALLAS -- A formerly convicted child molester was sentenced to 210 months in prison without parole for possessing child pornography following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In addition to the prison time, U.S. District Judge John...
Posted in Abominations on December 6, 2006 11:25 AM
A civil trial of the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre and a former Catholic youth minister convicted of molesting four teenagers has been put off until February, court sources said yesterday. The case against Matthew Maiello, his church and the...
Posted in Abominations on December 6, 2006 11:24 AM
A former pastor convicted of raping three women has been temporarily moved to an East Texas prison. Terry Hornbuckle, 44, was sent to the Gurney Unit transfer facility near Tennessee Colony in Anderson County last week. He will likely remain...
Posted in Abominations on November 30, 2006 11:57 AM
ALHAMBRA, CA -- Former Alhambra police Sgt. Michael James Fisher pleaded guilty Monday to child molestation and is expected to receive a three-year prison sentence, the District Attorney's Office said. Fisher, 42, of Covina was arrested Aug. 14 and later...
Posted in Abominations on November 28, 2006 11:42 AM
DANBURY -- Danbury would become the first community in the state to bar convicted sex offenders from city-run parks and recreation areas if the Common Council, as expected, adopts an ordinance that was approved after a public hearing Monday evening....
Posted in Abominations on November 28, 2006 11:41 AM
Neither the Diocese of Phoenix nor civil authorities are supervising more than half a dozen priests who are under suspension for sexually abusing children, but remain in the priesthood. One of them, Wilputte "Lan" Sherwood, has dropped out of sight,...
Posted in Abominations on November 14, 2006 08:53 PM
BALTIMORE -- The US conference of Catholic bishops is debating how parishes can be welcoming to gays while also upholding the teaching that gay relationships are "disordered". The proposed guidelines before the bishops on Tuesday, called "Ministry to Persons with...
Posted in Abominations on November 14, 2006 08:51 PM
BIRMINGHAM , Michigan -- A youth soccer coach charged with molesting a 7-year-old boy apparently has fled the United States and may be in Peru, authorities say. Claudio Caffelli, a 25-year-old Italian citizen, was charged Oct. 26 with three counts...
Posted in Abominations on November 2, 2006 06:41 PM
Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Thomas Osowik yesterday denied convicted murderer Gerald Robinson's request to be released from a state prison while the appeal of his conviction for killing a nun in 1980 works its way through the courts. Judge...
Posted in Abominations on October 31, 2006 05:47 PM
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former East Providence city councilman was convicted Monday of sexually assaulting a boy who worked in his Pawtucket flower shop 20 years ago. Gerald Lynch, 62, was convicted of four counts of first-degree sexual assault and...
Posted in Abominations on October 30, 2006 06:56 PM
WILMINGTON, Del. -- Catholic Church officials in New York were warned several years ago that a former Delaware priest arrested on child sexual abuse charges last week was a suspected pedophile, but only after the man allegedly began molesting a...
Posted in Abominations on October 27, 2006 07:42 PM
TRENTON, New Jersey -- The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state's constitution gives gay and lesbian couples all the rights of married heterosexual couples. But the court left it to the state legislature to decide what to...
Posted in Abominations on October 25, 2006 07:56 PM
Three kinds of scientific evidence point to the proportion of homosexual molestation: 1) survey reports of molestation in the general population, 2) surveys of those caught and convicted of molestation, and 3) what homosexuals themselves have reported. These three lines...
Posted in Abominations on October 23, 2006 05:31 PM
ATLANTA -- A 16-year-old girl counted down her suicide attempt through text messages to a female classmate who had rebuffed her sexual advances before crashing her vehicle into an oncoming car, killing a mother of three and injuring the victim's...
Posted in Abominations on October 21, 2006 10:53 AM
COLUMBUS -- The Ohio Board of Education permanently revoked the teaching license yesterday of a former Toledo Roman Catholic priest convicted in 2003 of possessing child pornography. Stephen G. Rogers, 58, a former religion teacher and associate pastor at Central...
Posted in Abominations on October 11, 2006 08:43 PM
ELKHORN, Wis. -- A Walworth County judge ruled Tuesday that a Chicago Jesuit priest found guilty this year of molesting two boys in the 1960s will not be required to discuss his sexual history with corrections authorities as part of...
Posted in Abominations on October 11, 2006 08:42 PM
The Survivors Network of Those Abused By Priests, known as SNAP, is asking Cardinal George to keep a convicted pedophile priest out of the Chicago archdiocese. Father Donald McGuire was convicted earlier this year of indecent behavior with a child...
Posted in Abominations on October 10, 2006 05:19 PM
HARTFORD, Conn. -- An Avon man who had been found with scores of images of child pornography on his computer and videos of children being violently raped has avoided prison time. Edward J. Burke III, 47, was given a suspended...
