An active duty US Marine is accused of flying from Louisiana to Florida to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he met online. The West Melbourne Police Department said that Sean Rudziewicz, 22, met the girl on the app Omegle and continued the relationship on Snapchat and Discord. On January 16, he flew from Louisiana, …
Nine young boys were removed from a Florida foster home this week after police launched a criminal investigation into allegations “that are sexual in nature” at the home. Clearwater Police Chief Dan Slaughter said his department assisted the state Department of Children and Families to shut down the home — and to corral some of …
The 31-year-old delivery driver accused of kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Athena Strand last month has now been charged with multiple, unrelated counts of sexual assault of a child. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Tanner Horner was delivering packages for FedEx on November 30 when he told police he hit Athena with his truck, panicked when she …
A former television news producer accepted a plea deal this week to persuading a 9-year-old girl’s mother to bring her daughter to his Vermont ski cabin for sex. John Griffin, 45, paid the mother — Heather Carriker, who has been charged with child abuse and child sex assault — $3,000 in July 2020 to fly …
A Texas woman who was arrested for stabbing her boyfriend last month reportedly claimed she did so after discovering he exposed himself to her three children. Charles Brown, 31, said Sintera Mask stabbed him on November 1 because she believed he was messaging other women and she also wanted him to pay her for rides …
A Florida man and an Alabama woman have been arrested on multiple child sex crimes following a multi-state investigation aided by the FBI. The Dale County (Alabama) Sheriff’s Office said it launched an investigation after Daleville police notified deputies of a suspected sexual abuse of a child case in the county’s jurisdiction, WDHN reported. The …
A 22-year-old teacher’s aide in Oklahoma has been charged with rape for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student. Granite Public Schools Superintendent Missy Berry said that Ashley Waffle was a temporary teacher’s aide who was hired on October 10. According to court documents, she began her relationship with the student on October 25 with …
A former teacher who has already pleaded guilty to raping a student in one Georgia county is set to go on trial Monday in another county. Robert Vandel pleaded guilty in May to rape, aggravated child molestation, false imprisonment, and two counts of child molestation during his time at Lyndon Academy in Roswell, where he …
A founding member of Adventures With Purpose, a search and recovery dive team that found missing teen Kiely Rodni earlier this year, has been accused of raping a child in Utah. KOIN reported that Utah filed charges against 47-year-old Jared Leisek on November 3 for incidents that allegedly took place in 1992 in Sanpete County. …
A Las Vegas elementary school teacher was arrested this week and charged with sexually assaulting and kidnapping one of his students. Walker Richardson, 52, was arrested on Sunday, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said. 52-year-old Walker Richardson was arrested after sexually assaulting a student at a local school near Downtown Las Vegas. Click below …
A Louisiana man has been charged with multiple sex crimes against a minor and ordered held on a $210,000 bond. The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office said that Timothy Michael Barbat, 35, has been charged with five counts of sexual battery, five counts of molestation of a juvenile, and 10 counts of aggravated crimes against nature …
“He got what he deserves,” a now 19-year-old victim of Jonathan Young, who testified against him, said after the sentencing.
