One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Camera in girl’s bedroom leads to Dothan man’s arrest.
Dothan police say a 54-year-old man set up video surveillance in the bedroom of an 18-year-old girl during which time he recorded images of her in the nude.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Officer who had sex with student sentenced to prison.
A Houston County judge sentenced a former Dothan police officer on Monday morning to serve 10 years in prison for having sex with a student at Dothan High School.
Circuit Court Judge Kevin Moulton sentenced 37-year-old Lanice Clifton Bonds to serve a decade in the state Department of Corrections.
Bonds pleaded guilty last month to a felony charge of “school employee or official engaging in a sex act with a student under the age of 19.”
Source: Dothan Eagle
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Auburn associate pastor charged with sexual abuse.
A longtime associate pastor at Believers Church in Auburn has been arrested on child sex abuse charges.
His arrest in May got him kicked out of the church where he had been for 30 years. Lee County Sheriff’s detectives say the two adult victims came forward in April to report they were abused in the early 1990’s.
Every Sunday, for nearly 30 years at Believers Church on Moore’s Mill Road, 53-year-old John Sluder, an associate pastor, would play guitar during services.
“People have shed tears because of what he appeared to be, a gentle old man. So yes, we were very shocked,” said attorney Ben Hand.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Phenix City man accused of abusing girlfriend’s 2-year-old son.
A Phenix City man is facing multiple charges for allegedly beating his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son.
Zachary Ryan Tadlock, 22, is charged with torture and willful abuse of a child and domestic violence assault in the second degree.
Source: WSFA
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Dothan man accused of sexual misconduct involving a minor.
Investigators took John Boring, 30, into custody following a nearly week long investigation into sexual misconduct allegations involving a juvenile victim under the age of 17.
Authorities say the incident happened in Dothan.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Former BPD officer fired for sexting on the job fights termination.
A former Birmingham police officer is fighting to get his job back after he was caught sexting on the job.
Former officer Jason Yarbrough admits he texted explicit photos of himself to a woman. He was fired in January after an internal investigation.
“He’s very sorry he did that. It had nothing to do with his ability to be a police officer,” Yarbrough’s attorney Scott Morro says.
Morro filed an appeal in Jefferson County Circuit Court fighting his client’s termination from the Birmingham Police Department.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Snowden: NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos.
If Snowden’s allegations of sexual photo distribution are true, they would be consistent with what the NSA has already reported. In September 2013, in a letter from the NSA’s Inspector General Dr. George Ellard to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the agency outlined a handful of instances during which NSA agents admitted that they had spied on their former love interests. This even spawned a nickname within the agency, LOVEINT—a riff on HUMINT (human intelligence) or SIGINT (signals intelligence).
“You’ve got young enlisted guys, 18 to 22 years old,” Snowden said. “They’ve suddenly been thrust into a position of extraordinary responsibility where they now have access to all of your private records. In the course of their daily work they stumble across something that is completely unrelated to their work in any sort of necessary sense. For example, an intimate nude photo of someone in a sexually compromising position. But they’re extremely attractive.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Substitute’s relationship with teen discovered by mom on Facebook.
The juvenile’s parents filed a complaint with the sheriff’s office on Wednesday after becoming suspicious of inappropriate contact between their son and Holt. Sheriff Mike Blakely said Holt confessed to investigators.
According to the sheriff’s office, Holt met the teen when she was his substitute teacher last year at Clements High School. Limestone County Schools Superintendent Thomas Sisk said Holt filled in for four days during that time. Authorities said the woman ran into the 15-year-old at a local department store and began communicating after that. They said there is no evidence that any crime took place while school was in session.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Mashable published an article titled Stalker in the Attic: The Cyberbully Who Spies on 12-Year-Old Girls in Their Home.
This spring, Melody and Julia’s story was big drama in the little world of Florence Stiles Middle School in Leander, Texas. Kids gossiped about the latest message from Danielle; Danielle insisted she wasn’t behind it; school administrators met with police and held anti-bullying rallies.
But by May, the case had outgrown their school, even their suburb. The jealous spat among three girls progressed to cyberbullying and then, apparently, to hacking, online surveillance and real-world stalking. The families enlisted investigators from four law enforcement agencies, private eyes and experts in online security and forensics to make sense of the strange harassment, which seemed to turn every networked device in their homes against them. After Julia’s mother, a blogger with a devoted following, wrote about the ordeal, the case became a crusade among her flock. Anti-bullying activists championed the cause, calling it the worst case of cyberbullying they had ever seen.
To others it seemed a blatant hoax, a bid for sympathy or attention too absurd to be believed. And by June, with no certain suspects or explanations, the threat was apparently over. The messages stopped, the clues dried up, the trail went cold. School staff and police seem baffled. The community, wrapped in forces they still don’t understand, is left to wonder how 12-year-olds, or their phones, could be capable of such a complex scheme.
Source: Mashable
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