WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT A South Carolina state agency that’s supposed to protect vulnerable children left a teenage girl “in the hands of a monster,” according to a lawsuit. Gregg Martin, a suspected predator facing over a dozen sex crime charges since 2022, allegedly groomed his victim, pumped her full of drugs and mentally and physically abused her for six weeks, …
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A 9-year-old girl “should have known” there was a camera hidden under the toilet seat by an American Airlines flight attendant, the airline’s lawyers said in court filings. The employee, Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, allegedly filmed multiple little girls between the ages of 7 and 14 during a seven-month span last year, federal prosecutors said. One of the victims’ …
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Dozens of children who were sent to juvenile detention centers and similar facilities in Pennsylvania suffered physical and sexual abuse, including violent rapes, according to four related lawsuits filed Wednesday. The lawsuits describe how 66 people, now adults, say they were victimized by guards, nurses, supervisors and others. Some attacks were reported to other staffers and were ignored or met …
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A Texas woman stranded along the roadside with a flat tire was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man who pulled over and offered to assist, police say. Reynaldo Tapia-Arcibar, 31, faces aggravated kidnapping and sexual abuse charges after the May 16 incident, according to Travis County Jail records. Dispatchers in Austin received a call from a woman “screaming for …
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A California lawmaker who tried to force a vote Tuesday on a bill that would have ended sanctuary protections for illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes against minors had his microphone cut off before the legislation was kicked aside. Assemblyman Bill Essayli motioned to force a vote on AB 2641 in an effort to force state Democrats to go on …
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Massachusetts officials placed migrant children to live among registered sexual predators, an investigation by the Boston Globe revealed. According to a Boston Globe report, an investigation by the newspaper suggested that the state failed to vet hotels across the state before placing migrant families to live among the alleged predators. “For the past month, the state Executive Office of Housing …
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A man in Arizona was arrested earlier this week after he allegedly faked his own death to avoid registering as a sex offender, according to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office. Benjamin Hollins, 50, who was originally convicted as a sex offender more than 20 years ago in California, was arrested on Tuesday after officers with the Chandler Police Department located …
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A reported illegal immigrant accused of sexually assaulting two women along Highway 39 in southern California has been taken into custody as police are seeking more victims. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says Eduardo Sarabia, 40, is now facing two felony counts of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation following alleged incidents on Sunday and Monday of this week. …
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An American accused of sexual assault who allegedly sent spine-tingling messages to his victim is in custody in France and awaits extradition proceedings, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. The three-year international manhunt finally ended in France, where Ian Thomas Cleary was detained last month as part of a police check, according to the AP, citing a prosecutor in Metz, France. …
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Austrian judges have ruled that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, raped her thousands of times and fathered seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison, a court said Tuesday. The decision on Monday was the latest in a legal back-and-forth on Josef Fritzl’s future. The state court in the …
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