An 18-year-old South Carolina restaurant employee has been arrested after he allegedly followed an 11-year-old girl into the restaurant and touched her sexually. Manuel Cuim faces charges of first degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and kidnapping, The State reported. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department made the arrest at El Poblano Restaurant on Friday. …
A Florida couple is behind bars after detectives found videos and photographs of them sexually abusing children. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children tipped off St Petersburg police about Jason Wienrich, 31, and Alicia Stevens, WFLA reported. Weinrich reportedly allowed forensic detectives search his electronic devices, where they found the images and videos …
A 14-year-old girl was having none of it this week when a 51-year-old man allegedly put a sticky note on her phone soliciting sex. According to charging documents, Marcus Lennox Douglas approached the victim Wednesday night in Washington, D.C.’s Cleveland Park area, put the sticky note on her cell phone, and walked away, NBC Washington …
A California pastor was arrested this week after a teenage girl reported that he had sexually abused her between the ages of 9 and 12. Puredi Hillary, the pastor at Shiloh Tabernacle Church in Rancho Cucamongo, was arrested on charges of continuous sexual abuse of a minor and lewd and lascivious acts with a child …
Atlanta Falcons linebacker Barkevious Mingo has been arrested on charges of indecency with a child/sexual contact. Mingo, a star player at Louisiana State University from 2009 to 2012, was arrested Thursday in Texas, ESPN reported, noting that the second degree felony charge relates to engaging in sexual activity with someone younger than 17. No further …
A former Colorado assistant principal was found dead Saturday, two days after his arrest on dozens of charges that he sexually abused a student while he was teaching in Arkansas. Randall Mealer, 56, was charged with 50 counts of first degree sexual assault when he was arrested in Boone County, Arkansas, on Thursday, KRDO reported. …
A four-day long sting operation netted 21 arrests last week, 10 charged with felonies related to contacting minors to arrange sex. Another 11 people were charged with misdemeanors during Operation Stolen Hearts, according to KMPH, mostly on charges such as loitering for prostitution. The Department of Homeland Security assisted with the operation. Fresno police said …
A North Carolina man police say may have been sexually assaulting children for the past 40 years was arrested Thursday when he was found behind a dumpster with a child. The Concord Police Department charged Ricky Lynn McClellan, 66, with indecent liberties with a minor after following a tip about suspicious activity behind a dumpster …
A Louisiana FBI agent has been arrested on multiple sexual misconduct charges, including indecent behavior with children. David Harris, 51, who was assigned to the FBI’s New Orleans field office, faces charges in three Louisiana parishes, the Louisiana State Police said. He was arrested in Ascension Parish by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations …
A Utah man was charged last week with raping and sodomizing a 16-year-old girl after her mother alerted police to suspicious texts between her daughter and the suspect. The mother told police that Scott Preston Ferree, 23, used “some type of devil worship language” to manipulate the teen into sex acts, KUTV reported. When investigators …
Houston police are looking for an Uber driving accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old who had hired him to take her to a local Family Dollar store. Police said Leonel Medina, 49, picked up the girl on May 12 and drove to a dead end in the back of a neighborhood instead of the store. …
A 5-year-old boy crawled out from under a bathroom stall this week to escape a sexual assault in the locker room of a Utah recreation center. The Utah County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jonathan Jareth Soberanis, 26, on Tuesday, charging him with lewdness involving a child, criminal trespass with intent to commit a crime, unlawful detention …
