One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Dothan man arrested in child solicitation investigation.
The Dothan Police Department has arrested a man in connection with a child solicitation investigation.
After a brief investigation, police arrested 42-year-old Rodney Reese, on Wednesday, when he arrived at a designated location where he thought he was meeting a 14-year-old female.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled 1 arrested, 2 sought in sexual assault of Barbour Co. child.
A Clio man is under arrest and charged with sexual intercourse and deviant sexual intercourse with a child as well as first degree rape and first degree sodomy. At least two other suspects are being sought.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Former Leeds teacher arrested for sexting junior high student.
A former Leeds Middle School teacher was arrested Wednesday after authorities said she was sexting a 14-year-old male student.
Ashley Casiday, 31, turned herself into the St. Clair County Jail Wednesday morning. She is charged with one count of transmitting obscene material to a child, said St. Clair County District Attorney Richard Minor. She is out of jail after posting $100,000 bond.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Gadsden man arrested on child pornography charges.
Investigators say evidence of child pornography was found on a computer in Brown’s residence back in January after he was arrested on drug warrants for making narcotic transactions through the computer. The computer was seized at that time.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Andalusia Star News published an article titled Online confessions cause concern.
And that’s a topic to which Greg Price, director of the Alabama Computer Forensics Institute at Troy University, can speak. Price, who has worked with Internet safety for nearly two decades and spoken about it in Covington County on several occasions, said sites like this one always disappoint him.
“For the community and parents, I suggest they follow a deliberate, structured approach to address the issues that poor use of technology can create,” Price said. “On our website, whoswatchingalabama.org, we provide a number of online resources.”
Among those resources is a framework called ADMIT, which offers simple steps that foster a safe computing environment for everyone, especially children.
“We designed the ADMIT framework as a tool to assist parents, guardians, and others with these challenging events,” he said.
Source: Andalusia Star News
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Former Shelby County assistant principal arrested in Georgia for trying to have sex with child, lawmen say.
A former assistant principal at Shelby County High School and Elvin Hill Elementary School is one of more than a dozen people arrested during a Georgia operation targeting online child predators.
John McGill, 56, and the other 13 arrestees are charged under the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Prevention Act of 1999. McGill was currently an elementary school principal in Douglas County, Ga.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Missing Wetumpka girl found safe; TX man faces multiple sex charges.
Authorities say Stephens met the girl after talking to her through an online social network. He hitchhiked to Alabama to meet her.
“We are looking at the mistakes we made,” Daniel Grecu, explained. “You need to know who they are talking to on Facebook, what their passwords are. That’s a must as parents. If you give them freedom now, you can put them in harms way, that’s obvious now,” Grecu added.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WAKA published an article titled Yik Yak Trend Concerns Some University Students.
Troy University students are flooding the free smartphone app Yik Yak. It uses location features to show comments near by. And people can post, like and share comments anonymously.
Students are writing things ranging from what’s being served in the dining halls to hurtful comments calling out students. The majority of the posts use profanity. University police say they are aware of it.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Student-teacher sex: Are more female teachers being charged?
All of the accused are women. In fact, about one-third of the cases of possibly inappropriate relationships investigated by Alabama education officials in 2013 involved women.
“It may not be happening more, but now there’s more punishment,” said Josh Klapow, a clinical psychologist and associate professor at UAB’s School of Public Health. “We don’t know those incidents that aren’t being caught and aren’t being reported.”
Social media, authorities say, helps to fuel the fire.
Source: AL.com
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Blount County teacher pleads guilty to sexting 15-year-old student.
A former teacher at Susan Moore High School pleaded guilty today after authorities said she sent sexual text messages to a 15-year-old male student.
Crystal Gilliland Clowdus, 32, entered her plea at a 1:30 p.m. hearing at the Blount County Courthouse. She pleaded guilty to transmitting obscene material to a minor, said Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey.
Source: AL.com
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