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Archives > Volume 7 Issue 68 - November 17, 2009 5-year-old Shaniya Davis' body found...A missing 5-year-old whose mother was accused of offering her for sex was found dead off a heavily wooded road in a rural area Monday, ending a weeklong search, police said. CBS News story here 
Searchers found Shaniya Davis' body early Monday afternoon about 100 feet off a road southeast of Sanford, in central North Carolina, Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance said. She declined to comment on a cause of death or the condition of Shaniya's body.
"We've got a lot of people out at the scene right now that are torn up," Chance said. "Detectives have been running off adrenaline to find this little girl and to bring her home alive. You have a lot of people in shock right now." Two people have been charged in her disappearance, one of them her mother, Antoinette Davis, 25. Police charged Davis with human trafficking and felony child abuse, saying Shaniya was offered for prostitution. Davis was calm and quiet during a five-minute court appearance in Fayetteville on Monday afternoon. She provided one-word answers to the judge's questions and held her hands in front of her, without handcuffs. She requested a court-appointed attorney and did not enter a plea. Authorities also charged Mario Andrette McNeill, 29, with kidnapping after they said surveillance footage from a Sanford hotel showed him carrying Shaniya there. Authorities said McNeill admitted taking the girl, though his attorney said he will plead not guilty. Davis reported Shaniya missing last Tuesday. Authorities first arrested a man named Clarence Coe, but charges against him were dropped a day later when investigators tracked down McNeill after receiving a tip from a hotel employee. For more on this story, see vol7_iss67. Kansas City area dad reported Mohlers 9 years ago... A Kansas City metro father said he believes his son is likely one of the victims of a family charged with numerous child sex crimes and said he reported the abuse years ago. http://www.kctv5.com/news/21621188/detail.html 
"I found out from Burrell Ed Mohler Jr.'s ex-wife," Mark Young said.
Young said he tracked down Jeanette Mohler in 2000, after he said the Liberty School District called him to report his son had been missing from school for 30 days. The boy's mother married Ed Mohler Jr. in 1999. "I couldn't conceive, the stories she was telling me about sexual abuse and she did advise my son was in extreme danger," Young said. Since February 2000, Young said he has collected more than 300 pages of documents from the Division of Family Services. He said the documents consist of his verbal and written complaints that he believed Ed Mohler Jr. sexually abused his son. He said he even called the Lafayette County Sheriff's Department to check on his son's welfare and notified a court appointed guardian named in DFS reports as Pete Schloss. "He said, 'Well, I don't know what you want me to do. I like Mr. Mohler and I think you're starting trouble,'" Young said. Young showed KCTV5 a report taken by the DFS in March of 2000. There is a box checked "no" next to "child sexual abuse suspected." Young said this the report was taken one month after he called the Lafayette County Sheriff's Department concerned his son was being held on a Bates City, Missouri farm. "I want them to know somebody was there, somebody reported it, and how nothing got done is beyond me," Young said. See more on this story at vol7_iss67. Evidence from search warrants released Monday detailed new allegations about what happened on the Mohler family's Bates City-area farm. KCTV5 News story here Investigators dug for evidence for three days last week on the farm where Burrell Mohler Sr. and his sons lived back in the 1980s and into the mid '90s. According to a sworn affidavit, investigators said a sixth victim has come forward after hearing the news of the allegations against the Mohlers. The woman claims the Mohlers locked her in the basement and raped her back in 1988. She said she became pregnant twice and, "Following the delivery of the first baby, Burrell E. Mohler Sr. and Burrell E. Mohler Jr. buried the infant in the basement." The affidavit said the basement floor was dirt when the baby was buried, but was paved shortly thereafter. The witness said the baby was buried in a box underneath the only window in the basement. A searcher using radar located an anomaly "consistent with the shape of a box" buried approximately 12 inches below the concrete. Meanwhile, a sixth member of a family facing multiple child sex abuse charges in western Missouri said he is "devastated" and had "no idea" about the rape allegations against him. AP News story here Darrel Wayne Mohler, 72, of Silver Springs, Florida, made the remarks outside the makeshift courtroom at the Marion County Jail where he made his first appearance in front of a judge Saturday afternoon, The Ocala Star-Banner reported in its Sunday editions. Louisiana lacks staff to arrest child porn dealers... Centered in cyber-forensics labs at the offices of the Louisiana attorney general and State Police, special investigative units can detect computers throughout Louisiana that are exchanging sexually explicit images of children online. New Orleans Times-Picayune story here 
During a recent typical month, the systems identified more than 5,600 such internet computer addresses in the state.
Investigators say they lack the staff and resources to conduct the forensic analysis and prosecution of more than a fraction of those perpetrators. They are doubly frustrated because a substantial number of those who collect sexually explicit images of children also pose a threat as child molesters. The computer screen in the State Police control room in Alexandria shows a map of Louisiana covered with hundreds of red dots. New Orleans Times-Picayune story here Each dot represents a town or community where child pornography traders are at work. A mouse click on a dot pops open a matrix of more dots, each one representing an individual computer address involved in possible criminal activity. A click on one of the News Orleans dots fans open to 329 more dots: a snapshot of the users in town engaged in trafficking of sexually explicit images of children. A click on a Metairie dot shows 172 users. In all, on a recent weekday, 3,588 computers in Louisiana were trafficking in child pornography. "Truly, truly there are so many, that if we put every single resource we had today, we could not eliminate these red dots," cyber crimes Detective Chad Gremillion said. Not every red dot on Gremillion's screen represents a guilty adult computer owner. Investigators say some computer users with unsecured wireless internet connections are victimized by criminals tapping into their wireless systems. In some cases, children in the homes are the culprits downloading the contraband images. Because there is no age limit for such offenders in Louisiana, police have the option to make an arrest and book the youth into a detention facility or give a warning and release the minor back to the parents, said David Ferris, an investigator in the Louisiana attorney general's High Technology Crime Unit. The state has just begun a juvenile sex offender pilot diversion program that will provide a new option for an intensive treatment program in lieu of an arrest, he said. In the great majority of cases, however, the dots on Gremillion's screen prove to be intentional criminal activity by adults, law enforcement officials said. Some of those offenders also could be sexually abusing a child. "The real sad thing about this, is that these red dots also represent victims. Victims that are in homes right now, who are being abused by family members, who are being abused by siblings, by people they don't even know," Gremillion said. "And the real key here is that if law enforcement can get to one of these red dots, and actually get into one of these homes and save a victim from the evil hands of their abuser, then at the end of the day, we've saved a child, we've rescued a child and taken that child out of harm's way." To read the whole Times-Picayune series on child pornography, see New Orleans Times-Picayune series here. In other news... 
