Two Florida men are facing charges after police say they were both involved in a trafficking scheme involving minors. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, youth pastor Moises Escoto, 36, and foster parent Joel Lutz, 38 were arrested on human trafficking and related charges earlier this month. Escoto, at the time of his arrest, …
A long time California school board member was arrested last weekend in an undercover human trafficking operation in Florida. “Operation Traffic Stop” picked up 213 people, among them 60-year-old Scott Kenneth Wooden, who had served on the Del Mar Union School District Board of Trustees since 2010, Law and Crime reported. The operation was run …
A Missouri school nurse allegedly had sex with a student at least a dozen times in recent months, including some encounters inside the school, KAIT-TV reports. On Wednesday, police in Kennett arrested 26-year-old Candice Elizabeth Johnson in connection with the allegations. Two days earlier, law enforcement authorities were tipped off that Johnson, a school nurse …
“Dances With Wolves” actor, Nathan Chasing Horse, will remain behind bars without bail until his next hearing, after allegedly sexually abusing Indigenous girls while leading a cult, a judge said at the North Las Vegas court Thursday. CBS News reports that Horse, 46, is facing multiple charges, including sexual assault against a child younger than …
A Nebraska teacher has been arrested for alleged sexual abuse of a student, the second female teacher at the rural school to be accused of preying on minors in the past year, the Norfolk Daily News reports. On January 22, authorities in Winside, a small community in northeast Nebraska, arrested 25-year-old Cali Heikes. Heikes has …
Disturbing new details have emerged in the case of a Texas teen who vanished from a Dallas Mavericks game last year and was later sex trafficked, WFAA-TV reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, on April 8, 2022, the girl was at the American Airlines Center in Dallas with her father watching the basketball game when she …
Convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell says she believe a photo of Prince Andrew with his accuser Virginia Giuffre is fake and that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in prison. The British socialite, serving her 20-year prison term in a posh, low-security prison in Florida, made the comments in a series of interviews with UK broadcaster …
UPDATE: Larry Ray received a 60-year sentence for sex trafficking and racketeering, according to New York Magazine. On Friday, a man will be sentenced for recruiting New York college students into a sadistic sex cult that victimized them for almost 10 years. Federal prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for Lawrence Ray, 63, who was …
On Monday, New York police arrested a woman and her adult son for allegedly giving vapes to minors to obtain sexually-explicit pictures. Michael May, 27, reportedly used social media for several months to contact underage girls and sell them vapes. The man’s mother, Tomassina May, 67, was also involved in the sale of the vapes, according …
A Michigan man was arrested earlier this month for allegedly sexually assaulting a teen girl. WJBK reported that the victim’s family assaulted suspect Kahari Wright, 37, before his arrest on January 3. Police would not confirm if and how Wright were connected, but residents told the news outlet that the pair knew one another. “From …
A married Florida man and his girlfriend were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly molesting a 2-year-old in their care. Volusia County police said the abuse was uncovered after Jason Zeak’s spouse learned he was having an affair with Andrea Shearin, 31. Zeak’s spouse reportedly obtained hundreds of text messages that revealed the abuse, which occurred …
Missouri police have arrested a man who they believe sexually assaulted at least four children while they were in his wife’s care. According to KY3, Lebanon police received a report on December 20 indicating that a 7-year-old girl had accused her babysitter’s husband, Thomas Kincheloe, 44, of touching her genitals. Kincheloe allegedly also asked the …
