The arrest of a former elite gymnastics coach on federal child pornography charges is raising questions about how abuse is reported and handled in youth sports, nearly a decade after the Larry Nassar scandal shook U.S. gymnastics. Federal agents last week arrested Sean Michael Gardner, 38, after investigators said they uncovered hundreds of illicit images …
A California school district is investigation “inappropriate images” allegedly shared by students at a Los Angeles high school. The Los Angeles Unified School District sent a message to parents on Tuesday about the images of girls at Fairfax High School, reportedly circulated on a messaging app, the Los Angeles Times reported. “These allegations are taken …
Disturbing new details have been released about the New Jersey elementary school janitor accused of intentionally contaminating students’ food with bodily fluids. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Giovanni Impellizzeri was arrested last month for allegedly wiping food with his genitals, spitting on bread, spraying bleach on cucumbers and masturbating and urinating on pillows and kitchen bowls. …
A Georgia man awaiting trial for possessing and distributing child pornography continued to share the disturbing materials after his arrest and intentionally cut off his ankle monitor while awaiting trial, prosecutors said. The incident, according to court documents, happened earlier this month while 35-year-old Christopher Snow was on house arrest, leading to a trial days …
A school janitor in Florida was allegedly found possessing a trove of child pornography, including images of victims as young as infants, WPBF-TV reports. Authorities arrested Jonathan Dibble after executing a search warrant on Tuesday at his home in Jensen Beach, where they found numerous still photos and videos containing the disturbing, explicit material. “They’ve …
A California man has been arrested and is believed to have groomed at least 80 children and used them to create child pornography. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said they launched an investigation in December 2021 following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about an online account that was befriending …
A former substitute school paraprofessional and a 22-year-old mother were arrested last month for producing child pornography — with the woman’s 4-year-old son. Jonathan Rivera, 31, appeared in federal court on February 28 on charges of production and receipt and distribution of child pornography. Dilicia Aguirre-Orellana faces the same charges, plus possession of child pornography, …
A Michigan couple has been ordered to pay $45,000 for dumping their adult son’s extensive porn collection. David Werking, 43, moved into his parents’ basement in Grand Haven in 2016 after a divorce. A few months later, he moved to Indiana and asked his parents to send him his belongings, MLive reported. But the porn …
Police found hundreds of pornographic videos — many of them involving children — on a Google account belonging to a Florida college student. Ethan Edlund, 19, turned himself in to the Chicago Police earlier this week after Daytona Beach Police concluded nearly a year of investigation. Edlund, a student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, has been …
Deputies arrested a Florida man this week after an investigation revealed hundreds of images of child pornography, with the children involved ranging in age from 10 months old to early teens. Shawn Fitzgerald, 46, is a teacher and varsity soccer coach at Lakeland High School and the director of youth services at First Methodist Church …
A 19-year-old man, jailed in North Carolina on child pornography charges, must remain in jail, a federal judge ordered after hearing testimony that he was arrested with a van full of guns and explosives and made online posts and threats to conduct mass shooting and even assassinate former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party’s …
