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South Burl...Accused Child Molester Commits Suicide<br /><br />South Burlington, Vermont - January 3, 2007<br /><br />Police say he admitted to fondling two little girls at his wife's in-home day care. On Wednesday, Ralph Guillette killed himself at the house where the alleged molestation took place.<br /><br />Police say 53 year-old Ralph Guillette was found near the back door of his house on Patchen Road in South Burlington. It's where his wife, Cheryl, has run a daycare for more than 15 years until last weekend when it was shut down.<br /><br />Guillette reportedly shot himself as officers approached the house. Police were called to the home by a family member who was concerned he'd try to hurt himself. A suicide note was found.<br /><br />Guillette's suicide comes a day after he was in court to face charges for allegedly fondling a 7 year-old girl. And police say he admitted he molested a 5 year-old as well.<br /><br />Since his court appearance, the Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations has received other calls from concerned people in the community. Some of those calls have pointed police to at least one other potential victim.<br /><br />Guillette had been released on bail after his arrest on Saturday. It's unclear what the suicide note said. Police did not indicate if there was an admission in it.<br /><br />The investigation into the suicide and the alleged molestations will continue.<br /><br />Darren Perron - Channel 3 News<br />=================<br />Police Search for Accused Molester<br />Wednesday, January 03, 2007 Posted: 12:07 PM<br /> Victims reported crime after almost ten years<br /><br />BROWNSVILLE - The search continues for a man accused of sexually molesting three family members.<br /><br />NEWSCHANNEL 5 cameras were there when Brownsville police went to Robert Espinoza's home to pick him up. He wasn't there.<br /><br />Espinoza is accused of molesting three of his relatives almost ten years ago. The victims just recently spoke out about the incident.<br /><br />If you have any information on Sanchez's whereabouts, call Brownsville Crimestoppers at 546-TIPS. <br />==================<br />January 3, 2007<br />Molester sentenced to 16-year term<br />By Jon Murray<br />jon.murray@indystar.com<br /><br />A Marion County inmate, who molested a 4-year-old girl while free due to jail overcrowding, was sentenced to 16 years in prison this morning.<br /> <br />Deputy prosecutor Courtney Curtis said William Temple, 44, deserved a long sentence because he had shown no remorse. He did not speak before Marion Superior Court Judge Sheila Carlisle sentenced him.<br />"He has not been reformed," Curtis said, "and he will not be reformed."<br />Carlisle could have given Temple up to 18 years. She sentenced him to six years for a Class C felony molestation charge and 10 years for being a repeat sexual offender. The judge had convicted Temple during a bench trial last month.<br />Temple previously served a 20-year sentence on a 1983 child molesting conviction.<br />In July, Indianapolis police arrested Temple on charges he fondled two relatives, 4- and 7-year-old girls. But Curtis said charges related to the 7-year-old girl were dropped during the trial because the girl did not want to face Temple in court.<br />Shortly before the incidents were alleged to have happened, Temple was released early from Marion County Jail because of crowding. He had been held on a charge of failing to register as a sex offender, and he faces trial on that count Jan. 25.<br /><br />Call Star reporter Jon Murray at (317) 444-2752.<br />============================<br />Child molester to serve 15-40 years<br />Former city man insists he’s innocent<br /><br />By Brett Lovelace<br />Intelligencer Journal<br /><br />Published: Jan 03, 2007 1:04 AM EST<br /><br />LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - The mother of a 13-year-old girl on Tuesday admonished the man who a jury determined repeatedly sexually abused her daughter over 16 months in 2002 and 2003.“You took the childhood from a 13-year-old girl,” the woman told Alexander Morales-Rivera, 32, who was sentenced Tuesday to 15 to 40 years in state prison for the rape of a child, indecent assault and corruption of minors.<br /><br />“Alexander believes he is above the law and not accountable for his actions,” the girl’s mother said. “He should be given the maximum sentence so he can have time to think about his actions.”<br /><br />A jury convicted Morales-Rivera, a father of three, in October.<br /><br />The former Lancaster city man must register his photograph, address and employment with police as a Megan Law’s offender after being released.<br /><br />Morales-Rivera told Lancaster County Judge Joseph C. Madenspacher he was wrongly convicted. He also submitted a handwritten letter to the judge. “I am being charged with a heinous crime, a crime I did not commit,’’ he said. “I don’t have anything else to say.”<br /><br />Erma Ramos, Morales-Rivera’s stepmother, also told Madenspacher the allegations were fabricated.<br /><br />Morales-Rivera has “been around my granddaughter and other girls. I saw him play with them, and nothing suspicious happened,” Ramos said. “I don’t believe he did (the crimes) because something would’ve happened to the other girls.”