Related News: Dothan school resource officer arrested for sexual relations with student

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A Dothan Police Department School Resource Officer is under arrest after being charged with having a sex with a student. During an investigation, authorities say the officer, Lanice Bonds, confessed to the accusations.

The investigation started on September 17 when the Dothan City Schools forwarded a complaint to the Dothan Police Department regarding a complaint of an inappropriate relationship between the officer and a high school student.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Missing Huntsville teen rescued in human trafficking case

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A Huntsville teen reported missing in a kidnapping/human trafficking case has been rescued, according to authorities in Louisiana.

Investigators said the victim, whose identity is not being released, left Huntsville freely on Sept. 20 with the two suspects. Once they arrived in Beaumont, Texas, the suspects took the victim’s phone and gave her a “GO” phone.

According to the Lake Charles Police Department in Louisiana, a personal website advertising the teen as an escort was set up and she was told she would provide escort services for men. After one night in Beaumont, the victim and both suspects traveled to Lake Charles. Once there, the suspects established another website advertising the victim as an escort.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Paedophile who posed as Justin Bieber jailed in one of the worst ever internet abuse cases

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Telegraph published an article titled Paedophile who posed as Justin Bieber jailed in one of the worst ever internet abuse cases.

The 35-year-old, from Middlesbrough, had used sites such as Facebook, Skype and MSN to abuse girls as young as nine from across Europe, Asia, Canada and America, convincing the girls to expose themselves and perform sex acts on a webcam.

Teesside Crown Court heard that even after being arrested in December 2012, he continued to target children and this resulted in a girl from Tasmania eventually contacting police who traced him back to his home.

Source: The Telegraph

Related News: Pictures of homemade torture chamber of British paedophile emerge

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The photos show the contents of Portway’s sound proof basement, accessed by a home built staircase. The pictures include images of a child sized box, also sound proofed, containing straps to restrain victims. In addition was a cage approximately 3′ wide, 2’high and 4′ long, kitted with a mattress, a sturdy lid and multiple locks. Amongst Portway’s other possessions police found a child sizes jumpsuits, books, and DVD’s on cannibalism along with a ‘deluxe butchers set’ of knives.

Source: The Telegraph

Related News: Dothan man gets 10 years for sending nude photo to girl

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Dothan man gets 10 years for sending nude photo to girl.

A Dothan man received a 10-year prison sentence for sending a nude picture of himself to a teenage girl, and possessing several nude pictures of the same girl.

Assistant Houston County District Attorney Kristen Shields said 49-year-old Franklin Whaples pleaded guilty to four felony sexual assault related charges in front of Circuit Court Judge Michael Conaway.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Tallassee police charge man with enticement of a child

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The Tallassee Police Department says it has arrested and charged a suspect with enticement of a child.

Tallassee police say 24-year-old Randy Travis Navarre was arrested late Thursday evening and charged with electronic solicitation of a child.

Source: WSFA

Related News: California school district hires firm to monitor students’ social media

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A suburban Los Angeles school district is now looking at the public postings on social media by middle and high school students, searching for possible violence, drug use, bullying, truancy and suicidal threats.

The district in Glendale, California, is paying $40,500 to a firm to monitor and report on 14,000 middle and high school students’ posts on Twitter, Facebook and other social media for one year.

Source: CNN

Related News: Facebook apologizes for dating ad with photo of Canada teen who died after bullying

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Facebook is apologizing for a stunningly inappropriate advertisement featuring a photograph of a Canada teen who died after months of bullying.

The advertisement was posted on the world’s largest social networking site on Tuesday where it was discovered by Andrew Ennals, a copy writer, who took a screen grab of the photo.

Source: Fox News

Related News: Pew survey: 21 percent of US cellphone owners get online mostly through their phones

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There have been signs that Americans are leaning more and more on the smartphone as a primary internet device, and nowhere is that clearer than the latest edition of Pew’s Cell Internet Use survey. The research group found that 21 percent of American cellphone owners now get online chiefly through their handset, up from 17 percent last year.

Source: Engadget

Related News: Man pleads guilty to sex charges

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The county’s cold case task force earned its first conviction Friday, and in doing so, cleared two child sex abuse cases.

District Attorney Walt Merrell said the conviction of 62-year-old David Ozie Griggs of Andalusia came after the office discovered Griggs’ tie with a case from 2009.

“This case came to our attention when Chief Assistant District Attorney Grace Jeter discovered an unsolved sexual abuse case that Griggs was connected to while she was preparing a case for trial in another matter involving Griggs,” Merrell said.

Source: Andalusia Star News