A South Carolina high school teacher who resigned last month in the midst of an investigation into inappropriate relationships with students now faces 24 counts of sexual battery of student. The new charges relate to another victim, investigators told WHNS. Micah Keith Lanford was initially charged with eight counts last month shortly after his resignation …
A Florida man was charged late last month with sexually assaulting an infant girl. In August, Miami police were reportedly alerted to illicit images that were uploaded to Discord. The tip led police to Osher Pittman, 21, who had hundreds of images depicting girls as young as one and bestiality, according to the Miami Herald. Police …
A former sheriff in Colorado has been apprehended in Mexico after attempting to flee from sexual exploitation of a child charges. On Friday, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation announced that Mexican authorities took Jesus Damian Nieblas, 28, into custody in the Mexican border town of Agua Prieta, earlier in the week. Nieblas was transferred to …
An Ohio man was arrested and charged with raping a child repeatedly over four years, when the victim was 13 to 17 years old. Mark Lerner, 44, fled to Indiana when he learned he was under investigation in 2018 after the victim confided in a friend, WSYX reported. Lerner came back to Ohio on September …
A traveling horse veterinarian was arrested Wednesday in Florida and charged with sexual battery of a teenage girl. Gregory Ford, 52, has also been charged with a federal count of threatening communications after he allegedly told the girl’s mother he was hiring a hitman to kill her if she persisted in the sexual battery investigation …
Police in New Mexico are investigating the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl by a fellow student on a Santa Fe charter school bus in August. Lt. Patrick Trujillo said the girl’s mother called police on August 21 to report the incident, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican. He said the girl was taken …
A North Carolina grand jury indicted the 2007 winner of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” on September 2, on multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. WSOC reported that on Friday, following an Internet Crimes Against Children cyber tip on April 15, police arrested comedian Jon Reep in Hickory after the indictment. Police traced the …
Detectives running a Florida undercover operation netted a Michigan family practice doctor, charging him with soliciting a sexual relationship with a 5-year-old girl. The Port St. Lucie Police Department said that William Murdoch exchanged “stomach churning messages” with their undercover “mom,” detailing “his plan to groom the child and quickly turn the situation sexual.” The …
A former pastor of a Baltimore megachurch indicted earlier this year on child sex abuse charges was captured this week in Florida. Eric Anderson, 80, is being held without bail in Manatee County and is fighting extradition to Massachusetts, where the Greater Grace World Outreach church was headquartered when the abuse took place, according to …
An Oklahoma man has been charged with child sexual abuse after his 11-year-old stepdaughter gave birth at home earlier this month. Dustin Walker’s wife, 33-year-old Cherie Walker, was charged with enabling child sexual abuse, NBC News reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the girl gave birth at home on August 16 with no medical care, and …
A man accused of taking a missing Iowa teen to North Carolina last weekend now faces charges in two states. John Johnson, 25, was initially arrested in Reidsville, North Carolina, after authorities found the missing 15-year-old girl there, WHO reported. She was reunited with her family and Johnson was charged with sexual exploitation of a …
Officials said the officer also hid evidence in this case