<br /><br />Defense attorney Melissa Montgomery portrayed Morales-Rivera as a law-abiding citizen who studied psychology in college, made $17 an hour as a garbage collector, volunteered at church and coached youth basketball.<br /><br />Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey A. Conrad said the abuse Morales-Rivera inflicted on the girl is deplorable.<br /><br />“This was a horrible rape of a child,” Conrad said. “There is no more heinous crime.”<br /><br />Lancaster city police began their investigation in June 2003 after Lancaster County Children and Youth Social Service Agency uncovered the sexual abuse.<br /><br />Detective Robert Deeter determined Morales-Rivera had abused the girl from February 2002 until June 2003, starting when she was 10.<br /><br />Madenspacher told Morales-Rivera to accept reality.<br /><br />“You claim you are innocent; however, a jury of your peers determined you committed these crimes,” Madenspacher said. “I think you and your family are still in a state of denial. You have taken away the innocence of this particular child.<br /><br />“She has no childhood, never had one and won’t have one.”<br /><br /><br />Brett Lovelace’s e-mail address is blovelace@lnpnews.com.<br />===========================<br />Molester will serve 35-year sentence<br /><br />By Jordan Schrader<br />STAFF WRITER<br />January 2, 2007 2:49 pm<br /><br />ASHEVILLE – A Barnardsville man pleaded guilty today to charges that he molested a 10-year-old girl in his care, a prosecutor said.<br /><br />Michael Keith Yount, 40, was a friend of the girl's family in Asheville and was trusted to babysit her, Assistant District Attorney Paul Jackson said.<br /><br />“He was like a surrogate father, really,” he said.<br /><br />Yount was sentenced today to 35 to 42 years in prison.<br /><br />He had been charged with eight counts of indecent liberties with a child and eight more of first-degree sexual offense with a minor.<br /><br />The crimes took place in 2005 and 2006 when the girl was 9 and 10. She is now 11.<br />===========================<br />Bus Driver To Spend 3 Years In Jail For Molestation<br /><br />POSTED: 12:09 pm EST December 29, 2006<br />UPDATED: 12:43 pm EST December 29, 2006<br /><br />CLEVELAND -- A former school bus driver for the Beachwood District learned his punishment for molesting a 14-year-old.<br /><br />Jerome Glassman will spend three years in prison.<br /><br />In court, he showed very little remorse for the crimes. Instead, he talked about what he lost, which includes his wife, family and job.<br /><br />Glassman was convicted of molesting his babysitter who was 12 at the time.<br /><br />She was a Beachwood student that Glassman drove on his bus route.<br /><br />Police also found almost 3,500 images and videos of child pornography on his computer.<br /><br />The baby sitter told the court how Glassman gave her alcohol and tried to molest her even though she attempted to fight him off.<br /><br />Glassman maintained that his actions were misinterpreted.<br /><br />He will serve his prison time at the Lorain Correctional Institution.<br />============================<br />Lawsuit seeks $7.85 million from alleged molester<br />By Gwen Johnson<br /><br />Arnold Harry has more to worry about than his pending criminal trial. A $7.5 million civil lawsuit has been filed against him on behalf of the alleged victim.<br /><br />“We are sending a message that this type of behavior will not be tolerated,” said Attorney Jennifer Mulligan, a resident of Craig County, as she filed the lawsuit against Sidney Arnold Harry on Dec. 22.<br /><br />The lawsuit was filed as John Doe v. Harry in order to maintain the privacy of the victim.<br /><br />The defendant has been charged with numerous crimes of sexual misconduct with a minor.<br /><br />Matthew W. Broughton and Greg Habeeb, attorneys with the firm of Gentry, Locke, Rakes and Moore in Roanoke, are joined as attorneys for the Plaintiff.<br /><br />Thad Cox, Craig County’s commonwealth’s attorney, will be prosecuting the criminal charges, with the goal of punishing Harry if he is convicted of the crimes.<br /><br />The lawsuit filed Friday is to pursue civil remedies. If Harry is found to be responsible, the lawsuit asks that Harry pay money to both compensate the victim and punish the defendant. Of the total requested amount, $350.000 is sought in punitive damages - punishment -- the maximum amount allowed by law.<br /><br />As far as the compensatory damages, it is up to the jury, the conscience of the community, to determine how much is owed to the victim.<br /><br />“However it is almost impossible to compensate a young person for loss of their innocence; how do you give them back their childhood? How do you restore their trust in other people -- in the adults in their life?” Mulligan asked.<br /><br />The charges against Harry include five misdemeanor charges and nine felonies. The more serious charges allege taking indecent liberties and forcible sodomy.<br /><br />According to Virginia statutes, the definition of sodomy covers a wide range of improper behavior, and the definition of “forcible” includes taking advantage of someone who is considered legally incapacitated, for instance, a minor.