Posted in Abominations on October 10, 2006 05:22 AM
LOS ANGELES -- A documentary film featuring an extraordinarily candid interview with a former priest convicted of molesting children has heightened interest among law enforcement officials here in considering a criminal case against Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, says a prosecutor...
Posted in Abominations on October 9, 2006 02:34 PM
CINCINNATI -- People who have never been convicted of a sex offense still could end up on a public registry in Ohio. A law that went into effect in August targets alleged sex offenders who can no longer face charges...
Posted in Abominations on October 6, 2006 09:04 AM
"Deliver Us From Evil," a gripping new documentary opening in theaters next week, profiles Father Oliver O'Grady, a convicted pedophile who spent 22 years molesting children in parishes throughout California, where he served as their priest. In the film, O'Grady...
Posted in Abominations on October 3, 2006 12:05 PM
LAKE GENEVA -- A Chicago-area priest out on probation while appealing his recent conviction for molesting two boys in Wisconsin in the late 1960s is now in the Walworth County Jail. Donald J. McGuire, 76, was brought to the Walworth...
Posted in Abominations on October 3, 2006 12:01 PM
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A former Windsor man convicted in a gang-rape case will get a new trial after the state Supreme Court ruled Monday that a judge improperly excluded some DNA evidence during the trial. In a unanimous decision, the...
Posted in Abominations on October 3, 2006 07:53 AM
The Washington Post PHOENIX -- Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Kenneth L. Fields sentenced William P. Crotts, 61, the former president of the Phoenix-based Southern Baptist foundation, to eight years in prison Friday and gave six years to Thomas D....
Posted in Abominations on October 2, 2006 10:30 AM
SAN DIEGO -- A former San Diego educator who had sex with a 10th-grader was sentenced Tuesday in a San Diego courtroom. Danielle Walls, 27, a former Clairemont High School history teacher, was accused by prosecutors of having sex two...
Posted in Abominations on September 27, 2006 06:00 PM
BOSTON -- Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey yesterday signed into law a bill that extends the statute of limitations for sex crimes against children and imposes new restrictions on convicted sex offenders. Advocates sought the law in the wake of the...
Posted in Abominations on September 22, 2006 04:01 PM
The commonwealth, in what only can be categorized as a historic occasion, enacted a bill that extends the statute of limitations (the time allowed) on bringing sexual abuse charges against sexual predators that target children. Additionally, this bill regulates the...
Posted in Abominations on September 22, 2006 04:01 PM
A former Davenport-area priest who spent time in prison for possessing child pornography on a church-owned laptop has been arrested, accused of violating his parole by having contact with minors. Richard Poster, 41, was sentenced to a year in federal...
Posted in Abominations on September 22, 2006 04:01 PM
NASHVILLE, Tennessee -- A federal appeals court issued a stay of execution Monday for a convicted child killer hours before he was to die in Tennessee's electric chair. Daryl Keith Holton, who confessed to the assault rifle slayings of his...
Posted in Abominations on September 21, 2006 12:34 PM
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A gay prosecutors say was one of the nation's most prolific child molesters was convicted Monday of abusing two 12-year-old boys. The jury deliberated for just four hours before finding Dean Schwartzmiller, 64, guilty of 11...
Posted in Abominations on September 20, 2006 05:25 AM
The family of a girl who was raped in an Eastern Guilford High School classroom is suing the school board for negligence. Kentrell Mitchell, who was a 16-year-old ninth-grader at the time of the attack, was convicted last year of...
Posted in Abominations on September 16, 2006 03:29 AM
ASHVILLE, Ala. -- A former Ashville High School teacher was convicted today on an array of charges for having sexual contact with a student. A St. Clair County jury, in its second day of deliberations, returned the guilty verdicts against...
Posted in Abominations on September 16, 2006 03:29 AM
SANTA ANA -- A former high school music teacher convicted of lewd acts for fondling female students during singing lessons was sentenced to a year in jail. Victor Rodriguez, 50, of Huntington Beach was also given four years probation, ordered...
Posted in Abominations on September 16, 2006 03:28 AM
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- An ex-high school teacher convicted of lewd acts for putting his hands under the shirts of female voice students to demonstrate a "diaphragm technique" was sentenced Friday to a year in Orange County Jail. Victor Rodriguez,...
Posted in Abominations on September 16, 2006 03:28 AM
FORT WORTH -- Terry Hornbuckle, the pastor who founded a multimillion-dollar megachurch in Arlington and then fell from grace when he was convicted last month of raping three women, says he is too poor to hire an attorney to handle...
Posted in Abominations on September 15, 2006 02:06 PM
The Catholic Diocese of Dallas has agreed to pay $2.9 million to another girl who was sexually abused by a parish child-care worker in the 1990s, lawyers in the case said Tuesday. It's the largest lawsuit settlement to date for...
