Child Predators

A Maryland teacher who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for grooming her middle school student into a sexual relationship will only serve one year behind bars.

A Virginia high school teacher was allegedly caught in a September child predator sting operation, police said.

Four Michigan men, including a high school teacher, have been arrested after they were caught in a sting operation allegedly sending explicit images to or soliciting people they thought were underage girls online.

Turkey has blocked access to the children’s online video game “Roblox” because it can allegedly lead to the abuse of children.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday signed legislation aimed at addressing mounting concerns over minors and the addictive influence social media has on them.

A disgraced Oregon father is accused of giving his daughter’s 12-year-old friends laced smoothies while they were at his home for a sleepover.

The FBI is warning families about the rise of online “sextortion,” as criminal rings are beginning to use AI to blackmail teenage victims.

Facebook and Instagram are steering children toward explicit content — even in cases when no interest is expressed — and allowing child predators to find and contact minors, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said in a announcement this week revealing a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta.

An Anglican vicar who smoked crystal meth, boasted of corrupting young boys, abused animals, and discussed sacrificing babies to Satan with online paedophiles has been convicted in England. 

A counselor who says she works with sex offenders claimed pedophiles are the “most vilified population” and advocated for destigmatization.

Several arrests took place when suspects thought they were meeting teenagers for sex but were actually communicating with undercover detectives in central Florida.

Swedish child sex abusers have been able to keep indecent images of children as long as they are stored on a cloud service, experts say.

Arkansas police found a teen girl from North Carolina who went missing on February 11 after being lured by an online predator. Following a pursuit, police found the suspect critically wounded in his car from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

A 50-year-old imam is one of 65 men placed in custody after a large-scale operation in multiple cities aimed at tackling child pornography. 

A London-based group of over 100 parents have begun campaigning to have social media sites like Instagram and Twitter remove the accounts of paedophiles who are reportedly using cheese and pizza emojis as code to share images.

Charlene Doak-Gebauer, author and expert on digital safety for children and families, said that during the coronavirus outbreak, children who are sequestered inside homes and using devices more than usual are at higher risk for exposure to pornography and online predators.

More than 100 people were arrested in a central Ohio child sex sting operation — including a doctor and a youth director at a church, police said.

What we have here is a major news organization openly lobbying Facebook and other social media groups to blacklist POPSquad and other groups like it.

Two Disney workers and one HIV positive man were among 13 arrested for in an online child predator sex ring in Florida, authorities announced Tuesday.

A new report this week claims that according to the police, child predators are using the popular online multiplayer game Fortnite to lure in their victims.

22-year-old Joel Davis of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict faces monstrous charges of child sexual abuse.

A man allegedly flew from New Zealand to meet a 14-year-old girl in Goochland County, Virginia, brought pepper spray to her home and was shot by her mother.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Peter Thiel’s data analysis company Palantir reportedly used Facebook to track down an alleged child predator.

Border Patrol agents helped Canadian authorities track down a fugitive, alleged sexual predator that had fled north to avoid prosecution.

Agents of the U.S. Border Patrol continue to discover child predators and other dangerous criminals crossing the border. This week, in the Rio Grande Valley Sector alone, three convicted child predators, an alleged rapist, and two gang members were arrested. Another man was arrested with nearly $2 million worth of methamphetamine.

The Office of the Texas Attorney General announced the arrest of the 200th online child predator under the AG’s Child Exploitation Unit. The arrests came as part of his crackdown on child predators.

Federal, state and local law enforcement officials kicked off a new joint task force in the Rio Grande Valley aimed at fighting the rising threat against children from sexual predators. Arrests of sex offenders, including previously deported illegal alien sex offenders has been on the increase across this border region.