The Washington County Sheriff’s Office arrested three St. George men following allegations of voyeurism and child pornography being shared online. CyberTipline, a reporting mechanism for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children whose aim is to investigate child exploitation, filed two open case reports that led to the arrests…
A Johnson City man is being charged with twelve felony counts for allegedly distributing child pornography online. Prosecutors say 34 year old Jared Flanders was arrested Friday, February 17 and is being held without bail. A detention hearing is to be held this week. Federal prosecutors say, if convicted, Flanders…
A former Portsmouth man who taught at Naval War College in Newport has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. Federal prosecutors say 48-year-old Adam Cobb was also sentenced on Monday to complete a decade of supervised release and pay a $25,000 fine. Cobb was…
Christopher Pattichis, the founder of a daycare in Brossard and Lasalle, who was arrested Wednesday for possession of child pornography, says he is not only innocent — he is also a victim. “I am not guilty of what these charges imply, and moreover feel that I am a victim of…
A young mother is accused of sexually abusing her infant son and producing child sexually abusive material. Jazmine Nichole Pacyga, 19, of Muskegon Township “admitted” to performing oral sex on her 3-month-old baby, according to an abuse and neglect petition filed by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services….
With presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently pledging at a town hall meeting that she would do whatever she could to end revenge porn (and cyberbullying [call us, Hillary, we can help! Donald, you too!]), I thought it was time to take a closer look at the phenomenon. A couple of…
A P.E.I. man who was sentenced to 10 years in prison after sexually abusing his daughter will continue his day parole. The man, who cannot be named to protect the victim’s identity, was sentenced after pleading guilty to charges that included incest, sexual interference and producing child pornography. Last year…
UTICA, N.Y. — A registered sex offender from Auburn admitted today that he distributed child pornography, but plans to go to trial on charges of trying to coerce what he thought was a 12-year-old boy into sex. Michael J. Mahannah, 32, pleaded guilty to 18 counts of receiving, possessing and…
A cybersecurity taskforce chief turned child pornography collector seems poised to dodge prison – and live across the street from a Seattle elementary school. Before agents arrived at his house across from Ballard’s West Woodland Elementary School, security consultant Brian Haller led the Seattle chapter of an FBI/private-sector group tasked…
A sweeping investigation into the online distribution of child pornography netted 16 New Jersey residents accused of trading gruesome images and videos depicting sexual abuse of children as young as nine months old, authorities said Wednesday. The defendants came from all walks of life, law enforcement officials said. A Vineland…
