Volume 5, Issue 7
January 30, 2007
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The Child Protection eNewsletter Nation’s worst pedophile gets 152 years... A man prosecutors say is one of the nation's most prolific child molesters was sentenced Monday to 152 years in prison for abusing two 12-year-old boys. ap.org Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller, 65, leaned on a cane and said nothing in his defense as he was sentenced for child molestation and possession of child pornography.When Schwartzmiller was arrested in June 2005, investigators found a memoir describing abuse, binders full of child pornography and 1,500 notebook pages with headings including "blond boys," "no, but yes boys," and "best of the best, 13 and under." Schwartzmiller, who had at least three molestation convictions and a dozen arrests over three decades, molested hundreds of boys, prosecutor Steve Fein said. vol3_iss45 Schwartzmiller acted as his own attorney during his October trial, telling the jury that he was innocent and maligned by a society that doesn't accept men who love boys. Italy Arrests 2,000 for Human Trafficking... More than 2,000 people throughout Italy, most of them foreign, are accused of human trafficking following an investigation that uncovered minors and adults forced into prostitution and working in sweatshops, police said. abcnews The four-month investigation uncovered hundreds of trafficking rings, some of them as small as three or four people, said Chief Superintendent Chiara Giacomantonio. "There were no surprises. Unfortunately it's all well-known," Giacomantonio said. "It's Albanians exploiting Romanian women, Chinese exploiting Chinese, Africa on Africa." Among the most upsetting cases was that of a young girl who was forced to prostitute herself up to her sixth month of pregnancy, Giacomantonio said. No prosecution in SC National Guard case... A National Guardsman who recruited at a high school and a former cheerleading coach are both accused of having sex with students, and the principal is charged with hindering the investigation, authorities said. ap.org Former Ware Shoals High School coach Jill Moore, 28, took cheerleaders to a motel where they met guardsmen for sex, according to Greenwood County sheriff's reports released late Thursday. Moore, a married mother of two, also is accused of having sex with a male student on a different occasion, according to the reports. None of the adults will be charged because all the students involved were 16 or older, old enough to consent under state law, according to the sheriff's reports. Age of consent laws are the legal backbone in the prosecution of child sex abuse cases. South Carolina’s age of consent is 16, the lowest in the country. In other news... Columbus, Ohio schools canceled classes for their 56,000 students Thursday after a contractor responsible for some school bus routes discovered it had not done complete criminal background checks on drivers. cnn.com First Student Inc. had not submitted any of its bus drivers' information to the state for checks since August 2004, said Jennifer Brindisi, spokeswoman for Attorney General Marc Dann. First Student's decision to ground its Columbus fleet came two days after Columbus police arrested one of the company's drivers on a charge of cocaine possession. The driver also had three convictions in the 1980s for driving under the influence. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston announced Friday it has agreed to settle child sex abuse claims, designating as much as $12 million for damages. ap.org The class-action settlement between the diocese and attorneys representing possible victims has been given initial approval by a judge, said Larry Richter, an attorney for four victims whose claims were settled last year. School brawls have gone high tech, with students using cell phones to call in reinforcements - in one Milwaukee case requiring police and pepper spray to break up a fight that swelled to about 20 family members on school grounds. ap.org The fracas earlier this month, in which six students and three adults were arrested, was the latest in a surge of cell phone-related fights and prompted Wisconsin's largest school district to ban cell phones in its 217 schools. Outrage continued to grow in Stanislaus County, California follow the arrest of a local mother who is accused of providing alcohol to teens and having sex with two minors. kcra.com Anna Walker-Vogt, the wife of a police officer, was arrested Friday after a car crash following a party at her home injured a dozen teens. A registered sex offender suspected of abducting a 6-year-old girl was arrested Saturday in a nearby town, sheriff's deputies said. ap.org The girl was reported missing from her mother's home in Maricopa, Arizona and found about three hours later walking down a rural road in the town of Casa Grande, about 20 miles away, officials said. Vasquez said there was evidence that the girl had been sexually molested. A former principal and longtime educator in Alaska has been accused of possessing some of the most violent images of child pornography Anchorage police say they have ever seen. adn.com Video and still photos seized from the computer and from other electronic devices in the Independence Park home of the accused man included bestiality and bondage involving babies and young children, police said. Other violent images in his collection included a video depicting a woman being killed. Police were uncertain whether the slaying was real. *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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