<br /><br />“Regardless of any other circumstance, taking advantage of a minor is a gross abuse of his rights,” Mulligan said.<br /><br />In cases of minors, the law protects them from exposure to publicity. Mulligan explained. “This young person has already suffered gross intrusions upon his personal life. We ask that the community help protect him from public scrutiny. He is entitled to anonymity, to allow him to work toward the future instead of having to relive the past.”<br /><br />A trial of the misdemeanor charges against Harry will be heard on Feb. 23 and a preliminary hearing for the felony charges will be heard on the same day. If there is a finding of probable cause, the felony charges will be sent to the Grand Jury and then to the Craig County Circuit Court for a trial at a future date.<br />============================<br />Published Wednesday, December 20, 2006<br /><br />Molester's wife sentenced<br />The Associated Press<br /><br />HUTCHINSON — The wife of a convicted child molester was sentenced to 18 months of probation for keeping her daughter out of the state so she couldn't testify about being molested by her adoptive father, former Trego County Sherif Ryan Bloom.<br /><br />Jessica Bloom was sentenced Monday for aiding a felon and conspiracy to aid a felon.<br /><br />Ryan Bloom, who was also a teacher at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center, was sentenced Dec. 15 to 27 years in prison on a count of rape and six counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child.<br /><br />Jessica Bloom's sentence came after Reno County District Judge Richard Rome rejected her motion to withdraw a guilty plea she entered in November.<br /><br />"I wanted to withdraw the plea because I don't think I'm guilty," Bloom said. "Before this, I was naive to the justice system, but now I know that completely innocent people can go to jail."<br /><br />Bloom repeated earlier statements that the Reno County District attorney's office had assured her that her daughter would not have to testify in the case. She also said she had been given bad advice by several attorneys.<br /><br />Jessica Bloom's mother, Barbara Johnson, has also pleaded guilty to felony aggravated intimidation of a witness in the case. She is scheduled to be sentenced in January.<br />==========================<br />Wanted perv named on web<br /> <br />By LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT<br />December 29, 2006<br /> <br />A FUGITIVE paedophile has become the sixth perv to be named on a new website that has so far helped to find four of the UK's most wanted sex offenders.<br /><br />Vile Peter Wheatherley is missing from the South Yorkshire area and is known to have links across the North of England but police suspect the 39-year-old could be in Spain.<br /><br />Cops are so concerned about his whereabouts that they made a special request to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre to add him to their perv hunt site.<br /><br />The Home Office-funded website http://www.ceop.gov.uk/wanted launched in November with the names and images of five paedophiles.<br /><br />It appeals for help to find convicted child sex offenders who have vanished, breaking legal restrictions on their movements under the Sex Offences Act.<br /><br />It received 8MILLION hits in its first day and within hours had its first success when beast Gordon Stewart handed himself in to police at Aberdeen.<br /><br />Last night Jim Gamble, boss of CEOP, said: “So far our site has proved to be a massively successful tool for locating missing offenders.<br /><br />“Peter Wheatherley is the latest addition. I’d ask people to take a look at him and if they have suspicions about his whereabouts to report them directly to the local police force or anonymously to Crimestoppers."<br /><br />Shy Keenan from the Phoenix Survivors welcomed the move. She said: "We are thrilled to pieces with this news. This is the best possible example of the public working with the media and authorities to put these perverts back where they belong.<br /><br />"This is a huge step towards Sarah's law. For all those people who thought naming and shaming leads to vigilantism this has proved hands down that the general public can take the information on responsibly and deal with it appropriately.<br /><br />"It is very empowering when you realise the police, public and the media joining forces can defeat the evil scourge of paedophilia."<br /><br />Shy, along with Sara Payne, whose daughter Sarah was murdered by a convicted sex offender, have long campaigned for a law that would reveal perverts' whereabouts.<br /><br />Earlier this month Kamil Krawiec become the second paedo to be nabbed after featuring on the site when he was arrested on his return from his native Poland at Stansted Airport.<br /><br />The next to be located was Paul Francis Turner who was spotted by a member of the public in northern France who had seen the beast on the CEOP website.<br /><br />And British police have begun to seek the extradition of perv Alexander Dalgleish after he was located abroad last week.<br /><br />Gamble added: “That means four of the UK’s most serious convicted child sex offenders have been located within weeks of this website going live.