Archive for sexual-abuse

Texas teacher denies molestation accusations, cites her racism as proof

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

A Texas first grade teacher at a private school in Humble is being accused of inappropriately touching one of her students, but claims the charge is false because she doesn’t like black people. The 7-year-old accuser is believed to be African American. The teacher, Irene Esther Stokes, 61, was charged with child indecency on April ... read more »

Teacher accused of molesting 20 children

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

Robert Pimentel, 57, a former fourth grade teacher at George de la Torre Jr. Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly committing lewd acts and sexually abusing 20 children and one adult.  According to court records, prosecutors have filed 15 charges involving sexual abuse and lewd ... read more »

Octomom: Nadya Suleman calls sexual abuse allegations ‘blatant lies’

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Two of Octomom’s former nannies are alleging that one of Nadya Suleman’s sons was caught sexually abusing one of his sisters and that Nadya “Octomom” Suleman did nothing about it. CBS2 LA broke the story on Friday, claiming Suleman’s two former nannies went to authorities to report the new allegations of abuse. One of the nannies told ... read more »

Boy Scouts helped cover up alleged child molestors according to ‘perversion files’

Monday, September 17th, 2012

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 »

Catholic priest says Jerry Sandusky the real victim, children the predators

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Father Benedict Groeschel, former head of the Office of Spiritual Development for the Archdiocese of New York, became of the ire of child advocates when he told the National Catholic Register recently that pedophiles are the victims, not the children they molest as most people are led to believe. The Rev. tried to turn the ... read more »

Son of day care worker accused of sexually and physically abusing 4 preschoolers

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

The son of an employee at at Momma’s Place Christian Academy has been accused of sexually and physically abusing four preschool-aged children while “helping out” at the Pinson, Alabama, day care.  According to the day care owners, he was not employed by the day care. Chief Deputy Randy Christian of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office ... read more »

Son of day care operators arrested on sexual abuse charges

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

The 18-year-old son of a couple running a home day care was arrested Monday on sexual abuse charges amid accusations from two girls authorities describe as “under the age of twelve.” Police say that the parents of the girls, who are sisters, told them that the girls got very upset every day last week when it was time for ... read more »

Mother who sexually abused 6-month-old son and shared it online arrested

Saturday, August 25th, 2012

Myriah Moreland, 20, of Montesano, Washington, was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing her six-month-old son and sharing images and videos of it on the Internet. Moreland has been accused of sharing child pornography with Christopher Dupea, also 20, over social networking sites and through text messages. According to investigators, the pair initially began exchanging sexually ... read more »

Daycare child molester sentenced to 80 years in prison

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

On Wednesday, a federal judge sentenced Andrew Keith, 29, of Mason, Ohio to 80 years in prison for molesting boys at his mother’s in-home day care and sharing photos he had taken of the abuse over the Internet.  Keith plead guilty to 15 counts of producing child pornography and one count each of transportation and possession of ... read more »

Priest, former head of child protection office and principal, accused of abuse

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

The Rev. Terry W. Specht, a prominent priest in the diocese that oversees Northern Virginia, is being investegated following accusations of sexual misconduct with a minor boy which allegedly occurred during the late 1990s while he was a parochial vicar at St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax. According to the Washington Post, Specht was ... read more »

Alleged sexual predator tells authorities how he coerced underage victims

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Richard Finkbiner, of Brazil, Indiana was taken into custody Friday, April 9, 2012. The 39 year-old is charged with two preliminary counts of sexual exploitation of a child. The criminal complaints states that a 14-year-old boy from Michigan was recorded by Finkbiner exposing himself to a webcam. Finkbiner then blackmailed the boy into producing child ... read more »

Child porn charges land former D.C. teacher on FBI’s Most Wanted list

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

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 »

High school teacher who moved in with student arrested on sexual abuse charge

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

The teacher who left his wife and three children to move in with his 18-year-old former student was arrested Friday for allegedly sexually abusing a different student 14 years ago. Christopher James Hooker, 41, made national headlines in February when he revealed his relationship with 18-year-old Jordan Powers, who he met while teaching at Enochs ... read more »

NFL cheerleader indicted for allegedly having sex with high school student

Friday, March 30th, 2012

For Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones, maintaining a clean reputation isn’t easy. The 26-year-old ex-teacher’s first brush with scandal came when she sued TheDirty.com for publishing several derogatory posts about her. Now Jones will be the one facing legal action as a Kentucky grand jury indicted her Thursday on charges of first-degree sexual abuse for ... read more »

Joe Paterno may leave Penn state after assistant coach is charged with sexual abuse of children

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

According to the New York Times, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno will not return next season as questions continue to pile up about how the 84-year-old coach handled the allegations of sexual abuse made against Jerry Sandusky,  the former defensive coordinator for the Nittany Lions. Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was ... read more »