A police dog has sniffed out electronic hard drives, phones and laptops allegedly used by a Queensland man to chat with children online in a sexual manner and share child abuse material. Australian Federal Police officers raided the man’s home in Ipswich, south-west of Brisbane, on May 19 after a tip-off from authorities in the US
A Wausau mother accused of repeatedly abusing her children and allowing her boyfriend to abuse their infant daughter will avoid prison time if she successfully completes three years of probation. Kassandra Meloy, 30, was given a withheld sentence earlier this month in Marathon County Circuit Court after reaching a plea deal in two separate cases. She was convicted Aug. 5 on charges of child neglect and bail jumping
One in ten students experience sexual misconduct by school personnel by the time they graduate from high school.
A famed Taiwanese cartoonist is being prosecuted for sharing a comic depicting herself and her husband “tasting” their infant son’s genitals, reported UDN on Wednesday. Though the couple in question denied accusations of sexual assault during an official investigation, the artist and her husband face 7 years or more in jail after causing online uproar. The cartoonist posted the comic on her Facebook page in June and immediately received so much backlash that she deleted it
A Safford couple was arrested and booked into the Graham County Adult Detention Facility on a number of drug, DUI, and child abuse charges after being pulled over for a traffic violation in the early morning hours of Aug. 10. During the traffic stop, the officer noted the child appeared to have a medical condition. When the child’s father arrived on the scene, the father advised the injury had occurred about a month prior when the child while in the care of Higgs
The man is accused of sexually abusing a female student while he was a teacher and rowing coach at Walt Whitman High School between May and June of 2018.
NEARLY three million adult Australians have experienced sexual violence during their lifetime, including sexual assault or child sexual abuse, yet only 13 per cent of survivors report these crimes to police.
Two suspects facing child sexual abuse charges have moved forward in the court system with one being referred to the grand jury and another scheduled for a preliminary hearing. The case of Tommy Gibson, 41, of Madisonville, was referred to a grand jury after he appeared in court on Friday for 10 counts of first-degree sodomy with a victim younger than 12-years-old, 11 counts of first-degree sexual abuse with victim younger than 12-years-old and five counts of incest with a victim under 12-years-old
