Related News: Nude ‘Snapchat images’ put online by hackers

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Explicit images believed to have been sent through messaging service Snapchat were reportedly put online, with threats from hackers to upload more.

Users who had been accessing the service via a third-party app, and not the official Snapchat app, had their images intercepted.

As half of its users are aged between 13 and 17, there is concern that many of the images may be of children.

Source: BBC News

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.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Report: Former teacher gets 15 year sentence for sex with students

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The Anniston Star is reporting that former Cleburne County teacher Bronson Ward was sentenced in Calhoun County Circuit Court today to 15 years in prison.

Ward, 33, who was also a girls basketball coach, was arrested in September on five charges of having sex with students under the age of 19. Investigators said the acts involved two students, took place in Cleburne and Calhoun counties, and went back as far as 2009.

Source: AL.com

Related News: Prosecutor: Charges against Thorsby teacher include allegations of sex with teen boy on school property

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A Thorsby sixth grade teacher indicted on rape and sodomy charges allegedly had sex with a teen boy at her school on more than one occasion, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Jennifer Collins McNeill, 39, of Thorsby, was indicted Feb. 14 on six counts of second-degree rape and two counts of second degree sodomy, said C.J. Robinson, chief deputy district attorney for the circuit covering Chilton, Elmore and Autauga counties.

Source: AL.com

Related News: Police arrest man accused of secretly video recording woman in public restroom

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UPDATE: Columbus Police have made an arrest.  Gregory Wilson was taken to jail Saturday evening.  He will be in Recorder’s Court Monday 2-10-14 at 2 p.m.

Columbus Police are looking for a man who followed an underage girl into the ladies room of a fast food restaurant and used his cell phone to record her in the stall.

“When I looked down, he was under the stall. I said, ‘what are you doing?’, and right after that, he got out,” said Madison Plemons, 17.

Madison Plemons and her boyfriend just left a Cottonmouths game at the Civic Center last Sunday and stopped by the Burger King in the 1300 block of Veterans Parkway for something to eat on their way home.  

Source: WSFA

Related News: Pimps hit social networks to recruit underage sex workers

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN Money published an article titled Pimps hit social networks to recruit underage sex workers.

The fairy tale ended fast. Almost immediately after she arrived in Seattle, he dropped her off on a street where prostitutes troll for customers and told her she was going to “catch dates.”

Many would have run, but Nina says her deteriorating family life left her with a sense of desperation. She was smitten, and willing to do anything for the man she thought loved her. So she stayed.

Keeping the attention of her “boyfriend” required selling herself for sex, Nina learned. He was a pimp — and she was one of a growing number of women recruited on social networks for sex trafficking.

Source: CNN Money