A former parent volunteer at an Oregon elementary school was ordered to be held on nearly $16 million bail as he faces 107 charges related to child sex crimes. Antonio Francisco Marquez, 41, is also on active duty with the U.S. Army and was initially indicted in May 2018 on 6 sex abuse charges involving a girl …
A retired Idaho priest who admitted to possessing and distributing child porn was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison without the possibility of parole. The Idaho Statesman reported that the Reverend W. Thomas Faucher, 73, received the de facto life sentence following a rambling 17-minute statement where he attempted to explain how he became entangled …
A Florida mother found guilty of producing sexually-explicit videos involving her 18-month-old son was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. Leigh Felten, 34, will spend 10 years behind bars for one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition. Felten was arrested in 2015 in connection with a series of videos where she’s seen inappropriately touching a child while …
A couple in Texas has recently admitted to producing child porn which authorities said could involve as many as 25 children. As reported by KWTX, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement that Christopher Almaguer, 26, and his wife, Sarah Rashelle Almaguer, 27, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of children and production of child pornography …
FBI agents shut down New Mexico’s National Solar Observatory earlier this month as they conducted computer forensic searches for child pornography, a federal search warrant has revealed. Reuters reports that federal authorities closed the observatory in Sunspot on September 6 as they investigated claims that a janitor used the facility’s wireless internet and his personal laptop …
A former deputy in Colorado who admitted to creating a pornographic image involving a young boy learned he will not spend a day behind bars for the act. Donald Fair, 45, agreed to plead guilty in late April to sex assault on a child by a person in a position of trust. It was on …
An Arkansas man confessed in court that he intentionally infected himself with HIV so that he could expose the virus to other people, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported. During his sentencing, a bewildered judge asked 25-year-old Stephen Koch, of Scranton, whether the mind-boggling admission was really true. “Just so I can get my brain …
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 …
Texas authorities have discovered thousands of videos of sex abuse against kids, including some that depict torture, in what a sheriff says is the “worst case” of child pornography he has ever seen, KPRC-TV reports. Police in Coldspring, Texas, found more than 3,000 disturbing videos in a trailer home involving children between 5 and 12 …
A Michigan woman has learned her fate after admitting to recording herself sexually assaulting a four-year-old boy and sending the footage to her drug dealer. According to MLive.com, U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff sentenced Kailee Marie Perez, 25, on January 11 to 20 years in federal prison. Perez pleaded guilty in September 2017 to recording the sexually-explicit video …
A 17-year-old in Missouri is facing child pornography charges after his father allegedly discovered pictures of a naked toddler girl on his phone and turned him in to police. According to The Kansas City Star, Paul Spensberger claimed he discovered two illicit images in Andrew Spensberger’s phone on December 30. The close-up images reportedly depicted a 2-year-old …
A 21-year-old California man is facing criminal charges for allegedly using Snapchat to solicit an 8-year-old girl for sex. The Sacramento Bee reported that Gilberto Garcia-Bejarano was arrested January 2 as he arranged to meet the girl but was met detectives instead. Roseville police got involved January 1 after the girl’s mother found explicit Snapchat messages on her daughter’s …
