Barry Walker, a former doctor, pleaded guilty last year to more than 100 counts of sex crimes against children and was sentenced to 39 life sentences totaling 1,710 years in prison with no chance for parole. Now, his victims say family members — including his niece, an elected chief prosecutor in rural Arkansas — spent years protecting and defending him.
An Ohio man indicted in March on 26 counts of sexual misconduct has now seen those charges increased after new indictments brought the total to 110 counts covering 20 years. David L. James III, 57, initially faced charges involving three juvenile victims, but the investigation now includes five more victims and a total of 110 …
A Mississippi minister and educator has been accused of sex acts with several children he met through his extensive work with children. Daniel Paul Harris, 44, was arrested on Thursday and charged with two counts of sexual abuse, two counts of sexual battery, and unnatural intercourse, the Olive Branch Police Department said. While police said …
The US Marshals Service has asked for help finding a man wanted for raping a child over the course of two years. The marshals say Antonio Jonson, 31, is 6 feet tall and weighs about 210 pounds and is known to frequent the Cleveland area in Ohio. They said the child is now 10 years …
A former Tennessee elementary school principal and first grade teacher — indicted on multiple charges, including child rape and incest — is on the run after removing his GPS tracking monitor and fleeing his home. The District Attorney’s Office of Tennessee’s 22nd Judicial District said a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Jonathan …
Texas authorities have arrested a 22-year-old Houston man, charging him with sexual assault of a child after he allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old girl he met online. Investigators believe Gabriel Anthony Gonzalez may have victimized other teens and are working with the creators of an Instagram page devoted to exposing his activities with young …
A Florida man has been arrested at the conclusion of a nearly one year long investigation and charged with hundreds of counts of sex crimes, including possession of child and animal porn and sex with minors. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said its investigators ran across Austin Hoffman, 28, during an undercover operation targeting adults …
A Kentucky teacher’s aide was arrested this week and charged with third-degree rape for allegedly having sex with two 16-year-old boys. A criminal complaint filed in the case says that Ellen Shell, 38, had “sexual intercourse on three occasions” with the two boys between July 6 and August 15, 2022, according to WLEX. She was …
Florida authorities have arrested a 77-year-old man and charged him with fondling a 7-year-old girl. Eladio Alfonso Coalla was charged with child molestation and sexual assault on a minor after the victim, now 15, told Miami police that he touched her sexually underneath her clothing, WPLG reported. The girl said that she was spending the …
A Utah man allegedly lured a 13-year-old girl to a park, using someone else’s Snapchat account, where he told her she could have sex with him, or he would kill her. Danny Dinh, 23, was arrested this week on charges of aggravated kidnapping, child kidnapping, child rape, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, forcible sodomy, …
A Texas man who claimed to be a Hasidic Jew from New York and made a name for himself on social media with his “unique family” of nine adopted boys has been charged with multiple counts of child sexual abuse. Hayim Nissim Cohen, born Jeffrey Lujan Vejil, was arrested last month after one of the …
The sentence will be served simultaneously with his New York sentence for sex trafficking and racketeering convictions.