Posted in Abominations on September 14, 2006 04:20 PM
Acting as his own attorney in a molestation trial, convicted sexual predator Dean Schwartzmiller put himself on the stand Tuesday, testifying that he did not commit any crime. Schwartzmiller's appearance in the witness box was another twist in a heavily...
Posted in Abominations on September 13, 2006 04:21 PM
While having lunch with an out-of-town friend at an Arlington restaurant last week, I was interrupted four times by people who just had to tell me what they thought about one of my recent columns. Immediately, I knew which piece...
Posted in Abominations on September 11, 2006 01:57 PM
Agape Christian Fellowship's board has fired the church's founder and pastor, Terry Hornbuckle, because of his sexual assault convictions, according to a statement released Tuesday. His wife, Renee Hornbuckle of Colleyville, will take over as senior pastor for at least...
Posted in Abominations on September 8, 2006 05:20 PM
A 29-year-old Nashville man who says a priest abused him when he was a boy sued the Diocese of Nashville on Thursday, and his lawyer promised a wave of lawsuits against the church here. The man, identified only as John...
Posted in Abominations on September 8, 2006 05:11 PM
A Maryland rabbi caught in a television sting operation was convicted of traveling to Herndon for what he thought would be sex with a 13-year-old boy he met over the Internet. In a written opinion issued yesterday, a federal judge...
Posted in Abominations on September 8, 2006 09:41 AM
INDIANAPOLIS -- A convicted child molester has no fundamental right to visit a public park, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The decision by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upholds a ruling by a federal judge in...
Posted in Abominations on September 7, 2006 10:39 AM
FARMINGTON -- A 69-year-old man remains in the Franklin County jail on $50,000 cash bail for allegedly sexually molesting a 6-year old boy he met through the Church of the Nazarene in Jay. Robert Storer, who lives in a furnished...
Posted in Abominations on September 7, 2006 08:44 AM
TAVARES -- A former school resource officer was sentenced to three years in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to molesting teenage girls he supervised at the Habitat for Humanity Thrift Store in Eustis. James A. Young, 53, also will...
Posted in Abominations on September 4, 2006 04:36 PM
A northern Illinois photographer convicted last year of taking and distributing pornographic pictures of young boys was sentenced Wednesday to 100 years in federal prison. Charles Burt III, 57, of Streator will spend the rest of his life in prison...
Posted in Abominations on September 1, 2006 05:47 PM
MONTPELIER, Vt. -- A judge who sparked outrage when he sentenced a sex offender to two months in jail said Friday he will retire. Vermont District Court Judge Edward Cashman didn't mention the case that had made him a target...
Posted in Abominations on September 1, 2006 11:42 AM
LAS VEGAS -- The leader of a polygamist sect said Thursday he would not fight extradition to Utah on charges he arranged marriages between underage girls and older men. Warren Jeffs made his first court appearance since he was arrested...
Posted in Abominations on August 31, 2006 09:50 PM
Kevin Coe's rape trial in Seattle in 1985 was surrounded with grim tabloid drama. His mother, convicted of hiring a hit man to kill a judge. His father, a prominent newspaper editor. And Coe, facing a second trial as the...
Posted in Abominations on August 31, 2006 01:03 PM
FARGO, N.D. -- A convicted sex offender on trial in North Dakota's first death penalty case in more than a century was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and killing a college student who was seized from a shopping mall parking...
Posted in Abominations on August 31, 2006 09:30 AM
PASADENA, Calif. -- A Burbank gay convicted of molesting an 11-year-old neighbor boy was sentenced Monday to 100 years to life in state prison. Pasadena Superior Court Judge Candace Beason imposed the term on Mark Ehlers, 42, who was found...
Posted in Abominations on August 29, 2006 02:27 PM
The trial of Dean Schwartzmiller -- convicted pedophile and jailhouse lawyer extraordinaire -- began today in Superior Court in San Jose, with the man reputed to America's most prolific child molester acting as his own attorney in a case that...
Posted in Abominations on August 29, 2006 02:26 PM
SAN FRANCISCO, California -- A man who may be one of the nation's most prolific child molesters is set to go to trial Monday, more than a year after police found journals in his home believed to detail the abuse...
Posted in Abominations on August 28, 2006 03:29 PM
BOSTON -- Wearing lipstick, a scooped-neck sweater and nearly waist-length hair, the witness cried while describing what it feels like to be a woman trapped inside a man's body. "The greatest loss is the dying I do inside a little...
Posted in Abominations on August 25, 2006 02:51 AM
NAPLES, Fla. -- A former Collier County school bus driver has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old student while his girlfriend videotaped them and took photographs. Joshua Grotberg, 30, of East Naples, was sentenced Tuesday...
