GROVETOWN, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – A Grovetown police captain posed as a 14-year-old girl and captured a would-be sex predator, according to police. Marcus Donnell Brown, 34, of Augusta, was arrested around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to Police Chief Jamey Kitchens. He faces a charge of criminal attempt – child molestation, according to Kitchens. Earlier in...Read More
Camden Council is reminding residents that child safety is everyone’s business, after recently forming a Child Safe Working Group. The NSW Government introduced the Child Safe Scheme following the Australian Government’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which ran from 2012 to 2017. Under this Scheme, the Child Safe Standards were formed...Read More
A man accused of shooting a School District of Philadelphia safety officer near Penn’s Landing late last month has been arrested in North Jersey, police said. Ariza Giansteban, 28, was taken into custody in Paramus, Bergen County, on Saturday and is awaiting extradition to Philadelphia, police said Monday. He allegedly shot a 68-year-old school safety...Read More
Queensland childcare workers will have mandatory safety training each year in an Australian-first, as the state government calls for a national register for employees. Education minister John-Paul Langbroek held a roundtable in Cairns with early childhood stakeholders, the Queensland Family and Child Commissioner and the Australian Early Childhood Quality Authority on Wednesday morning. The meeting...Read More
After nearly two years of setbacks, Mayor Adams’ push to hire hundreds of junior school safety agents could hit a legal snag, a civil liberties group has warned. In 2023, the Adams administration revealed plans to hire 400 assistant safety personnel — newly minted high school graduates under 21 who could help address staffing shortages...Read More
A Sylvania man has been arrested by the Millen Police Department (MPD) in an undercover operation by the department’s Internet Suppression Team (MIST). Darrell Glenn Malphus, 20, was arrested on July 5th when he attempted to meet what he believed to be a 14-year-old girl for indecent purposes. An undercover agent with the MIST was...Read More
WASHINGTON — Two hundred and fifty-five child predators were arrested and 61 victims of child sexual exploitation identified during a five-week operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces across the United States and its territories. Operation iGuardian, which ran May 28...Read More
Police shared these images last week of the suspect’s vehicle. PROVIDED / PHILADELPHIA POLICE
A suspect was arrested in New Jersey in connection with the recent shooting of an on-duty School District of Philadelphia safety officer, police said Monday night. Ariza Giansteban, 28, was taken into custody Saturday in Bergen County and is...Read More
Crime scene tape at the scene of a police investigation near Mason Street in Woonsocket on Thursday, June 26, 2025 (WLNE). WOONSOCKET, R.I. (WLNE) — Members of the Woonsocket community have created a petition calling for lawmakers to implement increased child safety measures after a child died from being hit by a car. On June...Read More
Attorney General Dave Sunday announced charges against a 40-year-old Allegheny County man who believed he was soliciting online sexual contact from a 12-year-old girl. An Office of Attorney General agent posing as the “child’s” mother communicated with Lane Alan Simpson, who agreed to pay a cash sum to have the contact. Simpson was recently charged with...Read More
