Related News: Juvenile advocate guilty in child sex assault

Posted on February 22, 2013 by ACFI

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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) – An employee of the juvenile court’s Youth Advocacy Program has been found guilty of sodomizing two teenage girls.

Sherman Tate appeared in court Thursday and was acquitted of a rape charge. Both girls were students at Mobile’s Point Academy, a school for troubled youth, when the assaults occurred in 2010. The girls testified that 38-year-old Tate had assaulted them on several occasions.

Source: WSFA

Related News: ‘Google for spies’ draws ire from rights groups

Posted on February 13, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Sydney Morning Herald published an article titled ‘Google for spies’ draws ire from rights groups.

The power of Riot to harness websites for surveillance offers a rare insight into techniques that have attracted interest from intelligence and national security agencies, at the same time prompting civil liberties and online privacy concerns.

Using Riot it is possible to gain a picture of a person’s life – their friends, the places they visit charted on a map – in little more than a few clicks of a button.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Related News: Man gets 12 years for molesting 8-year-old girl

Posted on February 13, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Man gets 12 years for molesting 8-year-old girl.

A Houston County judge recently sentenced a man to 12 years in prison for molesting an 8-year-old girl.

Assistant Houston County District Attorney Patrick Amason said Circuit Court Judge Kevin Moulton gave 24-year-old Lorenzo Chitay the sentence last week after he pleaded guilty to a felony sex abuse of a child under the age of 12 charge.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Former TV station owner sentenced to 1,000 years in prison

Posted on February 13, 2013 by ACFI

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A former TV station owner is sentenced to 1,000 years in prison for sexual exploitation of children.

Peter Mallory was sentenced Tuesday in a Troup County courtroom on 60 counts of child exploitation.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Does Twitter’s Vine have a porn problem?

Posted on January 28, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Does Twitter’s Vine have a porn problem?

Perhaps it was a foregone conclusion, what with the Internet’s proven ability to turn any new technology into a platform for showing naked people.

But Twitter’s new video-sharing app, Vine, is under scrutiny after early adopters started using it to flash six-second porn clips to the app’s users and to the larger Twitter community.

It’s an issue that has Twitter scrambling to appease concerns. And it’s raising questions about how Apple, the only place where smartphone users can download the app, will respond after recently banning other apps that provide access to sexual content.

Source: CNN

Related News: Man jailed for enticing child

Posted on January 28, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Andalusia Star News published an article titled Man jailed for enticing child.

An Opp man, accused of enticing a 13-year-old boy and described as a “possible flight risk,” was jailed late Thursday by the Opp Police Department.

Sgt. Walter Inabinett with the OPD said the investigation began earlier in the day after 49-year-old Michael Eugene Zebarcki allegedly attempted to get the child, described as an “acquaintance,” to enter the basement of his home “for immoral purposes.”

Source: Andalusia Star News

Related News: Enterprise man faces federal child porn charges

Posted on January 18, 2013 by ACFI

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An Enterprise man faces multiple felony child pornography related charges after agents with the U.S. Marshals Service arrested him on Wednesday.

Federal court records show agents arrested Vernon Wayne Smith Jr., 43, and charged him as part of a five-count felony indictment.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Columbia man found guilty of molesting girl

Posted on January 18, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Columbia man found guilty of molesting girl.

A Houston County jury convicted a Columbia man on Thursday of repeatedly molesting a girl over a six-to-eight-year period.

Assistant Houston County District Attorney Kristen Shields said the jury found 40-year-old Todd Whitehead guilty of multiple felony sexual assault charges, which included rape, sex abuse and incest.

Shields said sheriff’s deputies took Whitehead into custody after the guilty verdict. He’d previously been released on bail.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Florida teachers among 50 charged in online child-sex sting

Posted on January 18, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Fox News published an article titled Florida teachers among 50 charged in online child-sex sting.

Two teachers and two other school employees were among 50 people arrested as part of an online child-sex sting in central Florida, MyFoxOrlando.com reports.

“Operation Cardea” targeted people who use the Internet to sexually exploit children, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said, and the suspects were arrested over the past week, including four men arrested late Sunday night.

Source: Fox News

Related News: New video law lets you share your Netflix viewing on Facebook

Posted on January 18, 2013 by ACFI

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN Money published an article titled New video law lets you share your Netflix viewing on Facebook.

Netflix is now free to create a U.S. Facebook app that shares users’ viewing history if they opt in, after the company successfully lobbied Congress to amend a 1988 law.

A Netflix spokesman said the company “will launch social features in the U.S.” sometime in 2013. The law in question, called the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), previously prohibited “a video tape service provider” from revealing customer information without the customer’s written consent.

Source: CNN Money