Posted in Abominations on August 24, 2006 10:41 AM
Pastor drugged, attacked 3 women FORT WORTH -- Terry Hornbuckle bowed slightly and church members held hands as a judge announced Tuesday that the Arlington minister was guilty of sexually assaulting three women. The Tarrant County jury's verdict ended more...
Posted in Abominations on August 23, 2006 01:00 PM
BRISTOW, Okla. -- A former judge convicted of exposing himself while presiding over jury trials by using a sexual device under his robe was sentenced Friday to four years in prison. Donald Thompson had spent almost 23 years on the...
Posted in Abominations on August 19, 2006 10:30 AM
FORT WORTH -- The jury in the rape trial of pastor Terry Hornbuckle deliberated for another day Thursday without reaching a verdict. The jury has deliberated for 14 ½ hours over three days. Terry Hornbuckle Jurors will continue their deliberations...
Posted in Abominations on August 18, 2006 12:23 PM
A former Episcopalian pastor and convicted sex offender was fired for using his position as an employment specialist with the Department of Workforce Development to develop personal relationships with several troubled young men, state records show. William J. Smith's behavior...
Posted in Abominations on August 17, 2006 03:55 PM
MADISON, Wis. -- A former Episcopalian pastor and convicted sex offender was fired for using his position as an employment specialist with the Department of Workforce Development to develop personal relationships with several troubled young men, state records show. William...
Posted in Abominations on August 17, 2006 03:54 PM
CLAYTON -- A Roman Catholic priest serving a 15-year prison sentence for sexually abusing a boy will be considered for early release at a parole hearing Wednesday in Bonne Terre, but a victim's rights group wants him to stay behind...
Posted in Abominations on August 16, 2006 12:10 PM
A COUNTY Court Judge has criticised the Catholic Church for failing to take action against paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale. Yesterday, Ridsdale was convicted and sentenced to 13 years' jail, with a non-parole period of seven years, for sexually abusing 10...
Posted in Abominations on August 11, 2006 05:36 PM
Dar es Salaam -- A Tanzanian court has sentenced a Roman Catholic priest to 35 years imprisonment after he was convicted of sodomising a 17-year-old boy, say court officials. Magistrate Pellagia Khaday convicted 38-year-old Sixtus Kimaro on Wednesday of sodomising...
Posted in Abominations on August 11, 2006 05:34 PM
FORT WORTH -- One week after her daughter told her she had been drugged and raped by the Rev. Terry Hornbuckle, Loretta Sheppard said, she received a call at home from former Dallas Cowboys cornerback Deion Sanders. Sanders said that...
Posted in Abominations on August 9, 2006 06:55 AM
A sodomite priest who indecently assaulted an altar boy has been jailed for at least two years. Former Anglican priest Raymond Frederick Ayles, of Cloncurry, in north-western Queensland, was sentenced in the South Australian District Court on Tuesday after being...
Posted in Abominations on August 9, 2006 06:54 AM
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A man convicted of having unprotected sex with four people while knowing he carried the virus that causes AIDS was denied appeals Friday by the Iowa Supreme Court. The court said Adam Donald Musser, who is...
Posted in Abominations on August 9, 2006 06:51 AM
PHOENIX -- Two former executives of a failed Southern Baptist foundation were convicted here Monday in what prosecutors said was the nation's largest fraud ever targeting members of a religious group. William Pierre Crotts, who was president of the Baptist...
Posted in Abominations on July 25, 2006 04:42 AM
PENSACOLA, FLA -- She did a little more than just teach about the birds and the bees. A former biology teacher at a private school in Escambia County faces up to 30 years in prison after being convicted of having...
Posted in Abominations on July 24, 2006 06:45 AM
The U.S. Senate passed sweeping new legislation aimed at tracking 100,000 child pedophiles and sexual offenders and imposing stiff new penalties for those who fail to report when they change locations. The bill would establish a national Internet database of...
Posted in Abominations on July 21, 2006 06:24 AM
ELKHORN, Wis. -- A Chicago Jesuit priest convicted in February of molesting two Loyola Academy students in Wisconsin in the 1960s was sentenced Tuesday to 7 years in prison and 20 years of probation. But Rev. Donald McGuire's prison sentence...
Posted in Abominations on July 21, 2006 06:23 AM
A 72-year-old former Allentown Catholic Diocese priest previously convicted of molesting a boy in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty Monday to charges he tried to have sex with someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy after meeting him in an Internet chat...
Posted in Abominations on July 21, 2006 06:23 AM
VISTA, North Carolina -- A former Escondido middle school teacher -- denounced by victims' families as a predator and praised by his family and friends as a decent man who would never harm children ---- was sentenced Tuesday to 15...
