May 3, 2019 Multistate child exploitation operation bust leads to 82 arrests, 17 rescues, officials say Officials in Georgia announced Friday that 82 suspects were arrested as a result of a 4-month long sting across eight states targeting those that possessed or distributed “the most violent sexual abuse material involving infants and toddlers.”
May 3, 2019 Sundance Film Festival co-founder pleads guilty to 2nd count of child sexual abuse A Utah filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s has pleaded guilty to a second count of sexual abuse of a child in a deal with prosecutors.
May 3, 2019 YouTube star Austin Jones to be sentenced in Chicago in child porn case Former YouTube singer Austin Jones, who had a large teenage following, is scheduled to be sentenced in Chicago federal court for coercing six girls to send him sexually explicit videos.
April 30, 2019 Bill Cosby bail request rejected by appeals court An appeals court has denied Bill Cosby's latest request to leave prison on bail while he fights his sex-assault conviction.
April 30, 2019 Florida woman accused of sending pics of male's genitals over social media: report A 24-year-old mother of two who allegedly “maliciously posted” photos of a man’s genitalia on his own social media accounts and demanded he pay her money to “stop her actions” was arrested in Florida Saturday on a federal extortion charge.
April 29, 2019 Florida woman says 'mom’s instinct' helped bust sex offender lurking on elementary school property A Florida mother credited her instincts for figuring out a man she spotted lurking behind a dumpster at her child’s elementary school was a registered sex offender.
April 28, 2019 Lifetime to air 'Surviving R. Kelly' followup special Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly” ignited a wave of activism, and the network will explore the wide-reaching effects of the doc in a follow-up two-hour special, “Surviving R. Kelly: The Impact.”
April 25, 2019 R. Kelly misses court, loses lawsuit from sex abuse accuser in default judgment A Cook County judge has entered a default judgment for a woman who sued R. Kelly in February, accusing the singer of sexually abusing her when she was a minor 20 years ago.
April 24, 2019 Bill Cosby fighting $1 million a month legal bills in arbitration A fee dispute between actor Bill Cosby and one of the many law firms hired to address his legal problems shows the Los Angeles firm alone was billing Cosby $1 million a month in the run-up to his first sex assault trial.
April 23, 2019 Boy Scouts ‘perversion files’ list 7,800 suspected pedophiles: attorney The Boy Scouts of America confidential files on suspected pedophiles contain the names of 7,800 individuals, an attorney for child sex abuse victims claimed yesterday.
