Related News: Health care executive charged with soliciting child in Geneva Co.

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An Atlanta healthcare executive was arrested last week and charged with soliciting a child for sex in Geneva County.

Michael Lee Graue, 58, is charged with electronic solicitation of a child. He was arrested Friday in the parking lot of Mom’s Kitchen in the town of Hartford.

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Related News: Jurors find former Mobile County commissioner guilty of enticing a child for sex

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Jockisch, 69, was arrested last fall, five months after he answered a casual encounter ad on Craigslist, according to testimony. In July 2013 he started corresponding with a 15-year-old girl.

The girl turned out to be an undercover FBI agent.

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Related News: 1 arrested, 2 sought in sexual assault of Barbour Co. child

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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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Related News: Ex-Mobile County commissioner Jockisch pleads not guilty to child sex charges

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Former Mobile County commissioner Freeman Jockisch entered a not-guilty plea through his attorney on two child-sex charges Monday.

The 69-year-old, who was arrested on Nov. 26 for traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act and the electronic solicitation of a child, was not in court and has been out on $80,000 bond since Nov. 27.

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Related News: Sex with dog, 9-year-old boy among 15 charges against Mulga man

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ABI’s Cyber Crime Unit on Nov. 20 carried out a search warrant at Blackwell’s Parsons Road home, according to Alabama state trooper spokesman Sgt. Steve Jarrett. He declined to elaborate on the accusations against Blackwell, saying only the crimes involve child exploitation and child abuse.

According to court records, ABI agents interviewed Blackwell during the raid. Asked if he ever had been sexually active with a child, he said, he “had done a little” with a 9-year-old boy and found it sexually arousing.

Blackwell, however, said he and the boy have had sexual encounters multiple times over the past year. He indicated it was consensual. He said he “never liked kids” but the victim grew on him and he “loves him to death.” Blackwell told investigators he feels the boy loves him as much.

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Related News: Colorado teacher asked students to send topless photos, police say

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The Fruita Police Department says 58-year-old public school teacher Randy Majors is facing 3 counts of sexual exploitation of a child and 5 counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a child.

According to an arrest affidavit, a parent told police she was going through her 16-year-old daughter’s Facebook account and found a message asking her daughter to send nude pictures of herself and to not tell anyone. Police say they later discovered several conversations with other students ranging from 15 to 17 years old.

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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: Burglar finds child sex abuse on tapes he took, so he points out suspect, police say

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If you doubt there’s an unwritten code of honor among criminals — governing certain behavior that’s just not permitted — consider this:

Police say a burglar in southern Spain who stole an old Super 8 camera and tapes from a home discovered to his horror the graphic video content of a man sexually abusing boys.

The burglar put three tapes in a brown envelope, hid them under a parked car, and then called police from a public phone, directing them to go find it.

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Related News: Andy man gets 16-year prison stint for child sex crimes

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An Andalusia man was sentenced in federal court Friday to more than 16 years in prison for traveling to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old boy in April.

David Daniel Hicks, Jr., 42, of Andalusia, must serve 200 months in prison for the use of a facility of interstate commerce to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, interstate travel for illicit sexual conduct, and production of child pornography, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release.

Hicks was also sentenced to a lifetime term of supervised release after his incarceration;  to register as a sex offender; to complete sex offender treatment; to submit to monitoring of any computer or electronic accounts; to avoid unsupervised contact with children; and to inform future employers of his convictions.

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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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