Posted in Abominations on July 19, 2006 08:19 AM
ELKHORN, Wis. -- A retired Catholic priest from Illinois, accused of molesting two boys on retreats in southern Wisconsin in the late 1960s, was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison. The Rev. Donald McGuire, 76, was convicted Feb. 23...
Posted in Abominations on July 19, 2006 08:15 AM
WASHINGTON -- A Virginia man was sentenced to 150 years in prison for sexually exploiting minors and operating child pornography Web sites. Gregory John Mitchel, who previously had been convicted of child pornography crimes, pleaded guilty in January to the...
Posted in Abominations on July 17, 2006 07:09 AM
A paedophile priest was not a sexual predator but honestly believed he was in love with his teenage victim at the time of his offending, a court has heard. The victim, now an adult, today told the South Australian District...
Posted in Abominations on July 14, 2006 09:21 AM
A Smith County jury was selected to hear the case of a former Dogwood City day care owner charged with sexually assaulting young children in his care. Jefferson Marian Moore Jr., 58, of Flint, has been indicted on three first-degree...
Posted in Abominations on July 12, 2006 10:03 AM
A Florida judge has ruled that John Evander Couey's confession to investigators in the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford cannot be used as evidence in his trial, but the discovery of her body and a later...
Posted in Abominations on July 3, 2006 07:14 AM
BRISTOW, Okla. -- A former judge was convicted late Thursday of exposing himself by using a sexual device while he presided over court cases. A Creek County jury found Donald Thompson, 59, guilty on four counts of indecent exposure and...
Posted in Abominations on June 30, 2006 07:36 AM
PHILADELPHIA -- A music teacher who made a name for himself as a gospel singer was sentenced Monday to at least 33 years in prison for raping two former students and molesting three sisters. Otis Joseph, 29, had taught the...
Posted in Abominations on June 28, 2006 06:17 AM
ENGLAND, United Kingdom -- A homosexual couple who sexually abused foster boys placed in their care have received sentences of only five and six years, reported the Times Online on Saturday. The two men, Ian Wathey, 41, and Craig Faunch,...
Posted in Abominations on June 27, 2006 04:57 AM
WORCESTER, Mass. -- A man convicted of molesting five children at a daycare center and sent to prison two decades ago was granted a new trial and could be freed on bail. The judge said Bernard Baran's original attorney was...
Posted in Abominations on June 26, 2006 04:02 AM
At 67, Sid Landau has had quadruple-bypass surgery and prostate cancer. He wears a pacemaker. His teeth are mostly gone, as is his hearing. He did terrible things as a younger man, his lawyers say, but age has curtailed his...
Posted in Abominations on June 22, 2006 07:53 AM
DECATUR, Alabama -- A gay convicted of sexually abusing two boys and who dreamed of a "homosexual boys ranch" will have his first parole hearing Monday in Montgomery. Decatur law enforcement personnel, including Police Chief Joel Gilliam and Morgan County...
Posted in Abominations on June 20, 2006 05:18 AM
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- An man who served 15 months in prison for molesting a teenager in Wyoming was removed from the priesthood, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Steubenville said. Anthony Jablonowski, 69, who was released last year from the Wyoming...
Posted in Abominations on June 19, 2006 04:34 AM
BARTOW, Fla. -- Court records show a former Homeland Security aide knew his teen chat room pal could be a police officer. It turns out Brian Doyle, of Silver Spring Maryland, was rambling online and over the phone with an...
Posted in Abominations on June 19, 2006 04:32 AM
SAN DIEGO -- First sex, now drugs -- new charges are filed against a teacher accused of having sex with a student. Danielle Walls, a former Clairemont High School history teacher accused of having sex two years ago with one...
Posted in Abominations on June 15, 2006 08:15 AM
DALLAS -- The arrest of a high school teacher for allegedly having sex with an 18-year-old student has raised questions about the age constraints of the state's three-year-old law criminalizing student-teacher sexual relationships. Amy McElhenney, 25, was arrested May 25...
Posted in Abominations on June 12, 2006 02:36 AM
SAN FRANCISCO -- A convicted arsonist was arrested on charges alleging he kidnapped and raped a 50-year-old Roman Catholic nun the day after he was released from jail, authorities said. Leroy Racklin, 31, was arrested Thursday on charges of rape,...
Posted in Abominations on June 10, 2006 01:59 AM
ATLANTA -- Lawyers for convicted killer Wayne Williams, blamed for the murders of two dozen boys and young men in the Atlanta area during the 1970s and '80s, are casting suspicion on a child molester they say lived or worked...
Posted in Abominations on June 10, 2006 01:59 AM
SAN DIEGO -- A former Clairemont High School history teacher was arrested at her North Park home Wednesday on suspicion of having sex with a student two years ago. San Diego police took Danielle Marie Walls, 27, into custody about...
