A former North Carolina pastor who admitted to sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl has been sentenced to just 30 days in jail as punishment for the crime. Eric Dave Jones, 49, pleaded guilty this week in Haywood County Superior Court to a charge of indecent liberties with a child, the Citizen-Times reports. While the felony charge …
The legal team representing disgraced former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner submitted a sentencing memorandum late Wednesday night, asking a judge to spare their client from serving time in prison. The New York Times reports that Weiner’s lawyers asked Judge Denise Cote of Federal District Court in Manhattan to consider their client’s “remarkable progress” over …
Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer convicted of raping an unconscious woman last year, now has his face plastered on a criminal justice college book as the “textbook example of a rapist.” New York Post reports that Turner’s mugshot, along with the details of his crime and conviction, appears in the new textbook, “Introduction …
A registered Missouri sex offender is behind bars after he allegedly raped and molested two young girls in August. Springfield News-Reader reports that Dave Saffeels, 57, spent eight years in prison for molesting a 2-year-old toddler in 2002. Saffels, now out of prison, is accused of raping an 11-year-old girl three times last month. Saffels attacked …
Minnesota prosecutors revealed more details about the case of a 15-year-old girl from Alexandria who was abducted from her home and held captive for 29 days before she swam across a lake to safety. As CrimeOnline previously reported, three suspects have been charged in the kidnapping and alleged assault: Thomas Barker, 32, (pictured left), Joshua Holby, …
An Arizona elementary school principal was arrested on multiple charges on Tuesday after he made an online post about hosting a ‘skinny dipping’ pool party, inviting teenage girls to attend. The New York Post reports that Karl Waggoner, 59, is charged with luring a minor for sexual exploitation and aggravated luring/misrepresenting his age following an investigation of …
A New York City man has admitted to pursuing a 12-year-old girl in public while she was shopping with her mother in Queens. According to the New York Post, NYPD used facial-recognition technology to apprehend Vladimir Suero, 38, after the girl’s mother reported what appeared to be an attempted kidnapping. Suero, who lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn, …
A Michigan mom discovered her 12-year-old daughter had been raped after reading the little girl’s diary and the man responsible will now spend at least five years behind bars. Michigan Live reports that Taylor James Dusen, 18, pleaded guilty in July to first degree criminal sexual conduct. Last week, he was sentenced to serve five years in prison. …
Victor Hursch allegedly kidnapped and strangled a woman, burned her with cigarettes, and hurled lit fireworks at her
Police have arrested an accused sex offender wanted on multiple counts of solicitation of a minor at an Ohio fair. Investigators say Brandon Walsh, 30, faces charges in South Carolina for creating fake Facebook profiles to solicit girls, ranging in age from 13 to 16. Police say that if the girls would refuse to send more …
An Illinois father is warning parents about a child predator asking for nude photos of young kids on a popular music sharing app. Brad Frakes said his 7-year-old daughter was using the Musical.ly app when someone messaged her and asked her to share photos of herself without her clothes on, reports CBS46. The person messaging …
A 29-year-old Indiana man was arrested Monday for reportedly using GoFundMe to meet a 14-year-old girl in Montana. The Missoulian reported that William Eugene White Jr. of Montezuma, Indiana, is accused of starting an online crowdfunding campaign in efforts to meet his underage “fiancée.” A representative from GoFundMe told KGVO that the campaign was immediately removed, White …
