A north Georgia sheriff’s deputy was fired from his job Tuesday when he was arrested on federal child exploitation and pornography charges. Steven Bunte was arrested at his home in Gordon County by federal investigators. Cherokee County officials said he’d been employed by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office for five years, assigned to the Adult …
A South Carolina man has been arrested and charged with raping a young child for more than two years. A mother told deputies that she, the 9-year-old victim, and the girl’s stepfather were going out to eat, but she went back inside before they left. When she returned, she noticed that her daughter was “visually …
A 33-year-old Alabama man accused of raping and sodomizing a young girl texted his girlfriend while he was on the run to blame the 8-year-old child for enticing him. Colt Bryan Lecuyer appeared before a judge in Dale County on Tuesday on the charges, WDHN reported. Judge Stanley Garner is mulling whether to grant bond. …
A South Alabama man is behind bars, charged with rape and sodomy of a child under the age of 10, after eluding police for two days. The Dale County Sheriff’s Office said that Colt Bryan Lecuyer, 33, was already a registered sex offender when a witness called 911 on Friday to report having seen Lecuyer …
A Missouri deputy sheriff and his wife have been arrested on charges of attempted sex trafficking of a child under 12 and attempted use of a child in a sexual peformance. The St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department said that David K. Blankenship, 39, and Karlie Blankenship, 28, are being held without bond. The department said …
Police in Arkansas have arrested a 49-year-old man who allegedly flew a 15-year-old girl to California for sex. The Fort Smith Police Department said they were contacted by officials in California on Friday about Sean Robert Schiemann, who had allegedly been engaged in a relationship with the teen online and had reportedly bought her a …
An American Airlines flight attendant pleaded not guilty on Monday to taping his iPhone to a first class toilet seat to record young girls in the restroom. Estes Carter Thompson III was indicted last month on one count of attempted sexual exploitation of children and one count of possession of images of child sexual abuse …
Heather Hare had already been sentenced to 20 years for sexually assaulting two students.
The owner of a popular Wisconsin restaurant, who was previously convicted of traveling to meet a minor for sex, has been arrested for more child sex crimes, prosecutors said. According to the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, 51-year-old Stelio Kalkounos was arrested May 15 at a hotel in Hollywood, Florida, on federal …
A Florida firefighter was arrested this week and charged with sexuallly battering a teen girl in a Brevard County park. Pedro Antuna, 26, was taken into custody on Sunday, WKMG reported. His victim was 16 or 17. According to a probable cause affidavit, the incident took place at Nicol Park in Cocoa, but the document …
An undercover investigation in Tennessee ended with the arrest of a Grand Junction man on multiple charges of sexual abuse of a minor. State agents with the Internet Crimes Against Children squad launched an investigation on April 15 after learning of “thousands of files of child sexual abuse material” distributed from an address in Grand …
An Iowa pediatric surgeon was sentenced last week to 50 years in prison for sexually abusing children. Lynn Lindaman, 73, was convicted in February for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl. according to the Polk County Attorney’s Office. The jury deliberated for about an hour before delivering the guilty verdict. Earlier in February, Lindaman admitted that …
