Beyond MoCo Published May 2, 2025 at 8:40AM Michael Peter Sherman, a pre-school teacher from Rockville was among eight men arrested by The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), in collaboration with the Northern Virginia Washington DC Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (NOVA-DC ICAC), after concluding an internet chat operation during the week of April...Read More
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez joined alongside the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations and multiple local law enforcement held a news conference on the arrests and charges of eight suspected child predators in New Mexico on Monday, Oct. 14. Currently, there is a warrant for a ninth arrest. “Operation Overwatch” is an undercover online chat...Read More
PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers are moving to investigate Governor Katie Hobbs after a budget shortfall at Arizona’s child welfare agency. The Department of Child Safety is asking lawmakers to approve a shift of agency dollars to cover a budget hole in funding for group homes serving children in foster care. A spokesperson for Hobbs characterized...Read More
A court in the United Kingdom has sentenced a 26-year-old man to life in prison after being found guilty of 185 charges, including the manslaughter of a girl who took her own life and online child sexual abuse and blackmail. Alexander McCartney posed as a teenage girl to befriend young females around the world on messaging apps before blackmailing...Read More
A Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputy played a key role in the arrest of an alleged online child predator. Deputy Mackenzie “Mack” Miller played a key role in the recent arrest of 32-year-old James Martin for coercion and enticement of a child for sexual activity, according to a release from the DCSO. Martin was taken into custody...Read More
A Jefferson man recently found himself being videoed in the front yard of his home and questioned about his alleged sexual communications with an 11-year-old girl on social media. “I swear to God, I didn’t know she was 11,” the 38-year-old man can be heard on video as he is questioned by a member of...Read More
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. A package of bills aimed at preventing violence in Michigan schools passed a legislative hurdle Wednesday– days after the three-year anniversary of the Oxford High School shooting in which four students were killed. The...Read More
A 35-year-old man from Seattle was arrested on felony charges of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes after a Kent Police Department (KPD) investigation found evidence of the suspect sending sexually explicit messages to the victim. Kent Police found that the child met the suspect while trick or treating earlier this year. According to...Read More
A “dangerous predator” who plotted to sexually abuse a five-year-old girl has been jailed. Jared Lamb, 46, sent explicit messages about how he intended to abuse the child and a series of indecent images to undercover officers posing as the girl’s father, South Yorkshire Police said. He was arrested when he travelled to Sheffield after...Read More
The Florida nurse accused of having sex with her 15-year-old stepson gave a revolting excuse to her husband after he walked in on them, according to court documents. Alexis von Yates, 35, attempted to apologize to her enraged husband when she was caught red-handed and completely nude underneath a blanket last July during the teen’s...Read More
