Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Firefighter Brian Wilkerson Arrested for Child Porn

A Springfield firefighter has pleaded not guilty to child pornography charges.

Brian Wilkerson is free on $50,000 bail after his arraignment Tuesday in federal court in Springfield. He faces four counts of receiving child pornography and one count of possessing it between August of 2005 and September.

A fire department spokesman says the 38-year-old Wilkerson has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of his case.

Wilkerson has also been ordered not to use the Internet, but his lawyer asked if that order could be relaxed so he can look for a job online.

A pretrial conference is scheduled for July 28.

If convicted, he faces a maximum prison term of five years.

Former Pastor William Brown Arrested for Sexual Assault

The former pastor of Bellmead First Baptist Church was indicted today multiple counts of sexual abuse of a child.

William Frank Brown, 45, was indicted on four counts of sexual assault of a child and four counts of indecency with a child.

remained in the McLennan County Jail late Wednesday, held in lieu of $200,000 bond.

Police said the case involved two victims. One of the children, who was 9 or 10 at the time, told a school counselor about the abuse, which began four years ago and continued for years, Waco police have said.

Francisco Trevino Guilty of Sexual Assault on Child

A jury on Wednesday found a 48-year-old man guilty of eight felony counts related to allegations he molested five girls.

Francisco Treviño was found guilty of six counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two count of indecency with a child. He was acquitted on three other counts.

Jurors deliberated more than three hours before reaching a decision.

Each indecency count is a second-degree felony punishable by as many as 20 years in prison. The aggravated sexual assault counts are first-degree felonies which carry sentences as long as life in prison. All the counts also each carry as much as $10,000 fines.

The trial’s punishment phase will begin at 8:30 a.m. today in 105th District Judge J. Manuel Bañales’ court.

Officer Louis Buck Morris Charged with Lewd Acts with Minor



A Stillwater Police Officer has been arrested and charged in Payne County District Court with 3 counts of lewd acts to a child under age 16 and two counts of rape. Louis Alvie "Buck" Morris, 48, was charged after an investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, and an internal investigation by Stillwater Police.

Morris, 48, of Ripley, who served as the School Resource Officer at the Stillwater Junior High School, was charged Tuesday with five sex acts with a 15-year-old female student in May.

Morris was arrested Tuesday in the case investigated by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and released after posting a $25,000 property bond, court records show.

If convicted of two counts of rape by instrumentation and three counts of lewd acts with a child, Morris could receive as much as two life without parole sentences plus 60 years in prison.

According to an affidavit by OSBI agent Richard Brown, the girl knew Morris for the two years she attended Stillwater Junior High School. She said that she talked with Morris every morning at school, the affidavit said.

"She and Morris exchanged phone numbers and would text each other. She felt Morris knew she liked him and that he liked her.

"She became close to Morris. Morris would text her saying he loved her and would be able to show her how much he loved her," the affidavit alleged.

She told the OSBI agent that Morris fondled her while they were alone in his home and that while he was driving her back to her house, Morris put his finger in her genital area, the affidavit alleged.

In May two days before she was to leave Oklahoma for the summer, Morris came by her house while her father was at work and they performed manual sex acts on each other, the affidavit alleged.

"Morris talked with her about getting married and she felt they mutually agreed they would. She felt Morris loved her and she loved him," according to the affidavit.

Stillwater Police Officer Guy Palladino, who was a School Resource Officer assigned to Stillwater's Sangre Ridge Elementary and Middle Schools, as well as Westwood Elementary School, was a Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) representative for any officer at the Stillwater Police Department.

Palladino, who has been with SPD for about 22 years, had worked with Morris, who on May 28 contacted Palladino and told him he was under investigation for "inappropriate text messaging with a 15-year-old female," the affidavit alleged.

"Morris told Palladino the girl was a student at the Stillwater Junior High School and all he did was talk and text message with her," the affidavit alleged.