<br /><br />“Our message is clear. Child sex offenders will be caught. There will be no hiding place. Children everywhere need to be protected from this horrific crime and we will do all we can to meet that objective."<br /><br />The other wanted paedo is Joshua Karney who has connections with the Lancashire area.<br /><br />lachlan.cartwright@the-sun.co.uk<br />=============================<br /> <br />January 3, 2007<br />Man charged with kiddie sex<br />By SHAWN LOGAN, SUN MEDIA<br /><br />CALGARY -- City cops have charged a man who they claim befriended a pair of local families before allegedly sexually assaulting their children.<br /><br />Cops are now hoping parents whose children may have had contact with the man will come forward, said Staff Sgt. Jim Rorison with the Calgary police child abuse unit.<br /><br />"We're looking for the co-operation of other (alleged) victims out there," Rorison said.<br /><br />"If people recognize his name, they should come forward and we'll treat the situation with as much empathy as we can."<br /><br />Rorison said the man, who has outstanding warrants for an alleged sex assault of a child in B.C., befriended a pair of local families over the last year in an unidentified residential community.<br /><br />Police have been investigating complaints from the two local families for about a month and arrested the accused on Dec. 14.<br /><br />The investigation is still ongoing.<br /><br />Rorison said parents should always be vigilant with people who have access to their children.<br /><br />"Obviously, families need to be aware of whoever their children are associating with, particularly in a residential setting," he said.<br /><br />"It is only with the co-operation of victims and their families that we can prevent offences and properly deal with offenders."<br /><br />Theodore Morgan, 43, of Calgary has been charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of sexual interference against a child and is currently in police custody.<br />===================<br />Ex-Clergyman Pleads Guilty To Child Sex Abuse<br />'Brother Tony' Gets 5 Years In Prison For Molestation<br /><br />POSTED: 12:25 pm EST December 21, 2006<br />UPDATED: 6:03 pm EST December 21, 2006<br />BOSTON -- A former clergyman was sentenced to prison Thursday after pleading guilty to child sex abuse charges.<br /><br />NewsCenter 5's Steve Lacy reported that Edward Anthony Holmes, 65, known as Brother Tony at the Congregation of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Jamaica Plain, pleaded guilty to a 17-count indictment in connection with the sexual abuse of two boys when they were between the ages of 10 and 14 and 9 and 15, respectively. He was sentenced to five years in prison.<br /><br />The abuse took place at the Nazareth Child Care Center in Jamaica Plain between 1976 and 1983, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said. The center has since closed.<br /><br />Holmes pleaded guilty to six counts of rape of a child, five counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and five counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older for the rapes and assaults. He also pleaded guilty to a single count of posing a child in a state of nudity for dozens of photographs Holmes possessed of himself engaged in sexual activity with a still-unidentified teenage male.<br /><br />The victims did not come forward until 2003. Conley said his office was able to charge Holmes nearly 30 years after the crimes were committed because the clock on the 15-year statute of limitations in effect at the time of the offenses stopped when he moved out of state in 1990.<br /><br />Holmes will begin his prison term on Jan 8.<br />===========================<br />Babysitter charged with beating and raping 3-year-old<br />Updated: 1/2/2007 11:18:06 PM<br />By: Evan Axelbank<br /><br /> <br /> <br />Jacob J. Carter, 23, was escorted into jail Tuesday night, charged with raping and beating a 3-year-old boy he was being paid to babysit.<br /><br />"He had numerous bruises on him, probably at least 10," said Tompkins County Senior Investigator Derek Osborne.<br /><br />Police say Carter admitted to attacking the boy, who had severe injuries to his intestines and spleen. When the child's mother noticed bruises covering the child, she reported it. Osborne has investigated hundreds of child abuse cases.<br /><br />"For me, this is the worst case of child abuse I've personally been involved with investigating...I've been involved in one way or another with probably hundreds."<br /><br />The toddler was admitted to University Hospital in critical condition. Carter is charged with first-degree sexual abuse and first degree assault.<br /><br />Police say during Carter's confession, he said the stress of taking care of children led him to assault them.<br /><br />"He claimed the child at one point was being unruly and disobedient, and that possibly had led to some of the abuse," Osborne said.<br /><br />But even more charges could be coming. Investigators say they've found injuries on a female victim, who's younger than three.