An Oklahoma pastor was arrested last week for sexually abusing his daughter since she was a child. Bertheophilus Maurice Bailey, a pastor at St. Andrew Christian Church in Tulsa, reportedly started sexually abusing his daughter when she was in the sixth grade. KTUL reported that weeks after Bailey’s adult daughter had a baby in 2021, …
On Thursday, a Florida judge denied bail for two suspects who allegedly trafficked two girls who vanished from a foster home last month. Palm Beach County police reportedly rescued the two girls on Wednesday after one of them was seen leaving the home with a suspected human trafficker. Faith Slayton and Michael Steinmetz were arrested …
A Pennsylvania couple was arrested earlier this month for allegedly filming themselves sexually abusing children. In June, state police were alerted to child pornography in a cloud storage device linked to Jamie Souders, 41. PennLive reported that the incidents occurred at Souders’ home, where he and Morgan Rothenhoefer, 24, abused boys and girls between the …
A good Samaritan foiled an assault on a Clemson University student last week before the attacker, a convicted sex offender, drove off in her stolen car. The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said Darrell Scott Brooks drove into Seneca, South Carolina, where Oconee County deputies saw him crash the car and took him into custody. Brooks, …
A 65-year-old Long Island man has been arrested and charged with impersonating a social services employee to get into a Suffolk County shelter, where he molested a physically disabled patient. According to Newsday, Alfred Balcerak posed as an employee of the Suffolk Department of Social Services on September 6. He is accused of sexually abusing …
Human trafficking sting operations in Tennessee netted nine arrests this month, including a local college football coach. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said it arrested six people in Middle and West Tennessee and three more in a separate operation in East Tennessee. They also recovered nine potential victims of sex trafficking and offered them services …
On Friday, a Hillsborough County, Florida, fire lieutenant and his wife, a former state attorney’s office employee, appeared in court on charges of unlawful sex with a minor. According to News Channel 8, in March, Riverview residents Sascha Engel, 39, and Alyssa Engel, 37, engaged in forced sexual acts with a 16-year-old boy. The juvenile …
A former New York police officer received a controversial sentence of 10 weekends in jail for raping a 13-year-old girl. On Wednesday, Judge Kristina Karle sentenced former Rochester cop Shawn Jordan, 40, to 10 weekends in jail—20 days total—followed by 10 years of probation under a plea agreement. He must also register as a sex …
An Ohio man accused of kidnapping and raping a Georgia girl was indicted last week on multiple felony charges. Antonio Agustin-Ailon, 34, is facing charges of rape, kidnapping, gross sexual imposition, pandering sexually-oriented matters, and interference with custody. From May 29 to July 26, according to the indictment obtained by 11Alive News, Agustin-Ailon “engaged in …
Charges have doubled for a special education teacher accused of abusing children last year at a New Jersey elementary school, a Burlington County prosecutor said. According to Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw, Vincent Root, 59, stands accused of mistreating 14 special education students at Chatsworth Elementary School in Woodland Township. He was initially charged …
Officials announced last week that a Georgia man was sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing his nephew after the boy’s mother died of cancer in 2021. Fetch Your News reported that Brandon Bennett, 39, moved in with his terminally ill sister in 2021 to help care for her three children. The woman’s dying …
A Florida man was convicted last week of sexually abusing a 9-year-old cousin — a crime which he revealed in 2021 while interviewing to become a police officer. The Orlando Sentinel reported that Stephen Bodley, 26, first revealed playing “sexual games” with the victim in an application for Apopka police. He then told the interviewer, …
