Courts in Merseyside often hear how predators frequently engage in sick chats with children using various social media apps. This week the ECHO reported on the case of a children’s basketball coach who talked about sexually abusing a baby and using it as his “f*** toy” during “depraved” online chats….

INDIANAPOLIS — A Texas man was sentenced to over 23 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a child by using Instagram to deceive and force an Indiana teenager to send sexually explicit photos and videos of herself to him. In December 2018, 37-year-old Marcus Pettus from Texas posed as…

October 25, 1971 INDIA WILL DO NOTHING TO PROVOKE WAR: INDIRA For all latest news, follow The Daily Star’s Google News channel. Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi praised the Indian people for showing utmost restraint and said, “India would do nothing to provoke war”. She was addressing the Royal Institute…

Decatur, GA (October 18, 2021) – A Newton County man has been arrested in a joint GBI, Oconee County Sheriff’s Office, and  Newton County Sheriff’s Office online exploitation and child molestation investigation.  On October 15, 2021, Derrick Crooms, age 45, was arrested and charged with the following offenses: Incest (2…

BOSQUE COUNTY, Texas (KWTX) – Jessi Marie Lowery, 8, abducted by a sex offender relative Friday night, remains hospitalized Monday after surviving a wreck Saturday that killed her abductor, Randall Anthony Thurman, 34, and the driver of a second vehicle, the Bosque County Sheriff’s Office said. The Texas Department of…

It has been four days since Polokwane business mogul Nazim Moti’s four sons were snatched while they were en route to their private school Curro Heuwelkruin. By yesterday, no ransom or extortion demand was received for Zidan, 6, Zayyad, 11, Alaan, 13, and Zia, 15, who were abducted by seven…

A SURGE in kidnapping across the country should give police “sleepless nights”, security experts warn as the number of people taken rose to 15 in the space of 48 hours. The kidnapping and rescue mission on Friday of 11 Ethiopians and the kidnapping of five children this week has brought…

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — According to Rupert Police Department Detective Sgt. Sam Kuoha, predators online will target just about anybody. He said in his experience, the overwhelming majority of online predators have prior criminal offenses. He said he has seen an uptick in sexual predators preying on children online…

Justice Minister Liszt Quitel said the FBI and Haitian police are in contact with the kidnappers and seeking the release of the missionaries, abducted last weekend just outside the capital Port-au-Prince by a gang called 400 Mawozo. Among the missionaries are five children, Mr. Quitel said, one an 8-month baby…

October 24, (THEWILL) – A prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to seek authorisation from the pre-trial chamber of the court to open an investigation into cases of abduction of schoolchildren in Northern Nigeria. The prosecutor will also probe the closure of schools, and the failure of Nigerian…