A Butte County man on Thursday was sentenced to 20 years and 10 months in prison for trying to arrange a meeting to have sex with a child, which was a ruse as part of a July 2024 Northern California undercover operation. A federal judge sentenced Kevin Leslie Gipson, 60, of Oroville for attempted coercion...Read More
SALT LAKE CITY — Local, state and federal police have been sounding the alarm about online predators for several years. But more recently, authorities have been combating an online presence of predators who want to do more than sexually exploit children. These predators have no empathy. They are seeking to groom young children, many of...Read More
LOS ANGELES — Online gaming platform Roblox has grown to more than 144 million users since it launched 20 years ago, but one father said his son logged onto a very dangerous space where he suffered serious, life-altering harm. What You Need To Know More than 120 lawsuits have accused Roblox of allowing predators to...Read More
A 24-year-old man spent two weeks sending sexually explicit messages and pornographic images to someone he believed was a 15-year-old girl before driving to Chanhassen to meet her for sex, charges say. He was arrested on arrival. Jose Antonio Gutierrez, of Jordan, faces three charges in Carver County, including solicitation of a child to engage...Read More
Gun violence in schools is on the forefront of Georgians’ minds following the deadly shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga. on Sept. 4, 2024. The map below shows the location of incidents of university and public school violence in Georgia over the past 5 years: 2019 through 2024. There were 20 violent school...Read More
European Union regulators have formally accused several of the world’s largest adult content platforms of allegedly failing to adequately prevent minors from accessing explicit material, escalating enforcement of the bloc’s sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA). The charges target Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos. The European Commission’s action follows a 10-month investigation into how large online...Read More
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – A Sioux Falls man will continue his probation until an upcoming court date in about three months. This follows Wednesday’s court order for psycho-sexual evaluations for Edgar Aaron Messenger. The father of the victims spoke with Dakota News Now to explain his frustrations. He says it was a...Read More
By Darrell SmithThe Sacramento Bee SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper announced a new ballot initiative that would revise Proposition 57 to prohibit sexually violent predators from being eligible for early parole. Saying the state’s independent parole board has “too much unfettered power,” Cooper said the “only way to reform Prop. 57 is...Read More
Attorney General Russell Coleman announced in a statement on March 26 that a Perry County man previously convicted of sexually assaulting multiple children was sentenced to three life sentences with no possibility of parole. According to the statement, Perry Circuit Judge Alison C. Wells handed down the sentence against Harrison Cress, 58, of Beehive Road,...Read More
WESTMINSTER, CA — A 19-year-old man was charged Wednesday with grabbing an 8-year-old boy playing with a friend in Westminster and assaulting another child. Anthony Enrique Gonzalez was charged with forcible lewd act on a child, kidnapping for child molesting and lewd or lascivious acts with a minor younger than 14, all felonies. One of...Read More
