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Related News: In video apology, former teacher ‘at peace’ after conviction on sex-abuse charge

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The former high school teacher convicted on Friday of having sex with a 14-year-old student has issued a video apology in which she credits her faith for helping her through the ordeal.

Alicia Gray, 28, was sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to surrender her teaching certificate for engaging in a sexual act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under 19 years old while teaching at Mary G. Montgomery High School in Semmes in 2013. She will also have to register as a sex offender.

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Related News: Sylacauga Police arrest school employee for rape, sex crime with student

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Sylacauga Police have arrested a sixth-grade physical education teacher on sex crime charges.

Lt. Willis Whatley said Rodricus Arlester Thomas, 31, of Sylacauga, was arrested Sunday and charged with second degree rape, and school employee engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under the age of 19. He was taken to Talladega County Jail and bond was set at $20,000 for each charge.

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Related News: $6 million bond set for Hoover man charged with multiple sex crimes against a child

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A Hoover man arrested twice in five days on sex charges involving a minor child won’t be getting out of jail anytime soon, police said Thursday.

Bond for 32-year-old Jason Hankins is set at $6 million after U.S. Marshals took him into custody Wednesday night, just four days after he bonded out of the Shelby County Jail on similar charges.

Hankins worked at the Family Life Center at Shades Crest Baptist Church. He has resigned from that position. Church officials are not commenting on his arrests.

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Related News: 17 years after arrest, man guilty of sex abuse in Baldwin County

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A man who fled the country in 1998 before his child sex abuse trial was to begin was found guilty Friday afternoon of five sex abuse-related charges.

It took a Baldwin County jury about an hour to convict Giusseppe LoPorto, 80, of two counts of first-degree sexual abuse, two counts of first-degree sodomy and one count of first-degree rape.
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LoPorto’s sentencing is set for January. He faces a one to 10-year sentence on each of the sexual abuse charges, 10 years to life on the sodomy charges and 10 years to life on the rape charge.

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Related News: Guilty plea entered by man who tried to entice Huntsville police officer’s children, led police on high-speed chase before fiery crash (updated)

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A Hazel Green man charged with attempting to lure two children of a Huntsville police officer into his car entered a guilty plea today on charges of attempted kidnapping and enticing a child for immoral purposes.

Nicholos Kirk Roberts, 42, was arrested in December 2011 after leading police on a high-speed chase after the kids’ father found him. Roberts’ truck ultimately crashed on a Memorial Parkway service road and law enforcement officers had to pull him out of the vehicle before it burst into flames.

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Related News: Saraland man accused of sexually abusing child, making child pornography

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A 34-year-old man turned himself in to authorities Monday after Saraland police say he had inappropriate contact with a young child and produced child pornography.

Police started looking into William Scott Cunningham, of Saraland, during an Internet Crimes Against Children investigation, said Cpl. Arlan Gaines, public information officer for the Saraland Police Department. The program is funded through federal grants and aimed at catching online sex predators.

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Related News: Lawsuit: Nude photos of University of Alabama student posted by Geek Squad

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A University of Alabama art student alleges in a federal lawsuit that she recently found out Geek Squad members published on the Internet nude photos of her they found while repairing her computer at the Best Buy in Tuscaloosa where she works.

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Related News: More details emerge in child sexual abuse case against Madison music studio director

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Madison detectives were alerted to the case by the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services early this month. Authorities were told the incident occurred several years ago when the child lived in Madison, The Times previously reported.

Authorities say the victim came forward after attending a school presentation on child abuse awareness.

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Related News: Alabama state senator’s wife demands possibly fake women stop soliciting her husband on Facebook

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In a post Monday on a Facebook account belonging to Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill, R-Woodville, a poster identifying herself as McGill’s wife said women have used the social media network to approach her husband “multiple times” since he was first elected in 2010.

“I have been silent for long enough!!” a person who identified herself as Heather McGill wrote. “NO MORE! Multiple times since being in office he has gotten emails from women (who may not even be real) inviting him to explore, also sending pictures of themselves.”

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Related News: Senate takes step toward banning stalking software for cellphones

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WASHINGTON — A loophole that permits software companies to sell cyberstalking apps that operate secretly on cellphones could soon be closed by Congress. The software is popular among jealous wives or husbands because it can continuously track the whereabouts of a spouse.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday that makes it a crime for companies to make and intentionally operate a stalking app. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., also would curb the appeal for such inexpensive and easy-to-use programs by requiring companies to disclose their existence on a target’s phone.

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