Posted in Abominations on June 8, 2006 12:04 AM
STAUNTON -- A former Augusta County music teacher convicted of sexually abusing a student was sentenced Friday to serve four and a half years in prison. Shelby Sue Shelton of Sacramento, Calif., taught chorus at Beverley Manor Middle School in...
Posted in Abominations on June 5, 2006 05:16 AM
DUBLIN -- Thousands of people demonstrated outside the Irish parliament in Dublin Friday against a legal loophole that has already led to a convicted child rapist being freed from jail. A police spokesman said thousands had turned out for the...
Posted in Abominations on June 3, 2006 11:49 AM
DUBLIN, Ireland -- A Dublin jury convicted a Roman Catholic priest of raping a 13-year-old girl. During the six-day trial, the victim, whose identity was not make public, testified that Rev. Daniel Doherty raped her in a church sacristy twice...
Posted in Abominations on June 2, 2006 04:27 AM
DUBLIN, Ireland -- A Dublin jury convicted a Roman Catholic priest Wednesday of raping a 13-year-old girl. During the six-day trial, the victim, whose identity was not make public, testified that Rev. Daniel Doherty raped her in a church sacristy...
Posted in Abominations on June 1, 2006 05:01 AM
CARO -- A 28-year-old teacher has lost her job, her marriage and - possibly - her career for her sexual encounters with a 16-year-old male student last summer. But Kristen A. Margrif avoided jail or prison - for now -...
Posted in Abominations on June 1, 2006 04:57 AM
Missouri legislators are toughening laws against child-preying sex offenders, but some authorities worry new public information could help people locate and harm such criminals. The bill comes on the heels of the April killings of two men listed on Maine's...
Posted in Abominations on June 1, 2006 04:52 AM
NEW YORK -- A female teacher and director at a Montessori school, already charged with the statutory rape and sodomy of a male pupil, has been indicted on similar charges involving a second boy, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Lina Sinha,...
Posted in Abominations on May 31, 2006 03:45 AM
A former Catholic priest who was convicted of exposing himself to children may be in Las Vegas. James Beine was released from a Missouri prison on a technicality and now people abused by priests are warning the public about him....
Posted in Abominations on May 31, 2006 03:43 AM
LANSING, Mich. -- A state lawmaker wants to add people convicted of sodomy against animals to Michigan's sex offender registry. Representative Rick Jones, a Republican from Grand Ledge and a former county sheriff, says his newly introduced legislation will help...
Posted in Abominations on May 30, 2006 05:48 AM
KENTON, Ohio -- A teacher accused of molesting one of his students turned himself in this week after police said he was on the run for days. Kenton police said Jeffrey Bartlett was wanted for gross sexual imposition. He had...
Posted in Abominations on May 30, 2006 05:46 AM
A 26-year-old pastor of a Grand Prairie church was sentenced to 45 years in prison Friday after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in his congregation. Jurors deliberated less than 30 minutes before convicting Jerry Castle of...
Posted in Abominations on May 23, 2006 12:46 PM
TOLEDO, Ohio -- A jury convicted a priest Thursday of killing a nun a day before Easter in 1980 in a hospital chapel, a slaying that prosecutors say was steeped with religious ritualism because of the pattern of her stab...
Posted in Abominations on May 15, 2006 08:32 AM
Authorities are searching for a convicted rapist who escaped with three others Saturday night from a state treatment center for sex offenders in St. Peter, Minnesota. The other three escapees were later captured. Michael Dale Benson, 42, and three other...
Posted in Abominations on April 18, 2006 09:30 AM
Protests have greeted a judge's decision not to ban a teacher from working with children despite a conviction for making and possessing indecent images of youngsters. Mark Jordan, 34, was assistant director of music at Kimbolton School, an independent school...
Posted in Abominations on April 18, 2006 09:27 AM
Convicted molester and Catholic priest Robert Larson is being released from prison. Less than two weeks ago, the attorney general's office petitioned for Larson to be committed as a sex predator. That would have sent Larson to a state mental...
Posted in Abominations on April 5, 2006 02:49 PM
Colby H. Foss III was convicted Tuesday of molesting two more local boys, his fourth and fifth victims in the last two decades. Already serving a 30-year prison term for molesting a Niagara County boy, Foss, 35, formerly of Oliver...
Posted in Abominations on April 5, 2006 02:47 PM
FAIRBORN, Ohio -- A pastor is going to prison for trying to meet a teenage girl online for sex. Roy Burton is from Milton Center, Ohio. Last November, he used his computer to solicit sex from who he thought was...
Posted in Abominations on April 5, 2006 02:38 PM
Kent State University is under fire for hiring a convicted sex offender as a teacher, but the university is assuring students and parents that the sodomite is the lowest classification of sex offenders, and because he is not working with...