Phillip Garrido, who is accused of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old and then holding her captive for 18 years, apologized in a jailhouse letter sent to a television station. CNN News story here But prosecutors responded, saying Garrido was attempting to manipulate public perceptions of the case. In the handwritten letter this week to CNN affiliate KCRA, Garrido seemed to address the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard. "First off I want to apologize to every human being for what has taken place," KCRA said the letter states. The second sentence of the letter appeared to refer to what Garrido has described as a religious transformation that cured him of his sexual deviancy. It says: "People all over the world are hearing testimony that through the spirit of Christ a mental process took place ending a sexual problem believed to be impossible." Prosecutors charged that Garrido was being manipulative - and not for the first time. "It appears once again that Mr. Garrido seeks leniency due to claims of religious transformation and alleged personal change," retorted a statement released by the El Dorado County district attorney's office. "Our office fully intends to hold Mr. Garrido legally accountable for his actions and see that he is punished to the full extent of the law," the statement said, noting that the assertion was "eerily similar to what Mr. Garrido told the judge who sentenced him in 1977 and the parole board when he duped them into releasing him from prison after serving only 11 years of a 50-year federal sentence..." For more on the story of Jaycee Dugard, see vol7_iss48, vol7_iss49, vol7_iss50, and vol7_iss59.
Three former California residents announced today they have sued the Mormon Church, the Boy Scouts of America and their stepfather in San Francisco Superior Court for alleged childhood sexual abuse. KTVU News story here The three men, who are brothers now aged 39, 41 and 43, claim that William E. Knox, 65, a Mormon church and Boy Scouts leader, molested them repeatedly in Sunnyvale between 1977 and 1987. A brother identified as John Doe 2, who now lives in Georgia, said, "I'm a victim and a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. It was devastating to me. I've been abused hundreds of times over several years." The brother alleged, "During the abuse, I told the church leadership responsible to protect me and they did nothing to protect me." Knox married the brothers' mother in 1979 and remains married to her, but the brothers are now estranged from Knox and their mother, according to Kelly Clark, a lawyer for men. The lawsuit alleges that before the marriage, Knox used his position as a church elder and youth leader to begin abusing them when they were members of a church-chartered Boy Scouts troop for which he was assistant leader. The molestation began during individual sleepovers at Knox's Sunnyvale apartment, according to the lawsuit. After the marriage, the sexual assaults allegedly continued at the family's Sunnyvale home, in Knox's car on trips to church and Boy Scouts activities, and during Scouts camping trips, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed about two weeks ago, but under state law the identity of the defendants could not be revealed publicly until a Superior Court judge ruled last week that the plaintiffs had provided enough corroborating evidence to allow disclosure of the defendants.
A small-time actor and former children's entertainer who was known for playing Santa Claus was sentenced Monday to nearly 20 years in prison for his role in an international sex tourism ring that preyed on young children. AP News story here Wayne Nelson Corliss, whose 2008 arrest was the culmination of an international manhunt, had admitted traveling to Thailand three times between 2000 and 2002 to have sex with at least two boys, ages 6 and 9. He pleaded guilty last October to five counts that included distribution and possession of child pornography and traveling to foreign countries to engage in illegal sexual activity. "You have acted beyond the bounds of human decency," U.S. District Judge Joseph A. Greenaway told Corliss on Monday. The bearded, white-haired Corliss, who is 61 and acted under the name Casey Wayne, was described by people who knew him as witty and friendly and "the best Santa Claus anyone has ever seen." He worked as an entertainer at corporate parties, art fairs and bar mitzvahs, where his activities sometimes included painting children's faces. That image clashed with the one presented in court Monday, in which Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee Vartan called Corliss "an irredeemable sexual predator" who bragged on the Internet about fondling young boys while dressed as Santa. vol6_iss35, vol6_iss36, and vol6_iss69.
Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting yet another record in 2008, government health officials said Monday. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33963387/ns/health-sexual_health/ Last year there were 1.2 million new cases of chlamydia, a sometimes symptomless infection that can lead to infertility in women. It was the most ever reported, up from the old record of 1.1 million cases in 2007. Better screening is the most likely reason, said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr. of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Girls, ages 15 through 19, had the largest reported number of chlamydia and gonorrhea cases, accounting for more than one in four of those cases. But they're often screened more than other people, since 1993 federal recommendations that emphasize testing for sexually active women age 25 and under. The government estimates there are roughly 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted disease annually. Experts say the most common is HPV, human papillomavirus, which can cause genital warts, cervical cancer and other cancers. The government doesn't ask doctors to report every HPV case, but estimates the virus causes 6.2 million new cases each year. That is an old estimate, based on data from 2000, before a vaccine against some types of HPV came on the market in 2006. Overall, CDC estimates that 19 million new sexually transmitted infections occur each year, almost half among 15- to 24-year-olds. *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" |
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