Related News: Official: Teacher secretly taped kindergartners in bathroom

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An Ohio teacher secretly recorded his kindergarten students using a tiny spy camera hung inside his classroom’s bathroom, prosecutors said Saturday.

Dozens of videos of students were found on the computer of Elliot Gornall, 32, a former teacher at the elementary school in Loudonville who resigned last year after being charged in another case, Ashland County Prosecutor Chris Tunnell said.

“The thought that a previously trusted kindergarten teacher would take advantage of young children in this way is horrifying,” Tunnell said in a statement announcing the charges.

Gornall faces 25 felony charges: 23 counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance and two counts of attempting the same crime. Twenty-five kindergartners were recorded, Tunnell said.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Cop who stole nude pics off arrested women’s phones gets no jail time

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A now-former California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer who was charged with criminal felony charges after seizing and distributing racy photos copied from arrestees’ phones has pleaded no contest and will serve no jail time.

Sean Harrington’s plea deal, which was finalized on Tuesday, means that he receives a 180-day suspended sentence, three years of felony probation, and according to local media accounts, “must also speak at a community violence solutions class to tell everyone what he did.” Harrington resigned from the CHP last year after the charges were filed.

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Related News: Police: Sarasota High student led prostitution ring

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A Sarasota High School student has been charged with organizing a prostitution ring of students from Venice and Riverview high schools.

Alexa Nicole De Armas, 17, was arrested Friday and charged with human trafficking of a person younger than 18, a felony.

At least one act of prostitution took place, police said, leading to the arrest of John Michael Mosher, 21, who reportedly paid $40 and a bottle of liquor to have sex with a 15-year-old girl.

Source: Herald-Tribune

Related News: Hartford police make child enticement arrest

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A Slocomb man faces felony charges alleging he enticed who he believed was a 15-year-old girl for an unlawful sex act.

Assistant Hartford Police Chief Ben Berry said Hartford police arrested 24-year-old Justin Colby Hutton on Friday, and charged him with felony electronic solicitation of a child and felony traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Man charged with sexual torture of two girls

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Houston County Sheriff’s investigators recently arrested a Columbia man on charges he sexually assaulted two girls, ages 8 and 9 years old.

Court records show sheriff’s investigators arrested 55-year-old Cecil Michael Hudson and charged him with two felony counts of sexual torture.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Officer who had sex with student sentenced to prison

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A Houston County judge sentenced a former Dothan police officer on Monday morning to serve 10 years in prison for having sex with a student at Dothan High School.

Circuit Court Judge Kevin Moulton sentenced 37-year-old Lanice Clifton Bonds to serve a decade in the state Department of Corrections.

Bonds pleaded guilty last month to a felony charge of “school employee or official engaging in a sex act with a student under the age of 19.”

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Army soldier charged with child solicitation

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Hartford police made their second arrest within a three-day period as part of an ongoing child solicitation investigation called Operation Guardian Angel.

Assistant Hartford Police Chief Ben Berry said police arrested Jabier Martinez, 26, of Dothan, Friday night, and charged him with two sexual assault-related felony charges.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Human trafficker sentenced to 50 years

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A Houston County judge sentenced a Tennessee man to 50 years in prison for involving a teenage girl in human trafficking and giving her illegal drugs.

Circuit Court Judge Butch Binford sentenced 28-year-old Santiago Alonso to serve 40 years in prison for the felony first-degree human trafficking charge and an additional 10 years for the felony distribution of drugs to a minor charge. He ordered both charges to be served consecutively with each other. Binford also sentenced Alonso to 12 months in the county jail for a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge. But Binford ordered that sentence to be served concurrently with the 50-year sentence.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Sex crime suspect to remain out on bond

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Investigators with the Hartford Police Department arrested Graue on May 2, and charged him with felony traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act and felony electronic solicitation of a child.

Hartford Police Chief Annie Ward told the Eagle shortly after Graue’s arrest that the charges allegedly involved his arranging to meet someone he believed to be a 14-year-old girl through an online dating site. The arrest was made through an ongoing undercover investigation handled by the Hartford Police Department and the Perverted Justice Foundation.

“Since it was an internet-related sex charge, he was prohibited from having internet in his home or having a smart phone,” Smith said.

Smith said his client’s wife lives in Missouri, and due to her suffering from breast cancer and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) he’d found himself having to take care of her.

“He was forced to go there to help care for his wife after (the) caregivers quit,” Smith said. “He was just visiting and he was basically just there for a limited time to find a caregiver for his wife.”

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Daleville woman convicted of child solicitation

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A Daleville woman was found guilty Thursday of soliciting a child for sex.

Dale County District Attorney Kirke Adams said Circuit Court Judge William Filmore revoked the bail for 32-year-old Heather Fulford Bryant after a jury found her guilty of a felony electronic solicitation of a child.

Source: Dothan Eagle