"On June 2, 2009, Morris came over to Palladino's house and told Palladino he had been suspended with pay and was being investigated for lewd acts with a minor.

"Morris told Palladino he was sorry and he had lied to him the last time they had talked," the affidavit alleged.

"Morris asked the girl to marry him and she accepted," the affidavit alleged.
Morris told Palladino that they had sexual contact, but denied having oral or vaginal sex with the girl, the affidavit alleged.

"The girl wanted to have sex with Morris, but he told her they would have to wait until she was 16," the affidavit alleged.

"Morris told Palladino he had become one of 'them,' and felt like he was 15.
"Morris knew his job was gone and he hoped he did not have to go to prison, but that he had done this to himself," the affidavit alleged.

When the girl's father was interviewed, he said that he "felt he could trust Morris since he was a police officer," and had allowed his daughter to visit at Morris's house on several occasions since he met Morris, the affidavit alleged.

Stillwater Police Detective Sgt. Jeff Watts spoke with the girl in her father's presence on May 21, the affidavit said.

She told the detective that "She and Officer Morris were involved in a relationship," the affidavit alleged. She said that they "had been talking about being together when she turned 18," the affidavit alleged.

She allowed the detective to look at her cell phone where he viewed text messages between the two, the affidavit alleged.

The detective also conducted an interview with the girl in another state on June 11, the affidavit said.

Teresa Moses Accused of Torturing & Killing 8-year-old


Three doctors who evaluated Teresa Moses, a 26-year-old Richmond woman accused of torturing and killing her 8-year-old son in 2006, found that she was legally insane at the time of his death, her attorney Emily Gunston said Thursday.

Moses has been charged with felony child abuse, torture and murder in connection with her son Raijon Daniels' death.

All three mental health professionals, one psychiatrist and two forensic psychologists, concluded that Moses suffered from paranoid delusions and was incapable of knowing or understanding the nature and consequences of her actions, Deputy District Attorney Gerald Chang said.

Prosecutors will be reviewing the reports and making a decision within the next couple of weeks about whether to accept a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity or take the case to trial, Chang said.

Raijon died Oct. 27, 2006. Police and paramedics were called to Moses' apartment at 725 S. 40th St. early that evening and found Raijon unconscious and lying near a puddle of his own vomit.

Moses allegedly told police that her son was "destructive" and might have poisoned himself by drinking the household cleaner Pine-Sol, a Richmond police detective said.

Along with several open containers of Pine-Sol found throughout the apartment, investigators allegedly uncovered evidence that Moses had kept Raijon locked in his bedroom and had restrained him with a nylon cord tied to his wrists, arms and legs.

They also found surveillance cameras in his bedroom that were hooked up to a monitor in Moses' bedroom and motion sensors designed to alert Moses if Raijon attempted to get off his bed, according to investigators.

A forensic pathologist testified during a preliminary hearing in the case that Raijon had bruises, scrapes, chemical burns and extensive scarring covering his entire body. The child was also starving, and the coroner's office concluded that he died from continuous, long-term abuse diagnosed as "battered child syndrome."

Before his death, Contra Costa Children and Family Services had received five separate reports from people who suspected that Raijon was being abused beginning in November 2005. The most recent report was in January 2006. Raijon's case was closed eight months before he died, according to CFS documents.

Investigators found no evidence that Moses had abused Raijon's half-sister, who is now 5 or 6 years old, but a CFS report alleged that the girl had suffered severe mental and emotional trauma from witnessing her mother's continuous torture and abuse of Raijon, according to a California Court of Appeal decision issued in 2008.

The court heard the case after Moses sought visitation rights with her daughter and unanimously denied her appeal.

If Moses is found not guilty by reason of insanity, she will be committed to a state mental hospital, but could be released within a few years. If she is convicted of the charges, she could face a life sentence with the possibility of parole, Chang said.

Moses is scheduled to return to Contra Costa County Superior Court in Martinez on June 25 at 8:30 a.m.