<br />===========================exposemolestershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02097300261898413798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-35849877903783999192007-01-03T17:19:00.000-08:002007-01-03T17:19:00.000-08:00YES WE SCREWED UP THE WAR THIS PAST SUMMER SAYS IS...YES WE SCREWED UP THE WAR THIS PAST SUMMER SAYS ISRAELI ARMY CHIEF. DUH! <br /><br />Israeli army chief admits war failures<br /><br />By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press WriterTue Jan 2, 3:31 PM ET<br /><br />Israel failed to achieve all its objectives in its summer war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, the Israeli army chief said Tuesday, but defied calls for his resignation.<br /><br />Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz told reporters at a briefing that Israeli forces caused considerable damage to Hezbollah and killed "hundreds of terrorists" in the war, which ended inconclusively in a cease-fire after 34 days of fighting.<br /><br />But Halutz, summing up internal army inquiries into the war, acknowledged the army did not achieve all its aims. "We were not successful in reducing the short-range rocket fire on Israel's north until the cease-fire," he said.<br /><br />Hezbollah fired about 4,000 rockets at Israel during the fighting.<br /><br />A government-appointed committee is investigating the war and its outcome, and has the power to call for Halutz's resignation.<br /><br />Halutz said he wants to stay on and "correct what can be corrected." His resignation now, he said, would be tantamount to "running away."<br /><br />"I have not heard my superiors calling on me to resign," he added. "If they do, I will respond."<br /><br />An inquiry by a former chief of staff found that the war's goals were vaguely defined, Halutz noted, and that there was faulty work in command centers.<br /><br />"There were cases in which officers did not carry out their assignments, and cases in which officers objected on moral grounds to their orders," Halutz said, an apparent reference to resistance against attacking southern Lebanese towns and villages.<br /><br />These incidents "ran counter to the army's basic values," he said, and a senior officer was suspended as a result.<br /><br />Halutz said it would be a mistake to try now to use the military to try to free two Israeli soldiers captured in a cross-border Hezbollah raid — the incident which triggered the war in the first place. Instead, Israel is trying to recover the soldiers through diplomatic means.<br /><br />In suggesting ways that Israel's forces might be strengthened, Halutz said reservists could be called up for longer annual service and better training. The government, he said, could also delay the implementation of a plan to shorten the length of regular service, now set at three years.<br /><br />The war with Hezbollah ended Aug. 14 with a U.N. Security Council resolution that posted a beefed-up peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon. Their mandate is to keep the area clear of armed forces.<br /><br />The fighting left more than 1,000 people dead on both sides, according to the U.N., Israeli and Lebanese officials. Lebanon's Higher Relief Council, a government group, says the majority of those killed were Lebanese civilians. UNICEF said that about a third of them were children.<br /><br />The fatalities included 159 in Israel, including 39 civilians killed in rocket attacks.<br /><br />Israel claimed 600 Hezbollah fighters were killed, but that figure has not been substantiated. Hezbollah claims that only 250 of its fighters were killed.exposemolestershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02097300261898413798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-12996167859152312462007-01-03T17:10:00.000-08:002007-01-03T17:10:00.000-08:00Holy macro, It stinks. As if Israel doesn't have e...Holy macro, It stinks. As if Israel doesn't have enough on its plate, Jordanian King Abdullah II finds something else. Hilarious and sad at the same time.<br /><br />Associated Press<br /><br />Jordan king complains of Israeli odors<br /><br />Mon Jan 1, 5:19 PM ET <br />Israel says it's doing what it can to eliminate a royal stink that's developed along its border with Jordan. That's after Jordanian King Abdullah II complained of a less than princely odor wafting from the Israeli side of the countries' shared southern border, Israel's environment minister said Monday.<br /><br />Gideon Ezra told Israel Radio that Jordanian officials last week asked that the stench from a livestock quarantine facility in Eilat be neutralized after it drifted across the border frontier toward Abdullah's palace in Aqaba.<br /><br />Upon receiving the complaint, Ezra said, Israeli officials immediately spread deodorants around the site to clear the air and planned a thorough cleanup shortly.<br /><br />"I think that when we get a request from Jordan, just as when we make a request of Jordan, it's one country's duty to do as much as possible for the other," Ezra said.<br /><br />Israel also has ordered the owners of the facility to clean up the large amounts of animal waste that had built up at the site, Environment Ministry spokesman Sharon Achdut said.exposemolestershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02097300261898413798noreply@blogger.com