A 24-year-old York, Pennsylvania, man is accused of celebrating his first night out of prison by downloading child porn to a computer. The computer was owned by a person who had graciously offered to “put him up for the night,” Fox 43 reports, citing the Northern York County Regional Office. Authorities arrested Keith Lenier Biegger …
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby has ousted the high-powered defense team whose aggressive tactics failed to sway jurors from convicting him of sexual assault in April. Cosby’s spokesman Andrew Wyatt said Thursday that Tom Mesereau and the rest of the retrial team have been replaced by a Philadelphia-area defense attorney with experience handling sex crimes …
An ex-choirmaster accused of violating a teen boy with a foreign object recently lost a bid to remain in the U.K. and avoid extradition to the U.S. Britain-based Roger Giese, 42, reportedly fled California before his 2007 trial for 19 counts of committing lewd acts on a 13-year-old boy. The alleged incidents occurred between 1998 and …
Over 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders were arrested over the course of a “three-month, nationwide, operation conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces,” the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. The investigation identified 195 suspected offenders who allegedly produced child pornography or committed child sexual abuse, as well as 383 children who suffered …
The convict reportedly admitted to sexually molesting around 100 boys
An Iowa man who was sentenced to probation for repeatedly sexually assaulting his then-6-year-old granddaughter is challenging a ruling that could give his lottery winnings to the girl’s family. The Courier reported that the victim’s mother, Kasey Hilpipre, won a default judgment late last month because Dean Hilpipre had failed to respond to her civil lawsuit by …
A former child psychologist who admitted to having more than 600 videos and pictures depicting child pornography was sentenced Friday to 6-and-a-half years behind bars in a California court. According to the Berkley Patch, prosecutors said Contra Costa child psychologist Kenneth Allen Breslin, 69, was in possession of illicit images that depicted “prepubescent children being subjected to …
An Iowa man is appealing his life sentence months after being found guilty of trying to abduct two young girls by offering them $100 bills. The Des Moines Register reports that Jeff Lee Altmayer, 58, is pushing to have his life sentence overturned. Investigators believe Altmayer targeted at least 19 girls—sexually abusing two of them—in …
A California businessman who pleaded no contest to raping a 5-year-old girl will not only never see the inside of a jail, but isn’t required to register as a sex offender. KMOV reported that Lyle Burgess, 79, was sentenced on Wednesday to 90 days of house arrest and five years probation for the 2016 incident involving a …
A New York man who previously served 13 years in prison for sodomizing a 5-year-old girl was recently jailed for allegedly posting an ad on Craigslist, a violation of his parole. A Level 3 sex offender, Terri Havens 49, was placed on parole last September but reportedly violated it by breaking his curfew and using …
A convicted sex offender was reportedly allowed to work at a community center for high-risk children as he faced criminal charges for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy. David Walker, 64, was found guilty in 1981 of abusing two boys—ages nine and 11. He was then charged in 2015 with violating another child and was ordered …
A Florida man is facing attempted murder charges for allegedly trying to light sex offenders on fire at a Kissimmee motel. Osceola County detectives reportedly said Jorge Porto-Sierra, 50, admitted following his March 7 arrest that he went to Friendly Village Inn to “barbecue all the child molesters on fire and kill them.” WESH has since …
