Two People Arrested for Sexual Exploitation Of Children

Charles and Jocelyn Brassfield are accused of distributing sexually exploitative images and video of children.

clipped from www.kktv.com A four month investigation, led by the Colorado Springs Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children, ends in the arrest of two people. Charles and Jocelyn Brassfield are accused of distributing sexually exploitative images and video of children. Charles has been charged with a class three felony, sexual exploitation of children. Jocelyn has been charged as an accessory to a crime, a class five felony. Charles Brassfield was arrested by investigators with the US Army Criminal Investigations Division at Ft. Carson.

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Predator program's future in question

clipped from www.nj.com New Jersey corrections officers, the mother of Megan Kanka and former Sen. Peter Inverso have teamed up to launch a pre-emptive strike to warn the public that the state is considering privatizing the sexual violent predator program. "I cannot believe that after all of our efforts to prevent sex offenders from preying on our children, we would hand custody to a private company in order to cut corners," said Kanka, a Hamilton resident who pushed for the state's sexual offender notification program after her 7-year-old daughter Megan was killed in 1994 by a convicted sex offender who lived across the street. The state's sexual violent predator program, enacted in 1999, incarcerates and treats sex offenders after their prison sentences end be cause the courts deem them too dangerous to release to the public.

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Sexual Predator On The Lam Kills Himself

clipped from www2.hernandotoday.com A detective searching for a sexual predator missing since Monday found his target dead by suicide Wednesday afternoon, authorities say. Charles Heritage, 60, who goes by "Rick," took a bus to Pasco County upon his release from prison Monday for crimes he committed against small children in 2004. There he purchased "suspicious" items, authorities say. Breedlove found Heritage had hung himself in the woods behind the house, said Sgt. Donna Black, sheriff's spokeswoman. Prison records show Heritage served three years and five months of a five-year sentence for two counts of providing obscene material to children, two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation and one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition.

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World's greatest dad charged in online child-sex sting

clipped from blogs.usatoday.com A Michigan man wore a T-shirt that said "World's Greatest Dad" when he went to have sex with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, officials tell the Detroit Free Press. Daniel Allen Everett "allegedly engaged in graphic sexual conversation with an undercover agent and propositioned the agent, who was posing as a 14-year-old girl, to meet him for sex," prosecutors say in a statement issued Tuesday. "This afternoon, Everett was arrested in Novi where he is alleged to have appeared to meet the minor for sex. He was arrested wearing a T-shirt with the words, 'Worlds Greatest Dad' on the front, a sad reminder that Internet predators come from all walks of life." Everett, a 33-year-old who chatted online as "danmichelle2004," was charged yesterday with child sexual abuse and using the Internet to attempt sexual abuse.

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Child pornography lands former 5th grade teacher Michael Gogerty in slammer

clipped from www.thesop.org A former fifth-grade teacher in Pahrump, Nev., has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for receiving child pornography over the Internet as a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Michael Gogerty, 41, who pleaded guilty to the charges in February, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert Jones to 97 months in prison followed by a lifetime of supervision. Until his arrest last year, Gogerty was employed at Hafen Elementary School in the Nye County School District. During a subsequent consensual search of Gogerty's home, investigators discovered numerous images and video files containing child pornography on his computer. A forensic analysis revealed Gogerty possessed more than 60,000 images containing child pornography, including some depicting sadistic and masochistic conduct and minors under 12.  The court took those factors into consideration in determining Gogerty's sentence.

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Ex-talk show host Bernie Ward admits to distributing child pornography

A former Roman Catholic priest, Ward was known for his outspoken liberal views on a weeknight talk show on KGO AM 810, where he had worked since 1985. He also hosted "God Talk," a Sunday morning program on religion.

clipped from www.sfgate.com Bernie Ward, a prominent radio talk show host and reporter in the Bay Area for more than two decades, admitted today to distributing child pornography in a plea deal that will send him to federal prison for at least five years. Ward is to be sentenced Aug. 28. Weinberg said federal prosecutors intend to ask Walker to send the former talk show host to prison for nine years. Under federal law, the minimum term Ward could receive is five years. Ward, 57, has admitted that he downloaded and sent pornographic images of children on the Internet in 2004, but said he had been doing research for a book. Federal law, however, prohibits receipt, possession and distribution of child pornography regardless of intent.

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Kelly Asks For Further Delay In Child Pornography Trial

clipped from www.sfgate.com Troubled R&B star R. Kelly has launched a last-minute bid to have his child pornography trial delayed again. The trial has been plagued by delays and hold-ups, but was finally due to begin with jury selection on Friday in Chicago, six years after the singer was initially charged with having sex with a minor. But Kelly's lawyers have now asked for the trial to be temporarily delayed due to a recent "torrent of publicity" surrounding the case, which they feel could have a negative effect on the trial's outcome. The 41-year-old has pleaded not guilty to 14 charges of child pornography, after a videotape emerged allegedly showing him having sex with an underage girl.

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