Posted in Abominations on April 5, 2006 02:31 PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- In a legislative staredown over whether to allow victims to file lawsuits for old instances of child sex abuse, the Senate blinked first and the Roman Catholic Church won. A reluctant Senate gave final approval yesterday...
Posted in Abominations on March 31, 2006 01:26 PM
OMAHA, Neb. -- A former Omaha priest was picked up by the Douglas County Sheriff's Department on Thursday morning for violating his probation. Daniel Herek was arrested at 933 N. 77th St., officials said. He's being held in the Douglas...
Posted in Abominations on March 31, 2006 01:22 PM
WACO, TX -- A convicted sex offender who directed the youth choir and taught a Bible study group at a Waco Baptist church was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday. Curtis Jene Smith, 38, music director and Bible teacher...
Posted in Abominations on March 28, 2006 10:44 AM
TUSTIN, Calif. -- A man accused of molesting a boy he knew through a children's Bible class he taught at First Advent Christian Church in Tustin was charged Thursday with molestation and dissuading a witness, officials said. Roger Warren Evans,...
Posted in Abominations on March 17, 2006 09:54 AM
FORT WORTH -- Former church pastor Larry Nuell Neathery was convicted Monday of 25 felony charges involving sexual assault or molestation of five boys -- two neighbors and three relatives -- in his Fort Worth home and church. A Tarrant...
Posted in Abominations on March 8, 2006 06:48 AM
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A judge has ruled that a former prison guard convicted of killing 13 people in a 1982 shooting rampage can't be executed because he is mentally ill. George E. Banks is delusional, psychotic and has no capacity...
Posted in Abominations on March 1, 2006 08:32 AM
A mistrial on four other charges against the pedophile priest is declared when the jury can't reach verdicts. He could face a new trial. The sodomite priest whom Cardinal Roger M. Mahony said he regretted returning to the ministry was...
Posted in Abominations on February 24, 2006 07:32 AM
Cult leader in Japan jailed for raping followers A 62-year-old cult leader was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Japan yesterday for raping seven girls he threatened with hell if they resisted or spoke out against him. Tamotsu Kin,...
Posted in Abominations on February 22, 2006 02:56 PM
ELKHORN -- "A stereotypical Irishman with a twinkle in his eye." That's how Walworth County District Attorney Phil Koss described Rev. Donald R. McGuire during opening statements in the retired priest's child sex assault trial that began Friday in Walworth...
Posted in Abominations on February 22, 2006 02:52 PM
SUFFOLK -- A convicted sex offender pleaded guilty Friday to molesting an 11-year-old boy for more than a year. In an agreement with the state, Anthony Wayne Hilliard, 31, pleaded guilty to three counts of forcible sodomy, one count of...
Posted in Abominations on February 20, 2006 08:50 AM
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A pastor convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in his congregation three years ago returned to a courtroom Friday to defend himself against a charge that he violated probation by contacting the girl again. Alexie...
Posted in Abominations on February 20, 2006 08:48 AM
ELKHORN -- A retired Chicago priest accused of sexually assaulting two boys in the late 1960s will go on trial Friday in Walworth County Court. The Rev. Donald J. McGuire, 75, has been charged with five counts of indecent behavior...
Posted in Abominations on February 17, 2006 04:44 PM
LOS ANGELES -- A registered sex offender was convicted Wednesday of kidnapping and killing a model whose skeletal remains were found in the Angeles National Forest a year after she disappeared. David Rademaker, 42, was convicted of first-degree murder with...
Posted in Abominations on February 17, 2006 04:39 PM
A Long Island pastor accused of repeatedly sexually abusing his three teenage daughters at their Queens home was held on $10,000 bail set Friday in Queens Criminal Court, authorities said. Before Judge Alex J. Zigman, the pastor pleaded not guilty...
Posted in Abominations on February 13, 2006 03:45 AM
A former Burlington pastor who was charged with embezzlement in 2002 is at the center of an investigation in Ohio, WXII 12 News has learned. The Rev. Gary Johnson has not been charged. Trustees at a church in Painsville, Ohio,...
Posted in Abominations on February 13, 2006 03:41 AM
A federal judge rejected an appeal by Wayne Williams, the man convicted of killing two children in 1982 and who is suspected of being responsible for killing at least 24 young black men and children in the Atlanta area. Williams,...
Posted in Abominations on February 12, 2006 11:42 PM
BEDFORD -- A former youth coordinator for a Bedford County church has been arrested in connection with the molestation of a 14-year-old boy. Joseph Steven Shrewsbury, 29, of Blue Ridge, is charged with 12 counts of taking indecent liberties with...
