An Illinois man admitted to Riverside Police on Monday that he took a train nearly 90 miles away from his home to solicit and prey on young boys at a community zoo. The Brookfield zoo is not where Lawrence E. Adamczyk, 49, wound up however. Adamczyk told police he intended to visit the Chicagoland zoo ... read more »

According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, the Boy Scouts of America’s confidential internal files revealed that the organization failed to report hundreds of child sex abuse cases to authorities over a period of twenty years. The Los Angeles Times obtained over 1,600 of the scouting organization’s documents dating from 1971-1991.  In those documents, BSA officials urged admitted child molesters to ... read more »

Sedro-Wooley, Washington, parents pulled off an elaborate sting to prove to their daughter that her registered sex offender boyfriend, Liam Elms, was bad news. Jesper and Julie Myrfors said that when their 16-year-old daughter first introduced them to Elms he seemed charming.  Then, they found out that he was a registered sex offender and tried, ... read more »

A former Illinois high school math teacher from Niles North High School has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor sex charge after encouraging two cheerleaders to play a game of strip poker with him. DuPage County prosecutors said the 30-year-old teacher, Jeffrey Tackes (of Bensenville, Illinois) admitted to sexual exploitation of a child. He was was sentenced to probation along with 250 hours of ... read more »

As a poster boy for missing kids everywhere, Adam Croote’s story was the textbook case for why public resources should be used to help more victimized children. Croote, a former abducted child himself, stood next to Bill Clinton in 1996 as the president signed an order requiring missing children posters to be hung in federal ... read more »

19-year-old Jeremiah Christian Thompson was arraigned on Friday, charged with third-degree rape of a child, a Class C felony.  Thompson is a registered sex offender and was convicted of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes and fourth-degree assault in February 2010.  He also accepted a plea deal at the time to a misdemeanor charge ... read more »

Cody James Guzman was arrested Thursday morning at a mobile home in Rock County, Wisconsin.  According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Crime Stoppers received a tip that helped the DPS Criminal Investigations Division Agents, DPS Intelligence & Counterterrorism Analysts and the Lone Star Fugitive Taskforce gather more information that ultimately led to ... read more »

Jackie Wayne Robson, 48, of Porter, Indiana was arrested on two counts of molesting a child younger than 14. Robson is a registered sex offender, convicted of vicarious sexual gratification for molesting an eight year-old girl in 2008. He was sentenced to three years, with all but 90 days suspended. According to a probably cause ... read more »

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has placed a former teacher at a prominent private elementary school in Washington, D.C. on its list of the 10 most wanted fugitives over allegations that he possessed and produced child pornography. The investigation into Eric Justin Toth started four years ago when somebody found pornographic images on Toth’s camera ... read more »

A couple of Saturdays ago, Mabeline, a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, was a resident of the Friends of Strays animal shelter in St. Petersburg, Florida. On one fateful Saturday, a 17-year-old volunteer took Mabeline on a walk. While walking along a path behind the building, the girl saw her assailant, became nervous, and started walking in ... read more »

An Illinois father of three faces a potential $750 fine and possible criminal charges after he pulled over to ask two teenage girls if they needed a ride during a snow storm on March 2, 2012. Rodney Peterson says he was simply trying to be a good Samaritan by trying to help the girls, not ... read more »

A 9-year-old Indiana girl with physical and emotional problems disappeared on Friday from the mobile home park where she lived.  The trailer park is a known haven for registered sex offenders. On Monday, FBI agents joined the search for Aliahna Lemmon, who went missing from a family friend’s home in the trailer park on Friday. Their arrival came  a day ... read more »

Celina Cass, the 11 year old girl who went missing from her New Hampshire home in late June sometime in the middle of the night was found dead a week later and floating in the Connecticut River. Results from an autopsy which took several weeks to come in are providing more questions than answers. The ... read more »

English Judge Mary Jane Mowat told an  admitted sex offender: “I don’t criticize you for being a teacher who’s attracted to children,” while handing him a suspended sentence, according to The Telegraph newspaper. She further told the suspect, 63-year-old David Armstrong,  “Many teachers are (attracted to them) but they keep their urges under control both ... read more »

On Sunday, South Korea enacted a law allowing “Chemical castration” to be administered to convicted sex offenders who have attacked children under the age of 16. According to Wikepedia, chemical castration is is the administration of medication designed to reduce libido and sexual activity, usually in the hope of preventing rapists, child molestors and other sex offenders from ... read more »