Volume 5, Issue 6
January 26, 2007
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The Child Protection eNewsletter Devlin investigation widens to another boy... Detectives investigating accused kidnapper Michael Devlin vol5_iss4 and vol5_iss5 have shown photographs to relatives of a child missing since 1991 that look like they could be of the long-lost boy, the family members say. abcnews.go.com Charles "Arlin" Henderson was 11 when he disappeared in July 1991 while riding his bike on a rural road in Moscow Mills, about an hour's drive north of St. Louis. Devlin, 41, is charged with kidnapping Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby in similarly remote areas. Shawn, now 15, and Ben, 13, were found January 12 at Devlin's suburban St. Louis apartment.Authorities are investigating whether he could be linked to Arlin's disappearance. The Lincoln County sheriff's detectives who showed Henderson's relatives the photos this week said the pictures came from someone who claims to know Devlin and who said the boy pictured was an acquaintance of Devlin's from years ago, said James McWilliams, Arlin's uncle. The photos are roughly 10 years old and show a teenager of about 17, the relatives said. Arlin would have been 17 in 1997. Sex offender posed as 7th grader at two other schools...  A convicted sex offender attended at least two Arizona middle schools, sat through seventh-grade courses and turned in homework as he moved around the state pretending to be 12-years-old, officials say. cnn.com Authorities in Yavapai County have accused Neil Havens Rodreick II, who is really 29, of assaulting a girl. They are not releasing details. Rodreick was arrested last week after spending a day at the Mingus Springs Charter School in Chino Valley, about 90 miles northwest of Phoenix. School officials there called police after they checked what they called a phony birth certificate and other admissions documents. Watch how the baby-faced ex-con managed to blend in at cnn.com.Rodreick has been charged with misdemeanor assault, conspiracy to commit fraud, conspiracy to commit forgery, failing to register as a sex offender, and possession of a forgery device. He remains in the Yavapai County jail. The sheriff's office there said Rodreick conned two men he was living with and having sex with into believing he was a young boy. One of them, 61-year-old Lonnie Stiffler, called himself Rodreick's grandfather when he tried to enroll him at Mingus Springs as "Casey Price." Now parents in a Phoenix suburb where 29-year-old Neil Havens Rodreick II attended a charter school for four months are asking their children if they had any contact with this "classmate." foxnews.com Police are interviewing parents, students and teachers, and checking at least three other Arizona schools where Rodreick, a convicted sex offender from Oklahoma, also enrolled. Meanwhile, authorities said they seized a video from Rodreick showing him engaging in sex acts with a child. foxnews.com Investigators were trying to determine the identity of the juvenile shown in the video In other news...  Two 13-year-old boys are accused of videotaping themselves sexually assaulting two 5-year-old girls and a 3-year-old boy and also taping sexual contact between the three young children, according to Lincoln, Nebraska police. ketv.com The alleged felony occurred at one of the boys' homes, about a block away from an elementary school. Court records show that the tape includes the voice believed to be one of the 13-year-old boys. He talks about making a "sex video."A Bucks County, Pennsylvania man whose work servicing pianos took him into schools has been charged with sending a series of letters threatening ''Amish Schoolhouse''-style massacres, according to court documents. mcall.com James T. Weed, 55, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted on federal charges of mailing threatening communications to places in Pennsylvania and New Jersey last November.  A man accused of kidnapping two Idaho children and killing one of them after slaughtering their family has confessed to the killings of three other children a decade ago in Washington state and California, federal prosecutors said. cnn.com The prosecutors cited the confessions to the old killings in court papers saying they intended to seek the death penalty against Joseph Edward Duncan III, who was indicted last week on charges involving the two northern Idaho children. Meanwhile, details in the federal indictment shed light on what happened at a remote Montana campsite in 2005 where the convicted killer and child molester allegedly videotaped his abuse of two kidnapped children. deseretnews.com The indictment charges Duncan with 10 felonies, including kidnapping and sexual exploitation of Dylan Groene, 9, resulting in the boy's death. Dylan's sister Shasta, 8, was recovered alive.The founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" videos was sentenced Monday to two years probation and 200 hours of community service for violating federal laws designed to prevent the sexual exploitation of minors. findlaw.com Joe Francis, 33, also was ordered to pay a $500,000 fine as part of a plea deal he made with the U.S. Department of Justice in September, when he pled guilty to failing to document the ages of young women engaging in sexually explicit acts in the tapes. An 83-year-old man described buying a baby girl named Cinderella for his granddaughter in testimony on Wednesday in an infant trafficking trial in France. findlaw.com The grandfather is one of 56 people on trial in the case, which centers on 22 babies who were sold between 2003 and 2005, mostly to couples within France's Roma, or Gypsy, communities, for between US$3,900 and US$9,100, prosecutors say. Most of those on trial are Bulgarians. "Hounddog," the simply awful movie in which 12-year-old Dakota Fanning’s character is raped, has no buyers. foxnews.com "No one wants it after the terrible reviews." one distributor told Fox News’ Entertainment editor Robert Friedman. According to Friedman, one of the few who’ve actually seen the film, “there is no point that I can find to the child’s rape.” “Once it happens, it’s never discussed. The culprit is never accused or apprehended. The child never tells her story to anyone. There’s no great moment of revelation that could possibly help someone who’s watching the film. It’s simply there for shock value.” ABC News has an interesting piece on “Webspeak: The Secret Language of Teens.” abcnews.go.com Web sites like transl8it.com and lingo2word.com translate Web lingo into plain English, and vice versa, which can facilitate parent-child communication. CNN shines the spotlight on the global sexual trade of children and the child sex tourism industry, focusing on a six-year-old Cambodian girl. cnn.com More than 1 million children are involved in the global commercial sex trade each year according to the U.S. State Department. *for access to member only sites like the New York Times, use the ID "JohnDoeID" and the password "whatever". On sites asking for an email address, feel free to use "info@childprotectionprogram.org" Unsubscribe |
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