Related News: Former acting HHS cyber director convicted on child porn charges

Posted on September 19, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. SC Magazine published an article titled Former acting HHS cyber director convicted on child porn charges.

A federal jury in Nebraska on Tuesday convicted Timothy DeFoggi, the former acting director of cyber security at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on child pornography charges.

DeFoggi, one of several persons nabbed in an ongoing FBI investigation of three child porn websites, is the sixth person convicted, according to a Justice Department announcement. He was convicted on seven counts, including engaging in a child exploitation enterprise as well as in conspiracy to advertise and distribute child porn and accessing a computer with intent to view child porn.

Source: SC Magazine

Related News: Selfie linked to stolen iPhone a case of whodunit

Posted on September 19, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Selfie linked to stolen iPhone a case of whodunit.

The tale of an iPhone stolen from a burglarized Southern California home sits at the intersection of Web culture and the swap meet.

A woman in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita reported to authorities that her home had been ransacked July 30, and among the missing items were cash and an iPhone. But in what appeared to be another episode of Thieves Gone Stupid, the victim’s iCloud account was hit with pictures, including a selfie of a cute couple posing on a pillow.

Source: Ars Technica

Related News: Director arrested in case of bizarre band room bondage

Posted on September 19, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Director arrested in case of bizarre band room bondage.

Investigators said he had sexual contact with at least eight high school girls over a period of three years while working in Brewton.

Police said Gainous confessed to tying up the girls and gagging them in the sex acts at the school band room and at his home.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Lone female fugitive on US Marshals Most-Wanted list captured

Posted on September 19, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Lone female fugitive on US Marshals Most-Wanted list captured.

Barreto, 43, and her husband, Ramon, allegedly traveled to Guatemala on multiple occasions in 2005 and 2006 to purchase children from a local adoption agency. Authorities say the children were brought back to the United States and were malnourished, physically abused, and forced to sleep on beds with plywood bottoms.

“The children were purportedly often punished with beatings and on various occasions duct-taped to their beds, punched in the stomach, and forced to endure having their heads submerged under water,” the Marshals Service said.

Source: CNN

Related News: Facebook to Track Users Across Devices to Study Shopping Habits

Posted on September 18, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Bloomberg published an article titled Facebook to Track Users Across Devices to Study Shopping Habits.

Facebook Inc. will let advertisers know where a promotion was first viewed and when it led to a purchase by tracking users between their electronic devices, a tool that may reignite privacy concerns.

Marketers will be able to see the number of users that clicked on an ad, whether they used a smartphone, tablet or desktop computer, and which device was used to buy a product, Menlo Park, California-based Facebook said in a blog post today.

Source: Bloomberg

Related News: Hartford police make child enticement arrest

Posted on September 18, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Hartford police make child enticement arrest.

A Slocomb man faces felony charges alleging he enticed who he believed was a 15-year-old girl for an unlawful sex act.

Assistant Hartford Police Chief Ben Berry said Hartford police arrested 24-year-old Justin Colby Hutton on Friday, and charged him with felony electronic solicitation of a child and felony traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Chatroom rape fantasies woman jailed for six years

Posted on September 18, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. BBC published an article titled Chatroom rape fantasies woman jailed for six years.

A woman who used internet chatrooms to try to arrange for strangers to rape a former work colleague has been jailed for six years.

Joanne Berry, 30, from Grove Park, south-east London, said she liked role-play and invited men to act out violent “rape scenarios” with her.

But instead of giving her own address she gave that of the work colleague in Kent.

Source: BBC

Related News: Man charged with sexual torture of two girls

Posted on September 18, 2014 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Man charged with sexual torture of two girls.

Houston County Sheriff’s investigators recently arrested a Columbia man on charges he sexually assaulted two girls, ages 8 and 9 years old.

Court records show sheriff’s investigators arrested 55-year-old Cecil Michael Hudson and charged him with two felony counts of sexual torture.

Source: Dothan Eagle