One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Greenville bus driver arrested over texts to 15-year-old.
A Greenville bus driver has been arrested after police say he had “inappropriate text conversations” with a 15-year-old boy who rode on his bus.
Investigators have identified the driver as 29-year-old Leo Bowen. He was taken into custody on Oct. 3.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Former Jefferson County teacher charged with sex act involving teen student.
A former Jefferson County teacher has been arrested on charges of having inappropriate sexual contact with a student.
Jennifer Marie Perry, 27, surrendered to the Jefferson County Jail on Monday, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. She is charged with having sexual contact with a 17-year-old student at Pinson Valley High School.
Source: AL.com
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. MSN published an article titled Teen killed classmate and uploaded ‘selfie’ with the body to Snapchat, police say.
A Pennsylvania teenager has been accused of murdering a classmate and posing with the victim’s body for a “selfie,” according to news reports.
Authorities say 16-year-old Maxwell Marion Morton of Jeannette, Pa., fatally shot 16-year-old Ryan Mangan in the face before taking a photo with Mangan’s body and uploading it to Snapchat, a smartphone application that allows users to send images that are deleted a few seconds after they’re received, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Morton sent the image to a friend, who saved it on his phone before it was deleted, according to Fox News. The friend showed the photo to his mother, who turned the image over to police, according to Fox News.
Source: MSN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Affidavit: Teen fatally stabbed victim, 17, over Snapchat message.
Court documents state Matthew Fischer was visiting his girlfriend in Park West Sunday evening when he saw she received a Snapchat from Cavanaugh on her iPod. Fischer then used his girlfriend’s iPod to message Cavanaugh, eventually saying “Come over” and “I’ll kill you man,” affidavits state.
According to documents, Cavanaugh arrived at the residence and the two got into a physical altercation. During the fight, Fischer pulled out a knife from his right pant pocket and stabbed Cavanaugh in the torso, investigators say.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Oklahoma teen accused of child sex assaults while volunteering in Kenya.
In April, Matthew Lane Durham volunteered his time at a children’s home in Nairobi, Kenya, which recruited people from Oklahoma churches to provide food, housing and clothes to neglected kids in the African nation.
But federal prosecutors accuse the 19-year-old Edmond, Oklahoma, resident of performing sexual acts on as many as 10 children during his time there.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Woman who solicited sex from teen gets probation.
An Ozark woman received four years of probation Thursday for the unlawful solicitation of a child for sex.
Heather Fulford Bryant, 32, was found guilty last month of soliciting who she believed was a teenage girl for sex during an undercover operation run by the Daleville Police Department.
Source: Dothan Eagle
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Teen prostitute rescued, 3 pimps arrested in Alabama as part of FBI nationwide sex-trafficking sweep.
A 17-year-old Alabama girl forced into prostitution was rescued and three pimps arrested during a week-long, nationwide sex-trafficking operation, the FBI announced Monday.
Also in North Alabama, which stretches from Birmingham to Huntsville, lawmen rescued a six-week old baby and identified 14 adult women, some of who had been forced into prostitution since they were juveniles.
“Sex trafficking of children is one of the most violent and unconscionable crimes committed in this country,” said Richard D. Schwein Jr., special agent in charge of the FBI’s Birmingham division. “There are few law enforcement missions more important than protecting our nation’s children.”
Operation Cross County VIII was carried out in 106 cities across 54 FBI field divisions. Lawmen recovered 168 children who were being victimized through prostitution, and arrested 281 pimps on state and federal charges.
Source: AL.com
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Click Orlando published an article titled Central Florida teen charged with attempted murder in stabbing over Facebook post.
Witnesses told deputies that a 14-year-old was walking home with friends when he confronted the 16-year-old about a Facebook post, the Sheriff’s Office said.
“He indicated to his father that the 14-year-old tried to approach him at school to confront him regarding the Facebook post,” said Twis Lizasuain of the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office. “He ignored him the majority of the day, when he was walking home, that’s when the 14-year-old confronted him.”
Source: Click Orlando
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Canadian teen convicted of ‘sexting’ photos of boyfriend’s ex.
A Canadian teenage girl has been found guilty of distributing child pornography in connection with “sexting” pictures of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend, the youth crown prosecutor for Victoria said Friday.
The British Columbia case of the then 16-year-old, who is not identified because she is a minor, is believed to be one of the first cases in Canada where a teenager has been convicted of child pornography charges related to “sexting.”
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Google to remove Maps image of slain teen.
Google says it will replace a Google Maps image after a California father complained it shows the body of his teen-age son, who was shot to death in 2009.
Jose Barrera, of Richmond, California, said he discovered the image, visible on Google Maps’ satellite view feature, last week.
“When I see this image, it’s still like that happened yesterday,” Barrera told KTVU-TV in Oakland, a CNN affiliate. “And that brings me back to a lot of memories.”
Source: CNN
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