A North Carolina couple is in jail after an Ohio investigation into a sex crime against a 15-year-old led to Davidson County. Arrest warrants said that Gavin Head, 53, and his wife Taylor Head, 22, sent videos of them having sex to the Ohio teenager, The Dispatch reports. Sheriff’s deputies began an investigation on Sunday …
An Illinois man released from prison this week after serving 24 years for the brutal rape and murder of a 20-month-old baby says he’s innocent of the charges, but residents of his new neighborhood have launched a petition to force him to move, the News Herald reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Cayce M. Williams, 47, …
A Pennsylvania man wanted across multiple states died from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound after his SUV got stuck in a snow bank while fleeing Arkansas police — with the 14-year-old girl he allegedly abducted in North Carolina in the vehicle with him, WPXI reports. William Robert Ice, 38, was wanted for sexually assaulting another …
Arizona law enforcement busted more than three dozen people in an undercover operation targeting child sex crimes and human trafficking, the Phoenix Police Department said Friday. For Operation Broken Hearts, agents put ads on websites and apps commonly used by suspects seeking sex acts with children. Phoenix police said the operation was part of a …
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer told a judge that Jeffrey Epstein’s one-time gal pal and regular pimp is “withering to a shell” in jail awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and perjury charges, the New York Post reports. Attorney Bobbi Sternheim wrote in a letter to US District Court Judge Alison Nathan that Maxwell is served inedible food and …
A 29-year-old Idaho man was charged this week with sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl in a “relationship” the girl’s mother reportedly supported and encouraged, East Idaho News reports. Bill Ernest Davenport and the girl initially denied any sexual contact, but Davenport later admitted they were “boyfriend” and “girlfriend,” court documents reveal. Davenport reportedly agreed to …
An American babysitter living in London who filmed herself sexually abusing a toddler and sent the videos to her married lover was sentenced to 17 years in jail this week, DevonLive reports. Paige Poole, 29, conspired with Ross Kingsland, 44, to commit the abuse, prosecutors told Exeter Crown Court. Kingsland was sentenced to 15 years. …
Breakout star Jerry Harris was arrested last year on similar charges.
A North Carolina man has been charged with nearly three dozen child sex crimes, the Moore County Sheriff’s Office reports. James Christopher Davis, 35, has been hit with 17 counts of felony second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and 17 counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, according to the sheriff’s office. Moore County …
The Los Angeles Field Office of the FBI announced Friday that a multi-day human trafficking operation called “Operation Lost Angels” had recovered 33 children and one arrest of a suspected trafficker. Eight of the 33 children were being actively sexually exploited at the time, said Kristi K. Johnson, assistant director of the LA field office. …
A teacher at a New York girls school was arrested Saturday after he travelled to Tampa, Florida, to have sex with a minor, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Zeshaan Naqvi, 31, allegedly had been communicating with the victim, whom he met online, for about three months, the Times said. Naqvi was arrested at a hotel …
A GoPro camera hidden in the changing room of a Tennessee cheerleading studio captured images of 60 girls and women, some partially undressed, WKRN reports. The station said the general manager of Premier Athletics in Franklin found the camera on January 14 and turned it over to law enforcement, who have since been working to …