Posted in Abominations on February 8, 2006 08:10 AM
Anthony Sanchez is charged with first-degree murder, rape and sodomy Opening statements and witness testimony began Monday in the trial of Anthony Sanchez for the homicide of OU dance student Jewell “Juli” Busken. Prosecutors said DNA and other evidence found...
Posted in Abominations on February 8, 2006 08:05 AM
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, warning parishioners that convicted child molester and former priest at the church, Edward Anthony Rodrigue, was released from prison Jan. 26. Known to most as "Father Tony," Rodrigue, 69, was a priest at St. Joseph's in...
Posted in Abominations on February 7, 2006 09:12 AM
Bradley J. Harris, 33, Dublin, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for child molestation. He was convicted on four counts of child molesting in a Wayne Superior Court 2 jury trial last September. He was found guilty of molesting...
Posted in Abominations on February 4, 2006 02:26 PM
WASHINGTON -- New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito split with the court's conservative Wednesday night, refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection. Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor (convicted of murder, rape,...
Posted in Abominations on February 2, 2006 01:53 AM
A 46-year-old Tampa sodomite has been sentenced to 200 years in federal prison for using the date-rape drug GHB to torture and sexually assault nine gays he met in gay bars, but the full extent of Steven Lorenzo's crimes may...
Posted in Abominations on February 2, 2006 01:39 AM
A pastor of a Salem County Baptist church who was charged nearly two years ago with aggravated sexual assault pleaded guilty Monday to offensive touching and simple assault. Llewellyn E. Hill III, of the Richland section of Buena Vista Township,...
Posted in Abominations on February 2, 2006 01:38 AM
DENVER -- State lawmakers are considering a plan that would make someone convicted of murder eligible for the death penalty if they have a sexually violent past, along with a host of proposed laws to track down and punish sex...
Posted in Abominations on February 1, 2006 08:24 AM
CROWN POINT — A Gary gay faces a 30-year prison term after he pleaded guilty to child molesting, child exploitation and vicarious sexual gratification involving a 14-year-old boy. Kashmir Lajuan Bray, 30, was accused of sexually molesting the boy, who...
Posted in Abominations on February 1, 2006 08:22 AM
Science experiment used to lure victims A former Redlands teacher who fabricated a science experiment as a ruse to molest three boys was sentenced Monday to more than 74 years in prison. Sean Ramiro Lopez, 31, was convicted in June...
Posted in Abominations on February 1, 2006 08:21 AM
CHICAGO -- A lawyer known for representing church abuse victims filed a lawsuit Tuesday aimed at forcing the country's third-largest Roman Catholic archdiocese to reveal the names of all its priests suspected of abuse over the past 54 years. Attorney...
Posted in Abominations on February 1, 2006 08:19 AM
SAN BERNARDINO -- Edward Anthony Rodrigue, 69, a child molester and former priest released from prison last week has been moved into a downtown motel, prompting some to question why a high-risk sex offender isn't living in supervised housing (or...
Posted in Abominations on January 31, 2006 06:53 AM
After granting a last-minute stay of the execution of Florida death row inmate Clarence Hill, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear his appeal based on the argument that the chemicals used in lethal injections are painful. The question before...
Posted in Abominations on January 31, 2006 06:52 AM
WORCESTER, Mass. -- The inmate who strangled child-molesting priest John Geoghan was convicted of murder Wednesday after failing to convince a jury he was delusional when he killed one of the central figures in the Boston Archdiocese sex scandal. Joseph...
Posted in Abominations on January 26, 2006 06:41 AM
WORCESTER, Mass. -- The foreman of the jury that convicted Joseph Druce of murder in the death of a pedophile priest says there was a degree of "sympathy" among the panel. Druce was found guilty today in the strangulation of...
Posted in Abominations on January 26, 2006 06:41 AM
BANGOR -- A convicted sex offender living in Houlton appears to be the first person in the state to face federal charges for using his cell phone to possess child pornography. Joshua Dunston, 27, owned three different cell phone models...
Posted in Abominations on January 26, 2006 06:39 AM
Man says he decided to kill predator priest after clergyman brushed off criticism WORCESTER, Massachusetts -- The inmate who strangled a convicted child molester priest behind bars testified Monday that he resolved to kill the clergyman after he brushed off...
Posted in Abominations on January 24, 2006 07:41 AM
A retired Catholic priest who was convicted in the attempted rape of an El Paso woman has been charged with sexually assaulting girls during the 1960s while he was a hospital chaplain in Wisconsin. The Rev. Bruce Duncan MacArthur, 83,...
Posted in Abominations on January 24, 2006 07:37 AM
GREENVILLE, N.C. -- A former Greenville teacher has been sentenced after she was convicted of taking indecent liberties with a student. Thirty-one-year-old Katherine Tew received a suspended prison sentence and two years probation. Tew was found not guilty of having...
Posted in Abominations on January 24, 2006 07:34 AM