#child-pornography

#child-pornography

Janette Mayo drove two hours to attend a choir recital last Thursday at a middle school in rural Oklahoma.Her granddaughter Tiffany Dore Guess wore a black and gold robe and sang beautifully, Ms. Mayo recalled.The next day, she texted her daughter, Holly Guess, to check on her and Tiffany, but the reply she got unsettled her: We dropped the phones in a mud puddle, she said it read.

Seven bodies were found on a piece of property in rural Oklahoma on Monday afternoon during a search for two teenage girls who had been reported missing and were said to have been seen with a convicted sex offender, according to officials with the Okmulgee County Sheriff's Office.None of the seven victims were identified, and the authorities would not say whether they included the missing girls, Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 16.

A certified nursing assistant from Pomona was sentenced to life in prison for filming himself sexually abusing disabled children at a group home where he worked, federal authorities said Tuesday.Steve Rodriguez, 38, was sentenced during a hearing Friday in Santa Ana, where U.S. District Judge John W. Holcomb described his crimes as "unspeakable acts," according to the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of California.

Lawyers for R. Kelly have asked a federal judge in Chicago to give the disgraced R&B singer a concurrent sentence of about 11 years in prison for his conviction last year for sexually abusing teen girls.In a court filing early Friday, Kelly's lead attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, wrote the singer is already facing what amounts to the rest of his life in prison given the 30-year term handed down for his conviction on racketeering charges in New York in 2021.

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Brooklyn high school paraprofessional was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually exploiting a child.Brian Quinones was found guilty of convincing a minor to send sexually explicit videos of himself through WhatsApp and threatened to publish the child if the minor didn't send more.

R. Kelly, center, leaves the Daley Center after a hearing in his child support case in May 2019 in Chicago.Matt Marton/AP CHICAGO Federal prosecutors Thursday asked a judge to give singer R. Kelly 25 more years in prison for his child pornography and enticement convictions last year in Chicago, which would add to 30 years he recently began serving in a New York case.

R. Kelly appearing in court in Chicago in Sept. 2019, alongside his attorney Steven Greenberg (L).Antonio Perez/Pool/Getty Images Editor's note: This report includes allegations of sexual and physical abuse.Disgraced former R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced Thursday in Chicago to one more year in federal prison atop the current 30 years he is serving on a separate federal sentence in New York.

LONDON The former glam rock singer Gary Glitter has been released from prison after serving half of a 16-year sentence for sexually abusing three young girls decades ago, Britain's Ministry of Justice said on Friday.The singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, will serve the remainder of his sentence under probation, a common arrangement in Britain.

R. Kelly's Cook County cases continue to move at a snail's pace, despite a judge's past urging to make progress now that the singer's two federal trials have concluded.Kelly's defense this week filed additional motions saying they could not proceed until prosecutors reveal more specific information about their allegations against Kelly.

A teacher in National City who won a "Teacher of the Year" award last August was arrested and booked into county jail for her "inappropriate relationship" with a 13-year-old former student, police said.Jacqueline Ma, 34, was a teacher at Lincoln Acres Elementary in National City - just south of San Diego - where she taught fifth and sixth grades.

A 37-year-old teacher at Beckman High School was arrested Monday after police said he hid recording devices in one of the school's bathrooms.Siu Kong Sit is accused of putting the recording instruments in an all-gender restroom near the school's pool, which detectives said captured several people inside the restroom, according to a news release from the Irvine Police Department.

A Chicago prosecutor said on Monday that she was dropping sex-abuse charges against the singer R Kelly, following federal convictions in two courts that ensure the disgraced R&B star will be locked up for decades.Cook county state's attorney Kim Foxx announced the decision a day ahead of a court hearing related to state charges accusing him of sexually abusing four people, three of whom were minors.

A federal judge on Monday shot down an unusual effort by the attorney for R. Kelly's former business manager Derrel McDavid to force the government to pay McDavid's nearly $1 million legal tab.The long-shot motion filed in October by attorney Beau Brindley alleged the evidence against McDavid, who was acquitted of all counts by a jury, was "irreconcilably conflicted and incoherent," and that he deserves payment after successfully defending himself against a "capricious and overzealous prosecution."

A former Robbins and Dixmoor police officer possessed child pornography during the time of his employment as officer and was fired from both positions including after a "grooming" incident with juveniles, prosecutors said Saturday.Tory Bridgeforth, 37, of Chicago Heights, appeared before Cook County Judge Susana L. Ortiz, who set bail at $1 million during a hearing that was livestreamed on YouTube.