The Trump administration has disbanded a school safety board that was recently assembled to advise federal agencies on best practices to protect students. The Federal School Safety Clearinghouse External Advisory Board, which held its first meeting in October, included school safety experts, alongside the parents of children who died in school shootings, advocates for civil...Read More
MONROE COUNTY — Monroe County Sheriff Troy Goodnough announced the arrest of a Newport man following an investigation by the Violent Internet Predator Exploitation Response team. 58-year-old Silvio Berge, a German citizen in the United States on a visa, was arrested after a month-long investigation. During the investigation, VIPER detectives were targeted online, where they were groomed...Read More
Police say more people are being investigated and further arrests may happen. TURLOCK, Calif. — A dozen arrests were made as part of a multi-agency sting operation led by the Turlock Police Department, targeting suspected online child predators. The three-day operation, conducted from March 6 to 8 in an online chat room, resulted in 12...Read More
U.S. Attorney John Sarcone III said he is considering suing online dating apps and cell phone companies for not doing enough to stop sexual predators for preying on children. “If Google could put algorithms in to monitor speech on the internet, to monitor speech on websites, those big companies can do the same,” Sarcone said...Read More
When Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies arrested Adam Roberto Escarcega of Santa Barbara on Monday afternoon outside the Target Shopping Center in Goleta, it was far from a typical takedown. The root of the allegations — that Escarcega sought to meet up with a minor for lewd acts — started on Feb. 1, when he...Read More
HANCOCK COUNTY, W.Va. — An organization called Big Country’s Predator Exposure posted a livestream on Facebook that captured the attention of both residents and law enforcement in Hancock County. It included a knock on a door that opened more than just someone’s apartment, it opened the door to an investigation against an alleged child predator....Read More
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Darren Warner struck up a conversation with 13-year-old ‘Maisie’, who was a police officer posing as a teen. The pair quickly moved from an online chat forum to Kik, where the girl revealed her age to Warner. Plans were made for them to meet “in a public park or car park in Southampton” to have...Read More
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Amid education leaders’ growing struggles with school safety issues from gun violence to cyberattacks, the Trump administration recently disbanded a federal school safety advisory board. During President Donald Trump’s first administration, an interagency effort established the Federal...Read More
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) — This week, we have seen an alarming number of child predators arrested. Is that because there are more cases out there, or is law enforcement getting better at catching these criminals? Indian River County Sheriff Eric Flowers credits that success largely to social media sites and app developers, that...Read More
