Related News: Brazil arrests US sect leader wanted on sex charges

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Brazilian authorities said Saturday they arrested a self-professed minister put on a U.S. most-wanted list for allegedly molesting two girls in a “Maidens Group” at his religious fellowship in rural Minnesota.

A statement posted on the website of the Public Security Secretariat for the Rio Grande do Norte state government reported the arrest of Victor Arden Barnard, 53. The U.S. Marshals Service also confirmed the arrest in a statement.

The Brazilian statement said police captured Barnard late Friday in an apartment near a paradisiacal white-sand beach in northeastern Brazil. He was being held in the city of Natal to await extradition to face charges in the U.S.

Bernard, who faces 59 counts of criminal sexual conduct, was on the most-wanted list of the U.S. Marshals Service.

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Related News: Director arrested in case of bizarre band room bondage

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Investigators said he had sexual contact with at least eight high school girls over a period of three years while working in Brewton.

Police said Gainous confessed to tying up the girls and gagging them in the sex acts at the school band room and at his home.

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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: Headland man charged with enticing a child

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A Headland man was arrested in Dothan and is charged with attempting to entice a child after police say he chased two girls.

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Related News: Man arrested in connection with sex tourism business

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A former Florida resident accused of running a sex tourism business on Craigslist was arrested in Huntsville. Federal agents picked up 50-year-old Patrick Minga at a home on Steeplechase Drive.

Investigators said they spotted an ad by Minga that said he would arrange lodging, transportation, meals, and unlimited access to girls under the age of 13 in Ecuador and Colombia for a price.

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Related News: Florida ‘bullying death’ charges dropped

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Stalking charges have been dropped against two teenage girls in connection with the alleged bullying of another Florida girl who took her own life.

The two girls, aged 12 and 14, are said to have hounded Rebecca Sedwick online for a year.

A lawyer for the 12-year-old has demanded an apology from Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd for the arrest.

But Sheriff Judd said he did not have any regrets and that the girls will now receive “the services they need”.

“Our goal is that these kids never bully anyone again, never torment anyone again,” he said.
‘Troubled young girl’

The girls were arrested a month after Rebecca, 12, jumped to her death from a tower at an abandoned concrete plant on 9 September.

Source: BBC News

Related News: Man charged with sex trafficking high school girls

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A Millington man is accused of sex trafficking young girls from as many as three West Tennessee high schools.

According to U.S. Attorney Edward Stanton, III, Michael A. Lilley, 49, was recruiting girls as young as 15 years old to work as prostitutes at his home. A news release about the charges revealed Lilley and one other person would provide alcohol and drugs to the girls.

Source: WSFA