Related News: Convicted sex offender charged with child solicitation

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A convicted sex offender faces new sexual assault related charges after Dothan police charged him with the electronic solicitation of a child for a sex act.

Court records show police investigators arrested Robert Blake Jones, 30, of Dothan, on Wednesday, and charged him with felony traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act and felony electronic solicitation of a child for a sex act.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Police charge Georgia man with traveling to meet child for sex act

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Dothan police arrested a Georgia man Tuesday on a charge he traveled to Dothan to meet a child for an unlawful sex act.

According to a Dothan police statement, police arrested Christopher Scott Martin, 37, of Leesburg, Ga., and charged him with the class A felony crime of traveling to meet a child for a sex act.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: School employee charged with student sex crime

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Tuscaloosa Police Department Juvenile Investigators say a school employee has been arrested after being suspected of having sexual contact with a student.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Facebook raises fears with ad tracking

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The emails and other identifying information are made anonymous and collected into groups of people who saw an ad and people who did not. Datalogix compiles a report for Facebook and its advertisers to measure which creative approaches and demographic targeting persuade people to buy specific products offline.

Facebook said it is paying Datalogix for the data-matching. So far, the two companies have measured 45 campaigns and in 70 per cent of cases, for every dollar a marketer spent on Facebook it earned an additional $3 in incremental sales, Mr Smallwood said.

Source: CNN

Related News: Facebook agrees to delete European users’ facial recognition data

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Facebook Inc. has agreed to delete all the facial recognition data it has collected from European users and switch off the feature in Europe by Oct. 15.

The move follows a review of the facial recognition feature that prompts users to “tag” friends in photos uploaded to the service.

Ireland’s privacy regulator Billy Hawkes said Facebook would not turn it back on without agreeing with his office on “the most appropriate means of collecting user consent.”  He said Facebook was “sending a clear signal of its wish to demonstrate its commitment to best practice in data protection compliance.”

Source: Los Angeles Times

Related News: Teen charged with sexually abusing children at Clay daycare

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PINSON, AL (WBRC) – The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says that the 17-year-old son of a former daycare worker has been charged with sexually abusing multiple children.

Eric Lemont Higdon was arrested Aug. 31 and charged as an adult with sexual abuse of a child less than twelve years old and two counts of sodomy in the first degree with the victim being less than twelve years old.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Man arrested for producing child pornography

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HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) – Huntsville police arrested a man on child porn charges Tuesday.

Investigators said 53-year-old Herman Oscar Watkins attempted to develop photos of nude children at two area Walmart stores.

Source: WSFA

Related News: 3 Delaware Daycare Employees Accused Of Encouraging Toddlers To Fight Released

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DOVER, Del. (CBS) – The three daycare employees who were arrested on Monday for allegedly watching and encouraging toddlers to fight each other were released Tuesday afternoon after posting $10,000 secured bond.

On Monday, three employees from the Hands of Our Future Daycare in Delaware were arrested after a cell phone video showed employees watching and encouraging two 3-year-olds fight each other.

Source: CBS Philly

Related News: Wetumpka youth minister to be sentenced for sex crimes in Elmore County

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MONTGOMERY, AL – Attorney General Luther Strange announced that a youth minister facing charges in Madison and Cullman counties for sex crimes against children is due to be sentenced on July 31 for similar crimes of  which he has been convicted in Elmore County.

John A. Astorga was found guilty on April 11 by a jury in Elmore County Circuit Court for two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. During the trial, evidence that was presented by the Attorney General’s Office that included the testimony of three separate victims as well as the pastor of Bethel Assembly of God in Wetumpka where Astorga had been employed.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Wendy’s drive-through worker who sold child porn gets 22 years in prison

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Juan Antonio Rosa, 36, was sentenced Wednesday to almost 22 years in prison for distributing child pornography to customers with their food, the San Antonio Express-News reported. He pleaded guilty to the charges back in March.

Rosa allegedly found his porn customers online, and buyers then said “Scooby Doo” as a code word to buy memory cards with their food, at the fast-food chain’s drive-through window. Officials said the SD memory cards were loaded up with two to five pornographic videos that were sold for $50 each, the Express-News reported.

Source: MSNBC